Drew my weapon at work last night...

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Playboypenguin

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...and then felt like a maroon. :o

We had a private party on one side last night and they cleared out kind of late. After they left I helped clean up so the staff could get out faster. When the staff had left I stayed to do the accounting for the night.

As I was in the back counting the money I herd a huge crash come from the bar area on the other side. It sounded like someone had kicked a door in. I went to the video monitors and did not see anything but I knew I had not imagined it. Then I heard it again only not as loud.

I drew my gun and made my way cautiously over to the other side waiting to see if I could hear any movement as i went along. The lights were all out and the place was only lit dimly by the lights from the bar coolers. I checked every room and did not find anything. I even checked all the windows and doors and nothing was open. Then as I started to walk out of the kitchen I heard a huge crashing noise behind me. I whirled around to discover it was our big industrial ice maker dropping loads of ice into an empty bin. They had burned all the old ice that night and I had never heard that huge machine drop ice into an empty bin in a completely quiet bar....and that is how I almost murdered my $3000 ice maker in cold blood. :o
 
I had a sergeant in the Air Force that was sent to investigate an alarm at the officers club. Long story short, he saw his reflection in the stainless steel refrigerator door and shot it five times.
Those industrial kitchens can be scary at night I guess. :D
 
did nearly the same thing at home

bought a house (first night or so) & after yrs of dorm/apt life, I was not used to the sound of a fridge that actually made ice - and for some reason I was up late by myself (and being new, of course the bin was empty in the fridge)

first batch of ice dropped, I jumped up & went and woke up the wife by almost kicking open the BR door, she sprung up into a sitting position in bed & let out 3-4 super-scary-movie screams that I'm SURE would have been enough to scare away any would-be BG

this was before I had convinced her that guns were not evil things that could not be trusted in the house, so...w/hunting knife in hand, I clear the house only to have her figure out what the noise was

we regain composure, she goes back to bed, I stay up still b/c I am still too amped up to go to sleep

after the excitement & then after about 5 min of being settled back in at the computer, it dumps again making me stand right up out of the office chair in reflex

I smoke a few cigs & decide I am safer in bed asleep

:o
 
bought a house (first night or so) & after yrs of dorm/apt life, I was not used to the sound of a fridge that actually made ice
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First night at a new house - WAY OUT in the country... sleeping on a mattress on the floor - ice hitting the empty ice maker tray sounds like bomb going off in the empty house..... First words out the wife's mouth:

"Do you have your pistol?" LOL!

I checked everything out... no one there. Back to bed 45 minutes later it happens again. This time we recognize the sound.

Another morning my wife is up and around early and I hear a blood curdling shriek. This time a coyote is looking in the sliding glass window at the doggy treats running around inside. It took a week to take care of that problem.
 
Those indudtrial ice machines certainly seem to be a wholr new creature once it's quiet. Been startled by 'em too. My upstairs neighbors make the kinds of noise that you wonder at times if someone broke in. Had to get ear plugs so I could sleep through the summer. Hoping that I don't become too used to it that were something to happen I'd assume it's the obnoxious neighbors to find instead it's some of the local thugs lookin' for freebees!
 
Much better to have drawn your gun and kept the ice machine at bay, instead of it spitting out ice cubes at a rapid fire pace, doing untold damage to property and body.

Twenty-five or so years ago, I bought a horse ranch. First night there...hot, summer night around 10 PM. I go out to the pasture to bring the horses back to the barn. I enter the pasture from the barn which is on the east side and the horses are grazing on the west side. As I approach, I hear a roar of a big cat and thought, "Holy crap, a cougar, panther, bob cat, or some kind of large cat that could kill my prized horses." I high tailed it back to the house and grabbed a rifle. Ran back to the pasture to protect the horses only to hear an elephant roar. Wait a minute....this if Florida. No elephants here. Of course, it was Lion Country Safari which is an open zoo/reserve which was a couple of miles away. Sound traveled in the still air and scared the bejeezes out of me.
 
My business has an 85,000 sq/ft. warehouse/production facility attached to it. One night early in my tenure as director here, I was working late, by myself and decided to take a turn through the building before leaving to make sure everything in back was locked up. As I was walking to check the rear loading dock doors the industrial air compressor, which was about 20 ft behind me at the time, kicked on.

I know PBP has seen the old Sylvester and Tweety cartoons where Sylvester would have to be pried off the ceiling when he got scared. Well...........:o
 
PBP,
Well, rule #4 saved the icebox from "getting iced". :D

Then again I had a squirrel scare me half to death last night. It chose to jump from the roof of my workshop onto a low branch right next to me just as I had come outside to lock up the shop and yard for the night. Future note to self. Do NOT read any part of "Alaska bear tales" and THEN go out in the dark to secure the yard!
 
PBP,

You showed way too much restraint. If you would have shot it, we could have done an analysis on your choice of caliber and ammo versus the ice machine and openly started another caliber war....;)
 
I had a sergeant in the Air Force that was sent to investigate an alarm at the officers club. Long story short, he saw his reflection in the stainless steel refrigerator door and shot it five times.
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That's simply retarded... But then again, if you can't shoot yourself, who can ya shoot? ;) :D
 
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