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Last night was interesting, and a real eye opener.
I woke up to knocking, my dog barking, and my wife asking(telling?) me to get my gun because someone hit my doorbell. About 3 am
I'm a pretty hard sleeper, which with having my daughter, I do NOT like. Anyways....
All this is going on, I grab my handgun and flick on a couple lights. No one was in my house so I want worried about staying concealed. My eyes working well was more important.
She(wife) tells me this guy said he needed help and to use a phone (tells me this while I'm heading to the door.)
I get there. Over about a minute, this guy either knocked or rang the doorbell probably 3 times each. I had my wife call the police while I tried to get a visual on this character.
He was moving around enough to the point that he'd knock or ring and in the time I could lean into the peep hole, he wasn't in sight. My wife saw him pacing the yard between knocks.
I chose to wait it out (police to shoe) for the fact I couldn't ever see what he looked like, or pin down where he was. Didn't want him to get past me somehow.
So, all this happens. The police show up. (Pretty quick, 3 or 4 minutes. Still too slow if bad things happened) get the guy out of there and come and get a statement and phine number from us.
Officer called him a knucklehead.
Last main point to make. The amount of adrenaline was pretty intense. I've practiced getting my hear rate and shooting to try and simulate this type of event. Definitely a totally different animal compared to practicing.
I'd like to think I did the right thing. It was pretty intense. The amount of shaking my arms were doing would be have made shooting....interesting...close range and squeezing the gun might have settled my hands down.
*I didn't hear it, but while I was getting up this guy rattled the doorhandle a couple times*
**officer said the guys story didnt add up, which coincides with the sketchyness.
The story we were given was the guy needed help because his GF kicked him out. So aparently he needed to use someone phone at 3 am instead of walking 3 blocks to 7-11.
Then his story changed a little (I live in hazel dell) that the house he got kicked out of waa in camas.
He didnt have an answer for how he was in hazel dell without transportation at 3am. **
I woke up to knocking, my dog barking, and my wife asking(telling?) me to get my gun because someone hit my doorbell. About 3 am
I'm a pretty hard sleeper, which with having my daughter, I do NOT like. Anyways....
All this is going on, I grab my handgun and flick on a couple lights. No one was in my house so I want worried about staying concealed. My eyes working well was more important.
She(wife) tells me this guy said he needed help and to use a phone (tells me this while I'm heading to the door.)
I get there. Over about a minute, this guy either knocked or rang the doorbell probably 3 times each. I had my wife call the police while I tried to get a visual on this character.
He was moving around enough to the point that he'd knock or ring and in the time I could lean into the peep hole, he wasn't in sight. My wife saw him pacing the yard between knocks.
I chose to wait it out (police to shoe) for the fact I couldn't ever see what he looked like, or pin down where he was. Didn't want him to get past me somehow.
So, all this happens. The police show up. (Pretty quick, 3 or 4 minutes. Still too slow if bad things happened) get the guy out of there and come and get a statement and phine number from us.
Officer called him a knucklehead.
Last main point to make. The amount of adrenaline was pretty intense. I've practiced getting my hear rate and shooting to try and simulate this type of event. Definitely a totally different animal compared to practicing.
I'd like to think I did the right thing. It was pretty intense. The amount of shaking my arms were doing would be have made shooting....interesting...close range and squeezing the gun might have settled my hands down.
*I didn't hear it, but while I was getting up this guy rattled the doorhandle a couple times*
**officer said the guys story didnt add up, which coincides with the sketchyness.
The story we were given was the guy needed help because his GF kicked him out. So aparently he needed to use someone phone at 3 am instead of walking 3 blocks to 7-11.
Then his story changed a little (I live in hazel dell) that the house he got kicked out of waa in camas.
He didnt have an answer for how he was in hazel dell without transportation at 3am. **