Home defense poll

Dueller · 10:05 AM

With all the zombie talk and rantings of those of you who live in (ever increasing) dangerous 'hoods, how many have ever had an actual encounter with a home intruder? What did you do? What were the results?

You can post multiple respionses...and its anonymous

Dueller · 05-04-2009, 10:29 AM

Hmmm...5 people have voted and 4 have never had a home invasion which would seemingly suggest that would be their only response. Yet 2 people have a response to yellled and they ran.

Guess its not that scientific

Dueller · 05-04-2009, 10:33 AM

Thought about it...guess one person yelled, fought with them, brandished AND shot at the same guy

Christien · Christien's Garage

I thought we had someone in our house one night a couple years ago. I heard a clang of metal on tile, then a bit more clanging, as if someone was tripped up in it. Turns out it was just the cat knocking over an aluminum-handle broom that I'd left out, then tripping on it a bit when he scared himself and ran off. But to compound the fear in my wife's heart, because I actually thought someone was in there, I went out to the staircase and yelled something like "what the hell's going on down there!" (like that would scare an intruder off!) but I had a really bad cold and my voice was quite a bit off, and my wife thought it was the voice of an intruder!

To make matters worse, just a night or 2 after that we heard a regular metal clank coming up the stairs, like someone with too much crap on their belt. Turns out the dog had been lying on a heat vent and her collar had become tangled in it, and she pulled it out of the floor, and it was banging off the railing as she came upstairs for help!

What a week that was.

onewhippedpuppy · 05-04-2009, 10:37 AM

I sincerely hope #1 is the only answer that I will ever have to provide. That's pretty much the worst thing I can imagine, especially if I were asleep and the family was home.

Dueller · 05-04-2009, 10:40 AM

Yeah...it is scary when something goes clang in the night. My only episode was a guy who was doing some yard work for a neighbor went into my kitchen during broad daylight and picked up a CD case laying on the counter. I yelled at him and he took off. Since I lived in a small town and he knew I saw him he ran 5 blocks to the police dtation and turned himself in along with the CD's.

onewhippedpuppy · 05-04-2009, 10:47 AM

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Since I lived in a small town and he knew I saw him he ran 5 blocks to the police dtation and turned himself in along with the CD's.

Damn, you must be one scary SOB!

Dueller · 05-04-2009, 10:51 AM

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Damn, you must be one scary SOB!

LOL...nah. He was an old, town drunk kinda guy. I think he just wanted a break from mowing yards in the heat of the summer. So he got 3 hots and a cot for a few weeks. I didn't press charges...cops let me into holding cell so I could cuss him out. Had I pressed charges, they would have to keep my CD's as evidence.

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

Been lucky all my life.

If I had to worry about this kind of stuff, I'd move, plain and simple.

Dueller · 05-04-2009, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by 911Rob

Been lucky all my life.

If I had to worry about this kind of stuff, I'd move, plain and simple.

Me too, Rob. But I live in an upscale area with very little real crime. Of late petty larceny (people lifting change, phones, ipods, cameras, etc) from parked cars is on the rise. Talking to a PO the other day and thye have 60+ pending cases....and 9 guns having been stolen from cars (3 have been recovered).

tabs · 05-04-2009, 11:03 AM

You didn't include killed....

onewhippedpuppy · 05-04-2009, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 911Rob

Been lucky all my life.

If I had to worry about this kind of stuff, I'd move, plain and simple.

Crime doesn't have an address. No matter how safe your neighborhood, there's always a chance.

Dueller · 05-04-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by tabs

You didn't include killed....

Comes under shot at. Unless you went Chuck Norris and killed them with your bare hands....then it comes under Fought with intruder. Its the journey not the destination that's important, Ignatius.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

The scariest thing that happened to me was many years ago in my single days. I had a girl friend sleeping over. About 3:00 AM someone was banging and kicking on the front door. At the time I had a Doberman Pincher. She (the Doberman) started growling and barking at the door and making growling noises that were downright scary. Whoever it was kicking on the door got the hint and left. By the time I got up and peeked out the door whoever it was had left. Later I discovered the lady friend had a ex-boyfriend stalker type that probably followed us to my house. She broke up with me when she learned I had a bought a gun the day after the incident.

legion · 05-04-2009, 11:18 AM

Never had an intruder.

I'd like to think I could go from #2, to #4, to #5 above.

berettafan · 05-04-2009, 12:28 PM

I almost shot a smoke detector to death a few years ago.

Was beeping becuase battery was dead or some such thing at 2am and woke me up.

Wife was half laughing half scared that my immediate reaction was to point a loaded .45 at it.

berettafan · 05-04-2009, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Dueller

Me too, Rob. But I live in an upscale area with very little real crime. Of late petty larceny (people lifting change, phones, ipods, cameras, etc) from parked cars is on the rise. Talking to a PO the other day and thye have 60+ pending cases....and 9 guns having been stolen from cars (3 have been recovered).

guns stolen from cars?

wtf man!!! sounds like 9 people need a public beating. effing irresponsible gun owners should lose their right to own a firearm.

m21sniper · 05-04-2009, 12:50 PM

I just had a home intruder last week. No police involvement.

It's amazing how people will give you their undivided attention when they hear "Click-clack" as you rack the slide on a semi-automatic pistol.

He left without further incident.

RWebb · RWebb's Garage

what, not even a little nip in the ass as he left??

the poll does have a category for "contractor robbed me blind while working in my house"

fastfredracing · 05-04-2009, 01:23 PM

I was staying over at my girlfiends first floor apartment about 15 years ago. We had been out, had a great dinner and a bunch of drinks and went home for some nookie. . I awoke to the sound of breaking glass. the next think I know, I was punched in the face, and maced before my head ever left the pillow. There were two huge black dudes, and they pretty much beat the sheet out of both of us. She was screaming for her life, and I think she took the grunt of the beating just because they were trying to shut her up. I was curled up in the fetal position , taking some nice kicks to the ribs, and thinking that I may not get out of there alive. Something snapped in me, and I dont really know what happened, but somehow, I knoced the big son of a ***** in the face, and managed to squirell my way around the smaller of the two, and got out of the house. I was buck naked, but I grabbed my jeans and ran out to my car, and thank god, my keys were in the pocket still.
They had their ****ty ford granada blocking my 85 corvette. I remember fumbling around trying to get my keys in the ignition, but once the car fired, I knew I was safe. Dude comes running at me from the house, and their car is blocking me, so I dumped the clutch, and , I swear , I must have pushed that ford 50 yards before I left of the gas. Remember, I was maced. Somehow I drove to the local police station, and got help. I had also forgot to latch the roof on the vette, so after smashing the hell out of the front of my car trying to get of the driveway, and am now flying down the road, with mace in my eyes, and I hear swoosh, the roof flies off the car, and smashes into a thousand pieces.
This was one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me. I thought they were going to kill her, they beat her up pretty badly, broke her nose etc. I got roughed up pretty well to, had bruised ribs etc, but watching her take that beating, and not being able to do a damn thing about it hurt worse than any of the shots that I was taking.
The perps were still there ramsacking the place when I got back with the cops, and both were arrested. Police said that one of them was a murder suspect in a local donut shop robbery, and We both were lucky to be alive. God must have been looking out for me that night, cause these were two big guys , that I could have in no way overpowered one on one, let alone two.
That night was an eye opener for me, and I can gurantee it will never happen like that again.
I dont carry , but if you come into my home, you better be ready.
Sorry for the long story, but dont ever take your safetey for granted, this was in the city, but not in a bad area.