Home Invasion ?

[mete]

I don't have a link but a recent incident was called a 'home invasion' .WWII vet with lots of guns .Certainly able to defend himself .But hardly a 'home invasion' . He fell for an old line .A woman knocked on his door saying her car had broken down and could she use his telephone. He INVITED her in !! They had a shootout , she used one of HIS guns. No injuries but she escaped with his guns and jewelry.
Not a home invasion at all !! The rule is NEVER permit a stranger into your home !!
No amount of training and weapons will save you if you do something dumb !

 

[9mmepiphany]

in this day of cell phones, does that line still work?

i think every phone in my house, except one is cordless (yes, i still have a landline, it's a long story)

 

[Atroxus]

I have been reading about this type of thing a lot recently. People knocking on dooors claiming some kind of distress and either being invited or forcing their way into homes. I think I am going to have a chat with my wife, and my mother(who provides daycare for us) about not opening the door to strangers no matter what.

 

[Rawb77]

@9mmepiphany: Its smart to have at least one land line in your home. Here in the south especially. If a hurricane hits or just bad rain storm and we lose power, we may still have telephone service. Problem with cordless phones is that they require power to operate their bases and to charge the phones themselves. My parents keep a landline phone (pretty cheap one at that) in a desk drawer incase a storm does come through so they can still make phone calls.

But yes, nowadays...if someone really knocked on my door asking to make a phone call. I'd prolly just whip out my cell phone and have them make the call from outside my front door while I stood there. Of course I'd probably inquire as to who and for what reasons they needed to make a call. (and why they chose my apartment which is on the second floor of my building haha)

 

[Atroxus]

+1 on a landline, and a corded phone. I have been working in the wireless phone industry for 5+ years now, and in my opinion anyone that ditches their landline in favor of a cell phone is just asking for problems. Cell phones are just not as reliable as a landline. Granted landlines aren't 100% either so I have both.

 

[Snakum]

My family knows that the door is never opened to a stranger for any reason, child or woman. And no one can use our phone, bathroom, etc. It's a shame that we have to be like that, but the risk out here in the country near a large town is just too great. The number of home invasions is increasing here in NC, and the MO is to have a young kid or woman come to the door with a male crouched out of sight.

Anyone trying it at my house is going to have a very, very bad day. I don't have guns stashed in every room and I'm not paranoid. But I am prepared. We have a nine shot .22LR revolver easily accessed in a kitchen drawer near the primary door and a Glock 23 beside the bed. In a worse case scenario I also have an 870 with an LED light ready to roll, lying just under the bed. And everyone knows the rules for strangers coming to the door and they know what to do if they hear a struggle at night: lay down on the floor because bullets are probably going to fly. You have to be wary and you have to be prepared nowadays. Damn shame, too.

 

[CWL]

This the story?

We can discuss S&T all we want, but sometimes you just can't teach an old Vet new tricks. No use telling him what he "shoulda done". I'm sure that this 84-year old is a gentleman and he'll continue to behave the correct way in helping someone in trouble. Good thing he isn't afraid to defend himself.

I'm sure that by the time we reach his age, the world will be completely foreign to us too.

WWII veteran says woman grabbed 2 guns in Pa. home invasion, had shootout, leaped from window

Associated Press
12/01/09 11:00 PM PST

RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, PA. — A World War II veteran says a woman who pretended her car had broken down so she could get into his Pennsylvania home grabbed two guns from his collection and engaged him in a shootout before jumping out a window with the weapons.

Donald Kaighn (CAYN') tells Philadelphia's WPVI-TV the woman sprayed him with lighter fluid and wrestled him in the kitchen Monday night before he grabbed a gun and chased her upstairs, where she found two guns and they had a shootout. He wasn't badly hurt.

The 84-year-old Kaighn says when he went downstairs to call police the woman snatched jewelry. Fingerprints show she leaped from a second-floor window of the home in suburban Ridley Township.

Police are looking for the woman following the latest in a rash of home invasions in the area over the last year.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/ww...had-shootout-leaped-from-window-78295032.html

 

[owlhoot]

Dang! the Cat Woman strikes again. If she looked like Halle Berry, I suppose I would have let her in too.

 

[NWCP]

That's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Either on the open road, or at a residence scumbags take advantage of decent folks just trying to help. Another reason to have a pistol handy, not in a drawer, or another room. The elderly are especially vulnerable. Call me paranoid, but I always have a pistol available and the pups let us know when we have company invited, or otherwise.

 

[sheepdog]

Snakum...

...great plan and great training...hope you never have to play it out!!!