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

[Porsche-O-Phile]

After having been ripped off twice, I can't post what I'd do here for fear of someone finding it and using it against me in court after the fact as evidence of premeditation. Let's just say it's a scenario I've given some thought to and I'd have a plan to deal with it.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by fintstone

It was dark and you had the element of surprise.

Duhhh...
DUDE!
Darkies?
Darkness?
DAMN!
Dangerous!

[TerryH]

Weapons have taken all the fun out of confronting anyone, much less a crime in progress. A few months ago, there were 3 unrelated local deaths from people confronting taggers. You would think someone armed with an aerosol can wouldn't also be armed with a gun. Gangs are a nationwide problem. Guns are included with their standard dress code.

Crazy times. Nothing worth dying for unless my family or friends are targeted.

[Schumi]

Strange story- I once was housesitting a friend's apartment while he was on vaction when someone broke in. I was sleeping in the back bedroom and heard something at about 2 AM, woke me up. I didn't think much of it, but because I was up I had to go to the bathroom. I cracked open the bedroom door and right there was a guy going through the kitchen. From this point it turned into what I can only describe as a scene from a Jason Bourne film. I ran towards hte guy and he tried to run, I pushed him into the kitchen table, we scuffled, he jumped up on the table as I was trying to drag him down, jumps through the bar opening in the wall between the kitchen and the living room- I follow him scrambling through it and then tackled him in the living room into a large potted plant, of which was smashed by his forehead. He roled over and kicked me in the face, which put me down against the couch pretty hard. He then bolted out the front door. By the time I got up to run out the door he was gone into the woods behind the apartment complex.

The whole scene lasted maybe 45 seconds. It was just instinct stuff, I didn't have any thoughts on what was happening at all. He thankfully wasn't armed. We were literally just fighting, each of us like it was for our lives. Nothing was taken, but there was quite a mess to clean up as during the fight from the path from the bedroom to the front door, we hit everything along the way.

I called the cops and said someone had tried to break in, gave a description, a cop came by to make sure I was OK and check the perimeter out. I didn't get into details with the police on the fight, I just wanted to goto sleep.

The kid was a white kid BTW. Seemed like just a normal kid, didn't looked drugged up or poor or anything. Maybe it was just some kid curious and knew my friend had left for vacation.

I'll never forget that night at all.

[exc911ence]

Originally Posted by dheinz

Sounds similar to "Gran Torino"....

Except no one said "spooks"...

[Racerbvd]

Get a big dog and ride him around in the rear of your truck, thats what we do around here,

This works better than a dog

[MOMO3.2]

"When Black is not asked to give it back, when Brown is asked to stick around, when Yellow is mellow, when Red can get ahead, and when White does what is right...

I guess saying "colored" is not so bad after all when this type of SHYTE is spewed out at our 44th president's inauguration and the president himself laughs at it!

Mike

[vash]

you did the right thing. no way it is a great idea to approach 4 dudes unarmed.

even shooting them isnt worth the paperwork.

[afterburn 549]

Letting them get away with it is not "The Right thing" .. Maybe the safest thing, maybe the best thing in this Left world where a State passes a Law that to leave your keys in the car so some inbred punk can steel it would make the car owner a criminal...It is all F%^&#@ up if you look at this correctly !
Letting a thief go will do no one a favor............JMO

[SLO-BOB]

Originally Posted by 126coupe

If I was black I would ....

Priceless.

[911Rob]

given the opportunity I would beat the $hit out of them.

[m21sniper]

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.

Given the numbers, without a gun (or at least a baseball bat) he would probably have gotten himself into a really bad situation.

I see no fault in his actions.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

After having been ripped off twice, I can't post what I'd do here for fear of someone finding it and using it against me in court after the fact as evidence of premeditation. Let's just say it's a scenario I've given some thought to and I'd have a plan to deal with it.

You should delete this post for the same reason you just listed.

DA: "We already know the defendant said he "had a plan to deal with thieves"...

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

Was that not politically correct??

No, i wuda said, what ya nigga's doing in da truck. but that's slang though.

[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.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Schumi

Strange story- I once was housesitting a friend's apartment while he was on vaction when someone broke in. I was sleeping in the back bedroom and heard something at about 2 AM, woke me up. I didn't think much of it, but because I was up I had to go to the bathroom. I cracked open the bedroom door and right there was a guy going through the kitchen. From this point it turned into what I can only describe as a scene from a Jason Bourne film. I ran towards hte guy and he tried to run, I pushed him into the kitchen table, we scuffled, he jumped up on the table as I was trying to drag him down, jumps through the bar opening in the wall between the kitchen and the living room- I follow him scrambling through it and then tackled him in the living room into a large potted plant, of which was smashed by his forehead. He roled over and kicked me in the face, which put me down against the couch pretty hard. He then bolted out the front door. By the time I got up to run out the door he was gone into the woods behind the apartment complex.

The whole scene lasted maybe 45 seconds. It was just instinct stuff, I didn't have any thoughts on what was happening at all. He thankfully wasn't armed. We were literally just fighting, each of us like it was for our lives. Nothing was taken, but there was quite a mess to clean up as during the fight from the path from the bedroom to the front door, we hit everything along the way.

I called the cops and said someone had tried to break in, gave a description, a cop came by to make sure I was OK and check the perimeter out. I didn't get into details with the police on the fight, I just wanted to goto sleep.

The kid was a white kid BTW. Seemed like just a normal kid, didn't looked drugged up or poor or anything. Maybe it was just some kid curious and knew my friend had left for vacation.

I'll never forget that night at all.

Well told story.

I once heard 4 young guys breaking into the bar underneath my apartment when i was in my 20s, but they didn't see me. As a matter of freak bad luck, my only handgun- a Ruger .357 mag- was in the shop getting a laser sight mounted, and my only long gun, a Savage 12ga pump was totally taken apart...i was actually in the process of cleaning it when this happened!
So as fast as i could i reassembled and loaded the shotgun, put my 110lb champion doberman pinscer "Faust" on his leash, then went down into the basement of the bar and came up through a set of cast iron loading doors that open right into the street about 4 feet away from where they were breaking in (the bar had iron security bars on the window, they were actually taking them off with a ratchet, and had already removed the glass).

Pwnt.

[Hugh R]

True story, years ago I was in my garage cleaning my Over/Under Browning 12 Ga, and I hear my neighbor Bob's side gate open and close. I knew Bob and his wife were out of town. I put two shells in opened my side garage door and as loud as I could said I've got a shotgun and slammed it shut. Two white guys bolted out of Bob's yard and into a car with a driver and took off. I got their license number called the police and they got arrested. It turned out that they had a contact at the LA Times who would let them know when people called to put their paper delivery on hold for vacation. Moral of the story... have your neighbor pick up your papers and throw them in the trash.

I live in a 25 home gated community. Someone got in a broke into a car once, and a neighbor chased them away. The cops came and looked around and remarked to me (I was the HOA President), that they looked in other cars on the street and found lots of them unlocked with purses, briefcases, keys in ignitions, most unlocked. I sent out an email to the HOA telling them what the police found and had to remind them that the gate (no guard) is a privacy gate, not a security gate.

[DARISC]

I would make a best effort to strike each individual squarely upon the very tips of their respective chins, with great force, using my hand, first forming it into a tight fist before executing the blows, thus teaching them a lesson.

[SLO-BOB]

I'm thinking a savage wet-willy would do the trick.

Actually, I'm with Jeff Higgins emotionally on this one, but times have changed so much. Back in the day violence was uncommon (in my experience anyway) and if the law-abiding did apprehend the criminal, it wouldn't merit a beating, let alone gun violence. But these days, hell, people will shoot someone for no reason at all. Maybe to follow at a discreet distance and call the 5-O, but as mentioned, unless there's blood spilled, they'll be awhile if show up at all.

[lm6y]

I had a guy try to steal the stereo out of my car once. I chased him off, and he "fell". It's amazing how the bruise looked like the business end of a baseball bat. He fell hard too, they had to call an ambulance for him.

I would have confronted them, but my Dr. says I'm passively suicidal.