bugcruncher
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Got home from work last night and the wife has this story to tell. I've been trying to get her to take her training/situational awareness seriously for several years now. She's a hunter and enjoys shooting and has no problem with guns, and has an agressive, self-defense oriented mindset, but has typically had an "I can handle things" mentality without really working at developing her conditional/situational awareness, if you know what I mean. Overconfident. Oh yeah, and she's 5'4" and 115 pounds, very athletic, although she thinks she's ten feet tall and bulletproof. At least until yesterday.
This was her wake up call, and I post it here in case someone can learn something from it, as I have, and as she has.
We live in a rural area, unincorporated part of the county, with a small city about 5 miles away. It's a ranch style home on two acres with two neighbors on our street, and a large pasture across the road separating us from our other neighbors.
Wife leaves the house around 5:30 to go to the grocery store with our two young (6, 10 yr. old) sons and one of their friends (8 yrs.). As she exits the house she sees two patrol cars and a regular car (she assumes to be an unmarked car) in our driveway, and a guy in plainclothes walking towards her. She immediately sends the kids back inside and, assuming this guy is a plainclothes cop, goes out to meet him. He then starts chatting with her and it becomes clear to her that he is not a cop at all. Eventually, it turns out the sheriff's deputies were following him from a drug deal and he was pretending he was actually coming to our house. The deputy quickly walked over and ended it when my wife asked him to escort said loser from our property.
This was so bad on so many levels I was beside myself when she told me this story. It's pretty obvious what she did wrong. She has a home defense shotgun in the gun locker but clearly that wouldn't have helped her here...what she really needed was to be in Condition Yellow from the get-go, and be carrying to boot.
The good thing that came out of it was that A)nothing happened (luck), and B)she has finally come around and realized what she needs to do from here on out, what changes she needs to make. Despite my years of telling her, she never really understood how things could go South in a hurry until now.
This was her wake up call, and I post it here in case someone can learn something from it, as I have, and as she has.
We live in a rural area, unincorporated part of the county, with a small city about 5 miles away. It's a ranch style home on two acres with two neighbors on our street, and a large pasture across the road separating us from our other neighbors.
Wife leaves the house around 5:30 to go to the grocery store with our two young (6, 10 yr. old) sons and one of their friends (8 yrs.). As she exits the house she sees two patrol cars and a regular car (she assumes to be an unmarked car) in our driveway, and a guy in plainclothes walking towards her. She immediately sends the kids back inside and, assuming this guy is a plainclothes cop, goes out to meet him. He then starts chatting with her and it becomes clear to her that he is not a cop at all. Eventually, it turns out the sheriff's deputies were following him from a drug deal and he was pretending he was actually coming to our house. The deputy quickly walked over and ended it when my wife asked him to escort said loser from our property.
This was so bad on so many levels I was beside myself when she told me this story. It's pretty obvious what she did wrong. She has a home defense shotgun in the gun locker but clearly that wouldn't have helped her here...what she really needed was to be in Condition Yellow from the get-go, and be carrying to boot.
The good thing that came out of it was that A)nothing happened (luck), and B)she has finally come around and realized what she needs to do from here on out, what changes she needs to make. Despite my years of telling her, she never really understood how things could go South in a hurry until now.
