tyguy808
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So when I'm home I try to spend my more time with my wife and kids than OCDO. My time for this is off-watch on the boat. I got back on the boat Thursday and right down the coast we went, doh!, no internet 100 miles out!
Here goes, bear with me:
I returned from a long day of playing with SVG and his family. I stepped out the back door for a smoke, not turning on a light like I normally do. Almost immediately I hear a crash from the neighbor on the next streets house, but their truck is no where in sight. I look and see a person creeping around with a flashlight. This person is slowly but deliberately trying to be quiet. I watch as the shadow creeps from the back porch, to the side door, several times. I can't make out what is going on, but I've got a bad feeling. I crept around to my front door and told the wife to call the cops, I was certain that this person was trying to figure out how to get in.
16 MINUTES LATER, Bellingham PD shows up. I walk to the front yard to brief the officer on my observations as another cop, K9 unit, shows up. My wife comes running out to say that the person had just headed for the street. The officers walk around the corner, while I head for the back yard waiting for some creep to jump the fence. A few minutes later the cops come back to their cars, empty handed.
They tell me that it was the lady of the house, slightly inebriated, cleaning the back porch and taking out the trash. SHe was using a headlamp type light to avoid turning on any lights outside and waking their young child asleep in the living room.
As the cops were leaving, the K9 cop asks about the pistol on my hip and nothing more.
I went the next day to apologize to my neighbor. She said she was grateful that someone was watching out for the neighborhood. She looked at my PT145 on my hip, her only question was "is that a Kahr?" Pretty impressive, I guess. I also found out that for the first time in three years, she parked her truck in the garage.
Bottom Line: It took the Bellingham PD 16 MINUTES to show up for an ACTIVE BURGLARY call, not something silly like "someone spray painted my wall last night", it was an ACTIVE BURGLARY call. This is exactly why I carry a gun.
So when I'm home I try to spend my more time with my wife and kids than OCDO. My time for this is off-watch on the boat. I got back on the boat Thursday and right down the coast we went, doh!, no internet 100 miles out!
Here goes, bear with me:
I returned from a long day of playing with SVG and his family. I stepped out the back door for a smoke, not turning on a light like I normally do. Almost immediately I hear a crash from the neighbor on the next streets house, but their truck is no where in sight. I look and see a person creeping around with a flashlight. This person is slowly but deliberately trying to be quiet. I watch as the shadow creeps from the back porch, to the side door, several times. I can't make out what is going on, but I've got a bad feeling. I crept around to my front door and told the wife to call the cops, I was certain that this person was trying to figure out how to get in.
16 MINUTES LATER, Bellingham PD shows up. I walk to the front yard to brief the officer on my observations as another cop, K9 unit, shows up. My wife comes running out to say that the person had just headed for the street. The officers walk around the corner, while I head for the back yard waiting for some creep to jump the fence. A few minutes later the cops come back to their cars, empty handed.
They tell me that it was the lady of the house, slightly inebriated, cleaning the back porch and taking out the trash. SHe was using a headlamp type light to avoid turning on any lights outside and waking their young child asleep in the living room.
As the cops were leaving, the K9 cop asks about the pistol on my hip and nothing more.
I went the next day to apologize to my neighbor. She said she was grateful that someone was watching out for the neighborhood. She looked at my PT145 on my hip, her only question was "is that a Kahr?" Pretty impressive, I guess. I also found out that for the first time in three years, she parked her truck in the garage.
Bottom Line: It took the Bellingham PD 16 MINUTES to show up for an ACTIVE BURGLARY call, not something silly like "someone spray painted my wall last night", it was an ACTIVE BURGLARY call. This is exactly why I carry a gun.
