Home intruder

[mike benedict]

The other night I was in my basement shop making holsters when I heard noise from upstairs. Which is real unusual since I live in nowhere deliverence Georgia.
I when up stairs and searched the house (cause I don't lock the doors) in my best super secret ninja squirrel style. After clearing all the rooms I went back to work and wrote it off to a stray dog on the porch. A minute later I heard more noize this time at the front of the house. So I stealthly snuck out the back door and rounded the corner with my 3" model 64 S&W only to locate my buddy Claude with a 6pack trying to find me.

Good thing I did not shoot him, he might have dropped the beer and broke the bottles.

Mike

 

[TarpleyG]

I suggest locking your doors, even if you live out in BFE. Never know who can roll up with bad intentions.

Greg

 

[JamisJockey]

I suggest locking them especially because you live in BFE. If someone does intrude your home with ill-intentions, I put forward the theory that the chances of a neighbor or passerby hearing or seeing anything abnormal and reporting to the police are lesser, thus making you a better target.

 

[shermacman]

Good thing you didn't shoot him: even aluminum beer cans can split and pop open if dropped.

 

[Arc-Lite]

someone come into my home, without an invitation, they better have a beer TRUCK outside....with food. If a door has a lock use it.

 

[DarkKnight01]

I when up stairs and searched the house (cause I don't lock the doors) in my best super secret ninja squirrel style.

LOL Now thats funny ^

And im glad the beer is ok, perhaps a bit traumatized, but alive and well

 

[mike benedict]

The last guy that tried to break into my house (different house) did not fair too well.
He needed a LOT of stitches after one of my big ole dogs ate him up.

The kid was on my screened in porch trying to pry the front door open with a M16 bayonet when Ben the dog got a hold of him.

By the time I got to the porch the dog had him by the throat and the kid looked like he had lost a fight with a weed eater.

Mike

 

[308win]

By the time I got to the porch the dog had him by the throat and the kid looked like he had lost a fight with a weed eater.

ROFLMAO You owe me a bottle of water and a new laptop as this one is full of water.

 

[XLMiguel]

My friends practice varying levels of security & situational awareness, let alone armed preparedness. That being said, I make it a point to make a lot of noise when I go visiting, I think of it as part of my health plan. All my firends who know me well enough to 'know', do likewise. Aside from a few bruises and embarassing moments . . . . so far, so good.

 

[Bulldozer]

Only had one visitor enter unannounced. My wife has handed out a few keys to relatives.

They were very surprised to be greeted by me at the top of the stairs with a .45 Commander pointed down at them.

They've always called before arrival ever since.

 

[mike benedict]

sorry about your laptop 308
Hope the water did not squirt out your nose I hate it when that happens

 

[armedandsafe]

I used to work out of my home. I was in bed one day with a headache when I heard some try the front door. A few moments later, someone tried the back door. A minute after that, someone started scaling the fence right outside the bedroom window.

I rolled out of bed and grabbed the .357 and went into a full Weaver crouch facing the window. The cutest little 16yo girl dropped off the fence and turned to look Mr. Convincer right in his single eye. She dropped the books she was carrying and stammered something about bringing them home for my son. Then she levitated back over the fence and I could hear her running for several blocks.

When my son got home, he asked me, "Why were you standing in front of the window, naked?"

Pops

 

[Preacherman]

So... why were you standing in front of the window naked?

 

[torpid]

So... why were you standing in front of the window naked?

Shhh... if you spook him, he'll stop doing it!

.

 

[Malamute]

"Good thing you didn't shoot him: even aluminum beer cans can split and pop open if dropped."

Yeah, and even if it hadn't broken a can, it would've been all fizzy for 20 minutes, you couldn't have even had a beer for that long.

 

[Avenger29]

Man, you need to lock your doors especially if you live out in the middle of nowhere (and get a BIG dog). Also get one of those driveway alarms- allows you time to get to gun (the newer cars are REAL quiet). I also have bay windows in house and near door, allows 180 degree fire coverage on intruders
Some stories:

1. Somebody in woods to the east of house. I take semi-auto .22, spray full mag (18 rds) into woods. Gets real quiet. (this was before I got a dog)
2. Crazy nut tries to steal tires off my truck. German Sheperd got him, heard him screaming all the way up driveway, before I could get my shotgun (I was doubled over laughing!)
3. Some ??????? on an adjacent property trespassed on mine illiegaly and shot a deer right beside my house on a Sat. morning at 6:30. In less than 30 seconds, he had three people outside training a 12 gau, a .30-30, and a .22 on him. He was lucky I did not shoot him for waking me I should have took his rifle and deer, too.

I have greeted many unexpected visitors with my 12 gau. (IF SOMETHING WAS FOR SALE, IT WOULD HAVE A FOR SALE SIGN ON IT!!! :banghead: ) My dog keeps them in their car, I can greet at leisure.

I also find moving stuff around property, conducting random live-fire exercises, and acting wierd keeps people away (nobody messes with crazy people!)

 

[JamisJockey]

1. Somebody in woods to the east of house. I take semi-auto .22, spray full mag (18 rds) into woods. Gets real quiet. (this was before I got a dog)

So you indiscriminately fired upon a possible threat, without knowing for sure if it was an escaped convict with an axe or an 8 year old girl? People like you give us all a bad name.

 

[Blue Jays]

Hi Avenger29-

"1. Somebody in woods to the east of house. I take semi-auto .22, spray full mag (18 rds) into woods. Gets real quiet. (this was before I got a dog)"

Don't do this again. Ever.

~ Blue Jays ~

 

[dasmi]

1. Somebody in woods to the east of house. I take semi-auto .22, spray full mag (18 rds) into woods. Gets real quiet. (this was before I got a dog)

You are the kind of person that the anti's love to hold up as the typical gun owner. You should not have firearms if you engage in this type of behavior.

 

[Blue Jays]

Hi Mike Benedict-

Please lock your doors whether you're inside or have left for the day.

Locks help people to stay honest. There is a whole section about the idea of unlocked doors in the absurd movie Bowling for Columbine by that fat liberal Michael Moore. I've never understood people that leave their doors unlocked...what is the "benefit" associated with that kind of reckless behavior?

~ Blue Jays ~

 

[cracked butt]

The cutest little 16yo girl dropped off the fence and turned to look Mr. Convincer right in his single eye. .

When my son got home, he asked me, "Why were you standing in front of the window, naked?"

Would like to comment on this one but nope, won't do it, wouldn't be right.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Did Claude pee his pants?

 

[sssteinkamp]

When I lived in BFE...

...the rule was that friends needed to blow their horn when the pulled up to the house and not just walk in. My friends, being thick headed, didn't always comply.

Finally, I put up a sign at the house end of the (long, dirt) driveway that said:

BLOW HORN OR RISK BEING SHOT.

I never had any trouble after that...

SS

 

[CajunBass]

Sneaking in

My ex wife, had a cousin who got a job as a maint man at an apartment complex. Since he had a pass key, he decided to take up breaking and entering for fun and profit. He would take something small that wasn't likely to be noticed missing, or a few bucks cash laying around. Nothing that would make people think someone had actually broken in.

One day he was prowling around the downstairs in an apartment where "no one was home", when he heard a voice from the top of the stairs tell him "Don't move". Being somewhat stupid, he turned around, and found a very frightened woman at the top of the stairs, holding a 20 ga pump gun aimed at his chest. (He found out later what kind of gun it was.) He told me later it looked about the size of a RR tunnel. He not being totally stupid, laid on the floor, and told the lady to "Please call the cops". He spent a year or so as a guest of the county.

He has since given up that line of work, and as far as I know has never been in trouble with the law again.

 

[Wheeler]

I don't know what all the ruckus is about, knowing Claude, it was probably cheap beer.

Wheeler