Posted on 07/09/2012 8:53:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker
What he did wasn’t illegal, but certainly suspicious. You probably should have gotten a good description or picture and reported it. Though nothing would happen until there was a robbery in the area.
And yes I had that happen to me once. I was living in an apartment on music row in Nashville and two blacks knocked on the door. Wanted to know where the rental office was. I answered the door in a suit and tie, and they robbed me later that afternoon.
Of course I was a college student. They stole a TV that didn’t work, a stereo that didn’t work, a $40 electronic keyboard, and my high school senior ring. They moved the $1200 selectric typewriter off of the broken stereo and left the typewriter.
ok, sounds good, thanks for the input.
You are a liberal obviously, because you can’t think straight and keep posting ludicrous comments that show how stupid you are
So did you shoot him?
“Violators will be force fed Darksheare’s coffee”
Freepers never cease to amaze me. Do I really have to say...’sarc’?
20 years ago my area was having lots of break ins. I was between jobs and low on cash. Everyone else was getting security monitoring companies. I put a NRA sticker in plain view on my front window next to my front door. I am always armed if I ever open a door to a stranger and that is very rare. I never got robbed by the way.
“So did you shoot him?”
Guess you missed the winking smiley face. Here it is again for you:
;)
We’ve been divorced about 25 years and he’s still living and breathing in another state.
The people where not familiar in the neighborhood, and looked strange.
Turns out, the homeowner two doors away was deal’n.
My parents’ ‘visitors’ were weird and either too dumb or too high to know the right house.
Anyway, after my dad passed, the house was sold. We found a gun in the closet in their room....loaded.
BTW-Police where at that house next door many times. We assumed THEY were buying too.
Having been stopped by a patrol car in my own neighborhood, an area we usually walked daily and often with neighbors and their dogs, I say people need to stop bothering police with nonsense and nuisance calls.
This encounter was thanks to an overzealous paranoid busybody who evidently didn't like the idea of two people walking the area mid-day when 'most people are at work.'
We were stopped, put in the back of the patrol car for 45 minutes to one hour, in the hot midday sun and under threat of arrest. Neither of us had ID that day; I knew it wasn't necessary under law so long as we provided true and accurate answers to questions of our identity and it was just never something I'd thought about needing for a neighborhood walk in all my years.
Before being let go from the car, both of us were photographed and fingerprinted for the generated report after having been properly identified and checked for wants/warrants on the excuciatingly slow squad car networked computer.
While the very professional young office apoligized for time wasted, and warned that they get many such calls from the area, the incident left a very, very bad impression on me, my friend and other neighbors.
We did not take walks again for quite awhile and never alone. We changed routes to avoid the reporting party's house to avoid risking another encounter with police on her phone call. WE NOW FELT UNSAFE in our own neighborhood.
We know from the neighborhood watch, the woman had phoned later and the police wouldn't give her additional information on outcome. As it was, she had lied about what she observed which made the encounter more dangerous for the officer and for us.
The older friend I was walking with that day was a member of the neighborhood watch.
I am sill angry about the incident. It underscored for me how much we are not a free people and we are only one call away from a stranger reiging terror upon us no matter how squeaky clean our lives and how innocently we go about our day.
So before you call about "suspicious activity," be well sure what you are calling about.
DO NOT LIE ABOUT WHAT YOU OBSERVED. DO NOT IMBELLISH. If you're unsure, admit it.
Determine whether it's worth the police's time when there are actual crimes being committed that they need to be responding to and whether it's worth terrorizing the people you'll call about if they were doing nothing wrong. Because, let's be honest, real criminals won't care if they have a police encounter. The innocent will be haunted.
In our old neighborhood, my parents began getting people at the door, at late hours.
The people where not familiar in the neighborhood, and looked strange.
Turns out, the homeowner two doors away was deal’n.
My parents’ ‘visitors’ were wierd and either too dumb or too high to know the right house.
Anyway, after my dad passed, the house was sold. We found a gun in the closet in their room....loaded.
BTW-Police where routinely at that house next door. We assumed THEY were buying too.
“the outer security gate”
Between that and the skinny black guy with the dreadlocks scratching himself on your front stoop the word “re-locate” comes to mind.
Around 15 years ago, I was spending a few days in a cabin my parents owned. I also had an RV parked near it.
Around midnight, I heard some noise outside. It was pitch dark tho I could have turned on the porch light, I just sat and listened for a bit.
I did get my Browning Hi-Power out and waited. Sure enough, after only a short time I heard someone trying to get in the door.
I jerked the door open and hit the porch light at the same time. I immediately stuck the Browning right between his eyes. He was dirty with long hair and looked about like what a carnival worker would.
I was surprised that having a Browning stuck against his forehead had no effect on him. He simply said his car was in a ditch and asked if I could help him.
I told him I would call a deputy and he would help him out. The guy left and within a few minutes a deputy stopped by. He had already visited with the guy who was in the back of the patrol car.
To my surprise they guy’s car really was in the ditch. The deputy said his battery was dead and he guessed he was trying to steal one. He also said the guy was high on something.
I never did hear any more about it so they must have let him go.
Shut the door in his face without saying a word.
You’d have to be on something NOT to react to a face full of barking iron!
Lol, really! As ugly as it is, it's the only one I've got and I want to keep it!
I suspected that you might have been just kidding around a bit. Especially since you're not a newbe here, but an old-timer.
Still, don't lie to the police!
Regards, LR
Clever! But not as clever (and audacious) as what someone I know did. He opened his front door wide and, grinning a mile wide, replied "Sure, Carlos [in this case, the fictitious name was "Carlos"] is inside waiting for you! Needs help carrying something out to the car, so lend a hand!" The would-be perp was, of course, taken totally off-guard and immediately started backing up. It was then that my friend produced the shotgun he'd been holding the whole time behind the door.
Regards,
ok
Oh, you've got a good one! Congratulations. All of my dogs have been rescues and have had major fear issues. I don't think any of them would come to my aid even if it were just the neighbor's housecat that was attacking me. But everyone of them would've bitten anyone who threatened them.
Just the sight of them is good burglar deterrence. But it sure would be nice to have one like yours someday, particularly as we get older. Cheers!
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