Living in the wild, wild west

Nine years ago, the Los Angeles freeways became famous for something besides monstrous traffic jams when OJ Simpson led the police on a chase in his white Bronco. Why anyone would think that he could escape from police in a vehicle in a city with the slowest moving traffic in the world is beyond me, but it happened again on Friday night right in our neighborhood.

The girls and I were heading back from a birthday party when we were blocked from returning to our street by three cop cars. Police and cameramen were looking anxiously down the street. Helicopters looped overhead. Fortunately, a friend who had seen the helicopters invited us to her house (located safely up the hill). By the time we returned, the neighborhood was quiet, though the girls slept in our room that night.

Turns out that a block from our house, a suspect was hiding in a shed after a car crash and then police chase through our neighborhood. A friend of mine lives in the house directly across from the house where all the action took place and told me she spend the evening ducking down with her daughters in fear that gun shots would be fired near her home. Fortunately, no one was hurt, the suspect was caught, and Studio City can go back to being one of the sleepier parts of Los Angeles. But the kids in the pool (in the video below) have quite a story to tell their class when their teacher asks about their weekend today.

To see the action in our neighborhood, click here.