Sure enough, a would-be robber had smashed her glass door with a rock and cut out the screen. She yelled at him and warned him that she had a gun. But when she called for help, she was stunned to hear their advice.
“When I called 911, she kept saying, ‘put the gun down, put the gun down.’ And I said, ‘I’ll put the gun down when I see the police,’” Logan recalled.
Damn straight! As we say, “When seconds count, the police are minutes away.” Nothing will protect a woman under threat as well as cold steel and a trigger.
It was a request that this tough grandma refused to fulfill while there were still likely one or more criminals in her house.
Her shouts seemed to have worked – as the man or men were scared away, with police investigating.
And N.J. says there’s no way she’ll be getting rid of her gun, especially after the scary incident. She told MTVT-TV that she is a strong believer in having “guns inside your house” because no one “has the right to break into your private domain.”
“I’ll definitely have the gun up there,” she added, “that is for sure.”
Just whose side is this dispatcher on...?
In a just world she would now be unemployed.
Her mistake was telling the 911 operator she had a gun, unless the operator heard her shouting at the bad guys.
In New York some years ago, a young ex-paratrooper was walking a small timid suburban co-worker home late at night. They were attacked by a large drunk with a boxcutter. The military guy disarmed him and pounded his head against the street until he stopped fighting. His co-worker ran away. The next day they were at work and the police came and arrested the soldier. THe attacker had been taken to the hospital with a fractured skull, the suburbanite co-worker had made a police report. Soldier spent the night in the Tombs, family ponied up $10,000 bail/lawyer money before he was sent to Rikers. He eventually won his case but the $10,000 was gone for good.
I once spoke to a fellow who had been attacked in the streets. The victim had a box cutter in his pocket and cut the attacker’s throat. The attacker died, but the police never found his victim.
You go, girl!!!!!!!!
What idiots we have working at 911.