Posted on 02/04/2014 3:53:44 PM PST by marktwain
drag him into the house before the cops arrive, if you shoot him on the porch. You can always unlock the door and invite him in then shoot him. Thats legal, yours story and the thief has been dispatched, no one to disagree with your story...:O)
Yuck.
Wherever I was in the world I ALWAYS shut and locked ALL doors and windows. Why wouldn't I?
I GUESS some folks born in Puckerbrush, USA, might say, gloating, "We never had to lock our doors." That is a load. Locking doors and windows keeps EVERYONE honest and the folks in Puckerbrush aren't ONE iota more honest that anyone else on the planet.
I have an ex-friend who always waxed poetic about North Dakota. She is CONVINCED that they ARE more honest, decent and such. Why WOULD they be? Folks haven't changed since Adam and Eve...no, not Adam and Steve, but ADAM and EVE.
Up until just a few years ago, you could leave your doors unlocked (even if you weren't home), leave the car running outside (especially in winter) unattended, and only rarely did anyone have any problem.
People just didn't mess with other people's stuff (maybe because small towns spread well apart leave few places to abscond with someone's stuff, whether for fun or profit). There were always a few local petty criminals, but they were generally known, and neighbors kept an eye out for unknown people and the local miscreants as well.
Bottom line: people knew each other, and would ask if someone unknown was messing with a neighbor's stuff.
For the moment, until the newer folks are assimilated, that sense of close community has suffered somewhat, and we lock up.
Prosperity brings some parasites, too, who look for greener pastures to loot. As a result, people here are more security conscious than they were.
Then I moved to the middle east and lived in a SMALL town of 900 people. There are many GOOD things about a small town where we all knew each other. I can remember having NO money at the commissary and asked an ACQUAINTANCE for a loan of some 200 riyals (about $60) and she gave it to me! I did pay her back within hours but that doesn't happen in a city unless one knows the grocer...and small mom'npops just don't exist any more...a shame!
HOWEVER, there are drawbacks: if someone sneezed some time the wet blanket/nasty female of the group would say : "Well! WHO gave her THAT cold?" At least in a city one can avoid those kind of women. HARD to do in a small town, unlocked doors notwithstanding.
All I can do is stay close to the Lord, family and friends. I don't have any more family--all gone. Friends change/morph and become victims of their own sloth lifestyle--very sad to see. There is, however, ALWAYS our good Lord, isn't there?
One can LAUGH and I try to do that every day!! Then, there is always this site...a real winner for us!
With Him, we are truly never alone, even in the most dire circumstances. Just don't forget to bring Him along on the sunny days, too.
Why would I EVER forget to "bring Him along"? That would be "unclear on the concept."
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