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was on my way to a job interview in the Hague.. and suddenly our then minister of education Plasterk stepped into the train I was sitting in and sat down next to me. Didn't expect that to happen! But to describe it as 'shocking' would be too much credit

I saw something very shocking once. I had my car filled with kids because I teach piano and I was taking them home after a rehearsal for a recital. We were on a very busy street, and suddenly a well-dressed man ran in front of my car, and I had to slam on my breaks to prevent hitting him. Suddenly, I heard a loud "POP!" and the man fell down in front of my car. I saw another man running toward us with a gun in his hand, but he was dressed like someone who lived on the streets. All the kids started screaming, and I locked all the doors and shouted, "Get down on the floor!" Then, there was another "POP!" and a policeman shot the second man in the leg. He leaned across the hood of my car, dropped his gun, and held up a badge.

As it turned out, the second man was an undercover agent and the well-dressed man was the bad guy. The policeman had only seen the badly dressed man shoot the well-dressed man, so he had actually shot the undercover policeman in the leg. The bad guy had been sitting in a restaurant when he recognized the undercover agent. He ran outside and tried to high-jack a car, but the woman wouldn't give it to him, so he ran into the street in front of us. The undercover agent then shot him, and the policeman shot the undercover agent. We had to stay where we were until they figured it all out and called an ambulance for the injured policeman and the dead bad guy. I was the only adult in my car with a bunch of hysterical 5 to 9 year olds.

I hate guns. I hate how irresponsible those two policemen were to fire into a street filled with traffic. I hate that one of the children in my car could have been shot by a stray bullet. Thank God, it didn't happen.