I witnessed something quite entertaining...
outside a bank once so I will plonk it down for this QOTW...

A few years ago when I was still living in a dodgy little market town I used to spend a lot of my days hanging around a Blockbusters store with my best friend. She worked behind the counter and her shifts were long and uneventful so I used to loiter around the place cheering her up, watching DVDs, eating ice cream and benefiting from her staff discount, it was good fun.

One day we were sorting out the returned DVDs in the drop box when we heard screeching of car tyres and doors slamming. We presumed that there might have been a car accident or something so peered out the windows to see what was going on, nothing much - there was an empty car further down the road which had pulled up on double yellows and that was about it. We figured someone had just parked up a little too aggressively and then ran into the bank next door. We left the window and carried on with the drop box.

About 2 minutes later we heard a man shout, a woman scream and about 5 policemen run past the shop window, batons swinging. We poked our heads out the door to witness four masked guys running out of the bank then get taken down with impressive force by the coppers. Turned out these guys were attempting to rob a bank which was about 100 yards from the town police station. I can't imagine they were local because they all seemed mystified as to how the police got to the scene of the crime so fast - Bless.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 16 Jul 2009, 15:17, Reply)