ky_man
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Had a weird incident just now, I caught a suspicious guy in my driveway after dark (~11pm). See what you think:
I go outside to clean up my Halloween decorations out front; I turn on the light and begin to clean up. All of a sudden, a person (~18-25 yrs. dark skinned, wearing a winter hat and a backpack, long sleeved shirt and jeans, tucked in) kind of jogs down my driveway.
My motion light is on my my garage in the back. I look up and yell "Hey!" and he keeps jogging through my neighbor's yard.
Strange thing happened next: I yell "Hey!" again and he darts into my neighbor's driveway and takes off behind his house. ***!?
So I go over (against my wife's wishes) and bang on my neighbor's door. I tell him what happened and he looks over at his neighbor's yard, and her motion light is on in her backyard.
What to think about this? I think the kid was trying to jump a fence to shortcut (I live in the suburbs with lots of fenced yards) my wife thinks he was up to no good. My backyard is fully chainlink fenced with an 7' privacy fence in the back. You cannot "cut through" my yard. You can jump my neighbor's fence and after trespassing on several other properties make a shortcut to a main road. Regardless, the guy should NOT have been in my driveway after dark.
I've only lived in this neighborhood for 4 months now, and it seems pretty decent. There are some ghetto apartments about 3/4 mile away, and there was an early morning rape down there a week ago. I have heard a couple reports of drug dogs being called out for traffic stops in my area over my scanner. The neighborhood has lots of kids and young families.
I'm going to add another motion sensing light to the side of my house tomorrow. Any thoughts? If anyone tries to force entry I have a Remington 870 with #4 shot waiting for them. If I caught a guy in my garage, I'd probably poke my head out the back door and yell "I'm armed!" at the top of my lungs and rack the slide on 'ol 870 to get their legs moving.
I go outside to clean up my Halloween decorations out front; I turn on the light and begin to clean up. All of a sudden, a person (~18-25 yrs. dark skinned, wearing a winter hat and a backpack, long sleeved shirt and jeans, tucked in) kind of jogs down my driveway.
My motion light is on my my garage in the back. I look up and yell "Hey!" and he keeps jogging through my neighbor's yard.
Strange thing happened next: I yell "Hey!" again and he darts into my neighbor's driveway and takes off behind his house. ***!?
So I go over (against my wife's wishes) and bang on my neighbor's door. I tell him what happened and he looks over at his neighbor's yard, and her motion light is on in her backyard.
What to think about this? I think the kid was trying to jump a fence to shortcut (I live in the suburbs with lots of fenced yards) my wife thinks he was up to no good. My backyard is fully chainlink fenced with an 7' privacy fence in the back. You cannot "cut through" my yard. You can jump my neighbor's fence and after trespassing on several other properties make a shortcut to a main road. Regardless, the guy should NOT have been in my driveway after dark.
I've only lived in this neighborhood for 4 months now, and it seems pretty decent. There are some ghetto apartments about 3/4 mile away, and there was an early morning rape down there a week ago. I have heard a couple reports of drug dogs being called out for traffic stops in my area over my scanner. The neighborhood has lots of kids and young families.
I'm going to add another motion sensing light to the side of my house tomorrow. Any thoughts? If anyone tries to force entry I have a Remington 870 with #4 shot waiting for them. If I caught a guy in my garage, I'd probably poke my head out the back door and yell "I'm armed!" at the top of my lungs and rack the slide on 'ol 870 to get their legs moving.