A Little Run-in with the COPS.

Hey guys! This is Mel, and I'm gonna tell a little story about what happened last Saturday night. At about 9:00, a group of us went to the park to play capture the flag, which apparently, is illegal after sunsest. We start playing, each of us decked out in black from head to toe, hiding in the woods.....we see a cop car, but he turned around and left. I think he was suspicious because of the 7 cars in the parking lot. Next thing we know, another cop car comes, but this time it is an SUV. It starts heading towards the woods we were all hiding in with a HUGE spotlight. He was driving on the sidewalks in the middle of everyone. Kyle took action and started telling Leighanna, Katie, me and Kathryn to "GET DOWN AND BE QUIET". So the cop car drives down and was about five feet from us shining the spotlight- i do not know how he didn't see us. I was cracking up because Leighanna was hugging a tree and as the car would move, she would move, so that he wouldn't see her. So the cop misses us, and Kyle said one of my favorite quotes of the night, "What a RUSH". HA. So we thought we might have gotten out of being caught, but then the cop car turned around and started heading back towards us. This is when things got intense. Kyle yelled RUN and we all start heading towards these other woods. Katie fell and hurt her ankle. Then we all realized we needed to get to our cars and get out of there!! So we start running towards the cars, and Leighanna fell on a speed bump and was bleeding. John was running as fast as I have ever seen him...so we all dash in the cars and three cars got away. When the SUV cop saw our lights turn on, he started flooring it thought the open field towards us! Then the SUV cop called for another cop who blocked the entrance. The cops told the rest of the gang that they technically could have them arrested, and that they needed to get out of there. They notified LUPD, and the next Tuesday night, it was announced in every hall meeting on campus that students were not to be at parks after dusk.