I DON'T LAUGH AT PEOPLE...I LAUGH LOTS OF TIME WITH THEM, BUT NEVER AT THEM AND THEIR PLIGHTS, WHATEVER THEY MAY BE...ABOUT 8:00 AM THIS MORNING, I WAS ON MY WAY FOR MY ANNUAL MEDICAL APPOINTMENT.. HEY YOU GUYS, IT WAS THAT UROLOGY THING THAT IF YOU CAN'T SPELL THAT PROPER WORD RIGHT, CALL IT THE PEE-PEE DOCTOR FINGER WAY...OKAY, THAT ATTEMPT AT LEVITY ASIDE, I HAD CAUGHT THE TRAFFIC LIGHT CORNER OF 59th AVE/THUNDERBIRD RD...IN GLENDALE IT IS ONE OF THE MOST TRAFFIC ACCIDENT PRONE SPOTS IN TOWN...I WAS THE FIRST AUTO IN THE LEFT HAND TURN LANE . I NOTED THIS YOUNG COUPLE WITH THE VERY YOUNG WOMAN PUSHING A RICKETY STROLLER AND THE LARGE TEEN-AGED LOOKING FELLOW FOLLOWING CLOSE TO THE REAR...HE WAS ABOUT 2 FOOT TALLER THAN THE YOUNG WOMAN...BASEBALL CAP BACKWARDS ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD AND A HOODY JACKET BUNCHED UP AROUND HIS NECK...OF COURSE HIS TROUSERS WERE RIDING LOW ON HIS TAIL BONE AND HIS SHOES WERE ALMOST BEING COVERED BY THE BAGGY PANTS...NO, NOW MIND YOU, I'M NOT POKING FUN, BUT AS HE STUMBLED ALONG HE HAD SOME ELECTRONIC DEVICE ALMOST ON THE END OF HIS NOSE, OBVIOUSLY READING OR LOOKING AT PICTURES...THERE WAS NOTHING JOYFUL ABOUT THE SCENE AND THE YOUNG WOMAN LOOKED ANGRY, DISGUSTED, AND WORRIED...MIND YOU, ALL THIS TIME THEY ARE CROSSING THE STREET....SEEMED AS IF THE YOUNG GUY HURRIED UP TO THE GAL AND HELD THE ELECTRONCI DEVICE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER FACE...ANGRILY, SHE SLAPPED THE DEVICE AWAY, RIGHT ABOUT THE TIME SHE HAD REACHED THE CURBSIDE AND WAS LIFTING THE LITTLE STROLLER UP TO THE SIDEWALK... WHATEVER THE ELECTRONIC THING WAS, IT WENT FLYING FROM HIS HAND RIGHT OUT INTO THE STREET...THE TWO LOOKED TOWARD IT, FLABBERGASTED, FOR RIGHT THEN THE LEFT HAND TURN SIGNAL CHANGED TO GREEN AND THAT BUSY MORNING TRAFFIC WAS ON ITS WAY...DID IT RAIN ON YOUR PARADE TODAY? JOHN
THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED ON THAT SAME CORNER ABOUT 2 HOURS LATER...NOONE IS LAUGHING ABOUT IT EITHER..
SCARED IN GLENDALE!
The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team
Thu Feb 6, 2014 12:00 PM
One person was sent to the hospital after an officer-involved shooting in Glendale Thursday morning, according to Officer Tracey Breeden, a Glendale Police Department spokesman.
No officers were injured in the shooting, Breeden said.
The shooting occurred on 59th Avenue and Thunderbird Road at around 10 a.m. in northwest Phoenix. One person sustained a gunshot wound and was transported to a local hospital, Breeden said.
Glendale police officers were conducting an investigation with a U.S. marshals agent Thursday morning on a suspect wanted for felony warrants when they made contact with the man in a parking lot, Breeden said.
The 43-year-old suspect tried to flee when the Glendale officers contacted him, Breeden said. The suspect then tried to ram the officers who had the man boxed in, Breeden said, forcing the officers to fire.
The suspect was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, Breeden said.
A dog that was in the truck with the suspect was also injured during the shootout and was taken to an animal hospital, she said.
Chris Matthias, an employee at a sandwich shop in the area, said he heard a series of loud bangs and went outside where police were already starting to gather. A truck in the parking lot had its windows shot out, he said.
The scene is still under investigation and Breeden did not anticipate releasing more information until later Thursday afternoon
THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED ON THAT SAME CORNER ABOUT 2 HOURS LATER...NOONE IS LAUGHING ABOUT IT EITHER..
SCARED IN GLENDALE!
The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team
Thu Feb 6, 2014 12:00 PM
One person was sent to the hospital after an officer-involved shooting in Glendale Thursday morning, according to Officer Tracey Breeden, a Glendale Police Department spokesman.
No officers were injured in the shooting, Breeden said.
The shooting occurred on 59th Avenue and Thunderbird Road at around 10 a.m. in northwest Phoenix. One person sustained a gunshot wound and was transported to a local hospital, Breeden said.
Glendale police officers were conducting an investigation with a U.S. marshals agent Thursday morning on a suspect wanted for felony warrants when they made contact with the man in a parking lot, Breeden said.
The 43-year-old suspect tried to flee when the Glendale officers contacted him, Breeden said. The suspect then tried to ram the officers who had the man boxed in, Breeden said, forcing the officers to fire.
The suspect was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, Breeden said.
A dog that was in the truck with the suspect was also injured during the shootout and was taken to an animal hospital, she said.
Chris Matthias, an employee at a sandwich shop in the area, said he heard a series of loud bangs and went outside where police were already starting to gather. A truck in the parking lot had its windows shot out, he said.
The scene is still under investigation and Breeden did not anticipate releasing more information until later Thursday afternoon