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419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 365

My Chief has been on holiday for the last two weeks which has limited my Eater time for I have been working the dreaded day shift.

At the beginning of the week, my next door neighbor gets into a phone altercation with some boys from the north side of town. He invites them to come over to take care of business face to face. They show up, and he comes out with an illegally modified rifle and proceeds to blast away at them. He fires no less than 10 rounds at the boys. They take refuge behind another neighbors vehicle which gets shot up. No one was hit by the bullets but when I got to work the next morning and found out what had happened I was furious. Officer RJ, who had conducted the initial investigation, had arrested the neighbor on a lesser charge. Naturally, I conducted a followup investigation and now having the District Attorney's Office upgrade the charges to attempted manslaughter and possession of an illegal weapon. My neighbor is now looking at a minimum of 30 years in prison. I guess to my neighbor, now, I am the neighbor from hell!

Where was I during the shootout that occured only 100 feet from my bedroom window? The walls of my masonry home are 12 inches thick and very well insulated. I slept through the whole ordeal.

So far, since working days these last two weeks, I am working the above case, 2 thefts, 1 burglary, 2 traffic crashes(one of these involved my wife, but that's another story) and 6 followups from other cases.

Moral of the story: Never bring empty hands to a gunfight!

And how has your week been?

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:56 pm

Chief2B wrote:

And how has your week been?

I was thinking it has been a real PITA until I read about yours. Laughing

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:00 pm

Sounds like you live to close to your customers.

Rules For Gun Fights

* Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.
* Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
* Only hits count. A close miss is still a miss.
* If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough nor using cover correctly.
* Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal movements are preferred.)
* If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun.
* In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
* If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running.
* Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
* Use a gun that works EVERY TIME.
* Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
* Always cheat = always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
* Have a plan.
* Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work.
* Use cover and concealment as much as possible.
* Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
* Don't drop your guard.
* Always tactically reload and threat scan 360 degrees.
* Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them).
* Decide to be AGGRESSIVE enough, QUICKLY enough.
* The faster you finish the fight, the less shot up you will get.
* Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
* Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
* Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a "4".

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:02 pm

Damn kids

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:04 pm

Chief2B wrote:

And how has your week been?

Hi Chief,
Nobody died here either.

It's been p*ssing down with rain for the last two days. I've' got an interview for a job tomorrow afternoon, so I suppose I mustn't grumble.

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:55 pm

@full auto

I bet you have a poster of one of these tacked up on the wall of your khazi Smile

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:10 pm

Nope no posters, but I do like my .308, my 12 gauge remmy shotgun, the glock .40, the old faithful colt .45, and my nice little calico 9mm with the 50 round drum clip that can't be detached (therefore they couldn't outlaw it... yet). Laughing

Those tend to stay out of the bathroom though... unless I'm cleaning on of them with a tooth brush. Very Happy

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:14 pm

Chief2B wrote:

... my next door neighbor ... fires no less than 10 rounds at the boys ...

Two questions:

1. How can anybody be such a bad shot?

2. JESUS CHRIST ON A BICYCLE, where the hell do you live? Shocked

Get out of the neighborhood! For cryin' out loud!

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:18 pm

Thats a damn scary story Chief Sad

Be careful.

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:28 pm

Geez. And, I thought my neighbour who put his TV set in the window and broadcast pr0n movies was an interesting chap.

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:30 pm

full auto wrote:

Nope no posters, but I do like my .308, my 12 gauge remmy shotgun, the glock .40, the old faithful colt .45, and my nice little calico 9mm with the 50 round drum clip that can't be detached (therefore they couldn't outlaw it... yet). Laughing

Those tend to stay out of the bathroom though... unless I'm cleaning on of them with a tooth brush. Very Happy

Being a family man in a country where even the cops hate guns, I don't have an armoury, but if I did have one pride of place would be a SOPMOD M203 for longer distance conversations and a Sterling SMG for those more intimate tete a tetes Razz

Quote:

* Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

BTW - I get interviewed for my own job on Tuesday - this is the best advice ever Twisted Evil

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 365

Quote:

1. How can anybody be such a bad shot

The weapon that was used was a .22caliber rifle with the barrel sawed off to 7.5 inches. The victims being shot at were approximately 75 feet away from him.

Quote:

where the hell do you live?

Actually it's a nice neighborhood. The neighbor only moved in about 6 months ago and probably didn't realize that I don't tolerate this kind of behaviour. All he had to do was ask the last neighbor that lived there before him.

It's really nice to be in a position to personally "take care" of disruptive neighbors Wink

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:38 pm

So the rifling would have virtually no time at all to take effect and the round would be all over the place like a drunk weeing in a corner. Sounds like a half assed attempt at a sawn off piece with no idea of of the mechanics behind it.

So - is that take care in a fluffy, loving, my little pony sense or a Harry Callaghan sense? Twisted Evil

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 3551

I live in a nice area, BUT if you honk your car horn at someone or cut them off in traffic accidentally, you know that you could get bullets in your car/body. I hate guns. Evil or Very Mad

419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

And I got pissed off because my new neighbour's lawn sprinkler sprays periodically over my fence Shocked

Maybe I'm a little separated from reality!

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:46 pm

At the bottom of our road is a dual carriageway leading to the city centre (big clue to my location there Smile

) and on occasion, if you stick to the 40 MPH speed limit (like when you are loaded with kids in the back), you get chavs up your bottom waving their fist at you and tailing you home because you have slowed them down for thirty seconds. Jonathon Ross was right Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:48 pm

West Coast rule, more idiots, move to the East. Keep going if you have to. Jerk off's don't like hot weather and wilderness. No illegal cash there.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

I'm glad that you're alright, Chief.

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:48 pm

Of course he is - he doesn't need to dial 911 - he IS 911 Smile

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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:02 am

Chief, I'm glad too!

Kinda quiet round this neck of woods. Smile

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:12 am

I want to live in Homerjfongs neighbourhood Laughing

Elite Baiter Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 1455

But apart from that, Chief2B, your neighbour is a really nice chap, I take it?

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:19 am

@FullAuto

You wrote:

I do like my .308, my 12 gauge remmy shotgun, the glock .40, the old faithful colt .45, and my nice little calico 9mm

Thats a good start. Razz

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:20 am

I live in a country where we're not allowed to have guns. The crims and drug dealers still have them of course, but they tend to shoot each other so whatever.........

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:07 am

There's something about a .44 Magnum that's just fun. But, I won't own a gun.

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