Strange night last night...

Sigarms · Dec 31, 2020

lman said:
Not advisable to shoot somebody stealing your car.
Woman who shot & killed car thief did not have right to shoot, legal experts say

Anyone with a CC permit would understand that the woman in question was wrong.

Fuddy1952 · Dec 31, 2020

We thought about the long distance voices also.
Neighbors have an alarm system. My take is they watch the news 16 hrs/day. Add stay at home covid. To me they're getting paranoid. I triggered their driveway sensor when I went to get the cake. It was 7pm. I rang doorbell and they peeked out windows!
Finally opened door after I said who I was.
I would never pull a gun trigger on anyone, even coming in my house if I could detain them until police arrived. Just like the drunk prankster, I'm sure the shooter wishes they hadn't shot him. Someone with a weapon...that's different.
Same with someone beating on my door, I would want to see what it's about. It could be most anything...someone seeking safety, in trouble, injured...anything.

Dftodd · Dec 31, 2020

Fuddy1952 said:
We thought about the long distance voices also.
Neighbors have an alarm system. My take is they watch the news 16 hrs/day. Add stay at home covid. To me they're getting paranoid. I triggered their driveway sensor when I went to get the cake. It was 7pm. I rang doorbell and they peeked out windows!
Finally opened door after I said who I was.
I would never pull a gun trigger on anyone, even coming in my house if I could detain them until police arrived. Just like the drunk prankster, I'm sure the shooter wishes they hadn't shot him. Someone with a weapon...that's different.
Same with someone beating on my door, I would want to see what it's about. It could be most anything...someone seeking safety, in trouble, injured...anything.

I beat the snot out of my neighbors door one night.

Got to smelling smoke when I was out back with the dog. Peaked over the fence separating the yards and realized their butt bucket was on fire on their porch.

fried1765 · Dec 31, 2020

Macinnis said:
I see this is one of your English speaking posts.

Your point is ???

goeduck · Dec 31, 2020

Fuddy1952 said:
We thought about the long distance voices also.

I live on the water and voices really carry from boats going by on a calm night

Jstpssng · Dec 31, 2020

Sigarms said:
Anyone with a CC permit would understand that the woman in question was wrong.

Yet if you are an LEO it's perfectly excusable.

lilranch2001 · Dec 31, 2020

fried1765 said:
Your point is ???

I was trying to figure that out too....

lilranch2001 · Dec 31, 2020

Jstpssng said:
Yet if you are an LEO it's perfectly excusable.

Its not ALWAYS excused......
And there is always an investigation, whether they are always legit...... I wont try to ponder

Jstpssng · Dec 31, 2020

lilranch2001 said:
Its not ALWAYS excused......
And there is always an investigation, whether they are always legit...... I wont try to ponder

There was a case downstate a few years ago when an LEO fired on a car after it eluded a roadblock; killing the driver and a passenger. The passenger was a young woman who had just left her house to go for a walk; they don't know if she got into the car willingly, or if she was kidnapped, and her family will never know what happened that day.

There has never been an officer involved shooting in Maine which wasn't deemed justified; even the time that they went to a woman's house way out in the woods "Because they feared she was suicidal", and she ended up getting shot and killed. There was nobody in danger except maybe herself...