Got a Plan?

[niner49]

This happened to my sister and brother in law this morning(Pam and KC) 3-18-09, in her e-mail Hannah and Sampson are there dogs (no kids) but Chase and Chan are my kids. They live near Cedar and Sierra. I am sending it to see if you have a plan?

Niner


Her e-mail below;


Good morning family. Let me start off with saying, everything is fine,
now.
What happened to us last night, made me think that all of us should have
a plan of "what to do"?????

We had an attempted break in last night. The man/idiot who tried to
kick in the glass window pane, next to the front door, is in custody.
So that is comforting in a way. He was so drunk/high, that he kept
kicking the glass to get in, all while the alarm was blaring. It started
off, when I heard someone trying to break the front door down, and woke
KC, (screaming someone was trying to break in-not a nice wake up call)
Kase went straight for his gun.....The alarm hadn't gone off yet, cuz it
only trips if you open a door or window. KC went out of the bedroom to
investigate while I called 911. I had 911 on the phone when KC saw the
guys legs thru the broken window...he ran to the bathroom to open the
window to trip the alarm. Once he tripped the alarm, our phone went
dead. The alarm company told us later that that happens because the
alarm is sent thru our phone line. 911 had enough info to send the
helicopter and police....once I heard the helicopter, I went and shut
off the alarm. The reason I did this was because the alarm was
deafening inside the house. I had no idea where KC was and if he was
ok. I had just heard him yelling at the top of his voice. The idiot at
the door was screaming at us to let him in, and wouldn't let up. I was
trying to scoop up Hannah and Samson, and keep them safe, and that's
when I saw KC standing in the kitchen pointing the gun out the window,
at the guy. He said it took extra sense in him to keep from putting a
couple of rounds in the guys legs. The guy was "relentless". I
obviously was hysterical while on the phone with 911, so when I told her
my husband was out there with a gun, they must have thought it was Kase
trying to break in. This is one of the reason's KC and I feel strongly
to come up with a solid plan. I had to keep trying to call 911 back,
but it took a while for the phone to start working again. (Denise
knows, because she is the second call from the alarm company, and she
kept trying to call us, and just got a busy signal). The police showed
up so quickly, again very comforting.

We are working on a plan. I want to make sure that you all have a plan.
It's scarey not knowing if your loved one(s) are ok on the other side of
the house or not. My cell phone was on the kitchen counter.....I don't
know how to work KC's cell phone....my land line went dead! What do you
do???? Make a plan, because all I kept thinking about was what if this
was Chase and Chan....what would they do? I have cried alot of tears,
but now I'm mad. I know alot of you think I'm a paranoid freak...but
this situation could have turned out alot worse. We are working on a
plan.

Please make your home and yourselves safe.

Love, Pam and KC

 

[yardfarmer]

I'd say a plan is good, just be careful while practicing

http://www.ketv.com/news/18639727/detail.html

 

[kerk43]

Scary deal, put does open eyes to the risk at hand. First and formost, going to the range this weekend (was going to anyway) to work with wife on operation/handling so the guns I "don't own". As soon as my son is old enough, he will also get the once over with all of them.

I have to give it to you, I would not have been able to keep the finger of the trigger. You TRY breaking into my house and you have a very high chance of playing catch with lead.

 

[xrated]

yep if I owned a gun there would have been lead flying.

thought i had a break in one night(was just exploding pop bottles on the deck) I told the wife to stay in bed while I looked around(wife wouldn't let me have a gun in house at that time, not very comforting walking out with just a knife). Anyhow after we figured out what it was game plan came up.

She stays in bedroom with lights off and grabs one of our cell phones(always on nightstand). I grab the pea shooter and some peas(that's what I'm calling it now) and go see whats up.

If I'm gone since I work alot of overnights, she calls first and then grabs the pea shooter and walks out.

She doesn't shoot but I made it real easy for her. 20 inch open cylinder with number 2 shot. Wrapped white masking tape around the end so it shows up in the dark. then just click the hammer and if that don't stop them, pull the trigger. I figure in our house that's maybe 30-40 feet long there is a real good chance she will connect.

 

[Turbo Tim]

I sleep next to a Ruger .338 and a 38 special with a laser sight . Hell yeah they're loaded.

 

[theultrarider]

I still prefer my 12 gauge pump gun. There is no more distinct sound in the dark than that of working the slide of a pump gun. If that alone does not stop someone, the next sound will. Don't have to aim real careful either.

 

[xrated]

I still prefer my 12 gauge pump gun. There is no more distinct sound in the dark than that of working the slide of a pump gun. If that alone does not stop someone, the next sound will. Don't have to aim real careful either.

Yep, unless your higher then a damn kite, when you hear that noise and you are somewhere you don't belong, odds are real good you will backtrack.

There was an old sherrif from the southern boarder who wrote in gun mags, etc. He always said there was no sound that would make a guy stop in the dark or run away, quiet like the double click on a 6 shooter.

 

[CDA_RMK]

ya we had some one try to get in are house and we live in the woods. but i saw him so i took off after him with are 12 g when my mom called the cops the man got a way in his car there was two of them one in the car waiting and i never left are land. when the cop got there i go a ear full from him how i was stupid for going after him and how i could have been killed and all this.
but that same man was ran off from are house that same day by my dad and came back that night.