Posted on 01/14/2011 10:28:01 PM PST by pissant
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. - A Williamson County woman fought off an intruder with a vacuum cleaner. She was desperate for help, waiting for almost 35 minutes for law enforcement to arrive.
The single mom described that 35 minutes like the scene of a horror movie as she watched a man walk from windows to doors doing anything to break in to her home.
It was a startling discovery that Robin Ribeiro made at 2 o'clock in the morning on Tuesday.
"I see a man at my door and Amber is up there and I go there is a man!" said Ribeiro.
But Ribeiro was even more shocked by what happened over the next 35 minutes. That's how long it took for her to get law enforcement to her house.
"I am saying the police 'where are they? Where are they?' And they say they are on their way, they're on their way," recalled Ribeiro.
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Get your own damn ambulance. This is my case, dammit!
(Although I may use some of that in my brief. 10% OK?)
In my mind, stories like this show how unreliable the authorities can be and why it’s necessary to be a gun owner. 35 minutes?! Say...what?? When the police can’t protect you, you have to be self-sufficient enough to take care of yourself.
Course you do. Someone's gotta remove the body.
She had enough time to boil water.
I would have loved to see her blow the perp away with buckshot and when the cops finally get there, she says, “So I axed myself, what would Palin doo’s?”
You just watch...less protection for the public will be the “new normal” if they don’t get things under control very soon.
“I’d suggest she get a pump action shotgun”
Those things sound wicked bad.
Because she used a cell phone to dial 911 her call was routed to a metro police dispatch then to a Franklin Police and finally to the Sheriff’s department. That is why she was on the line with the sheriff’s department for 14 minutes.
If you are going to be a cell only person to save money by not having a land line you should have your local LOE’s direct line programmed in to your cell.
This guy was obviously not a burglar. A burglar does not hang around an occupied home if he knows he has been seen. I am guessing this guy was a rapist.
Why don’t they ever just go out the back door while the intruder is kicking down the front?
Not all houses put a big space between the front and the back door .
I had something similar happen to me when my daughter was a couple months old . Hubby had got called in to work so we were both alone .
I hit the guy coming through my window with my baseball bat, multiple times. He took off after around 6 or 7 wacks to the head/shoulder.
I was armed but legally could not shoot until he was in the house . I wasn’t about to let him in with my child in the house.
Every woman should know how to use a gun , and every house should have more than one.
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As the courts have held on numerous occasions, law enforcement has NO obligation to protect individuals!
When seconds count, a police response is only minutes away!
Not an indictment..., just a fact of life! Far too many people are oblivious to this fact!
I thought Tennessee was the patron state of shooting stuff ?
Sarah Fenn: What are you going to do?
Bob Lee Swagger: Exercise my right to bear arms.
When vacuum cleaners are outlawed, only outlaws will have vacuum cleaners.
Why should they have to?
Does this woman not have neighbors? Friends? Can’t she open a window and scream bloody murder?
Having lights go on in houses nearby and people coming outside making noise tends to make perps move on. Of course, he might have come back again.
But I guess it worked out for the best since they arrested to guy. He seems kind of stupid to hang around that long.
No, just the County Coroner....in sparse areas, these are usually just a local Mortician who moonlights - they’re there in a Jiffy - they gets paid for each body pickup!
911 is a joke.
When vacuum cleaners are outlawed, only outlaws will have vacuum cleaners.
That sucks.
I don’t have any proof, but I believe the intruder was a Tea Party member, acting on orders directly from Sarah Palin.
I do. They come and take away the (former) criminal, although they leave the bloodstain. "Shoot, shovel, and shut up" sounds nice and may have its place in life, but I don't want to be halfway through digging a hole six feet deep when the police my neighbor called finally show up. I also know what to say to the police when they arrive and when to stop talking and wait for a lawyer - almost as important as frequent range time. As for calling the police while cowering and hiding, no, I don't see the point. Even if the police could get there on time, society is better off with one criminal fewer. I will stand my ground.
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