DarkLight
Enlightened
Another post reminded me of an incident I had in the fall.
It was late at night about 130 am. I was sitting at the puter, wife asleep in bed when I hear a noise coming from the kitchen..
sounded like someone slurring their words talking....
Now my stepdaughter hadnt come home yet, so the door was unlocked still, so I go out there and there is a guy with his head on the kitchen table, kinda mumbling to himself,
I scan the room and nothing is out of place and I see no weapons in the guys hands.
I am pretty confused at this point thinking...is this one of her friends who needs to sleep it off?
(I only had recently moved to this area after dating her mother).
I peek out to the parking area and sure enough...her car ISNT home yet.
This has taken about 15 secs realtime but seems like forever if you know what I mean..
So I go back to my room and grab my 4D maglight in one hand and slip my cold steel tanto point voyager into my back pocket...
Now I shake the guy and wake him up...
Excuse me? what are you doing here? Can I help you?
the guy stands up I size him up he is about 4 inches shorter than me and about 60 lbs lighter too. This relieves me immensely. Glad it wasnt the other way around if he was going to get ornery.....
He says...You know me man,,,, I am your friend, I am drunk I just need to sleep some man.....
and a bunch of other drunk type stuff.
I insisted he had to leave and if he was nice about I was not going to call the cops on him..
He was quite drunk and I thought he may just think he is at his friends house on another street....
( as long as he did nothing silly or stupid I was cutting him a break)
I been drunk a few times myself... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Anyway he asks to use the phone to call someone I said no way, there is a pay phone at the end of street start walking and use that..
So I shoo him out the door and he goes quietly, I lock the door and go wake the wife and tell her what happened...she freaks out of course..
Nice to get some appreciation for being the MAN of the House too! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
So anyways I go the garage and grab my 2MCP coleman rechargeable and sure enough, I light up the street and in 20 minutes he is only about 100 yds away..
He comes back down the street towards the house and thats when I decided,...you had your chance buddy, now you blew it..
I call up the cops and told them what happened..car on its way....
by the time the two cars showed up....25 minutes later...they drive around and cant find him......
drunk lucky fool musta found a bush to pass out in..
I would estimate his BAC at .20 or better...
Cop said you are a nice guy, I would have just shot him.......
I am actually really glad nothing violent happened, I have pretty frightening demeanor when I need it..
As long as he was cool I was cool. But I assure you had he made one stupid move he would have found himself on the floor in a sleeper hold faster than you can say *spit*.
Been there done that move.....amazing how fast people go to sleep too.......
And I sleep pretty good at night knowing I didnt have to hurt or kill someone...just because I "could" have....
Makes me think of the line about angels unawares.......
Hope you enjoyed it.....
This story is true and none of the names have been changed.....
What do you think your response would have been?
Funny once you get into the situation you really stop thinking well and go on instincts pretty quickly...
It was late at night about 130 am. I was sitting at the puter, wife asleep in bed when I hear a noise coming from the kitchen..
sounded like someone slurring their words talking....
Now my stepdaughter hadnt come home yet, so the door was unlocked still, so I go out there and there is a guy with his head on the kitchen table, kinda mumbling to himself,
I scan the room and nothing is out of place and I see no weapons in the guys hands.
I am pretty confused at this point thinking...is this one of her friends who needs to sleep it off?
(I only had recently moved to this area after dating her mother).
I peek out to the parking area and sure enough...her car ISNT home yet.
This has taken about 15 secs realtime but seems like forever if you know what I mean..
So I go back to my room and grab my 4D maglight in one hand and slip my cold steel tanto point voyager into my back pocket...
Now I shake the guy and wake him up...
Excuse me? what are you doing here? Can I help you?
the guy stands up I size him up he is about 4 inches shorter than me and about 60 lbs lighter too. This relieves me immensely. Glad it wasnt the other way around if he was going to get ornery.....
He says...You know me man,,,, I am your friend, I am drunk I just need to sleep some man.....
and a bunch of other drunk type stuff.
I insisted he had to leave and if he was nice about I was not going to call the cops on him..
He was quite drunk and I thought he may just think he is at his friends house on another street....
( as long as he did nothing silly or stupid I was cutting him a break)
I been drunk a few times myself... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Anyway he asks to use the phone to call someone I said no way, there is a pay phone at the end of street start walking and use that..
So I shoo him out the door and he goes quietly, I lock the door and go wake the wife and tell her what happened...she freaks out of course..
Nice to get some appreciation for being the MAN of the House too! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
So anyways I go the garage and grab my 2MCP coleman rechargeable and sure enough, I light up the street and in 20 minutes he is only about 100 yds away..
He comes back down the street towards the house and thats when I decided,...you had your chance buddy, now you blew it..
I call up the cops and told them what happened..car on its way....
by the time the two cars showed up....25 minutes later...they drive around and cant find him......
drunk lucky fool musta found a bush to pass out in..
I would estimate his BAC at .20 or better...
Cop said you are a nice guy, I would have just shot him.......
I am actually really glad nothing violent happened, I have pretty frightening demeanor when I need it..
As long as he was cool I was cool. But I assure you had he made one stupid move he would have found himself on the floor in a sleeper hold faster than you can say *spit*.
Been there done that move.....amazing how fast people go to sleep too.......
And I sleep pretty good at night knowing I didnt have to hurt or kill someone...just because I "could" have....
Makes me think of the line about angels unawares.......
Hope you enjoyed it.....
This story is true and none of the names have been changed.....
What do you think your response would have been?
Funny once you get into the situation you really stop thinking well and go on instincts pretty quickly...