Yes, it is amazing how many of the stupids walk among us. Las year I was also at a Residence Inn one night when a bunch of cop cars kept flying up in silent mode to the store across the street over 10 minutes, more than 2 dozen LEO's getting into hidden positions flanking a door. Ambulances and fire truck staged a block away. I turn to some moms hanging around the basketball court with 5 toddlers and little kids and say, "Since you have your kids I thought I should mention that it looks like something bad may be about to go down across the street, the police are set up around that door." As in, police in between us and the door, directly in the line of return fire. "Oh, cool, thanks" and then back to watching their kids run around the completely exposed court.
Luckily the suspects froze when confronted after exiting, but the cops had 2 dozen guns drawn. "Oh wow, did you see that kids?"
(OBTW, no tornadoes touched down within a 50 mile radius of us that night.)