Posted on 03/30/2017 9:43:36 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect
For 21 years, John Croft lived in his Alabama home virtually problem-free until last summer.
“I’ve been a prisoner in my house,” he said.
Croft, who is 79, says the burglaries began last June. Since then, he says his Center Point house has been broken into 13 times.
The most recent case came around 1:15 Wednesday morning.
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Glad this man had the ability to defend himself.
“The article notes that he did not have a crime problem until the last year.”
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Maybe new people moving into the area?
Possibly an increase in drug addicts.
I don’t live there but, did experience it elsewhere.
Cops can clear it up if they get any local help.
I would bet he notified the police each time, but it never stopped the next time...until now (which the police will try to take credit for). Hope they, at least, find the other two.
Why did he wait for 13 robberies? Baffling .
Teenage robbers tend to boast about their loot to their friends. And if a house can be robbed safely and profitably, then why not do it again? And again. And . . . oops!
Center Point is a small town 8 miles NE of Birmingham.
Being from the state, I would generally advise folks passing through Birmingham to fuel up about 10 miles before the town or 10 miles after the town....not to stop for any reason....day or night.
Maybe up until the mid-80s...you could still drive around Birmingham and feel somewhat safe. The cocaine business infested the whole town. There are still business operations there, but workers tend to live outside of the county.
Center Point lies just off I-59 going NE out of town. I think a number of folks in 1990s escaped there and felt somewhat safe, and could drive into work within 30 minutes. Woodaire Estates on the north end of town....was a fairly nice area.
We need more stories like this!
I would hate to ever have to shoot a burglar.
I would do it, but I would hate it.
“Why did he wait for 13 robberies? Baffling”
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I dunno. Maybe he wasn’t home the other times (and confuses robbery with burglary) or perhaps they didn’t actually manage to get in, just attempted to - maybe it was the first time he felt threatened, personally?
Whatever - he has more patience than I would have had.
Then ransom the plant(s) back.
Multiple times.
I guess it beat being an [physically] injured muggee.
“I would hate to ever have to shoot a burglar.
I would do it, but I would hate it.”
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A term that never fails to astound me when I hear/read it - a homeowner comes home and “he surprises a burglar”. Should be the other way around - the homeowner *lives there* for Pete’s sake!
Likely the old man had an Rx for some opiod pills and addicts “visited” him frequently once they learned. Some pills are stronger than the finest heroin and sell for up to $50 each on the street.
Most likely they were squatting at a nearby property and watching him. Can’t believe it was 13 random break-ins in a year unless this guy was flashing money like an idiot
I would bet you dollars to donuts this man was prescribed Oxycodone for a medical condition last June. Pharmacies do a terrible job protecting patient privacy, and punks will go to great lengths to steal this drug.
My father volunteers for a group involved in caring for people at home. They have taken to delivering hospital beds to homes at 5:00 AM so the local punks don’t notice who is likely to have pain meds in the house.
Could be he was gone. You break into my house and you are one dead puppy.
Meth has started sweeping rural areas in Bama and Georgia. The meth heads will probably all be shot though. God help em if they come here, what the dogs don’t finish off I or one of my family will.
“Could be he was gone.”
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That’s what I kinda figure - a lot of people use “robbery” and “burglary” as if they were the same thing. I’m guessing that’s the case here.
“You break into my house and you are one dead puppy”
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As long as you know the local laws re:deadly force, it’s certainly a good option to have.
Another aspiring rap career ends tragically. He was a good who just needed to buy school clothes and had no other choice but to rob houses.
I would venture a guess of HUD’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” or “Section 8” has something to do with it. Bureaucrats think that if you take thugs from crap neighborhoods and put them on magical soil in good neighborhoods they will stop being thugs.
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