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About six or seven years ago while living in Long Island, NY the neighborhood I had lived in for 25 years or so started to take a sharp turn for the worse. I am talking about drug dealers actually standing on MY property, leaning against my truck parked in the driveway offering drugs for sale. Calls to the local police had a 30 min to one hour response time and usually by the time they got there the druggies would wander of down the street. After one episode I found drugs stuffed behind the license plate on my truck! One night I finally snapped, took my black Lab and a twelve gauge Mossberg and went out to confront them. I figured if they were unarmed the dog would handle things, if they showed any kind of a weapon the shotgun would come into play. Druggies took off down the street with one of them missing part of his britches. Didn't solve the problem totally, but it moved it a couple of blocks down the road until I was finally able to sell the place and move down herea couple of years later.

That was a real fun place to live - for entertainment you could sit on the porch and watch the drug dealers go by! I do have to say that in all time I lived there we never had a break in or theft from our house; mostly the result of always having at least two large and VERY protective dogs. (and if someone bothered the dogs my wife was also not reluctant to go outside with the 12 Ga. All this and we got to pay over $11,000 in taxes as well. You'all who have never lived in NY don't know what your missing!

Dave B.