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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

~*they're making a movie*~
Hello,how is everyone doing??me good so far...I found a news story that I tought you all would find interesting....this actually happened in my home town...I found it pretty funny...I hope you enjoy reading this...the swat team was in my home town,what'll happen next??well enjoy and take care...have fun!!later!!HUGS!!^_^

A group of people held downtown hostage Thursday evening as city police and SWAT team members sealed off streets in what was billed as a man holding hostages inside the post office.

Hundreds of fans spilled out of bars, restaurants and shops for the show featuring nine or 10 people - mostly local high school students - using "weapons" inside the back of the post office apparently to make a film.

"They're making a movie!" an exasperated city police officer said after the drama turned to comedy about an hour after it began about 6 p.m.

But it wasn't funny from the start. A woman who recently moved to Fernandina from Miami fretted that her new town was becoming like her old, where she said she was the victim of a crime on five separate occasions.

Two witnesses at O'Kane's restaurant, who declined to be interviewed, told police they had seen a man with "a rifle-type weapon with a sling" walk into the post office.

The man, originally identified as possibly an Hispanic male, was believed to be holding hostages.

Police quickly sealed off Centre and cross streets, holding back automobile and pedestrian traffic and barking out sharp orders to "get back across the street - now!"

SWAT team members ran behind the Nassau County Courthouse to take up positions on the south side of the post office while other officers did the same on the north side.

Employees at the Green Turtle and Pompeo's waited nervously while many of their customers fled into the streets to enjoy the show as the script made the rounds.

Only the audience thought it was real, not a movie, and so did police.

First two males, then five white males, then six white males were reported moving in single file in the back area of the post office. Then seven people then nine people were reported leaving the west side of the building, including two females with their hands up in the air.

Then the police scanner reported "a gun that they're using to make a movie inside."

Then - perhaps the best line of the show - "a possible movie-making in progress."

Finally those inside the building were crowded onto the sidewalk outside where they were seated with hands folded and heads down.

Lt. Jim Coe said a witness saw a white male walk into the post office with an automatic rifle and called 9-1-1. "We can't hesitate in a situation like that and automatically set up a perimeter around the building," he said.

Coe said postal employees were aware of the movie plans. The group had been inside the building filming a scene for a couple of hours, said Devon Menendez, one of those involved.

The scene they were filming was an interrogation scene for a movie for their Spanish class at Fernandina Beach High School. The scene included three realistic assault rifles.

The high school students said they were shooting the film, and then there were police outside. When they walked outside, police descended on them with assault rifles.

"Holy crap!" Brian Ferreira said he thought when confronted by police. "I've definitely got a story for government class."

Postmaster Ronald Steedley said he, his wife and daughter were in the building watching the filming in the basement of the post office. He said he "absolutely knew that they were doing this. I didn't think it would quite turn out like this."

Unaware that police had surrounded the building, Steedley went to let some of the students out the door, "and I heard something" - SWAT teams descending with guns pointed at them and ordering them to the ground.

"I thought I could tell them who I was and they would calm down, but it didn't work. . . .

"It's amazing how a chain of events could get so out of hand."

He said the students, working on their spring break, were trying to finish a project due in class on Monday.

Coe said police would defer to the State Attorney's Office about whether charges should be filed.

PS thats the picture that was on the front page of the news paper!!;P
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