Now this seemed like pretty exciting stuff to me. The SWAT team is on the scene and everything! I had a lot of time to think about how excited I was on the drive to Lanesville. We got off the Lanesville exit behind another station. We followed them, assuming they knew where they were going. And we made it-- to a car wreck. There, yet another station pulls up.

Then it was Aaron Ulrich (our photographer) leading the "media circus" to the standoff. Many twists and turns and a few backroads later we arrive on the scene-- where we can't see anything!! We were at the top of a hill and the house we needed was at the bottom. So a few more twisty back roads later we pull up to the street the house is on, only to be stopped by the cops. Apparently it's dangerous to be near a standoff.

So we set up shop at the end of the road and we waited. And waited. And waited a little bit longer. At this point, we had absolutely no information about what was going on. We could see men dressed up in SWAT gear heading up the street, and there were rumors about a meth lab, but we had nothing. The nice men stopping the media from going up the street told us they couldn't speak to us, but the chief would be down "sometime". This is where we play the waiting game some more.

It was HOT outside this day- so hot that one of the phtographers from another station passed out minutes before their live shot! We were just waiting for something to happen- either for the SWAT team to rush into the house, or someone to come give us an interview, or anything really. Eventually, the SWAT members loaded up in their armored vehicle and drove away. Shortly after, we see everyone driving away and assume something went down. So we waited, and sweated, and waited some more. Eventually the police chief came down to talk to us. They busted into the house, where no one was inside.

Not quite as exciting as I would have hoped. Apparently they found a meth lab in a car outside the house. The arrested two people and thought two more were inside the house (hence the SWAT team busting into the house). But- the house was empty. We were allowed to "drive near the house" to shoot a little video- but we were told that if we got too close or stayed too long we would be fined $10,000 by OSHA. Ouch. So our story turned out to be a little less exciting than I thought. So goes the world of television news.