I had an incident this summer. Now, I live in a suburb of a super safe community. 300,000 people and nobody gets killed by somebody they don't know. In fact the homicide rate is maybe one a year. I don't have a gun.
About 3AM one night I heard male voices outside. I saw the beam of a flashlight. The dog alerted and started barking like crazy. Instantly, I thought it was police or other emergency personnel, the neighbor is always being taken away by ambulance and someone with ill intent would not be making that much noise. Having made that determination, I rolled over and let the wife and dog handle it.
It was the police. I had inadvertently left the front entry door open to let the cool night air in. The screen door was closed and locked but they saw the entry door open and decided to investigate. After my wife assured them that there was no one there holding us hostage the front door was not kicked in and still worked, and we were all safe and nobody could get past fido anyway, they left.
Now, call me crazy, tell me I have a false sense of security, or just wonder where this kind of super safe community could exist. That's what happened. To add some context, I am older than the homeowner in the story and I live about 15 miles away from him.
I had an incident this summer. Now, I live in a suburb of a super safe community. 300,000 people and nobody gets killed by somebody they don’t know. In fact the homicide rate is maybe one a year. I don’t have a gun.
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Sounds wonderful, where do you live????