Tank (our german shorthaired), kept him at bay. He got one leg over the fence but not much more. We had a lumber yard behind our house and he was standing on a unit of lumber trying to get over the fence. He was fairly persistent because he was talking to Tank trying to calm him down etc... for a good 5 minutes or so. When he heard the sirens he bailed, police never found him.
The excitement came when my mom realized that dad had handed me the carbine and told me to shoot if the burglar got past the dog. She went ballistic. You gave him the gun and told him to shoot, he's a kid! What the hell were you thinking?? Dad was like, he's a kid, they wouldn't send him to jail. If I shot the guy there'd be all kinds of investigations and court crap. But if a kid shot a burglar he'd be a hero and nothing would come of it. I had a great talk with my mom recently about things like this from my childhood. I have all these stories of crazy things that happened or that I did that to be honest I just wasn't sure of anymore. Did I make them up, exaggerate situations? here them second hand? I just wasn't sure. So I asked her about 10 or 12 things that I "remembered" but grew to doubt. She verified all of them. Pretty much verifying the fact that my parents are lucky to have any hair and I am probably lucky to be alive. G Money wrote: > Dude....you can't start a story like that and then not finish it! > > What the F happened? > > On 4/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Some of those numbers are outrageous and appear to be from faulty data. >> >> 2.5 million uses of a guns for defensive purposes each year? Get the >> hell out of dodge. Did the researchers get there entire sampling from >> the projects? >> >> There are roughly 301 million Americans. According to the Census the >> average American household is 2.6 people. 301 million / 2.6 = 116 >> million households. 116 / 2.5 = 46.4. That means that according to >> these researchers 1: 46.4 households uses a gun for self defense every >> year. That is 6849 uses of a gun in self defense each and everyday. I >> would like more info, those numbers just seem a little high to me and I >> tend to support the right to bear arms. >> >> How many people are on this list? How many of you, in your household >> have used a gun in self defense in the past year? The past 5 years? Ever >> outside of those who have used guns as part of their job (Police, >> Military etc...) >> >> When I was 9 some guy came over our back fence. My dog was going nuts, I >> got up looked out the window saw a guy coming over the fence. I woke up >> my dad. He went to the closet, handed me a .30 caliber carbine told me >> to shoot the guy if got past the dog. He then went and called the >> police, while I sat looking out the window, down the barrel of the >> carbine. That was 36 years ago. I have lived in South Central Los >> Angeles, and lots of other crummy areas and have never again pointed a >> gun at someone, not for a lack of access to guns but for a lack of >> criminal targets. >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:233213 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
