Glocks_Rock
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I thought I would share a story about something that happened the first weekend of the year. My wife and my9 year old daughter went to visit some of her relatives and was gone from Friday morning until late Sunday evening.
SoI was going to be a bachelor for the weekend which basically means i order a pizza and watch a DVD of some sort. Friday night about 11:00 PM my 20 year old son called and said that he would not be in and that he was stayingf at a friends house, no big deal means I have to house to myself.
So I finally turn the TV off about 2:00 AM or so. Now like alot of guys I sleep in the nude, so I have my 1911 .45 on the nitestand (daughter calls this particular pistol Big Dawg) along with small light and cell phone.
I was sound alseep when I heard the alarm chime go off (means door or window has been opened) I sit wide awake in bed and waited for the tell-telll lite in kitchen to come on from my son, I figured that he decided to come home after all. After a few seconds the light did not come on butI did notice a flashlight moving around in kitchen area.
I grabbed my glasses my cell, the flashlight and of course Big Dawg. I kicked the saftey off and started down the hall clearing the door ways as I went, with the light off(did not want to let the person knowI was up) So I made it into the living room and there are a stranger in my house looking for things to take.
I quickly turned on the flashlight and raise my 1911 up and was prepared to fire if need be. The guy turned around and to say the least was very surprised to see me. He took a couple of steps towards me and i holered at him not to move. I quickly flashed the light to my other hand so that he could see what he was facing and then back into his face (very bright sure fire light)I noticed that he was holding a very large hunting style knife I told him to drop the knife and to step away from it.
He did and then I had him lay down on the carpet with hands up above his head and palms up. I then slowly moved over and turned on the over head light now that my eye sight had adjusted correctly.
So here I am naked with light and cell phone in one hand and my 1911 in the other with a BG face down on my floor in front of me.No I know that in a short distance that someone with a knife can be just as dangerous as a man with a gun, soI was not taking my eyes off of him.
I calleld the police and told them that I had an intruder in my house and that I did have a firearm pointed at him. I decsrcibed my self and gave instructions for police to safely enter my house, I also told the dispatcher thatI was undressed so that the police would not be taken off gaurd. I waited about 5-6 minutes on the phone with the dispatcher and then she told me that the police had arrived and was comming around to my back door.
From my stand point I can see my back door clearly andI can be seen just as clear when they come through it. They opended my back gate (wood fence) and called out I told them to come in as I kept the BG at bay and being very careful not to even come close to pointing in wrong direction. They came in asked me to lower my weapon in which I did, Iset it down on the floor and stepped away from it. There was 1 male and 1 female officer, of course since I am standing there naked I was a little embarassed.
They hand cuffed the BG and allowed me to re-gain some dignity by getting some cloths on. They took down all of the information and haulde him away. They were very professional about the entire ordeal and never gave me any grief about the gun
I had, in fact one of the officers (the female officer) thanked me for being one of the Good Guys and providing the dispatcher with enough informatin where they had a good idea of what they were walking into.
When I was watching TV before I went to bed I had let our little dog out and whenI let him back inI 1.) forgot to lock the back door, 2.) forgot to set the alarm Normaly me and my wife have each other covered because we both normally check and if she forgets to check I catch it and vice versa. I did not have her there to cover my oversight soI allowed the BG into my home, If it were not for the alarm chirp things could have turned out alot different.
Everyone one walked away and the best part is I did not have to clean up a bunch of blood from my carpet. I am glad that all the years I have gone through some mental excercises on what if situations that I was in a clear enough state of mind to make at least some good decissions.
Of course no matter how much you think you are prepared to face things like this you never really realize how much you really aren't prepared when it happens. Looking back of courseI could have done a few things different but over all I am happy the way it turned out. I survived without getting hurt and the embarassment of standing there naked infront of the two police officers, well I got over that pretty quick.
Ok so now I am ready to open it up let me know where I dropped the ball
I thought I would share a story about something that happened the first weekend of the year. My wife and my9 year old daughter went to visit some of her relatives and was gone from Friday morning until late Sunday evening.
SoI was going to be a bachelor for the weekend which basically means i order a pizza and watch a DVD of some sort. Friday night about 11:00 PM my 20 year old son called and said that he would not be in and that he was stayingf at a friends house, no big deal means I have to house to myself.
So I finally turn the TV off about 2:00 AM or so. Now like alot of guys I sleep in the nude, so I have my 1911 .45 on the nitestand (daughter calls this particular pistol Big Dawg) along with small light and cell phone.
I was sound alseep when I heard the alarm chime go off (means door or window has been opened) I sit wide awake in bed and waited for the tell-telll lite in kitchen to come on from my son, I figured that he decided to come home after all. After a few seconds the light did not come on butI did notice a flashlight moving around in kitchen area.
I grabbed my glasses my cell, the flashlight and of course Big Dawg. I kicked the saftey off and started down the hall clearing the door ways as I went, with the light off(did not want to let the person knowI was up) So I made it into the living room and there are a stranger in my house looking for things to take.
I quickly turned on the flashlight and raise my 1911 up and was prepared to fire if need be. The guy turned around and to say the least was very surprised to see me. He took a couple of steps towards me and i holered at him not to move. I quickly flashed the light to my other hand so that he could see what he was facing and then back into his face (very bright sure fire light)I noticed that he was holding a very large hunting style knife I told him to drop the knife and to step away from it.
He did and then I had him lay down on the carpet with hands up above his head and palms up. I then slowly moved over and turned on the over head light now that my eye sight had adjusted correctly.
So here I am naked with light and cell phone in one hand and my 1911 in the other with a BG face down on my floor in front of me.No I know that in a short distance that someone with a knife can be just as dangerous as a man with a gun, soI was not taking my eyes off of him.
I calleld the police and told them that I had an intruder in my house and that I did have a firearm pointed at him. I decsrcibed my self and gave instructions for police to safely enter my house, I also told the dispatcher thatI was undressed so that the police would not be taken off gaurd. I waited about 5-6 minutes on the phone with the dispatcher and then she told me that the police had arrived and was comming around to my back door.
From my stand point I can see my back door clearly andI can be seen just as clear when they come through it. They opended my back gate (wood fence) and called out I told them to come in as I kept the BG at bay and being very careful not to even come close to pointing in wrong direction. They came in asked me to lower my weapon in which I did, Iset it down on the floor and stepped away from it. There was 1 male and 1 female officer, of course since I am standing there naked I was a little embarassed.
They hand cuffed the BG and allowed me to re-gain some dignity by getting some cloths on. They took down all of the information and haulde him away. They were very professional about the entire ordeal and never gave me any grief about the gun
I had, in fact one of the officers (the female officer) thanked me for being one of the Good Guys and providing the dispatcher with enough informatin where they had a good idea of what they were walking into.
When I was watching TV before I went to bed I had let our little dog out and whenI let him back inI 1.) forgot to lock the back door, 2.) forgot to set the alarm Normaly me and my wife have each other covered because we both normally check and if she forgets to check I catch it and vice versa. I did not have her there to cover my oversight soI allowed the BG into my home, If it were not for the alarm chirp things could have turned out alot different.
Everyone one walked away and the best part is I did not have to clean up a bunch of blood from my carpet. I am glad that all the years I have gone through some mental excercises on what if situations that I was in a clear enough state of mind to make at least some good decissions.
Of course no matter how much you think you are prepared to face things like this you never really realize how much you really aren't prepared when it happens. Looking back of courseI could have done a few things different but over all I am happy the way it turned out. I survived without getting hurt and the embarassment of standing there naked infront of the two police officers, well I got over that pretty quick.
Ok so now I am ready to open it up let me know where I dropped the ball