Cougar Allen
Buccaneer (ret.)
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A friend of mine woke up in the middle of the night when he heard some burglars climbing in a window. He has a pistol but he prefers his sword for home defense. It's a modern reproduction of a highly decorated but very functional medieval Spanish broadsword; he paid about $1200 for it (more than his pistol cost ... but it's prettier)....
So he got the sword and came out of the bedroom in his skivvies, half-awake, with a Maglite in one hand and the broadsword in the other. When he saw the burglars he woke up all the way and went for them. When the burglars saw him they went out the window a lot faster than they had come in.... He didn't chase them, just turned on the lights and called the police. A patrol car was nearby and they found the burglars a few blocks away, still running, and they didn't even try to deny it -- they seemed grateful to the police for rescuing them from the freaking MANIAC with a SWORD THIS LONG that was chasing them!
Word gets around ... my friend became famous in the local criminal community. He would probably never have been burglarized again if those change-of-address kits the post office gives out had cards to send to the local burglars.... Four years later, when he was living in a different house on the other side of town, he came home one day and found two burglars in the house -- a different two than the first time. They were between him and his sword but he had his 10mm Tanfoglio in his shoulder holster.... When they saw the gun they exited, still carrying his tv.
When the police arrived they asked him, "Why the fork didn't you shoot them???"
He said, "If I'd a shot 'em they would a dropped my tv."
As it turned out it took the police a couple of days to catch up with them and the tv was long gone by then; he never did recover it -- but when those two found out it had been the MANIAC WITH THE SWORD's house they'd hit they freaked out! They counted themselves lucky to be alive.
As long as he stays in the same house I doubt he'll ever have any trouble with burglars again.
So he got the sword and came out of the bedroom in his skivvies, half-awake, with a Maglite in one hand and the broadsword in the other. When he saw the burglars he woke up all the way and went for them. When the burglars saw him they went out the window a lot faster than they had come in.... He didn't chase them, just turned on the lights and called the police. A patrol car was nearby and they found the burglars a few blocks away, still running, and they didn't even try to deny it -- they seemed grateful to the police for rescuing them from the freaking MANIAC with a SWORD THIS LONG that was chasing them!
Word gets around ... my friend became famous in the local criminal community. He would probably never have been burglarized again if those change-of-address kits the post office gives out had cards to send to the local burglars.... Four years later, when he was living in a different house on the other side of town, he came home one day and found two burglars in the house -- a different two than the first time. They were between him and his sword but he had his 10mm Tanfoglio in his shoulder holster.... When they saw the gun they exited, still carrying his tv.
When the police arrived they asked him, "Why the fork didn't you shoot them???"
He said, "If I'd a shot 'em they would a dropped my tv."
As it turned out it took the police a couple of days to catch up with them and the tv was long gone by then; he never did recover it -- but when those two found out it had been the MANIAC WITH THE SWORD's house they'd hit they freaked out! They counted themselves lucky to be alive.
As long as he stays in the same house I doubt he'll ever have any trouble with burglars again.
