| current | | | archive » | | | hhakley | c-town | stanus | razor violins | ilm |
|
7.29.2004 posted by William 17:35 link |
A couple weeks ago while I was walking from my apartment toward Union Square I was a little surprised to see two police cars fly up Third Avenue, code three, lights flashing, sirens, the works. And then came two more, and then ten more, and there were still more on their way when I turned onto 20th St and headed over toward Park, which had its share of the excitement too: as far as I could see stretched a line of police cars, one after another, all zooming uptown. I checked the news to see if something had happened, but could find nothing. Until today, when the Times reports on "critical response surges", an anti-terrorist tactic that the department is practicing. I didn't see them do the park-really-quickly-in-line part, but it sounds cool. Best quote: Mark Luehrs, 50, a sanitation worker, went right on sweeping the streets around the surge. "You know," he said, "if you're going to have a drill, you better have it on clean streets, right?" |
