Speaking of scoops, I did stumble across what at first looked like the beginning of World War Three when a bazillion cops suddenly swarmed like locusts, blocking off a whole city block in the blink of an eye. And I mean they CHOKED it off, cramming the entire block with as many police vehicles as was physically possible while not allowing even office workers to return from their afternoon coffee breaks.

"What's going on?" was on everyone's lips, since as far as anyone could tell NOTHING was going on, when suddenly an eager young reporter standing next to me is phoning in the hot poop that he just gleaned from the sergeant-at-arms at the head of blockade...

"Anarchists!" he frantically whispered into his cell phone while trying to keep my prying, too-lazy-to-get-my-own-scoop ears at bay. "DOZENS of them! The cops just thwarted a full-scale terrorist attack! We're witnessing a MASS ARREST!" We ARE? Where? WHAT "terrorists"?

Not wanting to annoy the fierce looking Sergeant-at-Arms with the same old questions, I turned to a handful of green-haired teens who were present, wondering if maybe it was their FRIENDS who were getting arrested. According to them it was just a handful of animal rights activists who got busted after knocking over a display in a furrier store. There's your "terrorist attack," folks!