Home defense stories.

Afelt.tech, I completely understand what you say about Flint. I'd rather live in a cardboard box anywhere else than a mansion in Flint.

The sad part about Flint is that they are pouring money into the 4 blocks downtown to attract people to come in, but laying off LEO's and Fire by the dozen. My band played right downtown last month and I saw one cop, but several Lagarda Security "patrolling" the area.

If you go north 3 or 4 blocks you are in the thick of it, and even the "nice" new downtown area gets scary after dark.

A couple of years ago I fell asleep on my couch when at 3 in the morning my chuahua started barking and licking my face. I woke up and saw a teenager grabbing my truck keys off the key hook. He took off running with my keys but didn't take my truck. Even though he was just a kid and wasn't armed it scared the living **** out of me. I've slept with a gun close by ever since that night.

A few years ago I had an indecent, no shots fired but it sure made me glad to have the ol' shotty around.

I heard my chain link fence jingle around 2 AM. none of my neighbors have dogs so i thought it was weird. I quietly got up and put on some shorts and got the shotgun out of the safe and sat on the edge of the bed listening. Pretty soon I heard someone messing with the back door. I positioned myself about 10 feet from the door with a desk for cover. I yelled something suggesting that they wouldn't want to come through the door and the bad guy split.

I was so nervous i completely forgot to call 911, my wife woke up to me yelling in the middle of the night and it took some time to calm the family down.

The next morning when i walked out the front door to go to work the street was full of cops. Apparently a house party down the street a ways went bad, a someone got shot and the house emptied out like cockroaches when the light gets turned on. No one was ever caught and I have no idea if the bad guy at my back door was the gun wielding kind of cockroach or the running kind, but man it scared the crud out of me either way.

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Here in El Paso, I've had precisely one 'scary' moment. I heard a loud pop from outside and my Chihuaha went nuts. He's a great dog, lives on top of his kennel in the window so he can watch outside. Anyways, I grabbed my Hi-Standard 12G and watched the door for a few minutes. Heard someone bang on it, then they walked away (avoiding the window).

I need to move.

Agreed, Chihuahuas are incredibly smart dogs for their size and make excellent alert dogs.

Didn't happen to me but to my Dad. We have a big family, usually had 4 cars in the driveway when we were in high school and college living at home. One weekend on a spring evening just happens all of us except for my Dad were gone out of town for the weekend.

Dad decides to enjoy the silence and by dark has the house locked up tight and is in his bedroom with just the tv on and turned down watching tv and dozing with his bedroom window open for the breeze and just a screen on the window. While laying there around 9:30 he hears the back gate latch open very easy and the door squeak as it opened and he knew he had closed and secured it. By going through the gate the bad guy was concealed from view from the neighbors because of the wood privacy fence.

Dad immediately turned the tv off making the room dark and retrieved his S&W model 65 .357 magnum and eased over next to the window out of view. He kept hearing someone probing around the back of the house. The back door trying to open it and then heard them around the den windows slowly working their way toward his room. Finally they were just outside the bedroom window and touched the screen, they had a flashlight as well. When the prowler touched the screen Dad stepped out and stuck the .357 into the screen right to the guys head, cocked it and demanded what are you doing sneaking around here! The guy about crapped his pants and started yelling my Dad's name, don't shoot me " " it's so and so, don't shoot, don't shoot and shines the light on his own face and then badge! It was a local cop who knew my Dad and his story was he was used to seeing lots of cars parked in our driveway and with every thing gone he was concerned and just checking things out. Dad said that is a good way to get shot! The cop apologized and left asap.

I am not quite sure I bought cops story.

Sarge83, that does sound a but fishy. Why would he be sneaking around like that when most cops would knock on the door if they thought something was up? Did your old man have any nice guns or other valuables the officer knew about ?

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Nope still here at least for a few more months. Cant wait bro

Sarge83, that does sound a but fishy. Why would he be sneaking around like that when most cops would knock on the door if they thought something was up? Did your old man have any nice guns or other valuables the officer knew about ?

Not really, he had only a couple of guns and most anything else of real value other than my Moms jewelry locked in his safety deposit box at the bank. This cop showed up at my Dad's business the next day and apologized again.

Funny thing is at that time rampant break ins were happening all over our small town. Long story short- the feds went undercover and several officers from that dept. were arrested for multiple breaking and entering and burglaries and drug trafficking and many went to prison.

However this particular officer wasn't one of them. Still strange the way he conducted his search.