the long languid arm of the law.

so i'm on the roof of the building the other day... re-reading a battered old rex stout mystery, hoping the door doesn't slam shut and lock me out since i'm not allowed to be up there in the first place. and yes, i am clad only in a bikini, because although i know the sun is going to give me cancer and wrinkles i still feel as if the summer has been a waste if my boobs aren't framed by pale triangles by the end of the season.

...so anyway there're these two cops on the roof of the projects across the street... with binoculars. they're a number of stories higher than i am (and you know, we all need to look up more); i wouldn't even have noticed them if one hadn't been laughing so loudly. but now they are both laughing, at something going on down on the street several blocks away (judging from the angle at which cop #1 is holding the binoculars). i imagine the fate of whoever just got busted for whatever and i feel sympathy for the perpetrator. no doubt he was just trying to flip some beat weed to an unsuspecting consumer. or maybe it was more innocent; maybe the kids had had enough of the heat wave and opened up a fire hydrant to create a refreshing street sprinkler.

the next time i look up, the cop who had possession of the binoculars is handing them to the other cop, and now they are checking me out. i look up and wave, slowly, and they both wave back, eagerly. i suppose they wanted me to flash them...? sorry, guys.

meanwhile, several floors below the birdwatchers in blue, a backpack dangles mysteriously out of a window. what could be in the backpack? lots of drugs, no doubt. a pretty clever contingency plan, i must say -- if there's a raid, just let the evidence drop. you might even be able to retrieve it later! certainly more efficient than trying to flush it.

i wonder what the pigs were looking for, up there on the roof with their binoculars...? and all the while there was contraband several stories under their very noses.

...just thought you might like to know where some of your tax dollars are going.