Smiling JOe said:
... when you sleep with a loaded 12 gauge sawed-off shotgun because Beach Runner told you to do so.:shock:
Better READy than DEADy! The local police took 20 minutes to get here after our home invasion. If the perps had decided to shoot us, we would have been dead long before the police arrived.
BTW it turns out that the perps were the daughter and son-in-law of a professor who reports to me (I'm department chair). Back then when my husband was out of the country, I used to stay with my Mom in ATL to help with my small child. But I was too tired that night, so we went to sleep early and planned to leave the next AM. When they saw the lights off early, they thought we were gone. They did 25+ break-ins in our town, and both went to jail. They picked upscale houses (they were called the "shopping list" burglars), and stole expensive clothing, jewelry, furniture, paintings, etc. Almost every family in my daughter's class at her private school got hit. The local bank president got hit twice because the woman wore the same size as the president's wife and liked her taste in clothes. Another family got hit twice because the man liked his Ralph Lauren clothes. At one home they were brazen enough to fix a steak dinner, read the daughter's diary, and flush the goldfish down the commode.
The woman is out of jail - I avoid her presence whenever I hear that she is on campus visiting her father - I just might punch her out if I saw her face-to-face. Her husband is still in jail because he raped a few women while he was doing the home invasions.
BTW don't forget the cell phone by the bed in case they cut your phone line like most home invaders do!