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Cosmo 9 wrote:I'm new here but let me add one of my biggest fears. Let's say the threats aren't "I'm going to jump up and kick your butt", instead he's saying "I'm going to come back when I make bail and kill you and your whole family, burn down your house and rape your dog". Would this change your response?

Then I might just cap him, I love my dog.

On the serious side, that, IMO, serves as further justification for deadly force, as discussed in another thread, and should serve to make getting bail a very iffy proposition. Of course it's a "He said, she said." situation at that point, but after all, he was in your house doing things he wasn't supposed to be doing and making threats...

XD_Dan wrote:

jimlongley wrote:...will have handcuffs on him real quick, or tie wraps, both of which are kept in my bedroom drawer.

The cuffs are Navy Shore Patrol souveniers, and my wife counted once and found that I have, in various parts of the house, more than 15,000 cable ties, YES that's fifteen THOUSAND!!!

Of course I was a phone man for a lot of years and they just kind of came home with me from time to time. Not really on purpose, just stuck in pockets and such.

No she didn't count them individually, just made rough estimates on a per package basis.

I keep three extra large ones in my dresser "junk drawer" because I used one once to effect a temporary middle of the night repair when a bolt fell out of the bed frame, now they are nearby and ready for use.

I also have two flashlight next to the bed and three more in the dresser, OK two don't have any batteries in them.

And my Shore Patrol night stick and my KaBar also reside in the dresser.

Besides that fact that one of my dogs would have to be dead, and the other three would be going berserk, if I heard strange noises in the house I would have one of the portable phones from elsewhere in the house with me.

The BG, assuming he cooperates to the extent that he lies down on my bedroom floor, will have handcuffs on him real quick, or tie wraps, both of which are kept in my bedroom drawer.

I would be carefully observing my 6, as a matter of fact, since my bedroom is at the end of the house/hall, I would position myself so that I could observe the door while doing whatever else I had to.

OTOH, I probably would have swept the house on the way to the room, not a hard thing to do in my house, only one room not easily seen from the hall/LR/DR. A nice layout for sweeps.