Observations on a self extraction from a hot zone...

I actually grew up in Los Angeles and at the time the riots kicked off I was 20. I worked near Compton at a Kal-Kan warehouse as a forklift driver. After the verdicts were announced everyone was piled up in the break room watching TV and they told us to go home and call once every day in the morning to see if we needed to come in.

I called every day and the phone just rang and rang and rang. Finally on the 6th day a buddy and I drove down there and the warehouse was burnt to the ground at some point within the first couple of days of the riot.

At any rate on the first day of the riots I had to drive home through some shit areas and except for some rock throwing where they were too far away to hit us nothing much happened. Was kind of worried about it for a second as the cars were all stuck in a jam turning at this light and they were starting to head that way, but I was gone by the time they reached that intersection.