What would you do if you caught someone stealing from you.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by vash

alot of tough guys in here. very impressive.

i would just call the cops. i am not shooting, beating, stabbing, anyone for the measly belongings in my car. now if i was in danger, or my wife...game on.

+1. In this day and age, if you didn't get shot, cut up, or seriously beaten (I don't like 1 vs. 4 odds), you'd likely be charged with assault or/and sued. I don't like it either, but it "is what it is". No matter how macho some of us are behind our keyboards, us "old farts" would likely regret tangling with 4 (likely armed) teen-age street thugs...this isn't the 70s where fists settled things and your brain is your very best weapon imo. He was smart...

[afterburn 549]

You guys ever here of salt shot ? (Shot gun shell loaded with rock salt) They would have had to admit what they were doing...You would have to be stupid enough to say you saw them and pulled the trigger. It is a win win situation.........I think

[afterburn 549]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Good thing you let them go, so they can just mosey on down the street and rip off the next guy.

Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic (or redneck), but I like to believe there was a time in this country when good honest folks didn't let crooks just walk away. When they did their best to hold them for authorities, to make sure they didn't bring the same grief to anyone else. We are all in this together, after all.

Seems today the attitude is a cross between "don't get involved" and "thank god it wasn't me" and really giving a rat's ass if they move on to the next guy. We have been pussy whipped into believing we should not "take the law into our own hands" no matter what we see. Hell, it seems we can even get into a great deal of trouble these days for even trying to do the right thing, with the benefit of the doubt going to the crooks. That's a real shame.

To make matters worse, throw a little "color" into the equation, and the cries of "racism" and "profiling" drown out whatever it is the punks were doing. We live in very strange times indeed.

Jeff,
Glad to see you are finding your "Red Neck" ...After the last bout of left thinking

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

You guys ever here of salt shot ? (Shot gun shell loaded with rock salt) They would have had to admit what they were doing...You would have to be stupid enough to say you saw them and pulled the trigger. It is a win win situation.........I think

I got shot with rock salt when I was 13...my buddy and I were trying to sneak onto Dean Martins ranch in Hidden Valley, Ca, just over the hill from our place(s). His security was not amused and let fly.

Levi's offered scant protection. That was our last foray to Deano's

[afterburn 549]

OK Now we know what to do, have a few rounds of R.salt.........Should be a good discipline agent No ?
Less paper work

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

OK Now we know what to do, have a few rounds of R.salt.........Should be a good discipline agent No ?
Less paper work

With proper disposal, there is no paper work

[KFC911]

A shotgun loaded with rock salt was a farmer's staple when I was a kid, but how many of us carry one when we visit our rental properties? Seahawk, was it just painful upon impact, or does the rock salt "keep on teaching you a lesson" for a few days? I personally don't want to find out

[KFC911]

Byron, that'll teach them "lefties" !!! I like it...

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by KC911

A shotgun loaded with rock salt was a farmer's staple when I was a kid, but how many of us carry one when we visit our rental properties? Seahawk, was it just painful upon impact, or does the rock salt "keep on teaching you a lesson" for a few days? I personally don't want to find out

Rock salt does sting & welt up for a few days afterward, of course, at close range a blank cartridge leaves pretty good welt too
One must remember, these days these punk already do things to hurt themselves so if you don't take em out while they are committing the crimes, there is a very good chance they will come back.

Byron, that'll teach them "lefties" !!! I like it

Well you can't take away their sex life.

[afterburn 549]

I like the crocodile / alligator...But it is hard to get one, keep one , train one to attack and have it on demand when needed LOL,
So,How in fact does rock salt feel ?? LOL

[MMARSH]

Several years ago, I hear a knock on the front door of my townhouse around 11:30 PM. I answer the door which faced the street and it's the next door neighbor. He whispers "There are two guys inside your truck right now". I had just gotten home from work about 30 minutes prior and had parked my truck on the street in front of my place. I ran up stairs picked up my 9mm italian friend, slipped on some shoes and ran outside with just sweat pants on. By the time I'm at my truck, the two guys are walking down the street in opposite directions. I decide to go after the one holding my stereo in his hand. He has some distance on me and when he sees me, he takes off running. I'm chasing him, cussing at him and telling him I'm going to kill him. (probably not the brightest thing to do since I had a gun in my hand and he actually thought he was running for his life.) We ran so long that at several different points we were both walking because we were so tired. Finally he jumped over a fence and into a back yard. At this point, I didn't know where we were and decided I wasn't going in that back yard to have him get the jump on me. I waited around for a few minutes and started walking back home.

As I'm walking back home, what do I see waiting at an intersection. A police car. Keep in mind, all I have on are sweatpants and sneakers, I'm not wearing a shirt and I have a gun in my hand. I don't even have any ID on me. I realize that this doesn't look good. I put the gun on the ground, stepped away from it, put my hands up and called them over. I explain to them who I am and what happened and long story short, they get a couple of units over to check out the area and give me a ride back to my place. Unfortunately, The guys ended up getting away, but I know I gave them something to think about.

BTW, I also picked up my stereo on the way back to my house. The guy dropped it when I was chasing him.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

I like the crocodile / alligator...But it is hard to get one, keep one , train one to attack and have it on demand when needed LOL,
So,How in fact does rock salt feel ?? LOL

You don't have to get one (but I did use to have a baby one back in the 80s) just know where to find em & feed em, and there are some not far from me at all

Stings like a MFer But in a time where people are drugged up, put big holes & bars through their skin, IMHO, pain isn't as effective anymore.

[Eric 951]

fred,

what part of Pit was this in? I ask only because my rental over on boggs had all the copper piping stolen out of it last summer, and my partner in this house had the pipes taken out of (2) of his places in Lawrenceville.

bastages!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by KC911

A shotgun loaded with rock salt was a farmer's staple when I was a kid, but how many of us carry one when we visit our rental properties? Seahawk, was it just painful upon impact, or does the rock salt "keep on teaching you a lesson" for a few days?

There was no, uh, penetration of said rock salt so it was like getting hit with a frozen paintball. I had several bruises in the lower forty that lasted a few days.

I should mention that we were climbing over the fence into Deano's ranch to retrieve two Doves we had shot from land we had permission to hunt. It was a mistake in any case since we could have called out but didn't.

Let this be a lesson: Barb'ed wire fences are warnings, not wind breaks

[fastfredracing]

I am surprised to see a couple of local pelicans. The house is in observatory hill, northside area. Two years ago, I had all of the copper stolen out of a house as well. Nothing to worry abouth if the house is occupied, but if they sit vacant for any period of time, your copper will dissapear.
If there is any copper pipe left when we buy a house, we replace it with plastic, and scrap the copper ourselves. Saves a future break in.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by MMARSH

BTW, I also picked up my stereo on the way back to my house. The guy dropped it when I was chasing him.

Nice job man.

[p911dad]

I don't think mentioning a person's race is really problem in this case. We bounce between NY, Charlotte and Honolulu, and I watch the local TV news most nights in those places when we are there. In all cases, the newsreaders mention the perp's race as part of a simple physical description. It is nothing more than that-a physical description. It helps trying to catch the bad guys if you know what they look like. Not some racist problem. It is simply reality. Get real.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by gmeteer

It is nothing more than that-a physical description. It helps trying to catch the bad guys if you know what they look like. Not some racist problem.

Who said it is?

[Eric 951]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

I am surprised to see a couple of local pelicans. The house is in observatory hill, northside area. Two years ago, I had all of the copper stolen out of a house as well. Nothing to worry abouth if the house is occupied, but if they sit vacant for any period of time, your copper will dissapear.
If there is any copper pipe left when we buy a house, we replace it with plastic, and scrap the copper ourselves. Saves a future break in.

We ended up going the Pex route at Boggs. I know the Northside area which you are speaking about...in college some buddies lived in Village in the Park.