Interesting Encounter.........

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So it's Easter Sunday (well, technicall 1:00 AM on Monday) and I'm getting ready to hit the hay. I turn off the TV and no sooner get up from the couch that I hear one of the car alarms do the "Stay Away" chirps (series of rapid chirps when someone bumps the car. But it has to be a significant bump, like almost break the glass bump) and seconds later I hear our chain link fence rattle. So I go grab the shotgun and head out the back door. As I'm rounding the corner of the house, I flip on the light on my shotgun and sure enough, someone is crouching next to our front fence (in the backyard) in our rhodie bushes, about 5 feet from the neighbors fence. Just as I'm about to yell at him not to move (and getting ready to grab the phone and bang out 911), he practically vaults this 5 foot tall fence from a standing start. :what: I guess being on the wrong end of a shotgun is one heck of a motivator...

So he's running so fast I figure he's just gonna *keep* running, so I head back inside, call 911. Give what little description I have, they tell me their gonna broadcast it to the area officers to keep an extra eye on our street. So I head out the front door (sans shotgun) to check the cars for any damage. What do I spy a couple houses away? Why it's someone crouched behind a car! He ducks pretty quick, and I didn't see anyone running, so I figure he thinks I didn't spot him. Don't want to spook him, so I keep checking the cars, and then casually head back indoors. Get right back on the phone with 911, couple of minutes later there are two cruisers on our street heading opposite directions, shining their spotlights. They obviously didn't find anyone, and didn't even worry about contacting me. I guess punk knew his way around the neighborhood and is (hopefully) heading back towards wherever he lives. And hopefully thinking twice about his chosen career path..... :fire:
 
I have all of my neighbors phone #'s. In that situation, I would have called my nieghbor and informed him of the visitor he had kneeling behind his car. Then called the police again.;)
 
As disturbing as it might be it could be a neighborhood teenager. A call to all the folks in the block would be a nice warning to them and would alert said kid (if he's on your block) that the block is off limits.
 
Well, this :cuss: just doesn't learn. Again, just about to head for bed (1:09 AM in fact) and what do I hear but the car alarm chirping again. Grab the phone, run to the front door (decided to just stick with the 1911 on the hip this time instead of grabbing the shotgun) and as I look through the window, there goes someone running down our street, dressed in all black again. Bang out 911, get a sub-2 minute response, but BG is gone again. Talked to the officers, they checked the back yard for us, nothing found. They're planning on upping patrols through our neighborhood, but you know how that works. I think I'll be staying up tomorrow night again. Might even be sitting next to the front door to see if I can get a better look at him at least....

Picked up three motion sensor lights earlier tonight. One is up, needs adjusting, the other two go up tomorrow. Alarm is back up and running. Might pick up a cheap wireless cam for the computer and point it towards the cars.

Any other suggestions? (short of popping up on the roof with a rifle or in the bushes with the shotgun)
 
I was going to say "take his picture," but you're way ahead of me there. :) Maybe set up one of those game tracker cameras, the ones that snap pics with a motion detector.

Be safe.
 
Hehe, was it a kid? Sounds like stuff my friends and I used to do. We'd roam around our blocks in our neighborhood during the wee hours of the morning and ring peoples door bells and intentionally set off as many car alarms as we could, just to be jerks. In Illinois it is illegal to have anything to do with guns, but we didn't even consider being shot at.

He probably doesn't mean any harm and is just thrill seeking. He would have vandalized property or attempted a theft by now if he meant business, but my guess is he's just out looking for cheap thrills.
 
With in the past few weeks a guy I know woke to a sound outside. It was the sound you'd hear if someone dropped an empty milk jug on a concrete driveway (how he describes it later in his story).

He peaked out the window to find some dip-smack trying to syphon gas from his Explorer.

He lives in a sort of rural area -- and the first thing that came to his mind was to open his window and let a round go into the ground from his .357mag. He said he couldn't get the window open far enough with out making too much noise.

So instead he reached for his pellet rifle.

Now, as he's telling me this, he explains how that pellet rifle will kill a rabbit at 25 yds with 11 pumps.

So he pumps the pellet rifle 12 times, slides the barrel out the window and shoots the gas-robber in the rear end.

He said the guy let out a very loud yelp, dropped everything, and ran.

This story made me laugh. I have no doubt every bit is true.

The thief left a nice maglite flashlight, a gas can (plastic one which is what he heard hit the concrete), syphon, and something else which I can't remember at this time.

I suggest you get yourself a nice pellet rifle. ;)
 
Trip20's pellet gun story makes me think - what about a paintball gun for your nocturnal hoodlum? Then he'd even be marked. Just an idea.
 
Most piant ball color washes off too easil;y to be used as a marker. The pellet gun idea is quite good though. Imagine trying to get one of those littel tiny pellets out of your butt or trying to explain to the police how it got there when you went to the hosptial.

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Imagine trying to get one of those littel tiny pellets out of your butt or trying to explain to the police how it got there when you went to the hosptial.
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Or how about imagining yourself being charged with assault if not aggravated assault, and handing the keys of your house over to the punk after he claims that lead poisoning from the pellet they got out of his butt has incapacitated him, and how he has suffered irreversible psychological damage from being shot.

Not smart.:(
 
emmm, I have nothing to say here. but...
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

have a great day
 
Well, we've had a significantly increased police presence in my neighborhood tonight. Multiple times I've seen patrol cars cruise through. And no sign of our wandering pest. So hopefully he figured out that this was a bad area to try to vandalize/steal/get a cheap thrill... Although you'd a thunk he'd a figured that one out the first night when he was staring at the wrong end of a shotgun............
 
I looked out my window to see a guy about to urinate

on my motorcycle.
I yelled ^&*($% on this! and pointed a very real looking pellet gun
at him and shot him.

yeah sure in some state it's assault, in others it's going easy on the punk because you felt like putting a .22 there and you have one of those too.
 
Or how about imagining yourself being charged with assault if not aggravated assault, and handing the keys of your house over to the punk after he claims that lead poisoning from the pellet they got out of his butt has incapacitated him, and how he has suffered irreversible psychological damage from being shot.
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You have a great imagination.
 
Deadly force

Hypnogator Trip20 is from WI and if I am guessing right his friend is as well. Throughout most of WI shooting someone in the butt with a pellet gun who is stealing gas from your car is probably not going to be that big of a deal. Even if the guy decided to do something about it he would first have to admit to stealing the gas which most people would want to avoid. If Trip's buddy lived in Southern WI he might be in danger of seeing something come of shooting some punk with a pellet gun, but in probably 80% of the state the Deputy's would just laugh and tell the little punk to quit stealing.
 
As disturbing as it might be it could be a neighborhood teenager
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Quick question, Ambulance, and I'm not trying to upset you with this... do you have a teenage daughter? I can remember sneaking in or out of a girlfriend's house late at night as a teenager (more than a few times) and I definetely knew her father might want to shoot me with a shotgun if he knew what I was up to. :eek:
 
An NCO in my squadron told us how he took a looad of rock salt from a 12ga when he and his brother were dicking around in an orchard (read stupid teenagers trespassing). He said it hurt like hell - for several days as the salt disolved - and he never went back into that orchard. The salt had the added benefit of preventing infection in the wounds it put in his back. Maybe more folks oughta load up a shotgun barrel of rock salt and modify these punks' behavior.
 
When I was 14 I had a friend, Larry, that was slowly turning into a criminal.
He would steal his father's car at night and drive around for an hour or two.
To counter his father's observations about the gas gaug eneedle not being where it was the night before he started stealing gas from some of the neighbors.

One night he was stealing from my next door neighbor's ,Ted, dad's RV.
The next day he said that when he was taking the gas he kept hearing a weird clacking sound followed by something hitting the ground near him and a couple of times hitting him in the foot and once in the hand but didn't think anything about it.
Then his can started leaking from a small hole and a few seconds later something hit him in his cheek and penetrated into his mouth.

Ted told me that he had just bought the Crossman BB gun and couldn't get the windage right enough to shoot Larry in the hands like he wanted, even though the street light and full moon lit Larry up for a stranger to ID him in a line up.
After more than ten shots he finally zeroed in and shot the plastic gas can and then tried to shoot Larry in the butt with a 12 pump shot he missed and hit him in the face.

Larry's dad called the police to report Ted's assault
After they arrested Larry they told Ted not to shoot the neighbor kids anymore.

Never underestimate the stupidity of an idiot


Ted is a preacher in Alabama now and Larry lives under an overpass somewhere in Daytona
 
Trip20's pellet gun story makes me think - what about a paintball gun for your nocturnal hoodlum? Then he'd even be marked. Just an idea.
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well get one of the FA ones and unload hundred paintballs at him at 16balls /second :)

If you can get the pepper balls it would be the icing on the cake. :) assuming it's just a neighboorhood hoodlem. Around here he'd probally think twice about doing anything at that house.
 
If you can get the pepper balls it would be the icing on the cake. assuming it's just a neighboorhood hoodlem. Around here he'd probally think twice about doing anything at that house.
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Yea right! I happen to work in severna park.

In Severna park if a man paintballed a neighborhood hoodlum, that man would probably wake up the next day to find his house and vehicles paintballed in revenge. :rolleyes:
 
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