george burns
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I was food shopping for my 94 year old mother, "as I do every week". I was at a Publics supermarket, about 2 miles from my home in Vero Beach FL.
I parked , as always", right near the entrance, because I have 2 nice cars that I just feel better about leaving when they are as close to the area with the most security.
So I come out to leave, and I see liquid has been poured all over the car. Not knowing what it was, I immediately fear the worst. I have a new triple black Mustang, wit Black mags etc.
The car always gets compliments since they changed the body style. It really stands out with a few coats of wax on it.
I hypothesized what happened due to the way the liquid had hit the car, it was thrown out of a bucket or a cooler, as it hit the front the hardest and continued up to the back of the car, and down the sides. It was not coming off easily and leaving white marks. I decided to go to my moms drop off the groceries and go back to my house where I have the proper compounds to get most anything off without taking off the paint along with it.
After an hour of trying various combinations I got it all off. It was water mixed with something else "maybe booze". I was relieved that it came off, now back to the store. I got hold of the manager and asked for the surveillance tape.
He was very sympathetic and tried to be helpful, but there is no real feed, the camera's are for show only.
I finally came home and calmed down and started to think what I would have done to this guy should I had seen him do this. It was a good thing he had not been seen by me, as I knew by the nature of the act that this kind of scumbag, would have required physical force, which could have easily escalated to the use of a weapon. It was more that likely 2 or more guys in a truck dumping their cooler "possibly full of beer",on my car just because they are morons.
This is when carrying a gun gets tricky, if you engage a possible drunk or just a piece of dirt like these guys were, you need to prepare for anything.
Someone who would do something like that would easily think nothing about cracking your head open with a club or pipe. All in all it ended well considering how pissed off I was at the time. Anyone have a situation like this, what did you do?
Now I had 2 attempted car jacking's in NY some 30-35 yrs ago, and I knew exactly what to do, because I was lucky enough to see them coming, and stop them before they could go anywhere by using my weapon to stop them, but this was different because I didn't know how these guys would have reacted if confronted. Since I am 67 this week, perhaps they would have thought I was an easy target, and continued with this to the point where a weapon would have come out of someone's pocket, Not mine, not until it was a last resort, and I feared for my life.
It's a small town, perhaps we will meet again. I need to keep an eye on my cars even more from now on. The point is when you carry a gun all of your life, you need to restrain yourself even more than the other guy, no matter how difficult it becomes, and as most of us know, you don't mess with a mans wheels.
I parked , as always", right near the entrance, because I have 2 nice cars that I just feel better about leaving when they are as close to the area with the most security.
So I come out to leave, and I see liquid has been poured all over the car. Not knowing what it was, I immediately fear the worst. I have a new triple black Mustang, wit Black mags etc.
The car always gets compliments since they changed the body style. It really stands out with a few coats of wax on it.
I hypothesized what happened due to the way the liquid had hit the car, it was thrown out of a bucket or a cooler, as it hit the front the hardest and continued up to the back of the car, and down the sides. It was not coming off easily and leaving white marks. I decided to go to my moms drop off the groceries and go back to my house where I have the proper compounds to get most anything off without taking off the paint along with it.
After an hour of trying various combinations I got it all off. It was water mixed with something else "maybe booze". I was relieved that it came off, now back to the store. I got hold of the manager and asked for the surveillance tape.
He was very sympathetic and tried to be helpful, but there is no real feed, the camera's are for show only.
I finally came home and calmed down and started to think what I would have done to this guy should I had seen him do this. It was a good thing he had not been seen by me, as I knew by the nature of the act that this kind of scumbag, would have required physical force, which could have easily escalated to the use of a weapon. It was more that likely 2 or more guys in a truck dumping their cooler "possibly full of beer",on my car just because they are morons.
This is when carrying a gun gets tricky, if you engage a possible drunk or just a piece of dirt like these guys were, you need to prepare for anything.
Someone who would do something like that would easily think nothing about cracking your head open with a club or pipe. All in all it ended well considering how pissed off I was at the time. Anyone have a situation like this, what did you do?
Now I had 2 attempted car jacking's in NY some 30-35 yrs ago, and I knew exactly what to do, because I was lucky enough to see them coming, and stop them before they could go anywhere by using my weapon to stop them, but this was different because I didn't know how these guys would have reacted if confronted. Since I am 67 this week, perhaps they would have thought I was an easy target, and continued with this to the point where a weapon would have come out of someone's pocket, Not mine, not until it was a last resort, and I feared for my life.
It's a small town, perhaps we will meet again. I need to keep an eye on my cars even more from now on. The point is when you carry a gun all of your life, you need to restrain yourself even more than the other guy, no matter how difficult it becomes, and as most of us know, you don't mess with a mans wheels.
