I'm back from Canter's, posting via conventional means with no potato salad in sight. Right now on my TV, I see live coverage of a white Honda that led police on a high-speed chase beginning about an hour ago. The car is stopped on the eastbound 10 freeway with about a dozen police cars stopped a few yards away, waiting for the passenger(s) to come out. There are probably at least a half-dozen helicopters hovering overhead and they've been there for about half an hour…
Oh, wait. The police are finally moving in and the suspect is coming out with his hands up. He's being arrested while police with guns drawn advance cautiously on the car, just in case there's someone else inside…
…which there isn't. Okay, it looks like this one is over. But the traffic out there has to be a nightmare with one of our busiest freeways shut down for 30+ minutes as rush hour commences.
All through the standoff, you could see that the person operating the helicopter camera was poised to zoom out to a longshot if there was a chance of us seeing a person shot to death on live TV. I still don't know why the local stations don't all agree to cover these things on a seven second delay.
Okay, back to work. Nothing to see here. Show's over.