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Went to a vacant house that's for rent and the first thing I noticed was an open window. Some guy in a van had just pulled in the drive way and starting gibbering about meeting someone about pressure-washing the house. I blew him off because I wanted to get inside.
The first thing I saw was two duffle bags on the kitchen floor and then took three steps toward a bedroom and saw the yahoo sacked out on the floor looking peaceful.
What would you do at this point?
I eased outside and called 911 and waited by the curb trying so he keeps snoozing but about a minute later said yahoo is peddling a bike down the driveway with his duffle bags and rode past me and waved as if to say, whassup.
So I stay on the phone with the cops and follow the guy who is in no hurry. He must have thought I didn't have a clue who he was or he didn't care. About a half-mile later he turns into a driveway and stows his bags behind a house and to my surprise gets back on his bike and heads down the road again, waving at me while I'm still on the phone. I stay 50 yards behind him the whole while.
A mile later no cops have shown even though I'm giving minute by minute directions. This is a heavy residential area. Finally he pulls behind a church and dissappears into some thick woods and I circle the block but he's gone. Just then the cops show up and a little later a police dog too but no bad guy.
Anyhow, to make a short story longer, I show them the house where the bags were stowed and ID him as the guy that they had been lookng for similar things and take them back to the house to find a busted out window which was the original point of entry.
I figure the pressure washer guy was his buddy keeping an appointment of some kind. Earlier he was nice enough to hand me a flier with his name and address.
There was a time I would have looked for a bat to have some retribution for all the other break-ins but I don't have it in me anymore. And if I still kept a gun in the truck, I might have let it creep into my thoughts, which is why I no longer do.
I'm still debating if carrying would be a good idea but then I'd be required to let the cops know and I'd surely forget and pay the price for it. I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts on this.
The first thing I saw was two duffle bags on the kitchen floor and then took three steps toward a bedroom and saw the yahoo sacked out on the floor looking peaceful.
What would you do at this point?
I eased outside and called 911 and waited by the curb trying so he keeps snoozing but about a minute later said yahoo is peddling a bike down the driveway with his duffle bags and rode past me and waved as if to say, whassup.
So I stay on the phone with the cops and follow the guy who is in no hurry. He must have thought I didn't have a clue who he was or he didn't care. About a half-mile later he turns into a driveway and stows his bags behind a house and to my surprise gets back on his bike and heads down the road again, waving at me while I'm still on the phone. I stay 50 yards behind him the whole while.
A mile later no cops have shown even though I'm giving minute by minute directions. This is a heavy residential area. Finally he pulls behind a church and dissappears into some thick woods and I circle the block but he's gone. Just then the cops show up and a little later a police dog too but no bad guy.
Anyhow, to make a short story longer, I show them the house where the bags were stowed and ID him as the guy that they had been lookng for similar things and take them back to the house to find a busted out window which was the original point of entry.
I figure the pressure washer guy was his buddy keeping an appointment of some kind. Earlier he was nice enough to hand me a flier with his name and address.
There was a time I would have looked for a bat to have some retribution for all the other break-ins but I don't have it in me anymore. And if I still kept a gun in the truck, I might have let it creep into my thoughts, which is why I no longer do.
I'm still debating if carrying would be a good idea but then I'd be required to let the cops know and I'd surely forget and pay the price for it. I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts on this.