Cute bunch of kids...
Posted on 12/18/2014 10:43:01 AM PST by Impala64ssa
How did this Alabama family handle it when they saw the people who broke into their house and stole their Christmas presents?
They drew their pistols, followed the suspected bad guys and stopped them at gunpoint until police got there.
On Sunday afternoon, Chris Wyatt and other family members were able to recognize the people who’d broken into their house on that Friday from home surveillance video. The burglars were apparently back in the neighborhood trying to ruin Christmas for a few more boys and girls.
Once confronted, of course, the suspects had their own story. Chris Wyatt told WBRC TV:
“They tried to say that they were lost and we corrected them where they were.”
While they haven’t recovered their Christmas gifts yet, loot from another family, who had been burglarized an hour before, was found in the car.
Police charged Eric Paul Stillwell, 38, Natosha Derrick, 29, and Elizabeth Frost, 28, with third-degree burglary and second-degree theft of property in the second burglary.
Perhaps these bad guys should have chosen a different neighborhood to hit. It seems there are good guys here with guns that intend to protect what’s theirs.
““They tried to say that they were lost ....”
But now, they are FOUND!
Got hit on Christmas eve last year, along with several neighbors. Did more dollar damage to the front and back doors, than the stuff they took was worth. (I keep things well locked up).
Needless to say, we all have some nasty surprises for them if they try it again.
According to the local police, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve are popular burglary times, because few people are at home.
My lake cottage got hit last week. Kids broke some glass and left some blood on the shards and did some damage to the door but did not get in. They got into several neighbors. They got caught two days later and DNAed to all their break-ins. The girl was sporting some unaccustomed jewelry and talking about her two new TVs at school.
Cute bunch of kids...
I would have put them out of their misery!
I have a small safe, if you can call it that. I have about $1,000 cash in it and a few other items, mostly wife's jewelry but also insurance policies birth certificates etc., it's hidden but a determined burglar could find it and carry the whole thing away. I have it mostly for its fire retardant qualities.
I'm wondering how much a sturdy and heavy enough safe, that a thief could not handily steal, might cost.
“I’m wondering how much a sturdy and heavy enough safe, that a thief could not handily steal, might cost.”
I bought a fire-proof file safe at an auction several years ago for $5. Looks like a large filing cabinet.
Rekeying it cost about $20.
Better, and much lower profile than a large safe, which itself becomes a target.
This is whats happens when cousins marry.
LOL!
I have one that weighs 500 lbs empty, and it bolted to the concrete floor. Probably weighs twice that filled as well. If someone can break in and walk out with that puppy, more power to them. (they’d just better not do it when anyone is home, or the may get buried in it...”
“I have a small safe, if you can call it that. I have about $1,000 cash in it and a few other items, mostly wife’s jewelry but also insurance policies birth certificates etc., it’s hidden but a determined burglar could find it and carry the whole thing away.”
Ill test it for you.
Where is it hidden and whats the combination?
Oh, and what time of day will you not be home?
;-)
You might consider what I did with mine.
It’s located in a closet and I pulled back the carpet, cut out a section of floor, careful so I could replace it securely.
I then put a couple of 4 by 4s under the floor boards, replaced the floorboard and carpet. Everything looked undisturbed.
I drilled 4 holes in the bottom of the safe and ran lag screws through the floor of the safe into the ‘buried’ 4 X 4s.
No one is going to be able to get it off the floor, even if they use the 5 foot crowbar from my garage.
They’ll move on to an easier target.
Too bad they didn’t shoot the a-holes.
A better question: given this story, would Alabamians stand for it?
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