Thread: Thieves-- Man O Man

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Glad you caught them and it all came out to the good - relatively speaking.

We move out in the country to get away from this crap, get some space around us, and the idiots try to fill in the empty spaces. When I could, out in the mountains with the acreage, I always went openly and obviously armed when I was working or wandering around the area. We also keep noisy, nervous dogs around, always have, even in the city. An alarm on your shop will give you an extra layer of security, though.

Out in the boonies, police response is often fairly long in coming, and the creeps know this, so they figure that most folks will call the cops and wait, and they count on it. If they think you might be inclined to nail them yourself, they will likely avoid you. We never had any problems, but a couple of our neighbors did, folks who relocated from San Francisco, and were not inclined to be entirely self sufficient - they did not last more than a couple of years there.

Interesting update. The Sheriff's Office gave me a courtesy call this morning letting me know that both of these "Boys" had been released on there own recognizance. Call came at 10:20 this morning, I mean they didn't spend even 24 hours in jail. The Sheriff also asked me "IF" I intended to press charges? I said not yes but Hell Yes. I went down to the city Hall and filled out the papers. Both of these "Boys" ( that term was used a least a dozen times by folks at City Hall) turned out to be two full grown "BOYS" one being 28 and the other 31. There arrest record ---shown to me by a deputy--- had for one of them 9 burglaries and 14 for the other. Neither of them has done more than Three months in the county jail for any one offense.

Last night when I confronted these two &*^$%, I stopped them by firing a couple of rounds into the ground just as they were exiting the shop door. Without the Gun I am sure they would not have stopped at all.

Now with that said I don't know how much good it did to stop them at all, I mean they didn't even do 12 Hours in jail. The one thing I did accomplish , I Guess, is they didn't steal from me this time. I will see these charges to the very end were ever that leads, but I don't really have any high hopes after talking to the Sheriff today. I also have no expectation of these two clowns coming back here, if they were to do that again surely they know that the out come could be complettly different. And maybe thats all any of us can hope for, that the bad guys don't choose us again. Damn what a sorry state of affairs that is...

Roland

You are lucky to be able to confront them with a gun,,AND put a couple of rounds in the ground to stop them.If it had happened here,and I had so much as deck them with a lump of wood,I would have been charged,possibly,with assault,for protecting my own property,but I still would have done it..The crims have too much protection,,Send them to Sherrif Joes boot camp in Arizona...Two years hard labor in a rock pit might help..