How timely this thread popped back up to the top this morning...
I was awoken by my wife running up the stairs screaming "the car, the car". I get up and head downstairs, while she continues about "the car", figuring she's seen a snake (major phobia of hers) or the car had been vandalized. While on my way she says "don't you want a gun?!"
I give her the "why would I bring a gun to check out the car" look (being married 20+ years has its advantages) and then she tells me about the garage door being open when she went out the kitchen door and a man running out of garage that is now hiding behind the other car.
Fortunately she had the presence of mind to lock kitchen door on her way back in. She called 911 while I checked the interior of house (looking back, we should have retreated to the master bedroom and let police clear the rest of the house). Police arrived quickly, stranger gone. Hopefully bad guy saw the box of clays on table saw and antlers on garage walls and thinks this isn't a good house to come back to.
Moral of the story for this thread; clear communication during a threat is important. "car, car, car" didn't get me to intruder, bad guy, stranger.
I was awoken by my wife running up the stairs screaming "the car, the car". I get up and head downstairs, while she continues about "the car", figuring she's seen a snake (major phobia of hers) or the car had been vandalized. While on my way she says "don't you want a gun?!"
I give her the "why would I bring a gun to check out the car" look (being married 20+ years has its advantages) and then she tells me about the garage door being open when she went out the kitchen door and a man running out of garage that is now hiding behind the other car.
Fortunately she had the presence of mind to lock kitchen door on her way back in. She called 911 while I checked the interior of house (looking back, we should have retreated to the master bedroom and let police clear the rest of the house). Police arrived quickly, stranger gone. Hopefully bad guy saw the box of clays on table saw and antlers on garage walls and thinks this isn't a good house to come back to.
Moral of the story for this thread; clear communication during a threat is important. "car, car, car" didn't get me to intruder, bad guy, stranger.