Dr Pepper.....at least he had his priorities straight.

 

Am I the only person who admits he did some wrong things? I shared my experience because everything is not black and white. When the adrenalin returns to normal so does your objectivity. Things always look less gray in the daylight.

Larry, good advise but I think you need to add;
Get an OUTSIDE dog and an underground fence!
Join/create a Community Watch program.
Get the wife and adolescents enrolled in gun safety classes offered by the Sheriff’s dept.
Always, always call your closest neighbor(s) when you call 911. To us rural dwellers, when a neighbor calls, staying inside is not an option. Choose to meet at a designated area and keep the guns holstered until you encounter a perpetrator. There have been other perps since the one I shared and most of them just looking for cans of gasoline. I'll stop now. Nat

 

natstayl- For legal reasons over here I won't go into the stupidities I committed. This is according to our laws. If I allegedly loaded a gun in the presence of a person with the possible intention to ..etc I'd get in trouble. If I admitted so on a public forum... Not that I'd like these laws, but it's better to obey them.
Let's say that the adrenaline can make you do the most stupid and incoherent things. Training beforehand can help a bit.

AlpineRAM

 

Natstayl....I've never done anything wrong.

Just kidding. Luckily, at least when it comes to firearms, I've never been put in a situation where I had to react with my weapon and I therefore have never had to go back and evaluate all of the mistakes I made. Hopefully it will stay that way, but I think we should always be prepared just in case.

 

On second thought, I mighta shot him just for drinking that stuff, and then used the "He needed killin'" defense.

 

Intresting tales, just remember this. It is never ok to shoot to protect "property." Only to protect life/limb. Also, it's called "lethal- force" not "wound to hold for the cops". Some states may have old laws on the books saying you can shoot a horse thief, but most have already recognized the difference in "violent felonies". Also, regardless of what a law says, the final say is the jury. The law may give guidence making you think you are within rights, but will the jury think it was unreasonable? If so, that law goes out the window. Also, if you get pro-active and do some filming, just keep yourself safe and minimize any confrontations, he may not want to be filmed more than you want to film him.

 

Top, You said it all..... and very well.

 

Yeah, what Top said. Eloquence is not on my short list of talents. However, training is to get you to decide what to do ahead of time so you don't have to think it through with sombody pointing a gun at your head. If your mind is made up 3 yrs. ago, and you've practiced it a thousand times a year since then, you don't have to think it through in .3 seconds. 2+2 is always 4, and someone points their shootin' iron at you or yours they push up daisies.

 

COUNTRY LIVIN" is where its @ shoot first, second and third then go look and see what / who you hit. Bad guy ::::: drag him in the house and give him a knife and even slice your self a few times. Good guy::::: get a big old corner post and start a new fence theyll never look under a fence post !!! looks like the bad guys get the good end of the deal here to You so paranoid about crimenals thats no way to live get to the boon dock with your shot gun,rifel,and 4wd and dont swet the small stuff

 

So you're saying you go outside to investigate also? I'm not saying it's the right thing for everybody, and never the right thing for some, especially with a loaded gun. I expect I will continue to investigate before I call 911 (or the neighbors). What I find determines whether I do at all. It also depends on whether it's the bark of the dog, or the driveway alarm or a combination of both that awakens us. Certainly if a vehicle ventures up the drive with their lites on, I turn on the floodlites and watch them turn around and leave. When they turn their lites off as they drive in, I leave the floods off and get up and investigate. Usually long enough to record a tag no. more than a confrontation. But I'm prepared either way. I record the tag no. and a vehicle description in case I see them scoping out someone else's place and to give to the sheriff's office in the event someone in the county get's buglarized. Nat

 

Right or wrong....I'll probably continue to investigate things that go bump in the night as well. I'm certainly not going to just lay in bed and hope it goes away.

I just ordered myself a SureFire flashlight to help out in my little investigations. If nothing else I'll blind someone.

 

I just send our attack Tabbies after them. Sic Nuts Girls!!!!

 

 

If you came up my driveway your trespassin' .............no body gonna come all the way back here in the woods and up over my mountain of a hill that I want to unless they call first .........I ran off a few people venturing for the unknown well lets just say now they know whats back in here and they know not to mess with my family...I work nights most of the time and Im not home .......my wife dont work she takes care of the boy (16 mo.) and she has been threwly trained with her 410 I have a 110# white german shepherd in the house and lets just say "KILL" is a little trick he knows Im not afraid of anyone and Im not paranoid just stay away and leave me be when I want to see people Ill go to them. city life ??? Ive been their .......and ILL NEVER GO BACK .I built my house 2 yrs ago its a 180,000$ house so Im not trash between my house and truck a mo. its about$1400 so Im not poor either I just like it back here. And when thing go bump in the night its delt with sometimes when people think contry livin they think bums or hillbillys thats not always the case. I have been robed before so has my dad ...after that youll learn life is not always about gettin what you want its also about protectin what you got !!!

 

Right you are Dieselminded. The private life is not for everybody but my wife and I like it. I hate having to protect my stuff, but it's MY STUFF, not free for the taking and with so many out of work, theft is on the increase. My gate stays open most of the time.
I don't mind in the least locking the gate and blocking them in when I have uninvited guests.
If it's thieves I call 911 before I lock the gate. I let them pilfer whatever they want while I go back into the house and wait for the deputy. If it's a couple looking for copulation opportunity I ask for Id's and let them leave. Fun stuff blocking the exit. Thieves will drive around a while looking for an escape route, innocent young people drive right the door and ask me to let them leave. Nat