Ok, so I think I jinxed myself when I wrote about how wonderful it is to run in the snow--yesterday we set a record high at 58 degrees, AND it poured heavy, warm rain all day long. Needless to say, most of the snow is now gone, leaving in its place lots of slush and flooded, swampy bits.
During this wet and wild run, we kept getting distracted by a helicopter circling Prospect Hill. Perhaps it was surveying the storm damage from yesterday, or checking out the traffic along I95 which runs along the eastern side of the park. Seth was getting a bit nervous of this helicopter and wanted to leave the park. We stopped for a moment to take a good look at it while it was overhead, and besides being blue and white there were no other distinguishing characteristics about it. I figured that if there were something wrong, someone would let us know (there are megaphones in those helicopters, right?).
We noticed a pair of dog walkers pull up at the main entrance, which made me feel better, so I said we ought to finish up our last loop (up until then we hadn't seen a single person, maybe because the trails were so wet and nasty?). As we headed back, the dog walkers shouted to call us over. Turns out they were walking a large German Shepherd, wearing bullet proof vests and carrying a super-sized rifle. The police officers said there was an armed home invasion last night on Jacqueline Road, and the suspect, a "large black male" with a gun, was last seen near the old ski slopes on the north side of the park. It is safe to say that that put an end to our run in Prospect Hill this morning. Pretty freaky.
The story in the Daily News Tribune
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