Cops and Cranes

On Friday John came home around lunchtime to have a meal with Erin before our appointment with the doctor down the street. Apparently it's important to have an initial appointment with the doctor before we actually get sick. If we're not already in the "system," then we can't be seen. So, while John was heating up some leftovers, he casually wandered into the living room and peered out the window. He glanced down to the street below to find a guy on a bike and his friend being detained by three cops. They were questioned for fifteen or twenty minutes, before the guy on the bike was allowed to leave. He had apparently told them what they wanted to hear; his friend wasn't so lucky--she was escorted to the back seat of the car and they hauled her away. Meanwhile, one of the cops stayed behind to question a random guy standing by a tree across the street. We have no idea what this was all about. Could this be related to our psychotic neighbor next door? Or perhaps these characters knew something about the broken window in our neighbor's car, which was being replaced just a few meters away. Or maybe they got caught somking some joints--oh wait--that's legal here.
We'll probably never know for sure, but John is beginning to wonder if these kind of goings-on occur every day while he is at work.

After our trip to the doctor, which was a new and different experience, John had to go back to the office to finish up some work. He walked out of the apartment and found a crane blocking the street. It appears that the new neighbors next door got a better relo package than we did, because they get to use a crane to move their furniture into the apartment. Are you wondering how the movers got our stuff into the apartment? Well, we don't know how they're going to do it either. Yeah, we're still waiting on it...

Anyway, to get to work John had to drive in reverse for quite a long way down the street, which was probably enough excitement for him to last the rest of the month. By the time he returned from work, all was calm in the neighborhood, just like it is every night when he comes home, with no evidence of all the commotion that went on just hours earlier. Since John can't work from home every day, he might attempt to install a webcam in one of the trees outside so he doesn't miss out on the commotion that is likely to continue in our neighborhood on a regular basis.