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RustyRed

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I heard a new one about what the criminals are up to in my area now. Just a word of caution to be careful.

The new thing is there is a new crew in town that has two nicely dressed females knock on the door asking if they can borrow the phone. Problem is they aren't calling AAA for a tow truck or whatever. They are calling their thug friends at the end of the street. After the females call the two thugs come in and rob you at gun point in your own home.

This is the reason I always make sure a door to door sales guy sees me if they ring the bell but I never open the door unless it is a neighbor or someone I know. If it's a sales guy I can tell them to FO through the door / window just as easily as I can with the door open. I've heard of other cases where they ring holding a clip board or something and when you open the door they force their way in. I do make sure they see me though because if they think no one is home they will come around back and bust a window and then I'd have to spend my entire afternoon dealing with the police and getting my carpet cleaned after blowing them away.

Just a warning to be careful. I have decided this area was great 30 years ago when I was a kid but it's time to move out further for me as soon as I can figure out how to swing it financially.
 
It's getting pretty hairy around here as well. All the thugs in Memphis have stolen everything there and are looking for new territory. There newest thing is having 3-6 guys, armed to the hilt, bust into the house like swat, tie the homeowners up and/or shoot them, then rob the place blind. They also have guys posing as handymen to come fix roofs or lawn service, to check the place out.
I'm so moving our to the sticks when we get a chance.
 
All I can say is, it's nice to have 2 big scary, protective dogs around the house.

When I'm not home, my wife never opens the door for strangers... she just says she can't open the door because of the dogs.
 
North of Houston.

There has been a real increase in the crime around here the last couple of years though. Honestly, what happened is hurricane Katrina caused a lot of the garbage from NO to relocate over this way. A friend from work has a grandson that went to a high school a couple of exits up the freeway and he was fine there for his first two years. After the mass relocation though it got so bad they had to put him in private school for his Jr. and Sr. year because they didn't want him to have to literally fight for his life every day.

It got so bad a while back that the local Sheriff put out a memo after a rash of armed robbery in the area, one was at the mall and there were several others. One was some guys were acting like they were having trouble with their bike. A guy stopped to try and help them out and got robbed for trying to be a good Samaritan.

What I didn't get though is several of them were folks on the hike / bike trail. I am no criminal master mind but I am pretty sure most people jogging don't have a big wad of cash on them....seems like if I were going to risk going to jail I'd pick someone where I might make a few more bucks than that.

The older lady that lives two doors down from me woke up a while back to some guy standing in her hallway. Thankfully no one was hurt and apparently she had company over and they forgot to lock the back door. In that case, I am pretty sure it was some teenage punk prowling around.

I keep the alarm on when I am not home and tell the wife to turn it on when she's there alone or there with the boys. She "is scared of guns" so we have to trust the alarm when it's just her. But the good news is our alarm system is pretty good and even has basically a cell phone back up if someone tried to cut the phone line which is about as hard as it is to beat most alarm systems.

I just say to heck with it and keep my pistol handy when I am home, especially if I am in the garage at night working on the Stang, etc.

But my general thought on what should happen during a home invasion comes from a couple of lines in a Dwight Yoakam song:

"Smith and Wesson juries hold a real mean, nasty court and the verdict that they pass is never slow"
 
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