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Armed Robbery!
PATBUZZARD
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I was visiting an old professor\friend of mine yesterday he related what had happened to one of his current students. The student lives on the same side of town as me, he had a knock on his door, and opened the door. In burst 5 armed thugs who held him up and robbed his house at gunpoint. Amongst the stolen items were cash, and some musical instruments. How many on this board, have even considered this as a possible scenario? Personally I have never considered more than perhaps 3 idiots attempting to rob me. Five on one odds make me want to have a rifle handy instead of my usual pistol.
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Don
As to the answering the door bit. My living room window has good field of vision of that, door itself has one of those tiny (approx. 3" x 3")windows. If there's a random gang of people I don't know lined up outside the door, Mr. rifle and Mr. 30rd. mag are coming out to play.
I always answer the front door with a gun in my hand. Don
Now I know to come to the back door[:D][:D]
Don
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
I always answer the front door with a gun in my hand. Don
Now I know to come to the back door[:D][:D]
Don
If one wasn't paying attention to who said what, they'd think Don was having a conversation with himself. Which, I'm sure happens more than we know.
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Get a wide-angle-lens peep-hole!
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Now I know to come to the back door
Don
I had heard that the back door was dcons' preferance but yours too?
There are certain scenarios that I do not answer the door without arming my self first.
Don
I agree with Don! Its a feeling you get and intitution kicks in when you look through the peephole in the door or out of the window and spot folks at the door our in the yard.
Ray
I used to have a next door neighbor. He died late Spring. He told me he was out back cutting hay one day and some guy came out of the woods walking toward his tractor. He stopped to see what the gentleman wanted. He said the man asked him for five dollars. Elmo was the kind of man who would have given him five dollars if he had it with him, but he didn't. Elmo told the guy if he wanted to stick around until he got finished, he would see what he could do to help him out. He told Elmo that was alright and he left. Elmo said the guy didn't do or say anything threatening, but something just didn't feel right about it. Made the hair stand up on his neck. Elmo started carrying a .25 auto in his pocket after that. He was in his nineties at the time.
Just to give you an idea what kind of man Elmo was, about five years ago a man knocked on his front door and told him he had lost his pocket knife in Elmo's watermelon patch the night before and wanted to know if he would return it if he found it. Elmo stopped what he was doing and helped the man find his pocket knife, then filled up his trunk with watermelons. Elmo was just that kind of man.
I used to have an out back neighbor too, but he died a little over month ago. They had to put his wife in a home because they can't convince her that he's dead.
I still have an across the road neighbor, but his wife if in Duke Hospital now. I'm running out of neighbors. I guess that's even more reason to go armed.
(after first standing to the hinge side and putting a non-trigger finger over the peep hole in case whoever's out there is watching the peephole to see when they think I'm standing right behind the door with my eye to the peephole so they know where to shoot... you guys do that too, right?)
I think I'd ask a few questions before opening my home to them.
Call me cynical.
'Sides, I always have something within diving range, if not stuck in my back pocket, when going to the door.
[^]barto[^]
He was NOT prepared.
I pretty much always have a pistol in my pocket. If something doesn't look or feel right, I have it in my hand. Being out in the sticks doesn't keep away the weirdoes, freaks and kooks these days.
I used to have a next door neighbor. He died late Spring. He told me he was out back cutting hay one day and some guy came out of the woods walking toward his tractor. He stopped to see what the gentleman wanted. He said the man asked him for five dollars. Elmo was the kind of man who would have given him five dollars if he had it with him, but he didn't. Elmo told the guy if he wanted to stick around until he got finished, he would see what he could do to help him out. He told Elmo that was alright and he left. Elmo said the guy didn't do or say anything threatening, but something just didn't feel right about it. Made the hair stand up on his neck. Elmo started carrying a .25 auto in his pocket after that. He was in his nineties at the time.
Just to give you an idea what kind of man Elmo was, about five years ago a man knocked on his front door and told him he had lost his pocket knife in Elmo's watermelon patch the night before and wanted to know if he would return it if he found it. Elmo stopped what he was doing and helped the man find his pocket knife, then filled up his trunk with watermelons. Elmo was just that kind of man.
I used to have an out back neighbor too, but he died a little over month ago. They had to put his wife in a home because they can't convince her that he's dead.
I still have an across the road neighbor, but his wife if in Duke Hospital now. I'm running out of neighbors. I guess that's even more reason to go armed.
Dont forget about all of your wierd neighbors here. [:D]