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8/21/2014 2:35pm
8/21/2014 2:35pm
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4/13/2016 6:45pm
Or have done? I have a prowler that has been coming around my house at night. Seems like it has been on Tues and Wed nights but every now and again on Thur and Friday. Late Late at night 2-4 AM pecking on windows. The first couple of times I wasn't sure. It thought I might have been dreaming. One night that it happened, I fell asleep with the TV on so I thought it might have been something on there. But as soon as I wake up, it stops. I wasn't sure until this past Tuesday. Some mother fucker is for sure knocking on my windows.
Now I don't live in the city, I do live in a town. I live on over 100 acres and my nearest neighbor is over 400 yards away. I don't lock my house when I go to town, I don't lock my cars when I go to bed. I don't lock anything. There is plenty of stuff for someone to steal but I have had nothing bothered, nothing at all, now or ever. Years ago I had someone stealing gas but that turned out to be a funny story.
I can't get up fast enough to jump up and run someone down because it is on the opposite side of the house from all the doors. What I did was go out into the building. I was actually looking for an old extension cord and I was going to rig something to shock the piss out of them about waist high but I ended up just cleaning up my fox traps instead. I set 12 #2 traps by the window. Old school traps that don't let go. None of those new easy to release bastards that won't cut off a fox's foot. These bastards hurt. I put some thought into it trying to figure out every way they would walk up to the window, from the front, from either side, where they would kneel and hide. I have it rigged up like a land mine. After spreading some grass to cover them, I'm kind of impressed. Even if they get tripped up in one and put their hand down, they are going to get tangled up in an array. I so hope I find some dumb fucker with a trap on one foot and another on his hand. Ha Ha. I even rigged up a couple around a couple of bushes that they might run to if I get up and surprise them fast enough. After I sprinkled grass over the traps, they are hard to see in the day time, let alone the night. Neighbors cat be damned.
Now I don't live in the city, I do live in a town. I live on over 100 acres and my nearest neighbor is over 400 yards away. I don't lock my house when I go to town, I don't lock my cars when I go to bed. I don't lock anything. There is plenty of stuff for someone to steal but I have had nothing bothered, nothing at all, now or ever. Years ago I had someone stealing gas but that turned out to be a funny story.
I can't get up fast enough to jump up and run someone down because it is on the opposite side of the house from all the doors. What I did was go out into the building. I was actually looking for an old extension cord and I was going to rig something to shock the piss out of them about waist high but I ended up just cleaning up my fox traps instead. I set 12 #2 traps by the window. Old school traps that don't let go. None of those new easy to release bastards that won't cut off a fox's foot. These bastards hurt. I put some thought into it trying to figure out every way they would walk up to the window, from the front, from either side, where they would kneel and hide. I have it rigged up like a land mine. After spreading some grass to cover them, I'm kind of impressed. Even if they get tripped up in one and put their hand down, they are going to get tangled up in an array. I so hope I find some dumb fucker with a trap on one foot and another on his hand. Ha Ha. I even rigged up a couple around a couple of bushes that they might run to if I get up and surprise them fast enough. After I sprinkled grass over the traps, they are hard to see in the day time, let alone the night. Neighbors cat be damned.
The Shop
Here,I would never,never call the cops for shit,I will handle my business,call them when the mess needs cleanup.
There's plenty of legal precedent that will come back to haunt you if you actually catch somebody with what you've setup. You're not allowed to booby trap your property to cause harm to an intruder.
You can shoot the guy in the face all day long if you're holding the gun and he's coming through your window, but you can't set up a mechanised trap to do the same thing.
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Pit Row
Around here if you make it look like a suicide they wrap a bow on it and call it done.
Hang around a still all nite ,talk about a rush,worrying about each sound,is it law or lawless thieves.
Good times.
It is most likely someone you know or knows what you have,jewelry or guns etc..
Just because you jumped up probably doesn't worry them,it is what they want,learning.
I'd be worried. It will prolly escalate,get more brave
Sorry to put fear in you but I'd have it. I really doubt its kids,
If someone came to my house which is way off the road,no neighbors,and pecked like that ,numerous nites,when I cath him he has to die because here he will be out the next day and I cant have that worry on my mind. If I go to jail so be it but here,I'd be a hero to kill a thief.
Get a good Game Camera with good night vision and contact your local law enforcement.
I kinda go the same (sort of) deal going now, I had some meth head scrappers from down the street, cut down my fence in two places to get scrap and semi rims out of the truck dealership behind my property. I called the cops, I don't wanna retaliate because I have a 10 year old, a pregnant wife, guitars and a garage full of cool shit. They have nothing but time, I have to leave eventually. I am however buying a shotgun on payday.
In all seriousness, think twice about starting some shit. I was kinda clowning in my other post, but you have to live there, and that makes you kinda a easy target.
Then have yourself a good old fashioned stakeout! Blast the fuck out of them, get them to lay on the ground and call the cops. Threaten to use a pistol if they move, but use the paintball gun to gain compliance.
I am a bachelor living alone, so no, they are not trying to wake a hot daughter or anything like that.
Either way though......it's pretty fucking creepy when you think about it. Why would a person even think about doing something so damn stupid? The next house they do this too....might not have someone cool enough to just lay traps like that. They may be waiting out in the bushes with a freakin' 12g shotgun......and then shit won't be funny any more.
I don't get some peoples ideas of fun.
A guy here in Montana had a couple of teenagers that were breaking into his garage on a weekly basis, mainly to steal alcohol and weed. He decided to bait the teenagers by leaving the garage door up and setting up video surveillance camera's. The kids came into the garage through the open door one night and the guy ran around the house to the open door and yelled at them and blasted the person with a shotgun. He's now going through a loooong court case, because the kid was a stand out soccer player who was also a foreign exchange student. Anyways, the state is charging him with baiting. I think the kid was from Germany, but anyways the German console is going after the guy also.
If it was me I'd set up a bunch of rakes on the ground so when the person stands on the end of one in the dark he'll get WHACKED in the face. Just like what happened to Sideshow Bob on The Simpson's!
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