The Trinity Kid
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Good day all.
Last night, there was an intrusion in my home. I thought I would tell the story, so you all can see and learn from "tactical errors."
Around 2:30am, a friend of our neighbor showed up after an evening of bar-hopping (which is complicated, considering there are only two bars in town.) Our neighbor lives in the garage/in-law apartment across the driveway from our house. Both buildings are house 150 on the street, but theirs is 150-B.
Anyway, she came to the wrong house. And on finding both main doors locked, she went to our third door. This was our first tactical error. At Christmas, we unlocked that door so we could run a power cord through it. We never locked it again. However, we've always kept so much junk in front of it, we assumed it would be impossible to enter through. Obviously, it was not.
When the girl entered through that door, the commotion woke me up in the next room. However, I had a fan on, and assumed it to just be my cat climbing the door like he always did. This was the next error. I ignored it. I even looked out and saw her flashlight beam in the hall. But I assumed it to be my sister, as she doesn't like to walk in the dark. I went back to bed.
The intruder went all the way to the back of the house, and shined her flashlight in the parent's bedroom. (Yes, I do still live at home.) My parents confronted her at this point, and saw her out. Fortunately, this was not a violent intrusion. But this was another error. I have the only handgun in the house. The rifles and shotguns are in the parent's room, but none of them are "tactical," the most useful one being a Winchester 94. And when they confronted her, they did so unarmed except for a vacuum hose extension.
In all, it is a good story to see what NOT to do.
--TK
Last night, there was an intrusion in my home. I thought I would tell the story, so you all can see and learn from "tactical errors."
Around 2:30am, a friend of our neighbor showed up after an evening of bar-hopping (which is complicated, considering there are only two bars in town.) Our neighbor lives in the garage/in-law apartment across the driveway from our house. Both buildings are house 150 on the street, but theirs is 150-B.
Anyway, she came to the wrong house. And on finding both main doors locked, she went to our third door. This was our first tactical error. At Christmas, we unlocked that door so we could run a power cord through it. We never locked it again. However, we've always kept so much junk in front of it, we assumed it would be impossible to enter through. Obviously, it was not.
When the girl entered through that door, the commotion woke me up in the next room. However, I had a fan on, and assumed it to just be my cat climbing the door like he always did. This was the next error. I ignored it. I even looked out and saw her flashlight beam in the hall. But I assumed it to be my sister, as she doesn't like to walk in the dark. I went back to bed.
The intruder went all the way to the back of the house, and shined her flashlight in the parent's bedroom. (Yes, I do still live at home.) My parents confronted her at this point, and saw her out. Fortunately, this was not a violent intrusion. But this was another error. I have the only handgun in the house. The rifles and shotguns are in the parent's room, but none of them are "tactical," the most useful one being a Winchester 94. And when they confronted her, they did so unarmed except for a vacuum hose extension.
In all, it is a good story to see what NOT to do.
--TK
