Drew my weapon at work last night...

Don't feel bad. Happened this afternoon :o

I was in the shop and the air compressor kicked on. I hadn't thought of it, as it's usually turned off. Just got the sig outta it's holster when I finally realized what it was.......That's just ridiculous....
 
Uncle Billy, was that bar with the Samoans on the west side of Honolulu, near Barber's Point Air Station and the Ko'o'lina exit from the freeway? I have some friends who worked construction in that area at an amusement park and found a bar like you describe, not very friendly to haoles...
 
PBP, you forgot to mention what color the ice maker was. How are we suppose to know if other ice makers are threats until we know its full description. I've hear those silver commercial ones are nothing but trouble. :)
 
How about the opposite kind of reaction...

I woke from a dead sleep one night, and i could distinctly hear my son getting into the Oreo cookies in the kitchen. He had a history with Oreos, and i knew exactly what that package sounded like. Well, at 3:30 am he just wasn't allowed to eat Oreos. I wasn't alarmed in the least, just a little irritated.

So i got up, stumbled slowly into the kitchen - no Ryan. The crackling was louder though. Why was the room orange? Holy crap - the house one house away was burning like crazy! I ran back to the bedroom, told my wife to call 411 and leaped down the stairs while pulling my pants on. Of course, i meant 911. Fortunately she knew that.

I got there in time to pull two elderly neighbors out of the downstairs window, and with 2 other guys that had just shown up, catch the lady jumping from the 2nd story. Trust me - don't try that. She flattened all 3 of us.

Anyway, i didn't pull a gun on the neighbors or anything. But was darned glad i was a light sleeper. You never know - one of these days your hair-trigger nerves could save your life.
 
"This is one reason I keep the gun in a safe at night."

What if you wake to find someone breaking into your safe?
 
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Things that don't go bump in the night

One of my first jobs after I got out of the Army was as a night watchman/security guard. I got placed at a bottling factory that mad chocolate syrup and other confectionary syrups.
The darndest things happens when there is nobody else in the warehouse or plant working. The hot pipes start to cool down and stretch and shrink as they need to. But they make some ot the most god aweful noises including sounding like a couple people talking when the steam starts to bleed off thru the cooling vents.
Imagine being in a building at 3:30 AM on a Saturday morning where there is not supposed to be a soul in sight or withing earshot at the least. Your sitting all alone in an office and from out of nowhere you hear "people wispering".
It don't take long till the blood starts pumping, the heart speeds, up and you are out "looking" for where the "people talking" are.
Needless to say, my hand is on the revolver as I'm working my way thru the plant. I got about half way thru the plant when right next to me about 3 feet away one of the pressure valves "popped open". I almost put a very big hole in the floor when I grabbed for my revolver in a blinding moment.
Thank goodness it only lasted a millisecond. I'm REALLY GLAD that I didn't grab the trigger. I don't think I've ever been startled so badly in all my life.

I told the guy that came in on the 7 AM shift to replace me that I just had the bejezus scared out of me, and how it happened. He told me the same thing happened to him a few months before, and he actually shot a hole in the floor at the back of the plant. We went back and he showed me the hole. We've both had many good laughs over that plant since then.
But at the time it sure wasn't very funny.
 
Don't feel bad. I did a similar thing closing up the office a few years back.

I hadn't slept much the previous few days, I was a bit overcaffeinated, and we were in a rough neighborhood. Something made a great deal of clatter and noise and quickly crossed my field of vision on my right.

I drew and yelled, "Don't! Come! Any! Closer!"

The reply was, "meow?"

It took months to live that down. :)
 
Drew my weapon at work last night... and then felt like a maroon.
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Well you're far from a moron mister.

However, "private party", "cleared out late", "commercial ice machine empty....."

I don't suppose there was alcohol involved. Good thing or you may have murdered the iceman.
 
Large multi-room buildings have strange noises in them all night long, we just never hear them during the busy day. If it was me I would have done just as you did.

"Sacramento" Brue Conklin
 
You know how sometimes when you wake suddenly from a dead sleep you can get this big black blur in your vision for just a second before your eyes come online?

About fifteen years ago at two o'clock in the morning,I was startled awake by this hideously loud thumping noise.

I mean it sounded like some big guy running towards our bedrooom.

So,hearing all the racket,I wake up,slap the bed beside me to make sure my wife is sleeping beside me (she was),drop to the side of the bed,pull up my loaded 357 magnum Dan Wesson six inch heavy barrel,click the hammer back to single action and point it at the big black blur that clears to reveal ---that the bearing in the fan in the door to our bedroom has failed and the fan is bouncing all over the place.

I still get a laugh out of the time I almost killed the fan.

I had a dead bead on it too.:D
 
Awesome story... I know how you felt... I was general manager at a restaurant for 5 years and would end up there alone and several times got the crap scared out of me... but never had a story that good to tell!
Thanks for sharing!
 
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