Fitchburg woman and daughter 'terrified' as saw rips down door after getting wrong address

Sentinal and Enterprise ^ | January 31, 2012 | Michael Hartwell

[G Larry]

ya, but if they lose one of their own in the process, they’ll be encouraged to check the address next time.

[Chode]

sooner or later, it's gonna happen...

[Travis McGee]

“Famous, But Incompetent.”

[magslinger]

Who the **** chainsaws into doors...

[jakerobins]

As G Gordon Liddy once said Aim For the Knees.......

[Dead Corpse]

Changing Hearts and Minds. Two to the Heart, one to the Mind.

[meatloaf]

Of course!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Oh, I get it. The WOD is just an excuse to get more and more control of us.

[Arrowhead1952]

Hmm.. If I woke up to a chainsaw coming through my door, there’d probably be lead going back through it.

Same here. There would have been some 45 cal bullets or 00 buck headed the other direction.

[Manly Warrior]

Okay, so how do you mitigate the risk of a “wrong address” no-knock?

Stating you would shoot through the door etc is not a best outcome solution; is your primary arm at hand, all the time? Buying some time, gaining some intell is the logical thing to do.

You insure your house, drive, front and rear doors are clearly marked with your full house/apartment number (let teh cops have every opportunity to see your house number, maybe one will actually be thinking rather than anticipating the drill).

You then install security doors and frames. You insure your home security system is fully operational (you do have one, right?) and it consists of PIRs (passive IR motion detectors), window/door sensors and breaking glass sensors. You insure you also have a FMV (full motion video) with audio and it satays on, preferably with local and remote recording (so the LEOs cannot claim it is unusable etc). Set your alrm to “instant once you are all accounted for for the night-that way, it calls the montoriing station regardless of who trips teh alrms. If a fire, etc, and you run out, it calls the station etc.

All this for about $50/month after installation. Door systems etc cost about $200-500 per, but most homes have three or less exterior doors, apatrments. maybe two, often only one.

If you are in fact the victim of wrongful assault, you must use your best judgment. I know what I will do, as a law-abiding person, however. I will assume the worst. Besides, after hours my hearing ais are removed and I can’t hear even a DrillSgt shouting “FBI/Police” etc...

[kiryandil]

Thugs learn how to game the system, but innocent people put up a fight and won’t plea bargain their charges away.

You misspelled "tyranny" - General Bethlehem, The Postman

[Secret Agent Man]

Depends where you hit em and what you’ve loaded the shotgun with.

Vests really don’t cover a great deal of a person’s body. THey keep a lot of space around joints and necks, groins and below are usually big damage areas where you can bleed out, lose a foot or part of a leg, and basically shoulders and necks and faces are open. Plastic eye goggles and baclavas not withstanding.