We needed to run an errand in a not so fine part of the city this morning...When we returned to the lot where we parked a guy in a work van parked next to us said that some stuff was stolen from the van. None of the tools though, from what I understood, just a stack of papers like receipts or credit card bills that were in the cabin.

But, get this, the thief dropped a bottle of prescription meds. The guy said he'd definitely call police :) So, I suppose, this crime definitely didn't pay :D Nothing of use to the thief and the easiest way for cops to track them.

I think, though, that the guy didn't have his driver side window rolled up all the way, so he kinda invited it. This is a pretty sketchy area there....

Wow....I love idiot criminals. I hope they fry this guy for attempting to steal identities (which is why you'd steal credit card information).

I'm sure police will be all over this idiot very soon :) ... seems like an easy catch.

I don't get it though, why people leave their windows open like this...I'd never ever do it even in the safest or areas...

I don't understand that either, but I would prefer to live in a place that allows you to do this without fear of criminals taking advantage.

I know plenty of people in TX who leave their doors open/unlocked all of the time....of course your run the risk of getting your head blown off if you try to exploit that at the wrong time :thmsup::banana:

I don't understand that either, but I would prefer to live in a place that allows you to do this without fear of criminals taking advantage.

I know plenty of people in TX who leave their doors open/unlocked all of the time....of course your run the risk of getting your head blown off if you try to exploit that at the wrong time :thmsup::banana:

I am sure there are places like that in rural Ontario as well, but this was in the inner city...places like that give the word "urban" it's newly acquired meaning :) Btw, I am yet to see a city on the entire continent that doesn't have areas like that :)

Btw, I do know people in suburbia here who don't lock the cars when on their driveways...I think it's probably a force of habit form the good old days. I used to leave in the quietest of suburbs for 7 years, and ther was a robbery on our small crescent once.

Overall though, it ain't that bad, I shouldn't be complaining really :)

Steve...so, let me ask you about heads blown off...So a regular Texan would shoot with no warning or calling the police or whatever else I can imagine doing?

Might sound like a naive question, but I am kinda curious to hear the answer.

Steve...so, let me ask you about heads blown off...So a regular Texan would shoot with no warning or calling the police or whatever else I can imagine doing?

Might sound like a naive question, but I am kinda curious to hear the answer.

A okie would and not think twice about it. Don't come around here and think your going to play games with other peoples stuff. You might get away with it. Or you might die.

Back in 1994 I bought a new Olds Delta 88 Royal. I caught folks trying to break into it twice within a week or two. Once in front of my home another in front of a friends home. I then put a alarm on it. A few days later Im woke up in the middle of the night. The car alarm is going off. I peak out the window. Sure enough a dude is in the car. I grab the 44mag. drop the trigger lock out of it. Go out the back door of the house and come around with a great shot. He bolts at the sight of a big fat white dude in his BVD's and a hand cannon. I take my shot. Missed his head,,, CRAP! But blew a 6" to 8" limb out of a tree right above his head. Cops came. I got a ticket for discharging a firearm in the city limits. We found chunks of the slug not 10' from the tree limb I blew apart. A hollow point 44mag thats been drilled even more turns in to near harmless lead once its hit something. Anyway the thief ends up at the local hospital a few hours later with chunks of tree embeded in his nappy head. The mother yelling she wants me arrested. The cops finger print him. The prints match the ones on the tools left in my car. He bails out of jail never to be seen again and the yelling mother gets her law suite thrown out and my ticket gets dropped.

At any rate we like being known as the neighborhood that takes no crap from anybody.

Just a few months ago my next door neighbors had a huge family reunion. The long of the short. It was a block party. So the first night of the event everybody is standing out in front of my house and there house. Women and kids included. 50 or so people, cold beer and finger food in everybody's hands. A red F-150 drives down the street. Somebody in the back punches a hole in a can of oven cleaner and throws it into the crowd spewing its caustic mess on women and children. Greg picks it up and throws it back at the truck. We then start checking the children and women for burns and start rinsing them off. Our concern was taking care of the kids and women. We were ready to blow it off. Nobody got hurt. But then the idiots came back with ball bats. Never bring wood to a gun fight. We let them walk up to the front of the homes in the street. Then the iron came out. It was suggested to them. That if they kept coming they would be shot. and we were not going to wait for the side walk to be crossed. The police showed up. Turns out they had done this at two other places that evening. We as a group or home owners were still ready to let it go. So we didn't file charges. The cops explained to the young men ages 18 to 21. If they came back death would follow them. The laws concerning this were explained to them.

You do not mess with folks here. We have some very nice make my day laws here. :yes:

You have the right to protect your property to lethal defense in TX

Look at this...it is called the Castle Doctrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Doctrine

It has be linked to seriously deterring crime.

I take this stuff seriously. I would not go out of my way to find someone to shoot, but if I caught someone in my house or out in my truck breaking/stealing stuff from me, they won't live to see the light of day if I have it my way.

Oh...and it is okay to ask these questions Yury. Our laws in the states vary quiet a bit (from the illegal cities that ban hand guns to TX laws), but learning the facts does help.

Psy, do you have Castle Law in your state?

Psy, Steve, that is interesting...

around here I think the general feeling is that the law is too soft...

Apparently the "trick" is to kill them so you don't have to pay for the medical expenses!!:)

I've seen a couple of Craiglist ads locally that mentioned the seller will not tolerate being messed with & stated his ownership of guns & the willingness to use them. :yes:

Don't forget the millions wasted in the public defenders office defending the guilty.

Money saved there too :)

I went to a indoor range of a gun-shop with a co-worker a few years ago during a business trip to Oklahoma City.

Rented a Glock and Sig-Sauer, then proceed to empty a few boxes of 9mm Para down range.

I brought back a couple of bumper stickers from this store, it says in bold letters:

"Fight Crime, Shoot Back!"

:)