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Doors, Windows Battered At 22 Pr. George's County [Maryland] Homes
The Washington Post ^ | January 10, 2006 | Avis Thomas-Lester

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: burgulary; crime; maryland; pgcounty; police; secondamendment; vandalism
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Bizarre. The article doesn't indicate the time span between the 22 incidents, although they all presumably occured in the early hours of Sunday.
1 posted on 01/10/2006 2:01:35 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Senator Goldwater
"Law enforcement officials warned that the use of deadly force by a resident against an intruder might sometimes be legally permissible."

Warned who?

2 posted on 01/10/2006 2:02:39 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Senator Goldwater

Get a gun already or move.


3 posted on 01/10/2006 2:10:41 AM PST by one more state
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To: Senator Goldwater

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


4 posted on 01/10/2006 2:11:27 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: one more state

There are places in Southern Maryland where the number wouldn't have ever reached anywhere near 22.


5 posted on 01/10/2006 2:14:44 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Senator Goldwater

hasn't MD had more murders than numbers of days in this month already this year?


6 posted on 01/10/2006 2:22:08 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: Senator Goldwater
"He said the vandals easily could have been injured, particularly because several of the residents were awakened in the incidents."

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

7 posted on 01/10/2006 2:27:34 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: xsmommy

I suppose you have an alibi.


8 posted on 01/10/2006 2:30:04 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Senator Goldwater
"Let the dog out! Let the dog out!" he recalled hollering to his wife as the vandals fled.

Which begs the question...

WHO LET THE DOG OUT?

9 posted on 01/10/2006 2:31:52 AM PST by martin_fierro (w00f w00f w00f w00f w00f)
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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....


10 posted on 01/10/2006 2:32:43 AM PST by KneelBeforeZod (Someday a real rain will come and wipe this scum off the streets.)
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Both the Mothman and Blair Witch live in MD. its a dangerous place


11 posted on 01/10/2006 2:38:58 AM PST by KneelBeforeZod (Someday a real rain will come and wipe this scum off the streets.)
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To: Senator Goldwater

The Edinburgh Black Box must've predicted this; why weren't the residents prepared?


12 posted on 01/10/2006 2:45:26 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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Battering ram? Legal or not, a hail of overwhelming firepower through the door should do the trick.
13 posted on 01/10/2006 2:45:57 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: sure_fine

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).


14 posted on 01/10/2006 3:01:08 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (“Don't approach a Bull from the front, a Horse from the back, or a Fool from any side.”)
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To: Caipirabob

You might want to wait till they get through the door, they came in but none got out. Amen.


15 posted on 01/10/2006 3:04:54 AM PST by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: gakrak

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?


16 posted on 01/10/2006 3:11:11 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: Senator Goldwater

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.


17 posted on 01/10/2006 3:22:54 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: Senator Goldwater
The Washington Post has evidently found some high school drop out (Avis Thomas-Lester) to write their articles.

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.





18 posted on 01/10/2006 3:50:15 AM PST by G.Mason (Did the illegal worker in that burger place, spit on it before, or after he pick it up off the floor)
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To: Jack Hammer
"The Edinburgh Black Box must've predicted this; why weren't the residents prepared?"


That's right! And here I was switching to the "black box" for the latest in hocus pocus.


Oh well ... back to Nostradamus. ;)





19 posted on 01/10/2006 3:57:27 AM PST by G.Mason (Did the illegal worker in that burger place, spit on it before, or after he pick it up off the floor)
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To: Senator Goldwater

"let the dogs out"???? I would much prefer to say - hand me the gun, dear....


20 posted on 01/10/2006 5:00:02 AM PST by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan and a Cancer on Society)
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