Que the scary music. This is a true story.. with VIDEO!! Could have been a real "somebody picked the wrong girl.. glock commercial"
18 year old girl. Home alone with the dog. 9:15pm. Dog starts barking and running towards the door, continues barking. Someone starts banging on the door. No one is expected. My daughter turns on TV to view video cameras outside. She sees a figure move down the steps towards the yard and into the shadows then look through the window at her watching the cameras.. He then moves out of camera range. The man moves again up the side of the house and again knocks however he is not in light, still in the shadows. Then he moves out of camera range again. She asks several times "who is it?" with no response.
My daughter is starting to panic and decides to arm herself. She takes the dog and the gun and barricades herself in the safe room. (one way in, no windows, locked from the inside.) Knocking continues for several minutes, seems relentless. Unfortunately I didn't have a video monitor in the safe room then. From there she calls me but I'm 45 min away. She tells me the story of how she saw a guy looking in the window, and got the gun. I decide to call the police and tell her to stay put. The sheriff dispatch tells me that they will go by and check, but she comes back on the phone almost immediately and tells me that its a Deputy at the door. He never identified himself as a Deputy and didn't stay in camera range. I have since moved the cameras around for a better view of the yard but this was a learning experience. My daughter was pretty upset.
Video is here.. https://vimeo.com/95963076
What she saw and what she missed in the delay of turning on the TV monitor..
The deputy was looking for a missing child. The childs cell phone was tracked to a street one block over. He said he thought the kid was in our yard. My daughter couldn't sleep that night.
lessons learned:
more lighting off the steps
video monitor in the safe room
told daughter to call police first, not me...
btw, she is a crack shot with my 9mm, even without the laser! daddys little girl!
18 year old girl. Home alone with the dog. 9:15pm. Dog starts barking and running towards the door, continues barking. Someone starts banging on the door. No one is expected. My daughter turns on TV to view video cameras outside. She sees a figure move down the steps towards the yard and into the shadows then look through the window at her watching the cameras.. He then moves out of camera range. The man moves again up the side of the house and again knocks however he is not in light, still in the shadows. Then he moves out of camera range again. She asks several times "who is it?" with no response.
My daughter is starting to panic and decides to arm herself. She takes the dog and the gun and barricades herself in the safe room. (one way in, no windows, locked from the inside.) Knocking continues for several minutes, seems relentless. Unfortunately I didn't have a video monitor in the safe room then. From there she calls me but I'm 45 min away. She tells me the story of how she saw a guy looking in the window, and got the gun. I decide to call the police and tell her to stay put. The sheriff dispatch tells me that they will go by and check, but she comes back on the phone almost immediately and tells me that its a Deputy at the door. He never identified himself as a Deputy and didn't stay in camera range. I have since moved the cameras around for a better view of the yard but this was a learning experience. My daughter was pretty upset.
Video is here.. https://vimeo.com/95963076
What she saw and what she missed in the delay of turning on the TV monitor..
The deputy was looking for a missing child. The childs cell phone was tracked to a street one block over. He said he thought the kid was in our yard. My daughter couldn't sleep that night.
lessons learned:
more lighting off the steps
video monitor in the safe room
told daughter to call police first, not me...
btw, she is a crack shot with my 9mm, even without the laser! daddys little girl!
