I Almost Died...

Well not really. Here's the story.

Last night I got a text from one of my friends Jared around 10pm asking me if me and my roommates wanted to go to Westwood and Hookah. We would be meeting another one of my friends Shoshie there. If you don't know the LA area, Westwood is where the UCLA campus is located. It is about 5-10 miles away from Santa Monica and is over all a good looking area. I am the only one of my roommates that decided to go. Maybe they subconciously knew the hidden dangers of a demographic that has a mean income of $114K a year.

Jared showed up at my place around 10:30 and we left at 11. We talked about girls and other things you'd expect two college guys to talk about. The traffic was light so we get there in about 20 minutes. We call Shoshie right when we get of the 405 and she gives us directions to the location. We find her standing in the parking spot and we park. It's about a two block walk to the hookah place so we start talking and catching up on random things.

As we turn the corner we have the hookah place in sight. We are about 40 yards away when we hear BAM BAM BAM!!! At first we believe the sound to be fire crackers. I jokingly say "Yeah it's probably just firecrackers... Or someone shooting someone." We laugh and continue to walk towards the hookah place, we make it 10 more yards when we hear BAM BAM BAM again. I stop walking for a second while Jared and Shoshie continue forward slowly. Then it seemed like all hell broke loose for a second.

BAM BAM BAM!!! people started running. I was 4-5 people behind Jared and Shoshie when they ran inside a building. I could get to the building at first so I ducked behind a brick wall. I hear BAM BAM BAM again then Shoshie yell "Where's Francisco!?" I ran back out from the wall into the building where my friends where hiding.

We kept hearing gun shots for the next few minutes until we finally saw our saving grace. One man in blue slowly advancing to a man with 5 handguns. (We later found out the man was surrounded, but from our angle we only saw the one cop). Then all I heard was a taser gun, then a stunned body hit the floor. The crowd erupts in applause, praising the same people they curse when they get a speeding ticket. I stand in silence to appreciate the sweet irony that just saved us from a crazed man.

I never actually saw the guy, but I found out we we're only 10-15 yards away from him. There was only a van in the way of him and us. We also found out that he was shooting at a street light and the buildings, so luckily no one was hurt. It was a miracle that no one was hurt.

So after that we enjoyed a nice relaxing hookah on a blocked off street that is now considered a crime scene. Oh how I love SoCal.

Why Idaho Sucks

I've never liked Idaho.

I've been to about ten states in the USA. And 9 out of ten of them are amazing. They are states that make people want to come and live in this country. But if anyone started a trip into the United States in Idaho, they would run strait to Canada. Idaho is the worst state in the union. Need proof? Watch Napoleon Dynamite.

But now, Idaho sent a man to 18 months of federal prison for saving his town from flooding.

Lynn Moses will be locked up in federal prison next Wednesday. His crime? Protecting the city of Driggs, Idaho from flooding.

When Mr. Moses began to develop a subdivision along Teton Creek in 1980, Teton County required him to implement an engineer’s plan to modify the Teton Creek stream bed to prevent the flooding of subdivision property, caused by the buildup of gravel bars and downed trees, during high water flows in the spring...

...the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), emboldened by newly granted bureaucratic authority, jumped in and went right after Mr. Moses, indicting and prosecuting him for violating the Clean Water Act in the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 for doing nothing more than the routine maintenance on the channel he had been doing for 20 years, under requirements imposed by local government.

Presiding federal judge Lynn Winmill, who has a well-deserved reputation for judicial activism, refused to allow Teton County commissioners to testify to the original agreement, nor would he allow the aggressive Corps staffer to testify about the refusal of the U.S. Attorney to prosecute in the mid-90s.

Before the jury was dismissed to enter into deliberations at the conclusion of his trial, Judge Lynn Winmill instructed the jury, believe it or not, to disregard every bit of information from 1980 to 2002, including the Corps’ denial of jurisdiction and the mandate from local government for Mr. Moses to maintain the flood channel.

This is absolute bullshit. This man was contracted to stop flooding in the town in which he lives, and the government thanks him with an all expense tax-paid trip to federal prison.

Thank you government. I feel so safe that this man is behind bars. Oh and if you want Idaho, my grandma has been paying her taxes, I think that maybe you should give her a few years in the slammer too.

Bullshit.