Pyro01
Regular Member
Hello all, this is a true story that occurred on the morning of December 5th. My wife and friends and I just got back from clubbing in the twin cities at around 3 AM, we were having our friends sleep in the living room on some inflatable air mattresses. Our upstairs neighbors were playing some really loud music that was vibrating our apartment, and at one point we hear a bunch of screaming and shouting. Well, I had to take the dog out before we put her in her crate, and i was going to strap my pistol on but my wife absolutely insisted that I don't. I know these people a little bit and if they were as drunk as they sounded my Tae Kwon Do training could probably protect me.
I get outside just in time to see one of the guys who lives upstairs storm off down the road, screaming "F*** this". Another one of the guys was telling him to come back because he had no where else to go, and when I started asking him what was going on, he said the guy that just stormed off started choking his girlfriend, but the girlfriend's brother was there and was obviously fighting with this guy. I said I thought it was just two guys getting in an argument and if I had known there was a girl involved I would have called the cops without a doubt. The guy and this other girl were apologizing to me, and I told them if any more problems develop they should probably call the cops, they agreed with me and so I asked them to turn down the music. They said they'd do that and so I finished walking the dog, and went back downstairs.
I don't know if they forgot, or their buddies wouldn't let them turn down the stereo, but we called the cops on them about 45 minutes after I was done talking with them for a noise disturbance and being rowdy. About an hour later the cops came by at about 4:45 AM and knocked on their door, but no one had answered. They called my cell and said it looked all quiet and that no one answered the door. So I was like whatever, I just wanted to sleep. At 7am, we were awoken to a loud banging on our neighbors front door, saying "Open up, police, we have a search warrant!". They stormed into the upstairs and subdued everybody, about 5 minutes later they were knocking at our back door which leads into the laundry room and a stairwell to the upstairs. I answered and had three cops in front of me with one having his gun drawn, I asked how I could help them. They asked who I was and I told em my name and that I was the guy that called the noise disturbance on them at 3:45AM. They said ok, and went back upstairs.
About 10:30AM, I get up to take the dog and see a sheriff and two other cruisers parked in front of our house. I walk the dog and bring her back in, about 5 minutes after coming back inside, they ring my doorbell. So I go up to answer it and the sheriff was just trying to confirm our address. I let him know what our address was, and he was like, "oh, I almost thought it was your address I was supposed to be searching until you called in this morning with a noise complaint about your neighbors. We were planning on doing it this afternoon, but since you called this morning, we moved up the time frame."
I asked what happened, and they said they received reports of some of the guys doing drug dealing out of their apartment. The cops were searching their entire residence and I never found out if they found anything. I should put in an open records request, though. A little later after all the people upstairs were processed, one of the girls who lives in the apartment rings my doorbell and asks if she could talk to me in private. So I let her into our stairwell, and she was apologizing for everything and that she was very embarrassed. She said she wasn't going to let them have any more parties or booze while she lived there. The guy who had stormed off actually has a record as a sex offender(which I already knew about), and she said that I should make sure the back door is always locked, because she thinks the guys been breaking into vehicles because he's been coming back with chargers and iPods saying he found them at the bar. This guy has no job, and is actually freeloading off of them, but she said he will probably be going to jail anyways. In the meantime though, she said to make sure we keep our place locked up tight. She's a smart girl, and I told her if she ever needs a place to stay for the night we have a couch.
In the end,all of this made me recheck my situation, and what I'd do in case that guy got really drunk one night and decided he wanted to break into our apartment. I have a 12 gauge shotgun under the bed with the first two rounds being the rubber ball ammo, the 3rd some number two birdshot, and the last two rounds 00 buckshot. I also have my 460 S&W mag loaded with some 45 colt hollowpoints, they're not self-defense grade, but they should do the job, and I won't lose my hearing for three weeks like a single round of 460 S&W mag does. I also have at my bedside a rubber strip loaded with more 45 colt, a headlamp, and electronic ear muffs. Our bedroom door locks, and the front entryway has two locking doors, with our weakest entrypoint being the laundry room door which is 7 feet from our bedroom door. It does lock, but I'm not sure how secure it is, I can't replace it unless I have the landlord do it. We need to get in contact with our real estate office and make sure they're aware of the situation as well. While I don't think it'll ever come to me defending my home and wife from that guy and/or his buddies, it never hurts to be prepared. Is there anything you can think of I might have overlooked?
Thanks for listening to my story guys and girls, carry on!
I get outside just in time to see one of the guys who lives upstairs storm off down the road, screaming "F*** this". Another one of the guys was telling him to come back because he had no where else to go, and when I started asking him what was going on, he said the guy that just stormed off started choking his girlfriend, but the girlfriend's brother was there and was obviously fighting with this guy. I said I thought it was just two guys getting in an argument and if I had known there was a girl involved I would have called the cops without a doubt. The guy and this other girl were apologizing to me, and I told them if any more problems develop they should probably call the cops, they agreed with me and so I asked them to turn down the music. They said they'd do that and so I finished walking the dog, and went back downstairs.
I don't know if they forgot, or their buddies wouldn't let them turn down the stereo, but we called the cops on them about 45 minutes after I was done talking with them for a noise disturbance and being rowdy. About an hour later the cops came by at about 4:45 AM and knocked on their door, but no one had answered. They called my cell and said it looked all quiet and that no one answered the door. So I was like whatever, I just wanted to sleep. At 7am, we were awoken to a loud banging on our neighbors front door, saying "Open up, police, we have a search warrant!". They stormed into the upstairs and subdued everybody, about 5 minutes later they were knocking at our back door which leads into the laundry room and a stairwell to the upstairs. I answered and had three cops in front of me with one having his gun drawn, I asked how I could help them. They asked who I was and I told em my name and that I was the guy that called the noise disturbance on them at 3:45AM. They said ok, and went back upstairs.
About 10:30AM, I get up to take the dog and see a sheriff and two other cruisers parked in front of our house. I walk the dog and bring her back in, about 5 minutes after coming back inside, they ring my doorbell. So I go up to answer it and the sheriff was just trying to confirm our address. I let him know what our address was, and he was like, "oh, I almost thought it was your address I was supposed to be searching until you called in this morning with a noise complaint about your neighbors. We were planning on doing it this afternoon, but since you called this morning, we moved up the time frame."
I asked what happened, and they said they received reports of some of the guys doing drug dealing out of their apartment. The cops were searching their entire residence and I never found out if they found anything. I should put in an open records request, though. A little later after all the people upstairs were processed, one of the girls who lives in the apartment rings my doorbell and asks if she could talk to me in private. So I let her into our stairwell, and she was apologizing for everything and that she was very embarrassed. She said she wasn't going to let them have any more parties or booze while she lived there. The guy who had stormed off actually has a record as a sex offender(which I already knew about), and she said that I should make sure the back door is always locked, because she thinks the guys been breaking into vehicles because he's been coming back with chargers and iPods saying he found them at the bar. This guy has no job, and is actually freeloading off of them, but she said he will probably be going to jail anyways. In the meantime though, she said to make sure we keep our place locked up tight. She's a smart girl, and I told her if she ever needs a place to stay for the night we have a couch.
In the end,all of this made me recheck my situation, and what I'd do in case that guy got really drunk one night and decided he wanted to break into our apartment. I have a 12 gauge shotgun under the bed with the first two rounds being the rubber ball ammo, the 3rd some number two birdshot, and the last two rounds 00 buckshot. I also have my 460 S&W mag loaded with some 45 colt hollowpoints, they're not self-defense grade, but they should do the job, and I won't lose my hearing for three weeks like a single round of 460 S&W mag does. I also have at my bedside a rubber strip loaded with more 45 colt, a headlamp, and electronic ear muffs. Our bedroom door locks, and the front entryway has two locking doors, with our weakest entrypoint being the laundry room door which is 7 feet from our bedroom door. It does lock, but I'm not sure how secure it is, I can't replace it unless I have the landlord do it. We need to get in contact with our real estate office and make sure they're aware of the situation as well. While I don't think it'll ever come to me defending my home and wife from that guy and/or his buddies, it never hurts to be prepared. Is there anything you can think of I might have overlooked?
Thanks for listening to my story guys and girls, carry on!
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