Last weekend, for the first time ever, we were a little unnerved about living so close to Oakhill Prison.
About 3am or so my wife and I were rudely awakened by a huge noise outside the house, we had no idea what was going on, but it was like the builders were driving by in their heavy equipment or something. Next thing, we had an extremely bright light shining on us through the high level window in our bedroom which provides a lovely view of the sky at night!
Turns out it was a helicopter going over and around the entire area, several times, searching for someone or something that, we can only guess, was trying to break into or out of the prison?!
Amazingly the kids slept through it all, and I never felt the desire to call the prison or local police to see if they could shed some light on the subject (beyond that they shone through our bedroom windows already), but it was weird, lying there watching the search light go back and forth and the helicopter hovering above!
It could be nothing to do with the prison, we had similar experiences when living elsewhere in Milton Keynes (it IS a lovely place, honest!), but your imagination can run wild at that time in the morning!
