True. However, my wife came home one day and when she stepped in, she noticed the back door had been kicked in. She immediately stepped out and drew her gun from her purse and walked around the house at a distance to see if anyone was still there. When she finally stepped in, she found the blinds in the bedroom pulled aside where they evidently heard/saw her pulling up and then beat feet. She must have come home before they got a chance to get started because nothing else was disturbed. She was so mad she stepped out and fired a shot into the ground and hollered that if they came back, they would be bleeding on the ground. Our house is in a wooded area and they must have been in the woods nearby because there was no car involved. Our neighbor had been broken into the same day and had a lot of stuff stolen/destroyed. We assume they heard the shot and understood because our neighbor got hit again the next week but we were left alone. Not a warning shot per se, but it served the purpose to let them know that even the woman of the house was armed and willing to squeeze one off...
I swear the car was doing 35 and spraying gravel when the kid who was ringing the bell caught up with it. Never seen anyone run so fast in my life.
And they never messed with the bell or mailbox again.