why open the door at all? I would just open a window and yell outside "who TF is out there?" then call the cops if I don't like the answer. Shoot somebody outside and you may do time.
They paint this guy as celebrity kind of money. A 400K$ house? That wouldn't buy a little bungalo in many places. Even a small potatoes op like Treevette can live in a $400K house. No big whoop.:msp_thumbup:
Yup,why open the door if you think you are going to have to shoot in doing so.
I tell you once some teenage kid was banging out there in the rain. We were about the call the cops but I was able to come a confident decision that he actually just was a teenage kid who got rousted from a party by the cops and got lost.
I ended up driving him back to the house down the road where he could sleep it off. It truly was a tough decision to trust him enough not to call the cops on his sorry ass but I didn't really think the soaking wet, half naked high school student needed to be arrested. I mean he was out there in the rain and dark running around in his socks.
I did let him know I was armed. I didn't open the door actually though. We intially told him to beat it and we were calling the cops, he went down into one of the sheds to get out of the rain and wait. It was then , watching him go down there and while we turned on the lights that I could see what the deal was.
Still, I shouldn't have gone out there and yes I took a gun just in case and I kept it low. I am really glad the choice I made was right but it was a little hairy for a minute or two, it could have gone either way. I am very glad that it went well and that I could get the kid back to safety. I hope somebody does that for my kid if she ever gets in to trouble like that. Dam kids.
I was also very glad to be able to discern the situation, all evidence showed that this was just a kid who really did not want to cause alarm, was scared and just needed a little help. I really did not want to see him be hauled away in cuffs by the cops.
When I dropped him off at his friends the house was quite, I told him to go get his buddy to come out real quick or I would call the cops. When they both came out looking like dumb kids whose parents had left them for the weekend I just left. I could tell he learned a little something that night and so did I cause I doubt I will ever leave my family in jepordy again for the few minutes it took to figure out the scene and like I said I am REAL glad it went down like it did... for everybody.
I would not have done it if I couldn't tell what was going on. I would have hunkered in the house, rifle by my side and called the cops which is what I would have done if it was a pizza man, not a little boy in his socks. Calling the cops would have had the whole neighborhood lit up like Christmas in about 2 seconds and I am glad for that just as well.