Frank West, Photojournalist 2

I got on the helicopter today and met the pilot. He was a tour guide for Willamette, Colorado. He probably thought I was a tourist or somthing. i did'nt think the trip would take so long, though. It probably took about 4 hours or so to come close to the town. It really looked like a small town to me. The tour guide said something about it. I think he said that the town's population is 53,500 or something. I was'nt paying much attention because I was taking pictures of the surrounding town with my camera. When we got closer to the town, I thought that the tip that I got had been a joke, because, zooming in, the town looked pretty normal, only there were no cars driving around. Then i saw people in the streets.when we finally got to the town's edge, i looked down and I saw an army van and a whole sqad of army men. The tour guide said, ''What was that, the army?'' I did'nt really answer because i was kind of in shock of what was ahead. I saw a guy in a blue shirt on top of a car escaping from, what it looked like, a riot. when we got closer in, the guy was hitting the people with a bat because they were trying to get to him for some reason. Then he saw the helicopter and started to wave at us like he needed help. Then the rioting people got ahold of the guy on top of the car, and pulled him off of it. Then i coud'nt believe my eyes because when they pulled him down, it looked as though they had started eating him! We could'nt stay there so we went through the town, taking pictures of whatever i was looking for. At one point I saw a bunch of people trying to get into a bus. Then when we got to the center of town and I saw a big building. It looked like a mall. Then we saw a bunch of people at the entrance. I saw a heli-pad on top of the mall and asked the pilot if he could land on it. He hovered above it and out of instinct i jumped before he even landed.