Share your “Someone tried to rob you” stories

thread of the year? post of the year? member of the year? (sorry @ChadsPride )

 

Fuck criminals! Good job broteinshake.

 

Thanks for the well wishes man, dude was definitely high as fuck, and no idea why he grabbed the sword and shield, maybe childhood fantasy breaking through via the drugs.

 

haha that is a first, I know the pic doesn't look like it, but a few people have given me Mark Wahlberg, but they always make sure to let me know we have different noses. We do share a birthday though, sadly not the abs.

 

Glad you ended up ok. In my neighborhood there is a mixed community, some single family homes and a lot of low income apartment/condos. Most of those are filled with families trying to make up a buck and get by in the US of A. But good old So Cal is the transients Mecca. Just recently they flushed out a riverbed that had an enormous community of homeless people and a park about a mile and a half from my house, which was also filled with homeless people, is under construction and going to be “homeless proof” ( I shit you not that’s what it says on the sign). So a lot of those people are now wondering the streets. I think that’s what maybe flushed this guy all the way down to my neighborhood, because up to this point I hadn’t seen any around my house.

The 8 foot fence starts going up tomorrow.

 

good luck to the engineers and designers on that one.

 

I live in a little Suburb outside of Pasadena known to be a 'quanit little American town' but this little town has had its issues with gangs for years. Anyway my fiance and I moved into a little craftsman house (rental) about a year ago. I started hearing local stories almost immediately of gang robberies in the area, which if you live in LA or anywhere in SoCal really...you unfortunately start to get used to. But I really hadn't expected it here.

On NYE last year my friend's brother and his girlfriend were walking home from the downtown area that runs a few blocks through our residential zone and has a movie theater, restaurants, cafes, bars, etc. The police station is right there too. They were approached from behind by 2 young men wearing hooded sweatshirts and carrying a bat. They asked 'where are you from?' When he said 'here' they jumped him. My friend's brother is a well trained fighter and always carries a knife, but he told me he handed it over to his girlfriend and told her to run so she did. They ended up breaking his arm and taking his phone/wallet but luckily he's in one piece today.

So a few weeks later my fiance and I are at our house, friend's brother's story is still fresh in my mind and at 11pm or so we're in the living room watching tv with big windows that face right outside. They're not shaded because her damn cat pees all over the curtains, which led to us seeing this hooded figure wandering around our front yard looking like he was looking for something. My friend's story fresh in mind I immediately jump up and run to our room to grab my knife I usually carry, then I hear my fiance yell that he ran to the side of the house. So I run out back, thinking he went there, knife and flashlight in hand and I don't see anything. I hear her scream my name from inside and I nearly trip and stab myself running back in, thinking he had gotten in the house. Turns out he was still in the front yard but hid on the side when he saw me get up from the couch.

I run to the front and it's some terrified kid telling me he was just there to clean up after his dog that had crapped in our yard earlier and he didn't have a bag...I was like DUDE WTF you need to look less suspicious and do that in the daylight, christ.

 

But drug use is a victimless crime according to liberal media, judges, defense attorneys, etc.

How many drug addicts have 9-5’s that they work 5 days a week to support their addiction? With the exception of the 9-5 drug dealer I suppose. Nearly every violent crime, burglary, and theft has a dope connection.

Glad you have the mindset to protect you and yours and not allow yourself to be a victim. Good on you for taking care of business and it’s even better you were painted like a f*cking warrior while doing it. Awesome that the paint came from your daughter during playtime.

 

Man, you need to get yourself a gun for home protection. A knife in untrained hands is gonna get messy.

 

@Mista_G this memory will be quite handy when the teenage years and the crazed boys arrive.

Keep the sword by the door for when the dates come knocking. And have the paint on.

Just route a cattle wire on top of what you have now.

Much easier and more fun to watch.

 

Yeah I know, not easy in CA but still possible. The hard part now is convincing my fiance we need one for that reason, she was pretty adamantly against it before this scenario but is coming around.

 

That’s good at least. And is it really that hard to get a long arm? Shotguns are typically pretty easy to buy.

 

I was just having that convo in my head, lol. No, I could go out today and get a shotgun to the best of my knowledge, but we live in a small house with small rooms, hallway, etc...I feel like a shotgun/long rifle wouldn't serve me very well in protecting us in tight quarters like that. I'd much rather get a handgun, which are considerably more time consuming to get here but not impossible. My dad did it recently. The harder part is convincing her...

 

I know right, I'm curious to see what this thing is going to look like, no previews available at this time.

 

My wife is somewhat anti gun, well anti AR of any type. I own about 10-15 guns, all in the garage gun safe. She now asked if we could get a small gun safe for a hand gun in the house. My response, abso-freaking-lutely. I've never had knife training, but I more than capable with a hand gun/rifle. Gotta get her hand gun certified and we are in business.

The next thing is to figure out the location of the safe. Would love to hear thoughts on people that already have them in the house. I am thinking bedroom as that is somewhere you can run to, but also if I am in my living room and then have to run to my bedroom, seems like wasted seconds. But, would love to hear from people who have more experience/training.

 

I was actually just thinking about that as I’m sitting here on my couch. I spend most time here, and my bedroom is on my next floor up.

The solution I just thought of is to have one on each floor. My handgun can be under my coffee table on a gun magnet and a shotgun upstairs next to the bed.

It’s only my wife and I so an unsecured handgun under the table isn’t a problem, but you’d obviously need a safe.

 

I was in the Army traveling from Alabama to Washington for my new Duty station of Ft. Lewis driving alone with everything i own in my post deployment present to myself '07 Taco for a 22 yr old this was a great adventure and would recommend it to anyone. I made it into Baker City, Oregon around 2 am and i pulled over to check my paper road Atlas i bought from a truck stop before i left, yes i know GPS was available but all my money was going to be spent on the trip because fuck it i had almost 3 weeks to get to my destination.. anyway i pulled over and found a laundrymat that i thought was empty and cleared of all weirdos and dumbasses ( i rode around for 20 minutes looking for anyone that might be walking around or sleeping or even in the laudnrymat) so after i looked around and didn't see anyone i pulled up next to the building since it had lights on inside and i could get out and stretch and look at my map.. i got out let down the tailgate and sat the map down along with my gatorade and chips, as soon as i set the chips down this guy with a set of dog tags around his neck and black electrical tape on his fingertips walked up and leaned against my truck like i'd known him my whole life.. being from the south a mans truck is not a leaning post or a prop unless he's been your best damn friend since middle school..i asked the 50ish old white dude What the actual fuck he was doing and he pulled out a knife and demanded i open all my shit in the bed and give him my money and cards..i laughed and pulled out my just bought 1911 .45 and told him he can have it when he can make me.. the look on the dudes face was epic..he said sorry and the he made a mistake while he was running off i asked if he can give me some directions...he did not..as soon as i stopped hearing running feet i hopped back in the truck and drove 40 minutes down the road to look at the map again...lessons learned from all sides i guess...mine was never go to a place you don't know even if there is light and even if you look its not always free of people

 

My wife was adamant against any guns 8n the house 4 yrs ago.

After 4 home invasions and or armed robberies in the area, we had a discussion.
I explained that we only get a single choice these days, whether or not we are going to be a victim or defend ourselves.

After some time, three months, she told me to go get a gun.

Faster forward, safe upstairs with a loaded gun, 2 extra mags, safe downstairs with loaded pistols, and a pistol on me everywhere but the shower.

Now, she asks if I remembered my gun.

Don't force her, but expose her to all the facts.
Thanks to Moonbeam letting criminals out, no one is truly safe anymore.

 

Thanks for sharing. Damn 4 home invasions/armed robberies in one area...that’s rough.

I’m thinking one safe in our bedroom and one safe somewhere in the communal living area, thinking the kitchen as there are lots of cubbards unused and you can view both my front and back window from there.