Tonight I am driving home from the grocery store and see an odd person in the dark bushes across the street when I park my car. I sit in my car a moment to see what this person is up to, they rummage around in the bushes then proceed off down the st. I exit my vehicle and walk over to the bushes to find someones 14ft metal gutter, and the homeless reappears, saying they work for the city and they have permits, waiving some piece of paper around increasingly getting agitated. I say you dont belong here and need to move along before I call the cops. This further agitates the homeless causing them to begin to confront me within 20ft, I pull out my fenix flashlight to attempt to get a good look at them and turn it to strobe to try and stop thier forward progress. They run off to a neighbors house and almost break the front door pretending they live there. Then they say they are going to kill me and im going to die. And then they pull something out of their jacket and begin to charge, so I run into the st to wave/stop traffic for witnesses, as im running around I decide it would be best if I ran into the neighborhood bar down the st, with many witnesses. As I enter the bar they mace the front glass door, and run away. The bar patrons and employees were all confused so I explain the events that led up to this. We agree I should call the non emergency number to report the inccedent. The cops say it was assault, and they will alert cars in the area to keep a lookout.
At first I thought they pulled a knife while threatening to kill me for inturrupting their thefts, but in the end it was mace. Had it been a firearm who knows what might have happened, no amount of witnesses would have saved me from a bullet.
I have a ccw, I own a pistol for that purpose. I didnt have it on me tonight for a grocery store run for some food for my kids, I'll never make that mistake again. Honestly you just never know when something might happen at the most uncommon of times and places.
Lesson learned, I am lucky tonight I am unharmed.
All I had im my pockets was my flashlight and pocket knife.
Paul
At first I thought they pulled a knife while threatening to kill me for inturrupting their thefts, but in the end it was mace. Had it been a firearm who knows what might have happened, no amount of witnesses would have saved me from a bullet.
I have a ccw, I own a pistol for that purpose. I didnt have it on me tonight for a grocery store run for some food for my kids, I'll never make that mistake again. Honestly you just never know when something might happen at the most uncommon of times and places.
Lesson learned, I am lucky tonight I am unharmed.
All I had im my pockets was my flashlight and pocket knife.
Paul
