Yesterday was quite the experience. When I got home from work and pulled into our apartments I saw a whole ton of police cars. I thought ok whatever. When I turned to drive into our spot it was all blocked off with police tape and officers. So I parked close by, and asked them what was going on. Apparently a man had barricaded himself into one of the apartments on our row (thankfully not our building), and would not come out. I started to wonder if it was just a simple matter of barricading yourself in an apartment, and saying you won’t come out, to get the police and SWAT team out to your apartment building. Later I learned that he was also a suspect in armed robbery and they had chased him there from a neighboring town, Gilbert. I guess it takes more than saying you won’t come out to get the cops there.
Well, I had class soon, and Ben was already in the apartment so I asked the police if I could just go into my apartment. They complied. But we weren’t supposed to leave out apartment, so we just stayed in there and I missed class. 
Anyway, the cool part (and Ben was a little jealous about this) was that I got to see the robot that the SWAT team was sending in. It looked to me like something that you’d see landing on Mars and taking little samples. Oh, and we saw our apartments on TV.
All in all, not a bad day. I just hope it doesn’t happen again, I didn’t really like the cops attitude, but then again it was like 100 degrees outside so I can’t blame them for getting upset about standing around in it.
