Strange happenings last night.

[SideShow Bob]

Last night at about 0130 I was awakened by a few people screaming, yelling & carrying on on the street in front of my house. After about 20 minutes of this, I looked out the bedroom window and saw a late model GM truck blocking about 3/4s of my driveway and an unidetified smaller car sitting on the street side of the truck.

After a mother couple of minutes of the raucous, I was reaching in my nightstand for my HD pistol to go outside and and tell the stupid f*cks to shut the hell up & to get their truck out from in front of my driveway, when I I heard several people shout "Don't do it man, don't do it !" Immeadiatly followed by a single gunshot.

I hit the floor, it was silent for a couple of seconds, then I I heard someone shout "let's get the hell out of here !"
Then both vehicles pealed out & left in opposite directions, the directions they were facing.

End of event... Any comments ?

[Zundfolge]

Presumably there are no bodies or blood in the street?

Did you call the police?

[SideShow Bob]

No bodies or blood, no use calling the police, they were long gone by the time I could have called. I woke the wife up and made sure she was OK first, she slept through the whole thing including the gunshot. The head of our bed is to the wall to the street in front of the house.
Guess I will be giving the member that has those ballistic panels for sale a call.

[cstone]

What did the 911 dispatcher say when you told them about this when you spoke to them at 0131 AM?

Please tell me your first thought wasn't to grab a gun and go outside to confront a bunch of total strangers.

[SideShow Bob]

Please tell me your first thought wasn't to grab a gun and go outside to confront a bunch of total strangers.

I was going to shine a 4D cell mag light on them from inside the front door and tell them to shut up and move along.
The pistol was going to be at my side behind the door just in case.

[asmo]

What did the 911 dispatcher say when you told them about this when you spoke to them at 0131 AM?

Please tell me your first thought wasn't to grab a gun and go outside to confront a bunch of total strangers.

^^ THIS ^^ is the right answer for many reasons. But allow me to wax poetic for just a minute..

In the scenario you described, going to your door/outside, with a handgun, to confront an unknown number of potential neerdowells. What exactly were you going to do with the (hand)gun (yeah, you said keep it inside while you made a really good target of yourself)? I am asking out of pure curiosity and not trying to demean.

So lets break this down.

Did you know, before you went to potentially confront them, that these neerdowells:

• had the ABILITY to kill or do serious bodily injury to yourself or another?
• that someone was in JEOPARDY of being killed or being seriously harmed by said neerdowells?
• that these neerdowells had the IMMEDIATE OPPORTUNITY, and power, to kill or seriously harm someone

Based on your quick write-up, my thinking is NO to all three. Granted I wasn't there and I am only going by your quick words. Even if you could have said YES to all three of those, could you CLEARLY ARTICULATE your justifications under intense and immediate pressure? Don't know you, but I am going to guess probably not.

So if those are the case, why would you bring a gun and escalate the situation? Granted, you have the right to. But, if things would have escalated into you exchanging gun fire - your inability to answer a resounding and clear YES to the above three points would probably mean a bad time for you. If you were going to keep it, and you, inside - then why would your make yourself a really easy target? I am not a lawyer, and again not trying to cause issue, just someone who is curious and trying to figure out the thought process behind this.

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Now with that out of the way. Lets get to the choice of weaponry. You saw multiple neerdowells, in vehicles, already in a stable and fortified position - whose tensions were clearly escalated. And you brought a handgun? An HD at that (whether or Sig P238HD or a Hi-Standard HD .22 is unclear? These seems illogical and really really dumb to me. Granted I am Monday-morning quarterbacking here. But, the situation you described calls for a rifle, a semi-automatic one, with many many rounds at your disposal. Multiple potential assailants attacking from fortified positions... and you brought a pistol?

Maybe that is all you have -- but if that is the case, it is EVEN MORE REASON why you should have stayed in your room, called 911 and been a really good witness.

[cstone]

But there may have been a police car just a few blocks away and based on your description they may have been able to make a stop and recover a weapon. All just possibilities and no way of knowing whether it could have happened unless you make the call.

I'm not sure I've ever understood the yelling at people who are making too much noise response. It reminds me of my neighbors who yell at their dogs who are barking.

Glad no one was injured...at least as far as we know.

[fportmen45]

I'm not sure I've ever understood the yelling at people who are making too much noise response.

Yup. I made a 5 second cut with a chop saw at 9pm (my bad - turns out the noise ordinance is 7pm - learn something new everyday) - dude behind my house shot at me at least twice with a BB gun & took out my sliding glass door ($1.7k to replace) because of it.

[jmg8550]

Yup. I made a 5 second cut with a chop saw at 9pm (my bad - turns out the noise ordinance is 7pm - learn something new everyday) - dude behind my house shot at me at least twice with a BB gun & took out my sliding glass door ($1.7k to replace) because of it.

Rough neighborhood. Glad I don't have to put up with shit like that here.

[BladesNBarrels]

Yup. I made a 5 second cut with a chop saw at 9pm (my bad - turns out the noise ordinance is 7pm - learn something new everyday) - dude behind my house shot at me at least twice with a BB gun & took out my sliding glass door ($1.7k to replace) because of it.

Did he pay for the door replacement? Seems like a pretty drastic response to a noise infraction.