Seems like there are a lot of people interested in my LAPD in Hollywood story, so here it is...it's nothing TOO exciting...

Anyway, when I went to LA for Mo's grad party, me, Rod and Dan went to meet up with Brian, Jen and Mo at Miyagi's. We got there pretty late, but not late enough for me to get a triple Jack and Coke, which was served in this gigantic glass. Since I hadn't had much to eat that day, that was all I needed to get to drunken happyland.

The place closed at about 2:30am (as do most bars in LA), and I was pretty unused to bars that closed so early, and I felt like my night had just begun. So Rod decided to take us on a little sightseeing adventure. After getting our car, it was around 3am, and we went to Mann's Chinese Theater. It was pretty fun going there, and there was no one else around. If you look at my 'Vacations' pictures, you'll see that I wasn't below lying on the dirty, gross ground to take pictures.

We walked by the Sony Theater, which is next to Mann's, and saw that there were a bunch of people camping out. We asked the person in front and they said they were waiting for American Idol tickets. (This is the Kelly Clarkson year). With nothing better to do, I took out my camera, but it in movie mode, and proceeded to interview the different people in line, as well as take pictures with them. The were all enthusiastic, and I led them in chants proclaiming who they wanted to win.

As I was doing my interviews, a police car rolled up, and the cop opened his window and asked Dan what was going on. Feeling a need to get me involved, Dan asked me over and I went up to the squad car to explain. Of course, I really hadn't watched American Idol, so I had no idea what I was talking about. But I did get some of my new friends to bring up their boom box so they could play their American Idol CD for the cop.

I made some idle chit chat with the cop, and he had asked me if I had been drinking. Since alcohol acts as a truth serum to me, of course I said yes. Did I say yes? I think I said yes. Never did I think that there ever existed a public intoxication law. Fortunately, I think the cop was amused, and I wasn't causing a ruckus, so he humored me and kept on talking. That, or he was hitting on me. Anyway, him and his partner, (who I had addressed as "Officer #2") were pretty cool to talk to. They didn't seem to be in a hurry to go anywhere. They kept on asking for my name, which I didn't give to them, and Officer #2 (who was pretty cute) pulled out his handcuffs and said, "Oh, we have ways..." But I was oblivious to any trouble, and Dan and Rod were nearby anyway. Later on, the topic of kids came about, and I asked Officer #1 if he had any. He said yeah, then I asked him if he had a wife, and he said, 'No, but I'm looking for one..' I laughed, but the internal alarm started going off. Then he asked me if I wanted a ride. That was my cue to leave, so I said thanks, but no, my friends were getting antsy. Of course, Rod and Dan were very close by to intervene in case I DID get myself in trouble. But they found the whole situation humorous, and were rolling their eyes the whole time, and maybe a bit irritated that I was flirting with jailtime like this. So before they left, they asked if I wanted to hear the siren, and I said sure, so they turned on the lights and siren and sped off into the night.

So I said goodbye to the cop and his partner (who was also in the conversation). I asked them to turn on the sirens as the left, and they turned on the lights and the sirens and punched the gas as they sped away. Me and my Idol lovers all cheered.

The End.

Posted by Yano at June 1, 2004 05:51 PM

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