mr2mk1g 10 #1 May 20, 2004 Well, some excitement for the evening. I was just about to get into bed having undressed and turned out all the lights for the night. The two guys who I normally share my house with are both out - one on business and one at his girlfriends, so I'm alone for the night. I hear through the open bedroom window some bangs and cracking... Odd, I think. So I turn out the remaining desk lamp in my room and go to the windows take a look. There, across the street I see two shadowy people by a car. Perhaps a third walks away. Ok, someone's going out late (its 1am here). But then... odd, that's where my housemate's car was parked - actually no, that is my housemate's car! …but he's away on business... ? I bang on the window and peak through the curtains... no movement. Oh, that would be the engine hesitatingly turning over... and there go the windscreen wipers… Well damnit, looks like I'm just gonna have to put some clothes on. Can’t go tackling thieves with my naked arse hanging out can I now? A quick t-shirt and trousers (sans underwear of course) and chuck on some shoes and I'm down the stairs like a flash. The engine turns over again. I grab my deactivated WWI rifle from the hall before sprinting out the front door. (This is just a big lump of intimidating wood and steel - it no longer makes any kind of bang save for the blunt impact sort from the heavy end. Beautiful piece of history mind). I run out onto my front path so that I am directly opposite the car, about 15ft away. I raise the rifle as I run out and shout "FREEZE" in the best action hero voice my flu will allow. I work the bolt on the rifle for effect. Man car thieves move fast! The two of them bolt down the street, round the corner and off. I don't give chase. That third person is unaccounted for and well, I never was much of a runner. Besides, my “gun” is at best an unwieldy club or fucking scary bluff. At worst it represents trip to the cop shop. I wait a few moments and watch the street. No more movement, no more sounds. The two/three are long gone, probably in search of new underwear. I return to the house and come back with a large maglight, (a slightly more practical club), and leave the lump of wood and steel behind. I secure the car as well as I can and telephone its owner. He’ll see to it tomorrow. I put the bin out. I’d have forgotten otherwise. Perhaps now I've spend 20 minutes writing this the adrenaline will have subsided enough for me to return to my original plan - sleep. Goodnight people. (edited cos apparently I spell like a dead animal... no I said SPELL). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freefallfreak 0 #2 May 20, 2004 Quote(This is just a big lump of intimidating wood and STEAL ). Quotethe lump of wood and STEAL behind. Uhh, Steal behind?? ROFLMAO... FFF "Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #3 May 20, 2004 Hey, wadayawant? It's like 2 in the morning an I'm all pumped. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freefallfreak 0 #4 May 20, 2004 Lol...that's cool...I just thought it was funny. Btw, I'm glad the perps weren't armed...you might have had a bit of a suprise. FFF "Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #5 May 20, 2004 I probably wouldn't have done it in another country... but it's far from likely that English car theives breaking into a 10 year old 1lt Rover Metro will be armed with anythiong more serious than a screwdriver. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freefallfreak 0 #6 May 20, 2004 Ya' have to be careful with thieves with screwdrivers...they might screw ya' to death FFF "Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Laurel 0 #7 May 20, 2004 excellent. glad they didn't have fire power and chose to run. be safe, dude...................................................................... PMS#28, Pelogrande Rodriguez#1074 My Pink M Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cocheese 0 #8 May 20, 2004 Good work ! i know a guy who used the (real ) gun and the cops did nothing to the car owner/shooter after they found the car with blood stains in it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dgm458 0 #9 May 20, 2004 I caught this guy breaking in to my van when I was fishing about 9 years ago. I was 18 or 19 at the time. I had heard a car pull up by where the cars were parked, but never pull off. There were about 12 of us at the river fishing and I had set up near the vehicles. I decided to go up and take a look and I'll be damned if this guys ass isn't sticking out the back of the van window. I holler at my wife (g/f then) to go get everybody and I take off and tackle the m/f. We're wrestling on the ground in the sand, exchanging blows, going back and forth. I was wearing denim blue jean shorts and this guy grabbed the knot where the denim sews together under the crotch thinking he had my nuts, saying "Whaddya gonna do now bitch?" I headbutted the guy in the face and politely reminded him that I was not his bitch. About that time everyone else showed up, including Ox, a bar bouncer that I knew that tagged along for the party portion of the fishing trip. Every time this kid spoke, Ox punched him in the mouth. Found out he had two friends asleep in his car waiting on him. He had already broken into three of our vehicles by the time I found him. We had him hogtied when the cops showed up and his two friends in tears. The cops didn't even cuff him...they simply picked him up by the ropes and hauled his ass to jail as is. What a night. I had to go to the ER because the moron bit my hand pretty bad. That's OK...Ox gave him one helluva dentistry bill. david-------------------------------------------------- Failure to prepare is preparing to fail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #10 May 20, 2004 Well, I'm very glad that they didn't have weapons of their own, or you could have been in a world of hurt.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyRock 0 #11 May 20, 2004 yep.. good thing they didn't have any weapons, and you didn't have to shoot them.. but, instead of shooting them, heres what one guy did.... check out this story- (see attachment) -Seth :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yoink 321 #12 May 20, 2004 nice one mate... always good to scare the crap out of some scallies isn't it? As for them being armed? nuts to it... you did good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #13 May 20, 2004 Like I said, in England the chances of a couple of kids breaking in to a old car being armed with anything more than a knife are infinitesimally small. OK, there are some guns on the street over here, but they aint being carried by kids breaking into a 1990 burgendy Rover Metro that smells like grandparents. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #14 May 20, 2004 Ah, missed that part. Many, you should have chased them off with an axe handle, that would have been good. Give them a good redneck beating for trying to take your roommate's car.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
