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Horrible story Edit: Tasty says "Really. It's Very Bad"
So, my bff's parents' house was broken into earlier in the week. Her mom was home alone (dad was away for the night), and had taken a sleeping pill so she was deeply sleeping (it was 5 am). As a result, she didn't realize a masked intruder was in her house until he walked into her bedroom and woke her up. He immediately started screaming obsenities and racial slurs, and kept telling her to get out of 'his country' (she's not white and speaks with an accent, so I guess he figured she was a God Damned Immigrant). He told her he had a gun and was gonna effin kill her, though he never showed her any weapon. He then made her go through the house with him, empty out every drawer, and he took $1,000 in cash and all of her jewelry (mostly family heirlooms) and then took off.
Well, this poor woman (whom I've known since I was 10), has a weak heart (she's had a previous heart attack and heart 'episodes'). She felt pretty ill after the fact and went to the hospital, and found that she had another minor heart attack as a result of the stress of the incident. So they did two new stents, but her heart is still not responding, so she's still in the ICU with 25% heart function.
I'm so stressed and angry about this whole situation. I just needed to share.
Mabel the Loser.
Re: Horrible story Edit: Tasty says "Really. It's Very Bad"
And for all of the people who said "that's what homeowner's insurance is for - I would never want to kill an intruder." Really? The world isn't better off w/o that scumbag?
That is so awful, I hope she has an easy recovery.
Are you talking about our conversation last week. Yeah, I would probably be pissing my pants in fear. It's not whether you would be angry enough to want the person dead, it is whether you have it in you to take another life. There are plenty of assholes in the world. I just don;t have it in me to kill them. But you go ahead there. Too bad your parents didn't give you 20,000 to start your own mercenary business instead of going to college.
Oh the parents - they would have been so proud to have raised a contract killer.
I think that at least a few of the "I wouldn't have it in me" comments were also implying that it's wrong to wish harm to a person who, really, is just there to take your stuff and probably has no real intention to harm you. But I think that the fear / insecurity that results is prety harmful in and of itself. Would I personally be able to off someone? Probably not. But it doesn't mean that I don't think that said person deserves to be off-ed.
I don't know if I would have it in me to take a life in that situation. Since we'll never own a gun, I'll never know.
But I wouldn't fault someone else that did.
i wouldn't fault someone no.
And i will never own a gun either. Except a glue gun, which my husband randomly texted me yesterday was still a gun.
anyway. We apparently have had 20 break ins in the last 8 weeks in our little neighborhood area. People are breaking the windows and going in. Mr. Winged leaves for a week in a couple of weeks. i am scared.
I don't know if I could kill someone, but I certainly I think I'd have it in me to at least do some real damage to an intruder. I'm a scrappy fighter, and I have no qualms with fighting dirty (ie, poking out eyes, biting, etc.)
I also think that if this guy happens to get caught, he should be convicted of assault as well as the b&e and robbery, because he caused some serious physical damage to her.
oh, that's an awful story. In fact, your post title doesn't aptly describe it's horrible-ness in full, and you should have to write "REALLY. IT'S VERY BAD." as an addendum.
If someone broke into my house, stole my tv, and ran away when hearing me approaching (or, screaming like a girl, whatevs), I wouldn't shoot them. If someone dragged me out of bed, held me hostage while they ransacked my house, I might be just scared enough as to what they plan on doing with me afterward to shoot them if I had a gun. If the bastard was unlucky enough to open the door to PIckle's nursery, I'd shoot the hell out of them.
of course this is all hypothetical since I don't own a gun and probably never will. H and I discuss it sometimes (we both grew up with Dads who packed heat), so that might change at some point. If it does, shooting practice and gun class will come first.
Tasty, I'm with you on the Pickle front. If anyone dared touch a hair on Miles' head, I would have NO QUALMS with killing that person. Seriously. Don't fuuck with my kid.
I'll edit the title for you, my dear.
Back to this again? I don't have a gun in the house because I do have it in me to kill someone. But in this sort of situation a gun wouldn't really matter, because as soon as I had the opportunity to grab something to bludgeon them with I am pretty sure I would.
ETA: And yes, this story is really horrible! I don't even know them and I am mad about it.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
someone hurting Ryker is probably what would get me to kill them. But I am still anti gun. I would probably rip them apart with my bare hands.
His nursery is in the front of the house and I am considering having him sleep with me while Mr. Winged is gone in case someone breaks in. I still won't have a gun though. We have a bolt lock on the bedroom door and I would get something big to use to beat them senseless.
Why do people need guns to kill someone anyway?
That must be tough, because I'll bet a lot of people want to touch that glorious hair.
because I'm flabby and weak. maybe my adrenaline would give me an upper hand, but I don't know if I'd be willing to take that chance. I could just see me going after dude w. a baseball bat, wiffing, and him taking it from me and beating me senseless.
Oh, Kay. You have no idea. It's very tiring threatening people all day long.
oh me too. But I could beat someone down with enough adrenaline and a bat
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I'm gonna get all ML up in here.
But you can't hold a baseball bat sideways and yell "GAT! GAT GAT!"
Case closed.
(Nov, that is super sad. Hope she's ok)
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
Cali, you're the love of my life.
Nov, that is awful and sad and terrible and angering. It's bad enough to have someone break in but that kind of personal interaction takes it to a whole 'nother level. I hope she recovers from this and they find the bastard and string him up by his toenails and let Tasty and WInged at him with bats.
I have a lot of middle of the night anxiety, particularly when I move to a new place. Two or three nights in a row since I've moved I've been convinced someone was in the house so I just laid real still and pretended to be asleep because I figured if I just stayed quiet and let them take whatever, they'd prefer me to be unable to ID them so they'd just do their business and leave.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
wow, that really is an awful story.
I just don't have enough faith in myself to be able to properly use a gun to kill the attacker in such a high stress situation. I'm afeared I would just hurt myself.
There was a news story here earlier this week about a woman who was attacked in her home. The attacker left her tied up on the bed with her laptop at the foot of the bed (she convinced him not to steal it by saying that it was her work laptop, and it had software on it that would allow them to trace it). She used her TOES to take the laptop out of the bag, open it, press CTRL + ALT + DLT (think about that for a minute), log in, and email her boyfriend for help. The whole process took her around five hours. Amazing, right?
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