Posted on 07/09/2016 8:31:15 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
On May 11, 2011 I received the following email from a friend and fellow Freeper:
Here's what our daughter and son in law woke up to this morning - not to mention what the neighbor woke up to..
You shooters in the crowd will be glad to know that this neighbor of R and P - gal living alone - shot and killed the guy with 10 of 11 shots fired from a .22 and was reaching for her .38 when she ran out of bullets in the .22 and the guy left the same way he got in - through a screened in backporch....He couldn't get far with 10 bullets in him as the neighbors were told the cops found him on the porch. The cops said they found only 1 stray bullet in the house.
She was scared to pieces but still managed to use her head, shoot him and run out of the house. Our son in law was in the garage having his morning coffee and she must have run right by him without even seeing him - just ran through the garage naked, through the kitchen door and collapsed on the kitchen floor. R heard the screaming and came out to find her there. She got a towel to put around her and then got a robe to put on her.
A traumatic time for all in the neighborhood.
I’m used to it...
Thanks for the link and the alert! Wonderful story!
nice firearm I use one to varmint hunt with. knocks the game right out of the tree. but is very loud. ear protection is a must with that revolver.
Ya I know. My ears ring like hell after I fire it.
I carry a Keltec PMR 30 .22 mag as it has well, a 30 round magazine. So when I say I shot him as much as I could I won’t be kidding.
That woman lives in my county and I give her a big pat on the back. My worst nightmare is that somebody will break in while I’m in the shower. She got herself out of one of the worst jams I can imagine.
Lock your bathroom / bedroom door while you are in the shower.
Well the good news is we have a 14 pound Chihuahua that thinks she’s a Rottie. She lays on the back of the couch watching the yard for intruders and she goes frothing at the mouth insane if somebody is on the porch. So I do get a heads up if anybody is around. The UPS guy won’t step on the porch. :-)
“”Lock your bathroom / bedroom door while you are in the shower.””
You think that would stop someone with evil on their mind? Creeps like this have no problem kicking down doors today in full view of the street. I guess it would work if you made sure you took your weapon in the bathroom with you.
That big guy is all you need. Him and a handgun in each end of the house.
Change the reply to female, please.
Doesn't everybody?
A .22 may not have much shock power, but when the bullets get inside, they go round and round, up and down and from here to there , bone to bone, instead of straight through. If whomever you shoot makes it to the emergency room, the surgeon that operates on them will cuss you until the day he dies.
I have understood that for those with weak hands a 22 is a more controllable weapon esp with an extended magazine.
You know, that is correct and it would give a person great pleasure knowing the SOB suffered before he crocked.
Thanks Auntie Mame.
bmfl
That poor woman. I’m interested in how she’s doing nowadays.
I fancy myself capable & willing, but can’t imagine starting from such a vulnerable position as naked in the shower. Holy crap!
I can’t help wondering what if he’d been met at the door by barking dogs. Or did he know enough of her routine that there was only a cat & her hearing would be drowned out as she readied for work?
Fantastic job of self defense on her part.
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