birddog
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http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=290547
This thread jarred a memory from last summer. We had a VERY aggressive group of magazine salesmen (young guys) in the neighborhood. My teenage daughter told me several days earlier that one extremely pushy guy had showed up and refused to leave for a long, long time. This had been pushed away to the back of my mind.
Several days later, I was in the living room watching Oprah after work, like any good conservative outdoor writer at 3 in the afternoon should be doing. All at once, a very old, very beatup Chevy Corsica pulled up into my driveway VERY fast (thank God the kids weren't out there playing basketball) and one of the passengers, a tall white male dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, RAN from the back seat to my side door. My dogs (who aren't overly paranoid) went ballistic. I had my CCW very nearby and unholstered it and put it down the back of my shorts and ran to the door.
Turns out, the kid was just selling magazines, and was the same idiot that my daughter dealt with previously. I gave him a lecture on how someday he's going to jump out of the piece of crap car he was driving, run up to a house where dogs are VERY obviously barking and either be bitten or be facing down the muzzle of a gun. He immediately started arguing with me and I told him that he should really re-think his approach. "These are dangerous times" I told him. He basically told me to F-off, and then left.
The lesson to ME was how quickly things happened even though it was an innocent incident. I don't generally have my CCW that close. If he HAD been a bad guy that day, I would have been okay. But most other days, I would have been taken completely off guard and had to let the dogs deal with him while I retrieved my handgun.
Just some food for thought.
Joel
This thread jarred a memory from last summer. We had a VERY aggressive group of magazine salesmen (young guys) in the neighborhood. My teenage daughter told me several days earlier that one extremely pushy guy had showed up and refused to leave for a long, long time. This had been pushed away to the back of my mind.
Several days later, I was in the living room watching Oprah after work, like any good conservative outdoor writer at 3 in the afternoon should be doing. All at once, a very old, very beatup Chevy Corsica pulled up into my driveway VERY fast (thank God the kids weren't out there playing basketball) and one of the passengers, a tall white male dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, RAN from the back seat to my side door. My dogs (who aren't overly paranoid) went ballistic. I had my CCW very nearby and unholstered it and put it down the back of my shorts and ran to the door.
Turns out, the kid was just selling magazines, and was the same idiot that my daughter dealt with previously. I gave him a lecture on how someday he's going to jump out of the piece of crap car he was driving, run up to a house where dogs are VERY obviously barking and either be bitten or be facing down the muzzle of a gun. He immediately started arguing with me and I told him that he should really re-think his approach. "These are dangerous times" I told him. He basically told me to F-off, and then left.
The lesson to ME was how quickly things happened even though it was an innocent incident. I don't generally have my CCW that close. If he HAD been a bad guy that day, I would have been okay. But most other days, I would have been taken completely off guard and had to let the dogs deal with him while I retrieved my handgun.
Just some food for thought.
Joel
Experience and true stories gleaned from THR have helped reinforce in me the duty to ensure my family's and my own safety. I have been much more concious of carrying at home and this unwanted solicitation and stories like yours' have helped reinforce my mindset of being prepared. I have been lucky for so long. Glad to have met another someone I didn't have to kill. Everyone be safe.