Last night I had stayed the night at my girlfriend's house. She lives alone, and we live in a college town. Her
neighborhood is a mix of families and college students, however, most everyone seems to keep to themselves with the exception to the house across the street from her when they have parties. It's the end of the semester and when there are breaks from school like this the neighbors across the street will have parties that mainly stay within their home except around the mid-morning hours when they will be outside drunk and carrying on.
Anyway, I was at her house and we ended up falling asleep downstairs watching movies. Around 2am I woke up hearing the glass door in front of her wooden front door open. My girlfriend asked me if I had heard that. I told her that I did. Her front and back door unlocks by button code instead of key. Her back doors are french doors (which I hate due to the vulnerabilities of those stupid doors-IMO, and thankfully she has one of those motion lights by the back door). Anyway, after I answered her we heard someone pressing the buttons on the wooden door trying to enter in random codes to try and open the door to get in. By that time we got out of our chairs as her two small maltese dogs charged the door barking like rabid psycho killers. When they get freaked out they are able to bark these freakish barks that make it sound like there are six dogs barking instead of just two!
After the dogs charged the door the attempted break in stopped. With the lights off I moved to the front door. I looked through the really small window that is part of the wooden door and at first saw nobody outside until I looked to my left towards both our vehicles and saw two college aged people (around our ages) walking out of the driveway onto the street, across the street, and straight to that house across the street! One of them was some girl and the other was a guy. They were both laughing and walking in a very drunken way leaning on each other trying to keep themselves upright. They weren't the residents of that house though.. and after I saw them walking towards that house I moved to the dining room window and looked out. At that same time my girlfriend turned on the living room lights and about three seconds after she turned on the
lights someone from across the street immediately closed their front door. About 10 minutes later some people left that house, got into their vehicles and drove off. We didn't know if it was them or not but they were parked in the street in front of my girlfriend's house.
We were so p*ssed at all of this crap! When I saw them walking on the passenger sides of our vehicles towards the street it led me to think that they did the same thing to the next door neighbor. I figured that they were both drunk and decided "Hey, lets go make these people around here think we're breaking into their houses!" And before they went to their house it looked like they also tried the same thing to the house next door to them!
Here's the thing. This proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that when you need your gun the most you won't have it. My shotgun was at my apartment! We could not believe this whole thing happened! That may have been just a couple of drunk morons being stupid at 2am.. then again it just as easily couldn't! And I didn't have my freaking gun! That's the only one I own and I have been in the process of helping my girlfriend find a gun for her as well as saving money for a G19.
We were immediately debating wheter or not to call the cops. We were talking about it for half an hour before deciding not to call them since so much time had gone by, even though I regret it. We should have called mainly because they were a couple of drunk morons, and just to have a unit come to the house and visibly let the neighbors and those two stupid people know that someone knew what they were doing (how could those two idiots be so supid? TWO vehicles were right in our driveway!) or maybe cause them to think that they tripped an alarm of some type even though my girlfriend doesn't have a real alarm besides her dogs. And also have a police officer drive down the street more often.
The facts that they could have got into the house and it could have been a lot worse and I didn't have my Mossberg 500 made me irate and made me feel like a darn failure! If I had the shotgun and got to the door before the dogs did I would have shouted that I had a gun, called the police, and if they got into the house I would fill their chest cavity with lead (and that the dogs would rip off their freakin' genitals!).
There basically isn't any other reason for this post except me sharing my experience with all of you and asking for any
advice or suggestions or anything that any of you may have. I'd appreciate the communications!
Thanks all!
neighborhood is a mix of families and college students, however, most everyone seems to keep to themselves with the exception to the house across the street from her when they have parties. It's the end of the semester and when there are breaks from school like this the neighbors across the street will have parties that mainly stay within their home except around the mid-morning hours when they will be outside drunk and carrying on.
Anyway, I was at her house and we ended up falling asleep downstairs watching movies. Around 2am I woke up hearing the glass door in front of her wooden front door open. My girlfriend asked me if I had heard that. I told her that I did. Her front and back door unlocks by button code instead of key. Her back doors are french doors (which I hate due to the vulnerabilities of those stupid doors-IMO, and thankfully she has one of those motion lights by the back door). Anyway, after I answered her we heard someone pressing the buttons on the wooden door trying to enter in random codes to try and open the door to get in. By that time we got out of our chairs as her two small maltese dogs charged the door barking like rabid psycho killers. When they get freaked out they are able to bark these freakish barks that make it sound like there are six dogs barking instead of just two!
After the dogs charged the door the attempted break in stopped. With the lights off I moved to the front door. I looked through the really small window that is part of the wooden door and at first saw nobody outside until I looked to my left towards both our vehicles and saw two college aged people (around our ages) walking out of the driveway onto the street, across the street, and straight to that house across the street! One of them was some girl and the other was a guy. They were both laughing and walking in a very drunken way leaning on each other trying to keep themselves upright. They weren't the residents of that house though.. and after I saw them walking towards that house I moved to the dining room window and looked out. At that same time my girlfriend turned on the living room lights and about three seconds after she turned on the
lights someone from across the street immediately closed their front door. About 10 minutes later some people left that house, got into their vehicles and drove off. We didn't know if it was them or not but they were parked in the street in front of my girlfriend's house.
We were so p*ssed at all of this crap! When I saw them walking on the passenger sides of our vehicles towards the street it led me to think that they did the same thing to the next door neighbor. I figured that they were both drunk and decided "Hey, lets go make these people around here think we're breaking into their houses!" And before they went to their house it looked like they also tried the same thing to the house next door to them!
Here's the thing. This proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that when you need your gun the most you won't have it. My shotgun was at my apartment! We could not believe this whole thing happened! That may have been just a couple of drunk morons being stupid at 2am.. then again it just as easily couldn't! And I didn't have my freaking gun! That's the only one I own and I have been in the process of helping my girlfriend find a gun for her as well as saving money for a G19.
We were immediately debating wheter or not to call the cops. We were talking about it for half an hour before deciding not to call them since so much time had gone by, even though I regret it. We should have called mainly because they were a couple of drunk morons, and just to have a unit come to the house and visibly let the neighbors and those two stupid people know that someone knew what they were doing (how could those two idiots be so supid? TWO vehicles were right in our driveway!) or maybe cause them to think that they tripped an alarm of some type even though my girlfriend doesn't have a real alarm besides her dogs. And also have a police officer drive down the street more often.
The facts that they could have got into the house and it could have been a lot worse and I didn't have my Mossberg 500 made me irate and made me feel like a darn failure! If I had the shotgun and got to the door before the dogs did I would have shouted that I had a gun, called the police, and if they got into the house I would fill their chest cavity with lead (and that the dogs would rip off their freakin' genitals!).
There basically isn't any other reason for this post except me sharing my experience with all of you and asking for any
advice or suggestions or anything that any of you may have. I'd appreciate the communications!
Thanks all!
