I drove over to my boyfriend's house last night to hang out for a little while and watch some tv. A nice quiet Wednesday night activity after a busy workday. After about 10 minutes of chatting we decided to go get some sweet tea at Bojangles and noticed that the street that branches off from his, directly across the street, was blocked off by a cop car. The officer standing outside his patrol car didn't appear too concerned and so off we went. By the time we came back with the tea, the local CBS news station folks were set up in his neighbor's yard filming and getting ready to tape some news. Bizarre...
A little while later, the cameraman knocked on my boyfriend's front door and asked him if they could set up on his front lawn to get a better view of what was going on. "Sure!", he said. "What's going on, anyway?" The cameraman responded "Bomb". Uh....okay?
There wasn't much news of what was going on on the internet at that point. There had been a pipe bomb explosion in Blacksburg earlier that day so we joked that maybe it was a false alarm or someone mistaking an errant coffee can for a bomb.
We heard a loud thud and the best boyfriend ever remarked "Well, I guess they blew up whatever it was." I totally didn't believe him. Well, he was right. Apparently, ATF agents or state police arrested one of his neighbors, a young man in his 20's, and charged him with having bomb manufacturing materials and have connected him with the Blacksburg bomb incident from earlier in the day. On the news, the cameraman on the front lawn caught voices yelling 'Fire in the Hole!' and then a flash of light and a thud. Not sure what the cops blew up but apparently it was something in the basement.
So, instead of watching the Olympics we watched Chris Hurst from WDBJ 7 broadcast live from the front lawn.
A little while later, the cameraman knocked on my boyfriend's front door and asked him if they could set up on his front lawn to get a better view of what was going on. "Sure!", he said. "What's going on, anyway?" The cameraman responded "Bomb". Uh....okay?
There wasn't much news of what was going on on the internet at that point. There had been a pipe bomb explosion in Blacksburg earlier that day so we joked that maybe it was a false alarm or someone mistaking an errant coffee can for a bomb.
We heard a loud thud and the best boyfriend ever remarked "Well, I guess they blew up whatever it was." I totally didn't believe him. Well, he was right. Apparently, ATF agents or state police arrested one of his neighbors, a young man in his 20's, and charged him with having bomb manufacturing materials and have connected him with the Blacksburg bomb incident from earlier in the day. On the news, the cameraman on the front lawn caught voices yelling 'Fire in the Hole!' and then a flash of light and a thud. Not sure what the cops blew up but apparently it was something in the basement.
So, instead of watching the Olympics we watched Chris Hurst from WDBJ 7 broadcast live from the front lawn.
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