dmccarty
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We live at the end of a road and we own a good portion of the road. There is a gate with No Trespassing signs where we own both sides of the road.
On day, the wifey left the house sorta early in the morning for a short trip and left the gate open. On the way out, she noticed that there was a strange minivan in the neighbor hood that had just left a neighbor's house and was heading towards our house...
Sure enough, a short time later, the Caravan pulls up to the house after passing through the gate, first clue and two No Trespass signs, clue two and three, that they should not enter.
The vans stops and has three people inside, two women and a man who is driving. A woman gets out of the back of the van, and leaves the door open. The engine is not turned off. The woman has a spray bottle in her hand. Now, I am sure many people would not have even noticed the spray bottle much less realized it was a weapon. But ya know, I a guess I am just a paranoid sort or maybe I do have a clue.
The woman walks up to the door but before she knocks I cracked a window. Now that may seem odd but our front door has a fair amount of glass and I can see her and she can see me. She really does not want me to open the door because my dog is NOT happy with this woman. If one understands Dog Talk, it was very obvious that my dog did NOT want this woman on the porch and did not like the woman at all. I have only seen my dog react one other time like this and that was when a meter reader walked up to within a foot or less, behind my wife's back, while she was bent over getting something out of a car. The meter reader scared the scat out of my wife, the dog saw my wife's reaction and the dog responded to protect a member of her pack. The lady on the porch had not surprised me but my dog did not like the woman at all. Hmmmmm..... The dog is pretty smart...
So the woman sees me and a dog who is most unhappy at her presence on the porch. Now, I was not going to open the door because I did not want the dog to get out but also because the woman had a weapon in her hand. The threat of the weapon was easy to deal with by cracking a window and having a chat. She was "selling" house cleaner. Really? Sure you are. The chat went rather one way at that point and I mentioned trespassing, sheriff, etc, and she quickly scurried back to the van and left. The wife was returning when she saw them leave the neighborhood. :thumbsup:
The woman could have been running a scam trying to "sell" cleaner that cost a couple of dollars for $5-10, they could have been scouting out houses to rob later, or to blitz at that moment. The house cleaner easily would have blinded a dog or a person.
There have been many home invasions in nearby counties over the years. Often they are drug related and/or the people know each other. But many of them are home invasions where the victims did not know the criminals. A year or so ago a couple of men were kicking in doors in Raleigh and robbing people they had picked at random. Eventually, they added rape and attempted murder to their repertoire. One husband ended up crippled after trying to fight off the men who were raping his wife.
Later,
Dan
On day, the wifey left the house sorta early in the morning for a short trip and left the gate open. On the way out, she noticed that there was a strange minivan in the neighbor hood that had just left a neighbor's house and was heading towards our house...
Sure enough, a short time later, the Caravan pulls up to the house after passing through the gate, first clue and two No Trespass signs, clue two and three, that they should not enter.
The vans stops and has three people inside, two women and a man who is driving. A woman gets out of the back of the van, and leaves the door open. The engine is not turned off. The woman has a spray bottle in her hand. Now, I am sure many people would not have even noticed the spray bottle much less realized it was a weapon.
But ya know, I a guess I am just a paranoid sort or maybe I do have a clue. The woman walks up to the door but before she knocks I cracked a window. Now that may seem odd but our front door has a fair amount of glass and I can see her and she can see me. She really does not want me to open the door because my dog is NOT happy with this woman. If one understands Dog Talk, it was very obvious that my dog did NOT want this woman on the porch and did not like the woman at all. I have only seen my dog react one other time like this and that was when a meter reader walked up to within a foot or less, behind my wife's back, while she was bent over getting something out of a car. The meter reader scared the scat out of my wife, the dog saw my wife's reaction and the dog responded to protect a member of her pack. The lady on the porch had not surprised me but my dog did not like the woman at all. Hmmmmm..... The dog is pretty smart...
So the woman sees me and a dog who is most unhappy at her presence on the porch. Now, I was not going to open the door because I did not want the dog to get out but also because the woman had a weapon in her hand. The threat of the weapon was easy to deal with by cracking a window and having a chat. She was "selling" house cleaner.
Really? Sure you are. The chat went rather one way at that point and I mentioned trespassing, sheriff, etc, and she quickly scurried back to the van and left. The wife was returning when she saw them leave the neighborhood. :thumbsup:The woman could have been running a scam trying to "sell" cleaner that cost a couple of dollars for $5-10, they could have been scouting out houses to rob later, or to blitz at that moment. The house cleaner easily would have blinded a dog or a person.
There have been many home invasions in nearby counties over the years. Often they are drug related and/or the people know each other. But many of them are home invasions where the victims did not know the criminals. A year or so ago a couple of men were kicking in doors in Raleigh and robbing people they had picked at random. Eventually, they added rape and attempted murder to their repertoire. One husband ended up crippled after trying to fight off the men who were raping his wife.
Later,
Dan
