Good god!

[mysteriousaliways]

I've just been to pick up my daughter from youth theatre rehearsal at her school and had to make a detour just before the road her school is on, because the police had closed off the road. I went the long way round and saw the other end of the road-block just at the junction onto the school's road. Thought it was an accident or something, as they had the 'Police - Accident' signs up and had blocked off the road with police cars with the flashing lights.

It wasn't until I got to the school and one of the older kids who helps with youth theatre (who happens to be the 17-year-old who lives next door to us) came out and told us that they weren't letting the kids out until someone came to collect them, as there was a gunman wandering around town and they weren't sure where he was!

Needless to say, I took a circuitous route home without stopping to do the recycling.

This was 15 minutes ago - we've just this minute got home - so I expect it's still going on.

Meep!

Comments

[bigtitch.livejournal.com]

Eeep!!!
That's a bit too close to home after Whitehaven. Glad you're safe and I hope it turns out to be a false alarm.

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I makes you think, if it can happen places loke Whitehaven and here, is anywhere safe?

The police have cordoned off a fairly restricted area, so I expect it might just be a domestic incident with some guy waving an air rifle out of the window after a row with his missus (I hope). The only mention of it so far on the local BBC news website is on the Travel section saying that bit of road was closed because of a 'police incident'.

Still too close for comfort. Glad I only found out about it after I'd got to the school else I'd have been way stressed about C!

[canciona.livejournal.com]

How frightening! I'm so glad you and your daughter got home safe. Hopefully they police will be able to find this person before he does any harm. *hugs*

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was pretty relieved to get home (and of course C was complaining that I had no sense of adventure!).

The section of road the police cordoned off was fairly small, so I expect they've got the guy surrounded in his flat or something, rather than him wandering around the centre of town taking pot-shots at people. Still too close for comfort.

[fitofpique.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! That's really frightening. I'm so glad you're home and safe!

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

It was kind of unnerving! I was very pleased to get home, I can tell you.

Of course C was complaining I had no sense of adventure *g*

[telperion-15.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Glad to hear you weren't directly involved though :)

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

Yikes indeed! A hundred yards or so is quite close enough for my tastes.

[fififolle]

Bloody hell! I guess they are taking no chances!
Thank goodness you guys are okay.
*hug*

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

I was quite glad I didn't find out about it until I'd got to the school or I expect I might have gone into panicking!parent mode until I got my hands on C.

Guns are all very well when they're at a safe distance or in fic!

*hugs back*

[fififolle]

Absolutely. We like them strictly fantastical :)

[reggietate.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Not what you want so soon after a nasty shooting incident!

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

Quite! A bit too soon after Whitehaven - any mention of somebody with a gun and the first reaction is 'meep!'

[deinonychus-1.livejournal.com]

meep! Glad to hear your all okay, if a little freaked by the sound of it!

Hopefully it'll calm down soon *fingers crossed*

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

Meep is the word!

I expect it's something like a domestic disturbance that got a bit out of hand and won't turn out to be as dramatic as it sounded, but it's pretty unnerving after Whitehaven.

We always had a shotgun in the house when I was growing up in the country (dad used to shoot and fish), and my brother goes deerstalking, so I'm not nervous of guns, but IMO any circumstance where they're pointed at a human being belongs firmly in the realms of fiction *nods*.

[aire-blair.livejournal.com]

How SCARY is that!!

Thank goodness you're all home and safe!

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

I was definitely glad to get home, despite C complaining I had no sense of adventure!

Just a few weeks ago there was a guy who went on a killing spree in the county next to ours who killed his brother then drove around the local villages shooting people at random, killing 12 before killing himself. And this was in a quiet rural area like ours. So it's the first thing that springs to mind when you hear there's another guy with a gun. Definitely too close for comfort.

I expect it won't turn out to be anything dramatic, probably just a domestic dispute and an air-rifie. I hope.

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

Eek! That's rather too close for comfort . . .

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly!

When it comes to people waving guns around, I prefer to keep a safe distance. Preferably the distance between fic and reality :)

[nietie.livejournal.com]

That is very, very scary, especially because it's near the school.
Hope you're fine now and found out what happened there.

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

I suspect I wouldn't have been so freaked out about it if I hadn't been collecting my daughter. Protective!parent mode *g*

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

I suspect I wouldn't have been so freaked out about it if I hadn't been collecting my daughter. Protective!parent mode *g*