Incident in our neighbourhood...

Something's gone down last night on the street where we live.  DH was walking down to Morrisons & the street is cordoned off on the section in front of the pet shop & town library - with police tape, traffic is being diverted, and there were two policemen standing guard there.  He had to walk around the block a different way to get to the grocery store.  He said nothing appeared visible like a break-in or something.  I've not yet been able to find anything on the news about it.  A mystery!

Our theories so far:

1) A break-in, but like I said nothing was visible.

2) Maybe a fight & someone got hurt?  Or a traffic incident? (there's a lot of pubs in this area)

3) DH's suggestion - maybe they have been smuggling drugs through in the pet shop's guinea pigs.  (he is mocking me for wanting to detect on the case)

Was it that blue and white striped police tape? That has to be the most powerful material known to man, nobody can get past it. I've also seen a red and white striped tape used at football stadia and it holds everyone to one side of it - completely impenetrable!

A couple of months ago when I was heading out to work, I got in the car at 6:30am and noticed a police car at the bottom of the street, parked across to block off the road and another further down at the junction, I had to turn the car round and exit the street from the other end. Never did find out what happened but I suspect it was a drugs bust as I've no doubt the women who lives at the end of the street deals drugs.

Apparantly our area has a high amount of break-ins, so maybe it was that.  Keep us posted, detective!

I've been living in Northern Ireland too long I think.  My first thought was a bomb hoax.

I think 1 and 2 are both reasonable guesses.  Number 3 made me giggle!

3) DH's suggestion - maybe they have been smuggling drugs through in the pet shop's guinea pigs.  (he is mocking me for wanting to detect on the case)

Tell DH he's completely off his rocker.  Everyone knows ferrets make the best drug smugglers!

Ooooh, this is exciting! Get out there with your camera and binoculars! And a big hat!

Was it that blue and white striped police tape? That has to be the most powerful material known to man, nobody can get past it. I've also seen a red and white striped tape used at football stadia and it holds everyone to one side of it - completely impenetrable!

Hehehe!  I went to the Jyvaskyla WRC Rally in Finland a few years ago, and all that separated the beer-drinking, BBQ-operating crowd from the rally cars racing by mere feet away at 100 mph was some of that red & white striped tape.  As far as I know, the tape kept everyone safe from vehicular death.   

Apparantly our area has a high amount of break-ins, so maybe it was that.  Keep us posted, detective!

You'll probably know before I do!  I suppose I could ring my neighbour who lives by the library, because her flat is almost in the middle of the action there.  But I don't want to come off being overly nosy.    (Steve said I should have just gone down & asked the police there.)

There's nothing on the West Yorkshire police website about anything around here.

I'm thinking break-in because if it was a violent crime, I'm sure it'd be in the news.

Maybe it's something involving both the pet shop and the library.  Between guinea pigs and shifty librarians... 

My first thought was a bomb hoax.

We had one of those at my work one time.  After everyone was safely out of the building, we were all hopeful because I work in one of the ugliest eyesore buildings in downtown Leeds.  11 floors of craptastically-falling-apart 1960s/70s development.  It's so bad that in the renovation drawings of the building that surrounds it, they have actually airbrushed our building out of those drawings.

Sounds like there must have been a fight or something - it finally filtered into the news.  They found a seriously injured man in front of the pet shop at about 1 am Sunday morning, and apparently he's still in critical condition in hospital.  They don't say if whatever took place happened here - just that they found him here.  Another guy has been arrested.

I overheard someone in Morrisons today talking about it.  Our broadband connection was out for awhile, so I rang Steve & made him check the news.

Good sleuthing Mrs R.     Hope the guy recovers though...