when tv becomes reality

i've always enjoyed the show CSI & its various spin offs. i don't need to watch the show religiously, but if it's on & i stumble across it, i will usually stop to watch.

this morning, as i was getting ready to leave for work, i pulled out onto the main driveway of the apartment complex where i live. the sight that greeted me was yellow crime scene tape all around the main building where the rental office is & up around to the apartment building behind it. the apartment building i lived in when i first moved here. there were sheriff's department cars & officers everywhere. three CSI vans were parked out front. and there were a bunch of people swarming around, looking at the ground, just outside the apartment that was back to back with the one i used to live in.

for all the times i've watched CSI on tv, it's completely unnerving to find it happening a ninety second walk from your apartment. not to be dramatic about it or anything. i know it was most likely some sort of escalated domestic dispute, considering the only police report right now says that they were called at 4am for a disturbance at the apartments, and when they showed up, they found the body of a white male. but still... when you're one smallish girl, who lives alone... let's just say i like my CSI to stay in the tv & not become reality in my front yard.