So I come rolling into my driveway @ 9:00pm sharp after leaving
friends house, lock the car w/remote and as I illuminate my torch
(flashlight) I hear an abrupt grunt in the dark on the other side of
my pickup truck, absolutely human & of course having just pulled
into the drive I could not have surprised an animal. It was close &
so distinctly human that my heart just began pounding my chest.
House key is on the auto ring & so as a distraction I activate my
car alarm system, snap open the house lock & door where I have
a loaded gun stashed w/in quick reach, I shut the car alarm and
hear that guys voice suddenly stop talking (speaking to another
person?) in the renewed silence, it's quiet & dark in the country.
(hey mods, small mention of guns, not about guns, please don't bin)
My front, side & back yards are 100% dark, no yard lights, and so
I shout into the darkness (& flashlight's not bright) "step out now
mother fucker I have a gun!" I hear nothing and can see less.
not sure if someone's hiding behind my F150 (plow truck log hauler)
I decide to run a few shots harmlessly into the air, now I can't hear
a friggin' thing even if I'd wanted to, feeling suddenly disadvantaged
I dash inside and call two friends that live on either side of me by a
mile along the same road, one takes his 4 wheeler & the other can
run like the wind and takes off on foot, both checking the roadway
and ditches for anyone on foot.
Bob shows first on the 4 wheeler & I warn him that Kieth's a couple
of minutes ahead on foot but all is clear on either side of me within
moments of my first pulling into my driveway, of course there are
100s of acres of woods along that two mile stretch but I've got to
think that whoever was sneaking around my joint now will have 2nd
thoughts about boosting me. about 3 months ago as a friend was
leaving my place he spotted two teenagers hiding in the ditch along
my roadway and only about 50-60 feet from my driveway, he called
me from his cell to tell me this & so I let my dogs loose on them, I
have two springers right now and one of them has to be muzzled at
the vet because she has a vicious streak running through her ever
since I gave her last puppy away (one we'd kept for 10 months) two
years ago. The kids ran off & I got a laugh out of it, now I wonder....
I live alone near a small community, my home & drive are visible from
the roadway, and although I own several extra vehicles they sit in the
same places week after week etc and so whenever the current ride
I'm driving is gone it might seem predictable that I'm most vulnerable.
Since I started writing this (way over 2 hours ago) two more friends
have come by after shining the woods hard w/Q-Beam spotlights but
have seen nothing, I know what I heard. although I'm overly cautious
I'm not paranoid at all about meeting a stranger in my yard, I'd have
thought I'd see a cougar in my yard before a person skulking around.
That's about it for the rush I got but I'm now faced with upgrading my
security around here. I already have 2 good independent digital video
capture cameras hidden inside my home but now I'm thinking of lighting
the yard with motion sensor lights and alarming my home to hopefully
discourage any entry, I can't run any alarm system to the sheriffs dept
for the obvious reason it gives them permission to enter & thoroughly
search my crib whenever they get an alarm, not good. but loud enough
it might make them think someone would hear the alarm & run them off.
