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'round here I'm considered "the crazy old f**t with them funny li'l cars." I've taken the offensive with regard to vandals, punks and idiots. They kinda figger I may come out shootin' if they do anything again' me or mine... I try not to disillusion them of the opinion. Got good and bad, mostly good. Been better and worse over the 20+ years we've been here. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif
 
A few Halloweens ago, some kids were driving down the street hitting garbage cans with bats - I stepped out on my side porch & yelled at them - they basically told me what I could do to myself.....popped a couple of 45 rounds off into the ground at bottom of porch - all they say was the muzzle & heard them...sped off like scared cats....word got around that I'm a crazy Vietnam veteran who'll shoot people.
 
Hehehe Yup nothing gets somebody’s attention like the bark of a 1911! Sure there are louder rounds but I always thought it sounded more intimidating than a .38, 9mm or even a 357mag.

And should that not put the fear of god in’em – the 230 FMJ grain usually puts an abrupt end to things. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Long story (hey its my thread & I can hi-jack it if I want) -

Back in the 80’s this young punk was raising heck in our neighborhood when he & some of his buddies where drinking and racing up & down out streets after midnight. Anyway this bonehead was so drunk that he lost control of his vehicle & slammed into my neighbors house severing a gas line. I was first to arrive and found him slumped over the wheel unconscious with his engine whining at full throttle with the front of his car sticking about two feet into the side of my neighbor’s house. I quickly turned off the car then was alarmed by the sound of hissing gas – from the severed gas line. I looked at the d---head for a second (still out of it) then ran to my neighbor’s front door to warn them to get out. Once I was sure he was safe & was getting his family out of the house I returned to the wreaked vehicle. The jerk was starting to wake up but was in no condition to move under his own power. Now normally they tell you to leave an accident victim alone but because the gas was still hissing and I could clearly smell something burning I decided to pull the moron out of the car. Long story short the cops arrested the guy for a number of charges and DUI. I was asked to be a witness for the prosecution as I was the only person who could put him behind the wheel of the vehicle while intoxicated and was subpoenaed.

Well as crazy as all that was the guy got lawyered up and managed to cut a deal. Disappointed at the enter-workings of out juridical system, the guy actually had the nerve to give me the evil eye as I left the court house. Shaking my head – I left and tried to forget about it.

Well several weeks later I noticed that some of this guys buddies would go out of their way to drive by my house to give the “the look”. A few weeks later I was filling up the tank on my car when this chuckle head actually threatened me. Then I started to notice him following me too. Needless to say each night I made sure the weapons where locked & loaded – just incase.

Well I didn’t have to wait long. About 10 or 11PM I walked out in the yard one night to check & make sure the wife’s car & mine where locked for the night. When about that time I was confronted by this guy. Alone at night I tried to back up but the guy kept pressing the issue and wouldn’t let me retreat to my house without having to go though him first. I called out to my wife to call the cops and then noticed that he had company. It was just his girlfriend (I think) and a dog on a leash. I turned back just in time to catch the guy trying to sucker punch me.

Fast forward – I’d just got the guy on the ground and was holding him when the girl started yelling & kicking at me and trying to turn her dog on me. While the dog didn’t want anything to do with the two humans rolling around on the ground – the girl started calling for his friends to come help this A-hole! Turns out they where waiting just around the corner and where scrambling towards us.

Well as some of you know I don’t have too many good things to say about my ex-wife but that night she probably saved me from a pretty bad arse wiping. Because just as they where a few feet away and just about to join in – everyone stopped in their tracks at as my ex-wife fired off a round in the air. The report was amazingly loud and as quickly as this guy’s buddies they disappeared.

I held the guy and turned him over to the cops when they finally showed up. And believe it or not the guy was in way more trouble than he would have for the original DUI charges. The guy ended up getting 6 months in the county jail for intimidating a witness after the fact.

I hate my ex-wife but I loved her that night.
 
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Hehehe Yup nothing gets somebody’s attention like the bark of a 1911! Sure there are louder rounds but I always thought it sounded more intimidating than a .38, 9mm or even a 357mag.


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Or the sound of cycling a pump shotgun. That can make your sphincter pucker in the dark.

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