I remember predicting the Rodney King riots. The verdicts were announced midday, and I heard the news on my walkman as I was riding my bike over to play pick-up hoops at UCSB. A number of the players were local African-americans, and I was the one who told everybody what had just happened. Needless to say my African-american friends were besides themselves, and I said to them, "I have a bad feeling that LA is going to burn tonight." After playing for an hour or two I further remember going home to shower & then turning on the TV and being mildly surprised that no incidents were being reported yet. But within another hour, as sundown approached, that was no longer the case.