We're talking December 30th, Tunnel Road, just when you make the turn and are riding up above the highway. I hear police sirens and a minute later, "GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE! HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD!!" on one of those loudspeaker things. Whoa pull over this sounds like it's going to be good.
So there's a red car not far from the freeway entrance on an onramp. Traffic is blocked on the freeway heading east. And behind the red car, there are 14 squad cars. More cops than I could count, guns drawn, and big fucking automatic machine gun things. I don't know what the guys in the red car did but those cops did not like it.
So the guy in the car gets out, puts his hands up, and starts walking backward toward the cops. They grab him and shove him in the car, then do the same with the other guy who was in there. Then six or eight of them line up with their guns drawn and charge at the car. AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH but no gun battle in the end. The action was over, so I carried on with the bicycling.
Later I came home and was telling the story. Nothing on the news, no chopper shots, nothing. 14 squad cars and how many cops and no mention whatsoever. I pulled out my phone to show my friend the cars and the cops and the hands over the head, captured in miniature on the cell phone screen. FUCK. Forgot to push the "store" button.
I swear guys, those cops had machine guns.