This is why the warrant said 'meth lab'. Because law enforcement is prohibited from receiving military training on a military base EXCEPT in the case of a drug felony bust. So the ATF agents got their Ft. Hood training and also got to borrow some of their toys for the exercise.
All I am sayin is that it ain't Waco or Randy Weaver every time they get out their hut-hut gear.
Don't ya hate when that happens? While walking home one evening, I found out the hard way that I fit the description of someone who had just murdered three people 20 minutes prior. To this day, if you ask me what that first cop looked like, I would answer "He looked like a f'n gun!" Because that's all I saw.
HA! For me it had a little more volume.
I had three of em in my rear view, which was not uncommon... And I was cookin down railroad street which was gravel at the time... And I was really honkin, fixin to get around the corner at the end duck down a little two track and wind up on Meridian with a clear shot out of town..
It;s a tricky corner at speed, because it converts to pavement coming out... But I slid her up into the prettiest little four-wheel drift, ready to hit the pavement and feed her the beans... And I come around the corner and EVERYBODY was there. There must have been 20 city and county squad cars, and all the spotlights and cherries come on just as I committed to the corner.
I slid to a stop with around twenty rifles on me and the rest hand guns... And I was seriously paying attention.
I have done some pretty dumb sh*t with my car, and tore down more than my share of bars and such, so I was not unknown or unaccustomed to standard fare wrt LEO interaction. But this was definitely something different than your regular busting the good-ol-boy, kickin his heels a bit.
So yeah... It was the whole 9 yards.
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