Heading into work this morning, I ran into a bit of a backup along Gaston near East Grand. I could see the traffic slowed at the White Rock YMCA parking lot and I thought: man, the gym is packed this morning! But I soon realized the commotion was happening next door in the OK Sports Bar/Far West Night Club lot. (OK doubles as Babalu which some of us figured was going to terminate operations after failing to get a dance club permit — wrongly though, they had the Babalu sign up last night).

There is a parking lot full of cars and police manning the parking lot entryway, and there are two radio broadcasting trucks for 107.9 (KESS).

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They appeared to be broadcasting from the gas station next door. So I turned my radio dial to 107.9 in an attempt to get the scoop. But because it is an all Spanish station, I couldn’t really figure out what the DJs were saying (I heard something about a "car wash" and an "elephant", I’m sure, but that’s about all) and my bilingual coworker Marlena Chavira-Medford is away on an assignment this morning so I’m outta luck for the time being.