Helicopter Moon Walkers Cool SWAT TeamToday was the much anticipated 'Open House' at the Westland Police Station. Fortunately for me Pattye, Julia and Muffin decided to go to so I wouldn't have to be embarrassed going on my own. I don't know how they liked it but I thought it was AWESOME!
I, I mean, 'we' got to see the Police Helicopter land.
There was a demonstration of a SWAT team which Julia and Nathaniel thought was too loud because they had real sounds of gunfire. But that was really cool-afterwards we all sat in the SWAT truck and talked with a member of the team. VERY COOL! I wanted to ask him if he had any B.O.L.O.'s on any perp's lately...but that's technical COP talk, that you lay people don't need to concern yourself with.
There was also an actual Police Cadet who got tasered. Apparently before they're allowed to have a taser they all have to submit to being tasered so this guy decided to do it for the audience. I felt bad for him, it looked like it hurt. The taser spit out darts that plunged into his back and it incapacitated him for about a minute. And they actually had to yank the darts out. But they said that it didn't hurt because he was so numb from the taser itself. And for those of you who want to know, if you touch someone who is getting tasered, the current won't flow to you like electricity would.
By this time Pat, Jules and Nate had wandered back off into the Moon Walk inflatable bouncer but I followed the crowd to the next demonstration-the drug sniffing dog. And I was so proud, I was standing there with my purse and I didn't even have cause to panic when the dog walked by me:-)
A great fun day for all of us....well, for me anyway.
