ARperson
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So Saturday morning I'm putting up a garage door and I receive a call from one of my tenant's that her live in boyfriend is ransacking the place. She says he has a knife and then the phone went dead. Called 9-1-1. Met the officers at the location (good thing too, becuase nobody was answering the door and if I didn't arrive with keys shortly, they were going to bust down the door!).
Seems my tenant and her beau have split the joint (later we find out there are reasons she wanted to avoid the police). In the meantime, his 2 brothers show up and start creating a scene in the front yard of my rental (Yes, on my property!). One has his hand in his pocket. As the screaming and yelling escalates, I move into the unit for a little extra protection. But as I'm watching through the front window, one brother pulls his hand from his pocket and surprise, surprise, surprise, there's a small pistol in his hand. Since the other brother has positioned himself between me and the gun-toting brother, I move farther back into the unit to increase the number of walls between me and them. I hate not being able to see what's going on, but damn, I don't want to catch a stray one.
Nothing came of it except for my extreme adrenaline rush. And after I had calmed down I realized that per the laws of my state, I could have shot and killed the brother with the gun and been totally within the law (and knowing my county's prosecutor, I probably would have been thanked!) I have never before been in a situation as close to shooting a man as that.
Here's where the title comes in: there were at least 3 other people in the suburban that gun-toting brother drove up in. While I probably would have had no problem getting off a shot safely on the brother, heaven only knows what would have transpired after that. Imagine at least 3 big dudes pulling their own pieces.
Scary stuff.
The irony: the police were right behind the house in the alley trying to catch my tenant who had a warrant out for her arrest!!!!!
Seems my tenant and her beau have split the joint (later we find out there are reasons she wanted to avoid the police). In the meantime, his 2 brothers show up and start creating a scene in the front yard of my rental (Yes, on my property!). One has his hand in his pocket. As the screaming and yelling escalates, I move into the unit for a little extra protection. But as I'm watching through the front window, one brother pulls his hand from his pocket and surprise, surprise, surprise, there's a small pistol in his hand. Since the other brother has positioned himself between me and the gun-toting brother, I move farther back into the unit to increase the number of walls between me and them. I hate not being able to see what's going on, but damn, I don't want to catch a stray one.
Nothing came of it except for my extreme adrenaline rush. And after I had calmed down I realized that per the laws of my state, I could have shot and killed the brother with the gun and been totally within the law (and knowing my county's prosecutor, I probably would have been thanked!) I have never before been in a situation as close to shooting a man as that.
Here's where the title comes in: there were at least 3 other people in the suburban that gun-toting brother drove up in. While I probably would have had no problem getting off a shot safely on the brother, heaven only knows what would have transpired after that. Imagine at least 3 big dudes pulling their own pieces.
Scary stuff.
The irony: the police were right behind the house in the alley trying to catch my tenant who had a warrant out for her arrest!!!!!