a quiet and peaceful living community for seniors

That is the marketing ad for my work. Only - surprise, surprise - it's really not true. There is never a dull moment here. There's always something going on. Seniors are a lot like children. In fact, when my daughter worked at a day care she would tell me stories about the kids and then I would tell her stories about my seniors. Guess what? The stories were the same.



Yesterday we had more excite then usual. Every once in a while the outside world will intrude in our "quiet and peaceful" community. Around 2pm my boss came into my office and asked me if I knew why there were a "bunch" of police cars in the parking lot. My reaction - COOL!!



So off we went to the parking lot and yup! there was a lot of police out there. We counted (just in the parking lot) 10 squad cars and 3 unmarked cars. There were police everywhere!!



Evidently some young gentleman did something bad in St. Paul. The police chased this guy from St. Paul into West St. Paul. Now you have 2 police departments in hot pursuit. (The UPS guy told me later that he counted 30 police cars on Robert Street). The bad guy ditched his car at the entrance to our building and took off on foot through the woods leading up to our building. The police cut him off and trapped him in the woods. They then sent in the K-9. They did catch him and then they spent a long time looking in the woods for something (gun? drugs? money?)



One of my residents witnessed the whole process and she said that the bad guy had a black mask on and that a police officer walked out of the woods carrying one of the K-9 dogs.



Of course as soon as I saw what was going on I ran back into the building and grabbed my camera with the super Zoom. I was able to stand almost a block away and take some awesome pictures.



The fun never stops at the Westwood Ridge. (of course our little excitement never hit the news - go figure.)