Posted on 01/10/2006 2:01:30 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
Doors, Windows Battered At 22 Pr. George's [Maryland] Homes
By Avis Thomas-Lester Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 10, 2006; Page A01
Paul Drake had fallen asleep watching football on the living room sofa when a loud thud woke him. It was followed by a series of thuds as vandals charged his front door with what he believes was a battering ram, splitting the frame and leaving Drake struggling to keep them out.
"Let the dog out! Let the dog out!" he recalled hollering to his wife as the vandals fled.
The incident, at 1:45 a.m. Sunday in Suitland, was part of a three-hour spree that left doors and windows smashed in at least 22 Prince George's County homes, police said yesterday. The vandals injured no one and took nothing from the houses and apartments as they moved undeterred across a 10-mile swath from District Heights to the Lake Arbor section of Mitchellville, police said.
"In each of the cases, they never gained entry. They simply ran off," said an investigative supervisor in the county police District III Station in Landover.
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Warned who?
Get a gun already or move.
Are there any good home surveillance camera businesses I might be able to invest in? I think demand is only going to go up.
Checklist:
A good gun
A good dog
A good camera
There are places in Southern Maryland where the number wouldn't have ever reached anywhere near 22.
hasn't MD had more murders than numbers of days in this month already this year?
PG area will try to stop it if only for that reason
tha section 8 parents will sue their a@@'s off if their babies get hurt trying break into their homes
I suppose you have an alibi.
Which begs the question...
WHO LET THE DOG OUT?
I used to live in Upper Marlboro. One night some jerks smashed out windows of one car at each house on our street.
This was over 20 years ago though....
Both the Mothman and Blair Witch live in MD. its a dangerous place
The Edinburgh Black Box must've predicted this; why weren't the residents prepared?
I find it funny that a section 8 in the army was a general discharge for mental problems and the government calls it section 8 housing for people too lazy to work (mental).
You might want to wait till they get through the door, they came in but none got out. Amen.
This went on for 3 hours and police saw nothing? After several reports came in, shouldn't police have descended on the area and been especially vigilant?
Police need to remember their own advice the next time they kick down someones door at 5 in the morning. Its a good way to get shot.
Better to communicate with their readers?
Guaranteed this will not spread to Florida, as those that try it here will suffer from massive and fatal hemmoraging.
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That's right! And here I was switching to the "black box" for the latest in hocus pocus.
Oh well ... back to Nostradamus. ;)
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"let the dogs out"???? I would much prefer to say - hand me the gun, dear....
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