I could see that there was a banner up. It read: "Meet Your State Senator..."
Seemed a little weird. First of all, why would they be meeting their state senator outside that building? And also, why would that many people care about meeting their state senator?
I went back to my chair. And then suddenly, out of nowhere...
BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM.
Gunshots.
I look out, the crowd is running for their lives! Jesus!
But then they stop. Walk back to where they were. And a few minutes later...BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM
More gunshots.
That's when we figured it out, it's fucking Law & Order: Los Angeles. And they're filming the "Gabrielle Giffords" episode.
Here's a bad picture I took after the shooting stopped and the "ambulances" arrived.
I've never been a big Law and Order fan. In fact, I hate that show. Really? They just take stuff that actually happened and do a fake version of it? How is that good? Yeah, thanks for the Chandra Levy episode, but I kinda already watched the whole thing on the news.
This was pretty amazing though because they were filming it right out on a busy street. Cars and people were just cruising by and suddenly a gun is going off. That can't be safe. They must've done 15 takes over the next hour. It was like living next to the Bin Ladens.
Thank God Gabrielle Giffords isn't in Culver City, how awkward would that be?
But no, she's in Florida. So I guess it's a good thing that her husband is taking the first space shuttle off the planet to get away from her. I knew we could find a silver lining in that somehow. Bad news: your husband is awful. Good news: you weren't in LA to watch a bad TV show recreate the thing that ruined your life.
I just imagine the next time I hear gunshots, I'm going to wrongly assume it involves Sam Waterston in some way. Waterston is going to get me killed.
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