Had intruders last night

1948berg · Jun 18, 2006

Went to the cabin this weekend. At 5 in the morning the neighbor called and said a "funny looking" couple was heading towards my place. I jumped into my trousers and went looking. I found them in my garage/shed where they were searching the place. (I usually hide the keys there) They were obviously "high".
I found a pice of wood and scared them away. They jumped into a car they had parked some distance away, roared off, through the sheep fence, and away they went. The neighbor and I later found the pick-up abandoned with two flat tires.
I am wery happy that I did not have a gun in my hand when I found them, you get very steamed up when such things happend. I might have been the one in trouble now, with a person shot by me, lying in the shed!

heehaw · Jun 18, 2006

or you might have been able to hold them till the cops came and they would have gotten their just reward??
heehaw

dubba · Jun 18, 2006

Didn't the pickup have to belong to somebody?

Sigarms · Jun 18, 2006

heehaw said:
or you might have been able to hold them till the cops came and they would have gotten their just reward??
heehaw

If they were stupid enough to leave while someone had a firearm, what would you do, shoot them?

heehaw · Jun 18, 2006

wouldn't shoot them, unless ?????? but what would have happened if they had been armed??? as long as they run or leave or whatever, i wouldn't shoot them, but if i had picked up a big stick and they decided to take it away from me and put it places i would rather not have it put: i would want a gun...i don't believe in fighting anymore..
heehaw

Sigarms · Jun 18, 2006

heehaw said:
wouldn't shoot them, unless ?????? but what would have happened if they had been armed??? as long as they run or leave or whatever, i wouldn't shoot them, but if i had picked up a big stick and they decided to take it away from me and put it places i would rather not have it put: i would want a gun...i don't believe in fighting anymore..
heehaw

Agreed to an extent. Although if you are armed, and you proceed out of your house and "have" to use you weapon, things may not look good for you in a court of law.

I'm only stating what I've been taught per the legal system in owning firearms.