(I will add the trip from airport to city as soon as I feel like it... which is not now... for now...a Classic NYC Moment...)
So, we are sitting here on our blow-up mattress in our NYC Friend's living room in Washington Heights- a.k.a. the faaaar Upper West Side of Manhattan- and we hear the already familiar sccrreeeeeeeeeeeccchhh.... of tires.
Our friend and her roomie in their bedroom next to our "bedroom" rush to the window... "Did they hit!?" (Apparently, this is a fun NYC past time, now I know even more about what Dane Cook meant...lol)
"They" did not hit... but it turns out that we got to see our first NYC arrest, lol, so classic.
Two police cars had chased a vehicle to right in front of the apartment building, one police car cut the vehcile off. The police forced the driver of the car to the ground and place him and another male passenger in cuffs.
The third passenger, a female, was seated on the street with them and shouted to an onlooker, "Get out of here!"
It was all very COPS, as the officers had stern faces and the one very portly officer, who must frequent the Dunkin Donuts shops that are more prevalent than Starbucks here in NYC, searched the vehicle.
Our NYC Friend opened up the window and we climbed out onto the fire escape, as many neighbors were doing as well.
LOL... It was just too funny how people all around seemed to pause and watch what was happening. I guess this is what life is like without a tv. :)
However, it soon lost it's charm. An officer made eye contact with me and I began to feel like a guilty peeping-Lo; I snuck back into the aptartment through the window. (I was pretty glad to be off of the escape which, though made of metal, felt somewhat unstable and questionable to me...haha)
Eventually, the passenger's cuffs were taken off and he and the female passenger got back in the vehicle. The driver was finally arrested when the sheriff showed up. I half-expected someone to say, "Show's over folks."
But no one did.
Screeching cars. Tubby cops. Late night arrests. Fire escapes. Classic NYC Moment.
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