Party Time

[Imaginos]

The local Dallas news ran a story last night about 5 punks who pulled a home invasion in a house that was hosting a New Years party. Seems the punks got away with about $800. I tried to find more info on this, but I have not turned up anything on the main news websites.

In any case, it does bring up the situation of how to react in such a situation where you are at a party and some punks decide to rob the gathering.

Assuming you only knew you were armed, what next?

 

[Robert Hairless]

Five armed home invaders, a crowd of people who are unarmed, and only one person carrying a concealed weapon?

The only sensible thing to do is give them what they want, then provide them with a detailed map showing the shortest route to the home of Dallas' Mayor Laura Miller.

Mayor Miller is a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's consortium of mayors dedicated to increased gun control. I have every confidence in her ability to handle any situation in which armed robbers invade her home. She certainly should be given an opportunity to demonstrate her ability to handle such situations on her own. Then we can learn from her success should any of us be faced with a home invasion by five armed gunmen without the means to defend our families.

If the robbers are confused about directions, be sure to help orient them properly so they don't get lost.

We need to support our Mayors as they support us. It is the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, and the most cooperative thing to do.

 

[Preacherman]

Last party I was at was at Oleg's place in Nashville, shortly before Christmas. In attendance were Oleg, myself, Tamara, Kaylee, MadMike, OEF_VET, and at least as many others . . . and I doubt that there was even one adult there who wasn't armed. With all the show-and-tell going on, there were at least a couple of dozen evil black long guns lying around (many of them full-auto Class 3 weapons, and some of them silenced as well), a dozen or so knives and swords, and of course the personal sidearms of those present.

If anyone (or any 5) had tried a home invasion on us, I suspect the main problem would have been dividing them fairly between Oleg's guests. I imagine (fondly) that the conversation would have gone something like this:


Oleg: "Preacherman, stop being a hog! Let MadMike and his wife have that one!"

Madmike: "Yeah! Why should the clergy have all the fun?"

Preacherman: "Spoilsport!"

OEF_VET: "But I wanted that one! Kaylee, lemme have yours!"

Kaylee: "You find your own! This one's mine and Tamara's!"

Oleg: "But that leaves none for meeeee!"

 

[tellner]

It's a good thing no goblins showed up, Preacherman. The predator-prey ratio would have been all wrong

 

[Oleg Volk]

I'd have been too busy trying to get hearing protection, followed by doing photos of Mike's 9yo daughter laying waste accurately with her pink AR.

 

[Imaginos]

Same Kind of Friends

At a party with my normal circle, it would be easy to sort out who scored best because we all seem to prefer different calibers and bullet weights. In additional only two of the gang are not tea-totalers, so sobriety is kind of the unspoken rule at these things.

However, most of the events I attend are business related, and some of them are held downtown, so I am faced with parking garages and other hazards of the modern urban environment.

The reason I made this post was the punks in the DFW area seem to be getting very bold in some of their activities and when things go south it is pretty hard to tell if something is going to be a robbery or a massacre.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Party at Oleg's?

Without pictures??

* Sniff *

Rats.

 

[ezypikns]

Now THAT'S funny.

The only sensible thing to do is give them what they want, then provide them with a detailed map showing the shortest route to the home of Dallas' Mayor Laura Miller.

To a Dallasite anyway.

 

[ChiefThunderstick]

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[Andras]

I went to a New Years Eve party hosted by a friend, anyone trying to crash the place would be in for a surprise, given that there were 6 LEO's in attendance.

 

[HiroProX]

Fortunantly, we don't see much if any of that type of rude behavior out here.