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i love the color in the photos!

I'm sorry you had to endure the scary drama. But, I LOVE those photos, they are really frameable. They make the neighborhood look like a diorama or something. Kind of like Laurie Simmons' early work.

I also love the term "ghetto bird". Not sure if you made it up, but it's great.

Can I just compliment you on the great pictures you took!
Wow, that is scarry. We had a rapist on our street 10 years ago and my protection was: MASE, allthough that wouldn't hold up against a gun! :(

Great pictures! I'm sure it was more than a little scary to see it all right in front your house. A couple of years ago there was a Outsiders-esque rumble a block down from us, no lie there was a least 30 guys brawling in the street. I got the scoop from the neighborhood watch it was over some sort of romantic entanglement. But it was kind of neat to stand on the porch and watch the action lol I didn't think things like that happened in real life.

I love the photos too-- they're very Gregory Crewdson. Unfortunately, cops responding to scary incidents is all too common near my house!

"Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder
Two in the morning got the fat burger...

-Ice Cube

Nice shots. Sad circumstances.

I love the cute red house in the first pic. What neighborhood in LA is this?

David

pkswede, Do you mean scary and mace?

I remember the first time there was a shooting in my neighborhood. It was right in front of my house (my car was lucky to escape without bullet holes) and terrifying, but I couldn't stop laughing. After the shots were fired, I heard someone yell "Are you hit? Did you get hit?" and the response was "I don't know, I'm checking!" After I stopped laughing at the image of the dude checking his body for holes, I got scared again.

david: Silver Lake, just off of Sunset Blvd.

does anyone know what the outcome was? and what this alleged "gunman" did? i searched and scanned the news and lapd website like crazy last night and couldn't find a thing.

Some friends of mine in Atlanta had a similar situation in the alley behind their Midtown loft. There was a big shoot-out between the crimials and cops; the loft residents were all peeking out their windows at the drama. They got to re-live the night when it showed up on an episode of "Cops".

Oh man, Cops and Cheaters. You know you're living in a bad neighborhood when it shows up on one of these shows.

A friend of mine lives in Humboldt Park (Chicago). He heard gunshots from his 2nd story living room where he was watching t.v. with his kids, in the late afternoon. He pushed them down on the floor, peeked out the window and saw many different police organizations opening fire into a stopped vehicle. One officer then advanced on the vehicle while pumping rounds into it with a shotgun.

There were several "gentleman" in the car with rubber gloves on.

Apparently they had been under surveillance that day for a "job" they more going to commit. They were stopped by police, of course they had weapons in the car and their gloves on, and the police told them to get out of the car. The suspects peeled out and the police fired at their vehicle. That explained why my friend had heard a couple shots in the distance before the car was eventually stopped in the park in the middle of the day.

This happened to me when I was living in a house off of Melrose (half a block north of the Jonathan Adler store)--except they were searching in my backyard! Luckily, I was just coming home from the airport when the search started. But the police wouldn't let me drove onto my driveway (or enter the house) for a good 45 minutes. Not sure how it all ended because no one was apprehended. (But where they when my next-door neighbor's psycho boyfriend, went on a bender or roid-fueled rage and trashed her house?) Ah, Los Angeles...

way to be camera ready gregory. i always hear and see the occasional spotlight through the yard, but never been that close. gotta love the city...

hey gregory, I live right aroud the corner from you, and I've been trying to find out more about the 'lone gunmen' incident the other night. Funny, one or two days before that, a number of blocks around Effie were closed and there were lots of police. When I asked what was happening they said an armed suspect had broken into a house. Wierd. That was during the day. I wonder if they same guy just hung around for a while.

Unfortunately, the "getto bird" is a weekly occurance in my neighborhood. The first time (very shortly after I moved in) they began circling and spotlighting 4 houses down, I sat looking out the window until I realized that I could possibly be seen, and therefore be a target. I closed all the blinds and turned on all the outside lights while I sat inside wondering just wht the hell I'd gotten us into. Even more unfortunately, it will be 2-3 years before we're able to move out of this metro area, but I wonder if anywhere is really safe anymore...

Agh! That's my street too! it was so weird to have the helicopter lights all over the house and garden. actually it was felt as if we were being visited by UFOs. The worst part was having the police all over my white porch, trudging mud, stomping through the garden and then not telling me what was going on. It's funny because hyperion turns into a strange landscape after dark...and behind the fence to my place, it's like an oasis of pretty. I'm a new yorker so it all seems par for the course, NYC in the 80s that is.

GOD I miss LA.

And deep irony, the song on my playlist right now is by Jude, "Out of LA."

I guess Silver Lake is still not that great. Is there still Saturday drive-bys at Echo Park?

yes, saturday drive-bys still exist in echo park. but do not fret, you could can still buy a 1 bedroom for 700k!
i have a love/hate relationship w/echo park. i've been here 6 years and although it's getting "better", it's really not that great.

I live in Harlem, so this is what Broadway looks like 2 or three times a day... I still love it though.

so does anyone know what happened? did they ever catch the guy?

wow...the situation sucks but those are really great pixs..

I live in Madrid, Spain, and it,s so strange to see a show like that. What exciting to live in LA! Like in films!

Oh god , we're neighbors!
I was not allowed to leave my apartment , along with my friends who just dropped by to say hi before going to dinner.
That was rediculous!