Friday Fish Wrap: May 7, 2010

What a way to wrap up a Friday: Reno Police with guns drawn at lunchtime, and then went to see the new documentary ‘Babies’. How’s that for a stretch?

Just as Mr. Maven and I walked out the door of Truckee Bar and Grill on Lakeside at Moana, we heard sirens. I looked up toward the car which was next to the street, and just across the street, there stood Reno’s finest - guns drawn, in ‘the stance’.  They were circling two woman and one man, who had their hands up. There were no less than six black and white units on scene.

I didn’t want to get too close on the off chance that bullets might start flying.

In the photo above - from my iPhone - you can see the three suspects laying on the pavement, just prior to being cuffed.

Yikes. This is generally a quiet, upper middle class section of town, too.

‘Babies’ was a far better experience.

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If you’re not sure how much of a difference the environment a baby is brought into makes - consider that somebody has voiced concern that filming the San Francisco baby Hattie, may have broken child labor laws. Hattie, in fact, showed a very early sense of ‘get real’ when she pluckily tried to escape from the goofy Bay Area ‘we’re all babies yoga’ experience that her parents took her too.

Being forced into a great motion picture was preferrable to psycho-babble Bay Area style.

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