Posted on 07/01/2018 4:54:11 PM PDT by Moe-Patrick
Last night a man high on meth knocked on my front door. He was panicked and begging to come in because people were chasing him. I told him I was calling the police. He continued to try to get in for 3 min. Then he got into my truck and tried to hot wire it. Police showed up shortly thereafter. Police stated he was delusional and from another town.
I live in rural area that has zero crime or problems. I am sharing this because most leave their doors unlocked while they eat dinner or watch TV. And they don’t have their guns at arms length. This man would have walked right through the front door. So......lock your screen doors as well as your front doors. Understand that those on mind altering drugs are not rational or predictable creating a whole new realm of danger.
Get through my front door! Meet my buddies, Messrs Smith and Wesson.
However, whether it's a suspicious knock or a battering ram, either make sure you have a tile floor at the entry way or, if you don't, spread plastic sheet over the rugs...
Then simply let them get one-step inside and and "fill'em full of lead" as the old saying goes...
Our tiny little one storey house has 17 windows, not counting the glass in the doors. We rarely have serious crime in our little town. There’s probably a fair amount of pilfering. But even still, I wouldn’t sleep with windows open, unless they’re only open low enough to keep a person from climbing in, and then my husband would make sure he screwed the windows in, so they couldn’t be raised. We have a couple of small dogs, but they sleep in a crate in a back bedroom, so they wouldn’t necessarily hear anything in front of the house. We keep guns on both our nightstands. I never answer the door at night if I’m home alone, (I don’t answer it during the day if I’m alone, unless I know who it is), and my husband doesn’t answer at night, without a gun within a few inches of his hand.
Having said all that, we’ve gone to bed and forgotten the keys in the front door, more often than I’d like to admit. Left our detached garage open plenty of times, too.
Yeah, we have a group of hawks that fly around the area. I suspect one of them got it. The cat was 8 or 9 years old. Not to be insensitive because I know how close people can get attached to pets, but move on and get a new damned cat.
Got the window alarms too. Didn’t mention that, but things can happen in seconds when the cops are 30 minutes away :-).
When we first got our little dog, my husband worried a hawk or large owl would swoop down and get her. Now, she’s so fat, it would break it’s neck, trying to pick her up.
Guns on both the nightstands? I hope your husband doesn’t reach over and grab you when he’s having a dream about Heidi Kluhm and you get startled!! Tip: just let him think you’re Heidi. Don’t shoot him.
;-)
I wanted to get a dog. Something like a German Shepherd or dobererman, something alpha male, to compensate, you know. My wife insisted on one of those wiener dogs. It’s legs were so short they didn’t even reach the ground. Taking this thing for a walk was like pulling a half filled Mylar balloon around. And of course, I learned the hard way not to stand beside it when it stopped to pee because it would start spinning around.
Not critiquing or criticizing...but...I live in a primarily rural area and I trust no one.
Heavy meth presence.
White trash perpetrators.
My gun or a gun is always within reach and will be in my hand long before a phone will.
Just the smart thing to do and after about a week, it becomes second nature.
I open the door for no one that I do not know or that is not family.
To even get to a door to knock on, one has to go thru a locked chain-link fence and cameras are all around.
It's equipped with an intercom and Facetime camera, so no one has an excuse, even law enforcement.
They might get past my two pits and get to the door, but they go beyond knocking...I will kill them.
That's just the way it is.
And believe me, I can live with it.
I even carry a special insurance rider for such possibilities.
Fort Home will be defended.
Home invasions can happen anywhere
I have both and these kraut dogs will tear up and spit out anything that gets on their territory without permission. The shepard will just tear their head off as the doxie chews em off at the knees. Those two are uber territorial.
We live in a very rural area and had one screaming his head off and pounding on our door at 2 am in the morning about 5 years ago.
I got half-dressed, grabbed my Glock 30, looked out thru the peep hole and this guy was naked from the waist up and covered in blood. He was screaming his head off to let him in because demons from Hell were after him. I told him “No way and that I was calling the police”. He kept pounding and trying to barge thru the door. I shouted a warning that I was armed, and I would shoot him if he busted thru that door. Meanwhile, my wife was already on the phone with the sheriff’s dept. He tried again and again, but the door held. By now, my wife had also gone back to the bedroom and grabbed our 12 ga shotgun we keep back there loaded with 00 buckshot. We swapped guns. I gave her the .45 cal. Glock 30, and I now had the Remington 870 riot pump with a 00 buck round in the tube, safety off and ready to go. We were still on the phone with the Sheriff dispatcher, and she could hear everything that was going on. We also had pushed the front room couch up against the door, and we were behind another sofa with guns drawn ready to shoot him if he made it thru the door. He kept trying over and over again. That old door held, thank God.
Finally, 15 minutes later, 3 sheriff cars come screaming down our driveway with lights flashing/sirens blaring. Yeah, it took em 15 minutes to get out to our place. This guy tried to fight them, but got pepper-sprayed, cuffed and tossed in the back of one of the cruisers. Neither of us ever did get back to sleep after that. Too much fear and adrenaline, I guess.
Turns out the guy was a known drug abuser/heavy meth head...had a record a mile long with some of it pretty violent. To this day, we still don’t know how he got way out here where we live, especially that hour of the night...weird.
We ended up replacing our doors with heavier ones and added additional locks after that little episode, but he really could have just smashed a window and got in. We beefed those windows up as well. Drugs make these people crazy and potentially violent. Also, no matter where you live, be vigilant and be aware it can happen any time/any place.
I’ve been in a very similar position. I called the police, and they got there a little slower than yours did. My intruders were plural and not on drugs. Although I could legally have shot all of them, they didn’t quite cross my red line to do so. In any case, it was good to have a 12 gauge and a .45 ready and at hand.
Who carries at home? Me.
That’s quite a scary story, but thank goodness both of you were ARMED and READY.
I can have an excavator at my very rural home in 15 minutes, but not the Sheriff.
Exactly!
I left out many details of the story because my main point is that psychosis creates unimaginable situations. And most importantly, tell your children and those not armed to the teeth, that people WILL walk right through the front door. Lock the screen door to slow them down further. Prepare for this scenario.
I always keep the door locked and we have firearms. My hubby was playing a gig elsewhere and I was watching TV at home. This nut had driven his car from another town, ditched it a mile down the road, and went looking for a home with the lights on. The police said he did not know where he was or what he was doing, totally delusional. When he knocked, I turned on the porch light. He then said “Let me in, let me in, people are chasing me!”. I shouted I was calling the police and made my escape plan. The firearms were in the bedroom. I made the decision to stand by the backdoor while watching the front door so I could escape immediately. I feared going to the bedroom which is the furthest from an exit and possibly being cornered. Unlike many on here, I have been lax on being more prepared in case of a home invasion. But my husband would have blown his head off as would my neighbors. I made a different decision based on my abilities. I’ve lived here 30 years with zero problems. This man was from a town 12 miles away. I learned quite a bit from the experience including my own shortcomings. I don’t want others to make the same mistakes. Tell your kids, your friends, your family. Prepare for someone walking right through the front door. And they are delusional, normal threats do not sway them. Dogs, police, pointing firearms, alarms.....they will continue to do what they are doing. This man was not deterred by the horn blowing on the truck while he tried to hot wire it. He was totally gone.
Baseball bats placed around your home. I’ve got 6 of them placed in locations a intruder would not think to look in. If I can’t get to my firearm, at least I’ll try to knock their brains out.
A properly placed security bar can be a good deterrent. Not saying it is a save all, but can give you time to get to a weapon when one is not physically armed.
For those of you who live in a safe rural area:
So do we. Mostly farm people or their children who have a lot on the family farm.
A church on almost every corner.
A few years ago mowing your lawn on Sunday would make you the subject of the sermon the next Sunday.
Nevertheless, since 1968 there have been FIVE murders in the neighborhood, two of which were my second cousin and her husband. Home invasion. The murder was a very normal looking young guy who had no intention of robbing...he just liked to be in their house when they were asleep. Creepy? You betcha.
Two of the murders involved a mental deficient on drugs in one case (another home invasion) and in the second case, a robbery of a person who was growing weed.
And one who owned and operated a country store.
There is no such thing as a safe neighborhood. There are only neighborhoods where it has happened and those in which it will happen if it has not already.
As for me, I carry 16 hours a day and have a holster mounted on the side of the nightstand.
And I like really big bullets with great big hollow points.
Once a bad guy is in your house, do not mess with the phone. Especially a cell because it will light up your face and make you a very easy target.
Both hands on your weapon and all attention on the invader.
Our alarm system will handle the call to the cops.
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