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I live in the country where things are rellative quite. Crime is not as bad here as in the larger towns.
I suddenly reallized that no place is immune to crime.

One day my wife and her mother were returning from town and were waiting for the garage door to
open. My wife noticed a truck backed up to my tandem trailer in the back yard, which drops off sharply
down hill. There was 2 young men hooking the trailer to the truck and a young girl in the truck.

They hadn't completely hooked up, when they looked and saw her watching them.
Instead of just driving off without the trailer, they slammed the hitch on to the ball
and took off down the drive, passing within 20 ft. of my wife sitting in the car.

To make a long story short, they were caught within 30 min. As it turned out, 1 of the men was on
parole and the other had been in trouble with drugs.( crack ) Both men were procecuted and went to
jail.
I decided then if things were getting so bad that they would steal in broad daylight with someone
watching, then things were getting bad.
This is when I decided to get a chl and carry every it was legal. Now if I'm outside I have a gun handy.
If I come in the house for as much as an hour I lock the door.
My wife never opens the door to anyone she doesn't know.
I never go to the door especially at night whithout my pistol in my hand.
As they say, live and learn.