Nashville, TN: Carjackers Surprised By Victim With Gun

News 5 Nashville ^ | 12/30/02 | staff

[FreedomPoster]

Great minds think alike; you beat me to the punch.

[FreedomPoster]

See posts 79 and 80.

[harpseal]

It seems like someone already has done the hard work. Given the cost of Romex this may well be the way to go. One other thing it may be an exellent means of turning on the coffee pot for when I get up in the morning. That sounds awfully good to me particularly when I am rising at oh dark thirty to get to a client site or go hunting.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[AnAmericanMother]

Unfortunately, remote switches haven't been very successful here. This is a house of radio amateurs (except my youngest who hasn't shown much interest yet) and my husband is an avid DXer. When he is holding high confab at 1500 watts with similarly-minded folks on Kingman Reef or some other microscopic-sized piece of alleged real estate on the other side of the world, it seems to have a negative effect on those things. (Even the burglar alarm wires act as an antenna. More than once I have been sleeping soundly while he is in the ham shack at the other end of the house, only to have the monitoring box at the head of the bed suddenly roar out a garbled version of his call sign. THAT will wake you up in a hurry, believe me!)

[Travis McGee]

That's one of the many reasons I love FR: I learn new things every day!

[Travis McGee]

They are fun to play with though!

[Travis McGee]

Kewl looking devices there BraveMan!

[Shooter 2.5]

I hadn't thought about the solar lights. My son has a couple but he never uses them because they're near the street by a light pole. They were there just for a decoration.

I thought of the idea of the light when I noticed I was playing a computer game and I came to a long hallway. I learned how to clear rooms from Doom, Delta Force[The game, that is] and a class at the Whittington Center.

I read a account of motion detectors from a magazine that said that burgulars fear those than a standard light. They never knew whether or not the homeowner was putting the light on.

[Shooter 2.5]

Wow! bookmarked and stored.

[Travis McGee]

Absolutely! Motion triggered lights are HATED by crooks! These can also be mixed in with lights that can be remote controlled, or put on timers. The idea is to keep the "light-dark topography" seemingly random and unpredictable so that crooks cannot plan a long shadowy stalk to your window. At any time in the open, he may suddenly be bathed in light from any direction.

OTOH, lights on a house which are on all the time may be useless, or worse, since they night blind the owner while providing certain dark lanes for the infiltrator.

[Shooter 2.5]

I had a tiny bit of excitement one time. Someone saw a guy with a gun in my backyard at 2 in the morning. Two cops came to the door and I grabbed my shoes and we checked. The cops spread out across the backyard and I was a little behind and way to the left. It was interesting but then I had to ask myself what in the world was I doing this for? I guess it was my stuff and it was still my responsibility. I never did tell the cops I was carrying. No one was found, of course. Interesting night.

I am developing a habit of pulling on my cover garment when I see something I don't like. I have to quit that.

[PoorMuttly]

I used to wear a rainbow peace-sign black t-shirt, motorcycle jacket and ripped jeans on security details some times. Concealed 2 High Powers and a .38 quite well...or so said the cops, who we also employed. The unlikely is best. I'd go for a Spongebob Squarepants T now. Oops. Gave away my weaponry secrets.

[Shooter 2.5]

My son bought me a black t-shirt that says, Innocent Bystander, in large white letters. I guess that wouldn't go over to well.

[PoorMuttly]

The Power-Puff Girls are pretty macho...but you'll have to carry at LEAST a .45 or Desert Eagle for the bad guys to believe it's real ! Marketing is important. I believe in totally false advertising, when it comes to getting the drop on killers. I'd tell 'em I was the Easter Bunny if it would buy me a split-second on the draw !

[river rat]

Similar experience..

Right after getting married and moving into our first tiny little home in Kensington, MD... I had fallen asleep on the couch while my wife was in the shower..

She came out soaking wet in a towel and said there was someone at the bathroom window and she could see his backlighted shape from the neighbor's back porch light..

Several of the neighborhood wives had complained about peeping toms - but no husband had ever witnessed one and we all just thought the girls were nuts..

I told her not to worry and to go ahead an finish her shower -- that no one was there and even if there was -- they couldn't see anything through the type glass mounted in that bathroom window..

The "look" she gave me --- made it clear, that was not the right answer..

I pickup up a .45, slipped out the front door --- climbed quietly over the chain link fence to get into the side yard ---- and then carefully peeked around the corner of the house into the back yard..

Sure enough --- there WAS a stupid bastard at the window, attempting to see through "no see through glass"..


I stepped around the corner, racked the .45 and that sound alone was enough to cause the bastard to simply FLOAT straight up --- spin 90 degrees in mid air, and take off like a scalded dog.. He cleared the fences like a professional hurdles runner...

I fired two shots straight into the yard at my feet..
To CONVINCE the bastard that I didn't wish him to return..

20 minutes later -- there was a knock at my door..
Police had received a report of shots being fired.
I explained -- they were NOT amused..
I had to PROVE the shots were into the yard at my feet - and that I had not attempted to murder a "non-threatening" peeping tom...

I was lucky to get off with a warning..

The neighborhood never had another reported peeping tom for the several years we remained in that neighborhood.

Semper Fi

[BraveMan]

Good point. X10 devices can be troublesome in a "noisy" environment. There are
many filters, amplifiers and attenuators out there that can greatly improve system
reliability. You may have some luck with the devices sold by SmartHome.com.

Then again, if hubby is inadvertently cooking small birds perching on the elements
with 1500 watts Peak to Peak, you may be out of luck!

[flamingbug]

bump it

[.30Carbine]

Thanks for all your good and helpful comments to me, harpseal.
I wish you all that's blessed and all the best for the new year.

[AnAmericanMother]

OMG, I love that cartoon! I'm going to send it to my husband immediately!

I haven't found any small avian corpses under the Yagi . . . But I was raking leaves one time in the back yard while he was OTA and saw him give a squirrel the hotfoot. . . . . . . . :-D

[patriot_wes]

JUSTICE CAN BE SO SIMPLE!