Had an armed intruder last night. long night.

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C.R.Sam

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Bout 2200, ready to crash for the night. Heard scraping noise from the kitchen area.
Dressed in .44 and slippers went to investigate.

Intruder was armed, skunk, adolescent, sex indeterminate, size adult, build light, eyes dark, wearing well fitted black shiny suit with white stripe, appeared to be teenager. Took a few minutes to evaluate situation. Decided to try to walk skunk back out the shop door which had been open a tad but locked(overhead door). Skunk seems curious about everything in the place, lost it under the loading bench, then it got in a corner and made a stand, I retreated, spent two hours trying to peacefully convince it that outside was better. Skunk refused to go out, seemed bent on holding inventory on the place.

Gave up and went to bed. Left the door open in hopes skunk would go home. Visions of skunks mother and siblings joining it in the house made sleep a tad edgey. This morning skunk gone (I think) and I closed door.

Tho I had .44 I considered myself undergunned in this instance. We were very polite to each other and all is well. No shots fired by either party. Beautiful critter.

Think it may possibly be part of a plot on the part of the critters who heard that I invited Fud to stay over while runnin his AZ recon.

Sam...I have the damndest neighbors.
 
You know, given the choice between a skunk and a bat, I think I'd take a leopard. :)

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:) Ho Ho!

My first thought was that I'd be concerned about hitting the hay with that door ajar. But, on second thought, the area was probably better protected than ever! ;)

Glad to hear that both of you held your fire, and cool heads prevailed. Cute story.

Regards from AZ
 
Jeff T. wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>But, on second thought, the area was probably better protected than ever![/quote]

Hmm, an attack trained watch skunk...I like that idea!
Funny, a 200 lb armed man might not be deterred by facing a likewise armed adversary, but face him with a skunk? Different story altogether there.

I have a book called The Stash Book which gives ideas for constructing various hiding places, etc. The author was a big believer in using the unexpected as a defensive measure, and related the following supposedly true story.
A professional thief had targeted a particular jewelry store, and had gotten all the plans for their security system...he thought. He was able to gain entry to the store undetected, and from there to the vault room. He was able to defeat the lock on the vault room, and then...the vault was located inside a locked cage in the room. What he didn't know about, and which foiled the whole attempt, was the large cat (cougar, leopard? don't remember) which was kept inside the cage.

A wolverine or badger, especially a honey badger, would run off just about anything I could imagine. The trick is getting one trained for it.... :confused: :(

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Shoot straight & make big holes, regards, Richard at The Shottist's Center
 
I've got some mean-lookin' fish? :confused:

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!

oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
 
Skunks use to pose a problem for me when they would get trapped in my live traps on the farm. What do you do then? I had to shoot them to get them out. Then the trap stunk. What a smell!

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"Unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain that build it:
except the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." (Psalm 127:1)


"Freedom is given to the human conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility."
(Alexander Solzhenitzyn)
 
When I was in college, a friend of mine who was working on a degree in herpetology (snakes and lizards) kept a few pets... And he kept his stash of weed in the timber rattler's terrarium... Nobody but him would go after it...
 
Reminds me of an OFF TOPIC but similar joke.
Anyone here read That's Jake???? Didn't think so, here we go.

Jake is a fat redneck cartoon hero in central Florida. Picture the scene......

Airport ticket counter;

Clerk: Well you have 2 choices sir, you can fly cargo class on a plane twice as old as you are, sit on a box of toxic waste, stop 37 times to lay over in 17 states, and hold a rabid badger on your lap, or you can fly first class sitting between 2 unsupervised 6 year olds.
Jake: So, where do I go to get this badger? ;)

I thought it was hilarious.......

DOC


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Sam,

Glad you didn't get the intruder's "business end". A few years ago, my dog (sweet and wonderful, but dumb) went after a skunk. Returned to the house within moments in real pain (eyes and nostrils badly irritated) and in "full stink". Took a week to get the stench removed. Intervention from the vet was ineffective and the old tomato juice home-remedy was even less successful.

How did the skunk read your and Fud's recent TFL postings?

Regards.
 
RWK; To the best of my knowledge, skunks not real swift at readin english. Probly got the word from the hummingbirds that watch my monitor in the day time or the javalina that has the night shift. Sam
 
C.R.Sam - Fun story. :D

The topic caused me some concern until I read the story.

I like skunks. They're cute, bold as brass animals who generally won't spray unless they're startled or badly frightened. Of course, one has to be wary of the rabid ones.

I did have to shoot one when I was kid. Not because of rabies... our fox terrier had snagged one by the neck and was shaking it to and fro in terrier fashion trying to break the skunk's neck. Meanwhile, the skunk is spraying like mad (think of a paint brush being whipped side to side).

The dog gave up and retreated under the porch, whimpering. The skunk was just laying there very near death and shooting it seemed the merciful thing to do.

Tomato paste is not very effective. With each new rainfall for YEARS after the backyard would smell like skunk. The oil gets into the wood... the wood gets wet. Phew.

That terrier was never quite the same, either.

Cliff
 
I heard about a storekeeper once that carefully boarded around all of his display cases so nothing could get under the cases. Installed doors that closed tightly into the back area. Then he went and bought a half a dozen large timber rattlers at the next snake show. He put a sign in the window that there was snakes set loose at night in the showroom area. He corralled the rattlers each morning before closing and let them loose at night. The local fire department paid him a visit and informed him that if the place caught on fire at night the would watch it burn from a safe distance, but would NOT enter the premises to put out the fire. :)
 
Skunks make fun pets, though one does have to watch them for worms. Our family had at least two (I was much younger). There was Peppy, but I don't remember the other's name...
 
Sam,
I read this all the way to the part about "losing it under the loading bench," picturing some teenage punk in your house, wearing some odd plastic clothing w/a white stripe! :o
LMAO!!!
 
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