Paranoid? Grumpy wife!

[theGinsue]

Yeah, I have cars follow me into and through my neighborhoob fairly often and I WILL NOT go straight to me home until I know they are well away from me before then. In most of the cases it's been a resident a few blocks away that pulls into their driveway, but in some of the cases the people never seem to find their "home". In those cases I generally find a way to follow them until they leave the neighborhood.

I have standing directions with my wife and kids to call me if they think they are being followed and to lead the followers into a neighborhood close to ours. With my big F250 I can get in behind the followers and on the couple of occasions I've had to get involved I've scared the sh!t out of a bunch of kids thinking it was fun to follow someone (no weapons were ever presented). Their idea of fun changed once they realized that the game had turned on them.

I've also ensured my family knows where the local police precincts around town are located. BG's rarely follow you into the parking lot of a police precinct.

My wife used to always accuse me of being paranoid, but she's seen me proven correct too many times now. She's finally starting to see that once my "spidey sense" tingles, something bad is usually going on.

There are a lot of very bad people out there and there are even more just plain dumba$$es that get off on trying to intimidate folks while they are behind the wheel.

[Ranger]

Mine just knows that is how I am and stopped saying anything. In fact she is probably getting as paranoid as I am these days!

[Mobat555]

The few times I have deviated our path I got an eye roll but she did not dispute it much since I had a incident once.

Luckily it was only me on my motorcycle, the people followed me from 6th and Wadsworth to 120th and federal.

Ever since I feel justified in my paranoia.

[Daniel_187]

I tell mine to be quiet and go make me a Sandwich LOL. But really I had this happen once to me(from 66 St in longmont all the way down to my house 20 min south). and if you saw how my neighborhood was set up it was enough to throw up a lot of flags

[Cman]

My wife and I are equally paranoid. It's gotten worse over the years.

[Ah Pook]

Ain't situational awareness a bitch?!

[TEAMRICO]

When I leave the house it it like going on a Recon Patrol....old habits die hard!
I go through mental PCI/PCC's and continuously scan all avenues, choke points, ID all cars in my vicinity etc.
I do the old loop around the hood trick if needed because is they are following you they(criminals) will know exactly where you live from then on out!
Even when I'm gone, son(6) knows "The Drills" for fire, smoke, fire alarms, routes out of the house, what doors to use and what to do for the burglar alarm.
Wife knows exactly where the Saiga is and how to operate it! I tell her "Charge it hard and let it slam forward" the noise alone should scare the crap outta anyone!
Me paranoid?
Just situationally aware.

[2008f450]

I just made my wife read all the posts. Now she knows im not the only one. I just hope she lets me out to play with members here again

[Irving]

Did you make her read that article I posted as well?

[Ah Pook]

Mrs.2008f450
No 2008f450, you may not play with those boys anymore. They are a bad influence.