Tuesday, October 3, 2006Slow Nights Suck Cheese!
While in my line of work having a slow night usually means that everyone in the city made it 9 hours without being tragically killed, I have to admit that I hate it when it's slow.
Tragedy in this town happens, and is going to happen. Las Vegas, away from The Strip, has got to be the most violent, crime ridden city in the United States. At least that is my perspective. So I just wish that when it happens, it happens between 12 midnight and 9 A.M., preferably not when I've stopped at Starbucks or for lunch, and not 15 minutes before I am supposed to be off.
When it's slow it's VERY hard to keep awake, especially when I didn't have a good days sleep to begin with. So in order to keep myself alive (as my producers would murder me if I fell asleep) I chase stupid shit that I would never go to otherwise.
I went to a robbery last night. Quite boring. But it is fun to watch METRO see me pull up and then string up a second line of police tape. I wonder if it frustrates them when I never get out of the car and then drive away 10 minutes later. I hope so.
I then went to a foot pursuit and a car fire and about three minor injury crashes. With all that nonsense that I drove too, but didn't shoot because none of it was newsworthy and certainly wouldn't make air, I still hadn't killed enough time.
So I drove up to North Las Vegas. Yesterday there was a kid with a gun at Mohave High School which led to a foot pursuit, lots of cops with machine guns, and two schools being placed on lockdown.
I heard NLVPD scurrying around, in case he showed back up. So I camped out at the NLV Airport and waited for something to happen. Nothing did, but I did manage to finish one of my manga I am reading.
Even after that it STILL was only 7 A.M. I finally said 'to hell with this' and drove back to the station and camped out in the control room for the rest of my shift. I'm pondering tonight driving out to Red Rock and trying the time lapse function on our new cameras and see if I can get some cool video of stars. If I can I will try and put it onto MiniDV so I can post it here.
Tragedy in this town happens, and is going to happen. Las Vegas, away from The Strip, has got to be the most violent, crime ridden city in the United States. At least that is my perspective. So I just wish that when it happens, it happens between 12 midnight and 9 A.M., preferably not when I've stopped at Starbucks or for lunch, and not 15 minutes before I am supposed to be off.
When it's slow it's VERY hard to keep awake, especially when I didn't have a good days sleep to begin with. So in order to keep myself alive (as my producers would murder me if I fell asleep) I chase stupid shit that I would never go to otherwise.
I went to a robbery last night. Quite boring. But it is fun to watch METRO see me pull up and then string up a second line of police tape. I wonder if it frustrates them when I never get out of the car and then drive away 10 minutes later. I hope so.
I then went to a foot pursuit and a car fire and about three minor injury crashes. With all that nonsense that I drove too, but didn't shoot because none of it was newsworthy and certainly wouldn't make air, I still hadn't killed enough time.
So I drove up to North Las Vegas. Yesterday there was a kid with a gun at Mohave High School which led to a foot pursuit, lots of cops with machine guns, and two schools being placed on lockdown.
I heard NLVPD scurrying around, in case he showed back up. So I camped out at the NLV Airport and waited for something to happen. Nothing did, but I did manage to finish one of my manga I am reading.
Even after that it STILL was only 7 A.M. I finally said 'to hell with this' and drove back to the station and camped out in the control room for the rest of my shift. I'm pondering tonight driving out to Red Rock and trying the time lapse function on our new cameras and see if I can get some cool video of stars. If I can I will try and put it onto MiniDV so I can post it here.
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2 Comments:
I'll bet you wish you'd had my toy to play with!
Good to see that you are back. I'm glad I didn't take your photolink off my site. I had a feeling you would come back. Now if we could just get Smitty, and some of the others back.
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