Sig Man, my friend.
I empathize with you. I've had similar things happen to me. I've even been shot at in my own rural neighborhood for no better reason than that I must have looked like a good moving target, more fun than the signs that the bad guys were filling full of holes. This was late in the afternoon. Six, that's right, 6 LE agencies were notified immediately once I made it to my house. Guess what. No one else wanted to get shot at. One and one half hours later, cars from two of those 6 local agencies showed up. Had they gotten there one hour earlier, they could have nabbed them. They took a statement and looked at bullet holes in the sides of houses and said there is nothing they could do. Call if it happens again. I know that they don't reflect all LEOs by any means. But THESE guys motto, "To protect and to serve" is a bad joke to put it nicely. If there is an LEO offended, thinking this is a slam on your vocation, I think you need to take a deep breath and relax. I have some fine LEO friends and family. They are not cowards, but I have met one or two who were. You get good and bad in any job IMHO.
BOTTOM LINE:
***1. What was already said concerning chasing these maggots down and using lethal force is true. Your neighbors car and there aprehension is not worth your trouble/risk w/the legal aftermath.
***2. You are the only one who can save your own/family's bacon. The good guys in blue might eventually aprehend these maggots, since maggots tend to continue their patterns as you already found out so soon.
***3. Even though you can save your own bacon, you can't always save your own property. I know. I hate it too. Its the unjust times that we live in I guess.
I could tell you what the Bible says about such matters if you wish, but that's the spiritual aspect of this matter.
EQUALIZERplus@netscape.net
In the physical realm about all that I can see you do is:
a) Get a good alarm system and auto insurance that covers this type of destruction.
b) Move. That stinks.
c) Start a neighborhood watch.
d) Get the city to put up more street lights around your bldg.
e) Consider pepper spray w/UV marker as a means of detaining them. Although this has its possible legal and violence related ramifications too.
f) Make sure that your dwelling has adequate crime preventive measures and layers.
Hope that it never has to come to using that fine SIG, the best factory handgun on earth. But if it does, remember to tell 911 that you were in fear of your life and need an ambulance, to cover your butt legally if knowthing else.
Mas Ayoob has written some of the best books in this area. They are worth getting.
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Robert
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"But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." -Jesus Christ (Luke 22:36, see John 3:15-18)
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