reminds me of my standoff with swat... 8 freakin hours.
I had a cell phone of the person who the motel room belonged to (a woman who was the manager.. I was there with her and her bf's [whom I thought was a real 'stand-up guy'.. turns out he's a rat.. William David Schoen, of Sioux City, IA])... so I was getting phone calls giving me updates of the swat activity whenever he girls father called.. little did he know, he was speaking to the guy in the middle of the standoff. lol... he's telling me. "the bomb squad is setting up.. they have that robot camera thing out".. "there's snipers on the rooftops across the street".. "do you know where my daughter is?" ... he thought I was just some guy who knew his daughter and was evacuated fro the scene like all the other motel occupants.
I was popping 1mg klonopins like candy the whole time and surrendered for a can of beer and pizza, and promised a medical evaluation because for some reason they thought I was diabetic.. they got the beer, but no pizza, and no medical eval.
didn't have Twitter back then, or Facebook.. all I was trying to do was call my ex and talk to my kids, but the FBI Negotiator would want to keep me on the phone with him the entire time and talk about "god" and all that crap... I'm an atheist/non-theist/Buddhist, like I wanted to hear about 'god' having a plan.
gotta give him credit though, if it weren't for him, things might not of (edit, probably wouldn't have) ended peacefully.... as it wasn't long before that that the long time board vet (who'd recently turned scammer at the time) on 'bolex and 'gade, had a standoff in his car on a highway, with a sawed off shotgun.. that didn't end well. RIP to that fella, I forget his name.