This was a couple blocks from me in a neighborhood that

is Not a crime ridden area at all. Another member of this site lives even closer

 

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Yeah, try less than 100 yards from the street. Police are creeping around the area now. Might be a Crip, wearing the blue but this isn't a known gang area. Really disconcerting.

Messed up thing is a had a false alarm that night. I was asleep and at 3am my dog started barking. My boxer only barks if something is happening. I woke up my wife and grabbed my sig .40 First I checked the kids rooms then headed down stairs. I went around and check the rooms, doors and windows. I then saw what the dog was barking at. 3am is when the township felt it was a good idea to mess with the fire hydrants. I have a hydrant right at the end of my driveway. To make it worse as soon as I laid down my 9 month old woke up. There went my night of sleep.

This person sounds dangerous to commit an act like this.

Scary. It happens when you least expect it. A knock on the door after a snow storm offering to clean your driveway. A stalker watches for a few days as you walk kids to bus stop after husband leaves for work and figures you don't put alarm on for the 10 minute bus wait...breaks back door to enter. Unfortunately, we need to be on guard 24/7 and that includes within the neighborhoods we live. The right to carry would help level the playing field. I am sick of the bad guys having home court advantage.

 

My parents (83 yrs old) live in Montville. Last summer a teenage girl rang the doorbell at 9:30am to sell magazines for the school. My mom is Edith Bunker in the sense she trusts everyone. My dad was in the shower. My mom asked who to make the check out to and asked the girl "don't you need my address to send the magazines?"...reply from girl "most people have them delivered to a local hospital". Girl went to the bathroom and was in there for 10 minutes. My mom heard her talking on the phone. she got my dad and he told her to leave. four hours later she was arrested (at least handcuffed) a half mile away with another girl in front of my sisters house. I don't know the details but she was probably casing the joints for someone else.

 

My daughter dates a police officer and he was telling me that if you do let someone in your house you should lock the door after they enter. i never thought of that and found it interesting. He said many times they work in pairs: one distracts you to another area and hits the send button on phone for the other to enter through front door.

Honestly I think their is more to the story though. They tied her up and didn't rape her. Then they ransacked the house but didn't steal anything. I'm guessing she has something that belonged to someone else or had a particular thing someone was after. My guess is drugs are involved.

Honestly I think their is more to the story though. They tied her up and didn't rape her. Then they ransacked the house but didn't steal anything. I'm guessing she has something that belonged to someone else or had a particular thing someone was after. My guess is drugs are involved.

It could be something like a case of mistaken identity or simply the guy heard a rumor that she had some particular valuable item, when he couldn't find it he decided to flee instead of trying to figure out other valuable items he could steal.

It could be something like a case of mistaken identity or simply the guy heard a rumor that she had some particular valuable item, when he couldn't find it he decided to flee instead of trying to figure out other valuable items he could steal.

I think this is more likely than a drug dealer raid type deal. I've heard first hand stories of those, and they don't tie you up in your home like that. I think this was just a home invasion gone slightly wrong. Hopefully they catch this fool, because honestly given time he'll come back and try another home invasion, or worse yet an actual rape.

Scary. It happens when you least expect it. A knock on the door after a snow storm offering to clean your driveway. A stalker watches for a few days as you walk kids to bus stop after husband leaves for work and figures you don't put alarm on for the 10 minute bus wait...breaks back door to enter. Unfortunately, we need to be on guard 24/7 and that includes within the neighborhoods we live. The right to carry would help level the playing field. I am sick of the bad guys having home court advantage.

 

My parents (83 yrs old) live in Montville. Last summer a teenage girl rang the doorbell at 9:30am to sell magazines for the school. My mom is Edith Bunker in the sense she trusts everyone. My dad was in the shower. My mom asked who to make the check out to and asked the girl "don't you need my address to send the magazines?"...reply from girl "most people have them delivered to a local hospital". Girl went to the bathroom and was in there for 10 minutes. My mom heard her talking on the phone. she got my dad and he told her to leave. four hours later she was arrested (at least handcuffed) a half mile away with another girl in front of my sisters house. I don't know the details but she was probably casing the joints for someone else.

 

My daughter dates a police officer and he was telling me that if you do let someone in your house you should lock the door after they enter. i never thought of that and found it interesting. He said many times they work in pairs: one distracts you to another area and hits the send button on phone for the other to enter through front door.

 

i hope you don't mind me forwarding this to my mother in law. My wife requested I do.

Honestly I think their is more to the story though. They tied her up and didn't rape her. Then they ransacked the house but didn't steal anything. I'm guessing she has something that belonged to someone else or had a particular thing someone was after. My guess is drugs are involved.

 

i dunno. It would seem to me that if I was going to grab an able bodied person and force my way into their home i would restrain them just so they wouldnt call the cops, get to a baseball bat, knife or loaded firearm.