Someone breaking into your home? make sure its not your live-in boyfriend...

SpoogeBob said:

Nope just your typical brainless1911 nonsensical ramblings.

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Reported: Rule #6 violation
(6) NO PERSONAL ATTACKS: While you may disagree strongly with another poster based upon their opinion, we will NOT tolerate any personal attacks...

Thanks. I reported it too.

When pat came back, I thought maybe he would play it straight. I gave him a clean slate as though he had done nothing wrong. Lessons learned.

stainless1911 said:

Thanks. I reported it too.

When pat came back, I thought maybe he would play it straight. I gave him a clean slate as though he had done nothing wrong. Lessons learned.

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I really don't care if it is Pat or not. I just wish they would follow the rules. If it is Pat let me just say that I liked many of his early posts and thought he contributed to the discussions at hand... then later his good points were often overshadowed by his personal feelings regarding members. I can't say I disagreed with him entirely at times. But, all if us have done stupid things in our lives. I tend to suscribe to the "more flies with honey" philosophy. I just wish, if it is him, that he'd go back to his original demeanor and contribute to the discussion at hand. Disagreement is not a problem, in fact I like it. Personal attacks, however, tend to turn good discussions into emotional diatribes.

Me too.

DrTodd said:

If it is Pat let me just say that I liked many of his early posts and thought he contributed to the discussions at hand... then later his good points were often overshadowed by his personal feelings regarding members.

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I couldn't agree more.

While this might not help at o'dark30 in the middle of an alley or dark street spreading lots, and I mean lots, of ordinary little night lights all through the house gives enough light to allow identifying an intruder in our house in the middle of the night.

I just hope this doesn't mean we're going to get reported for using "brainless1911" cause comon... that's gotta be hauled out now and then.

alphamale said:

how about calling out who are you? Seems that would alert the boyfriend to yell back it's me honey

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+1
The event that decided me on carrying was something similar - boyfriend (not live-in, but had keys) decided to come over in the middle of the night & surprise me.
He succeeded.

I woke up hearing someone downstairs. As I heard steps coming up the stairs to my bedroom I dialed 911 & (while it was still ringing) started shouting things like "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" & "THE COPS ARE COMING!" & "LEAVE ME ALONE!".

He stopped, started talking to me, I recognized his voice, hung up the phone (before 911 even answered... I thought*), & all was relatively well.

*(Apparently it had gone through, & they called back, but I didn't see the phone flashing 'til it was too late to answer... and nothing more ever came of it. That's scary! From what I understand, a hang-up is supposed to be a fairly high-priority call. And this happened at something like 2AM.)

The only thing I'd do differently now is add to the above rolling off the other side of the bed so I had concealment, kneeling on the floor, & pointing my pistol at the top of the stairs.