I have been wanting to tell this story for some time, its bizarre.
It was a Friday night. My wife was out of town, my daughter was at her grandparents and my son was picking up some friends to take to a HS football game.
Hadn't had a day off in a long time. I sat in my easy chair and was about to sip a Jameson. Before I did, I remembered I had two pistols, a 1911 and an BHP in the safe I hadn't looked at in a long time. I got them out, inspected them and wiped them off and they were sitting in my lap.
Just then my son comes rushing in through the garage door yelling " dad get your guns!"
I hear fighting and scuffling in the garage. I assume - when I was his age it would be me and my friends rough housing and joking around.
I didn't want his friends to see me sitting there with the pistols in my lap and I jumped up and put them in the end table drawer.
My son is looking at me like I am out of my mind.
He was driving on the county road in his convertible with his friends. A car load of meth heads all with multiple prior records were throwing beer bottles at oncoming traffic. They hit his car with one. He held his hand up like he was dialing 911, they turned around and chased him. He got into our garage, hit the remote to put down the door - just as it was about to close they got their hands under it.
OK - I go running out into the garage as the meth heads flee.
I call 911 report assault and home invasion. Calm down his friends, no one hurt badly.
20 minutes later I am out in the driveway waiting- no police.
Who does show back up? -- The meth heads! They tell me they are gonna kill me and my entire family. I cant believe it!!! They know I am armed and have to know I called the cops! The did not get out of their car. I had stashed the pistols expecting the police --- they did not know that,
My first call to 911 was very calm -- now I am mad!!!
911 says we are almost there.
The meth heads take off -
They come around a bend and try to hit my neighbor walking his Great DANE LOL
He always walks the dog with a long neck glass Bud Light. He threw it through their windshield.
Now there is a Mexican standoff -- the three of them and him and his angry Great Dane.
That's when the cops arrive ---
The two with a public defender plead to " burglary of an UNOCCUPIED dwelling ".
The one with a private attorney got clean off. The prosecutor never contacted me!!!
I was plenty upset. No one ever told me they were going to kill my family before.
All I could do was visit the various law enforcement who lived in the neighborhood and ask them to be aware.
Never again would I not have a firearm readily available. One stays out of the safe in a custom hide hole. - Actually I had two available but you know what I mean.
It was an eye opener. Note, I live in a North Florida area now that has super low crime and was complacent . When I lived in South Florida I was much more on guard.
Let some one threaten to kill you family and see how deep it gets you attention.
Anyway --- I will never react like that again.
It was a Friday night. My wife was out of town, my daughter was at her grandparents and my son was picking up some friends to take to a HS football game.
Hadn't had a day off in a long time. I sat in my easy chair and was about to sip a Jameson. Before I did, I remembered I had two pistols, a 1911 and an BHP in the safe I hadn't looked at in a long time. I got them out, inspected them and wiped them off and they were sitting in my lap.
Just then my son comes rushing in through the garage door yelling " dad get your guns!"
I hear fighting and scuffling in the garage. I assume - when I was his age it would be me and my friends rough housing and joking around.
I didn't want his friends to see me sitting there with the pistols in my lap and I jumped up and put them in the end table drawer.
My son is looking at me like I am out of my mind.
He was driving on the county road in his convertible with his friends. A car load of meth heads all with multiple prior records were throwing beer bottles at oncoming traffic. They hit his car with one. He held his hand up like he was dialing 911, they turned around and chased him. He got into our garage, hit the remote to put down the door - just as it was about to close they got their hands under it.
OK - I go running out into the garage as the meth heads flee.
I call 911 report assault and home invasion. Calm down his friends, no one hurt badly.
20 minutes later I am out in the driveway waiting- no police.
Who does show back up? -- The meth heads! They tell me they are gonna kill me and my entire family. I cant believe it!!! They know I am armed and have to know I called the cops! The did not get out of their car. I had stashed the pistols expecting the police --- they did not know that,
My first call to 911 was very calm -- now I am mad!!!
911 says we are almost there.
The meth heads take off -
They come around a bend and try to hit my neighbor walking his Great DANE LOL
He always walks the dog with a long neck glass Bud Light. He threw it through their windshield.
Now there is a Mexican standoff -- the three of them and him and his angry Great Dane.
That's when the cops arrive ---
The two with a public defender plead to " burglary of an UNOCCUPIED dwelling ".
The one with a private attorney got clean off. The prosecutor never contacted me!!!
I was plenty upset. No one ever told me they were going to kill my family before.
All I could do was visit the various law enforcement who lived in the neighborhood and ask them to be aware.
Never again would I not have a firearm readily available. One stays out of the safe in a custom hide hole. - Actually I had two available but you know what I mean.
It was an eye opener. Note, I live in a North Florida area now that has super low crime and was complacent . When I lived in South Florida I was much more on guard.
Let some one threaten to kill you family and see how deep it gets you attention.
Anyway --- I will never react like that again.
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