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Today...Guns Flashed in Convenience Store Parking Lot....What Would Other Freepers Have Done?
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| 11-08-02
| wardaddy
Posted on 11/08/2002 3:35:41 PM PST by wardaddy
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To: LBGA
Thanks....prior neighbor. I'll tell my MOM you pinged. They still haven't built on yall's old lot yet but I hear it's supposed to be a showplace....ostentatious...lol..that was tacky of me wasn't it?
Regards
To: sneakypete; wardaddy
Your right.
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posted on
11/08/2002 5:44:57 PM PST
by
weikel
To: RLK
You have me mixed up with the guy who started the thread. I'm well beyond the age to start having kids.10-4. Got going too fast, meant for wardaddy.
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posted on
11/08/2002 5:45:24 PM PST
by
toddst
To: Blue Screen of Death
LOL...funny thing ...aside from the US Flag, I have no stickers on the Suburban...it's my wife's car. My old Land Rover leaves no doubt where I stand on politics....or guns.
To: wardaddy
I've reconsidered. I think you screwed-up. Instead of calling 9-11,you should have called the "Million Mommies",and had them come over to disarm these thugs and give them a stiff lecture on how dangerous guns are.
To: TigersEye
Thanks...I'm going to the hospital to fetch them for home in about 30 minutes. I've the 2 year old hellion napping Thank G-d!
To: semaj
Thanks.
To: wardaddy
The car parked the wrong way (nose out) made me think as I read your description that these "youths" were planning to rob that 7-11. However as things turned out, it seems that the action was elsewhere. Or maybe the guy in the red sweatshirt was there to conduct a major to someone else in another vehicle in that parking lot -- a deal big enough to want others with artillery in case things went bad. That, too, would explain why the car was parked nose out.
Bottom line, you handled a potentially life-threatening situation as well as anyone could, and with a presence of mind that many people could not muster under such circumstances. Not letting them realize that you'd seen the weapons was the most important thing. Getting the clerk to lock the door and give you the phone was the second most important.
Your wife has a level-headed husband. Your two children have an wise father. Congratulations.
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To: Viva Le Dissention
Oh, aren't you CUTE? We're all SO impressed with your b.s., dear.
To: wardaddy
" I damn sure wished I had had one about then." Get your CCW for goodness sakes.
Telephones and cell phones, while useful are rated somewhere near the bottom of the list for good defensive ability.
By the way, cudos for keeping a clear head, not panicing and remembering to get the license plate number.
Congratulations on the new little one.
Her dad is a special guy!
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posted on
11/08/2002 5:51:34 PM PST
by
Hal.009
To: Catspaw
Thanks Cat.
I am so grateful I did NOT have my two year old boy with me. He was with a David Lipscomb student sitter. Had he been with me....geez...I shudder honestly. It would have been way too hairy.
If your children are with you when things get amped up, it makes it worse by about 100 fold. That has only happened to me once with my entire brood in a mall parking lot....I just got the hell out of there ....but no guns were shown that time...just hostility.
To: Viva Le Dissention
By the way, I always carry a gun with me, so do me a favor and don't call the police on me, all right? Then again, I'm white, so you probably won't. HorseHillary! What you are doing in a round-about way is call him a racist because these thugs were black. If you don't see anything wrong with 3 or more obvious gang bangers sitting outside a store with at least 1 Mac-10 in plain sight,there is something wrong with your perceptions. EIther that,or you realize this and are just playing the race card.
To: tahiti
Whose mocassins are YOU wearing today?
To: Thinkin' Gal
I will avoid parking next to banger cars...yes. I'm usually pretty saavy...I always leave wiggle room in a traffic stall...stuff like that....I just wasn't paying attention.
To: wardaddy
wardaddy....always trust your instincts. I carry myself armed everywhere I go because of what you experienced.
If I were in your shoes, I would not have parked next to that suspicious looking vehicle. Upon first seeing those kind of thug looking types and what they were partially concealing, I would have immediately driven away in a cool calm and collected manner to not arouse their attention. Then, I would have made contact with the police in a location nearby where the Suburu was parked. I would also have gotten a make and/or model of the car, a license plate number and a brief description of them such as how many and what race they were.
For the most I am amazed you came out of it alive. However, I would never have gone into the seven eleven knowing that they could possibly shoot up the place while I was in there. You see, these types don't want witnesses for the crimes they commit. They finish them off in cold blood.
Finally, congratulations on the arrival of your newborn. May you live long enough in this crazy world for it to takes its baby steps.
Be careful
To: usurper
Thanks....I'm a gun-person so I do indeed notice guns....especially guns like a Mac style piece..loaded in the open....under these circumstances.
To: FreedomPoster
My wife would argue that...lol
To: dansangel
Thanks Angel.
To: wardaddy; AAABEST
Overall, it sounds like you did good -- didn't waste time and got the police there as soon as humanly possible. Even if you had been carrying (whether or not this is approved by the "authorities"), your actions were preferable. Outnumbered and outgunned, anything you may have had would have only been viable as a final option.
You did run a serious risk factor in the possibility of being seen speaking to the clerk, his confusion, and then you being on the phone. Depending on what these goblins were hanging out there for, things could have gone quickly south, locked door or no. If you had a cellfone, (did you?), you could have departed and phoned while rolling, although this too could have been seen by the otherhumans and prompted a hostile response. Not being there, I'm purely guessing. I'm damn glad things worked out OK.
Did the goblins get nabbed, by the way? If they did, or even if they didn't but saw you, there may be a risk of being recognized at a later date.
To: wardaddy
I've the 2 year old hellion napping Thank G-d!2 yr olds? Newborns? Four of them in all? I don't know why you're skeered of anything! LOL
May all blessings be upon you and yours.
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