I had to have the police break into my mother’s house, and they found her laying next to her bed and she had been there for eighteen hours. I was out of town and the neighbors hadn’t heard from her. And they were two other old ladies that couldn’t get in.
Now if the police broke in and she was holding a gun on them, I don’t know what they would have had to do. (Although my mother didn’t have a gun.)
And the man obviously heard something to go and get his weapon.
Usually people don’t call for status checks close to midnight— they assume the person is asleep.
How did your mother make out——18 hours is a very long time?
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