$ 6,000.00 Drunk

RSeymour · Jan 25, 2002

Any one else have this neat experience? While I was at a township board meeting last fall some kid (real drunk) ran of the road a half mile or so from us. We live on a dirt road and our house was the first he came to that was reasonably close to the road and had lights on.

Needless to say, it scared the heck out of my wife when he staggered up to the front door (she did not open it & she did call the police) even though we have five “attack Springer Spaniels”. As most of you know, the response time in the country is not quite as good as in suburbia, however they did pick him up eventually and invited him to be a guest of the county for a while.

The net result of this idiot’s visit is that I got to spend $6,000 for an electric gate across our driveway to complete the only gap in our front yard fence.

Thomas · Jan 25, 2002

Its sad that you have to take extra measure for safety because others won't use common sence.

cedarranch · Jan 25, 2002

A drunk man spent about an hour screaming and pounding on the door to my Mom's place about 2am one morning wanting in. He was too drunk to know he was at the wrong house. My Mom made three calls to the County Sheriffs and they showed up 2 hours later and took a quick report. She was able to convince him he was at the wrong house so he left. She started packing heat after that. She never went anywhere without that pistol.

CSAW · Jan 25, 2002

When I was a teenager some friends and I were riding around one night doing nothing. We came across a car that had ran a stop sign and hit a sign and was stuck. We stopped to help push. We pushed but the car didn't move an inch. Then one of the drunks (we didn't know till then) proceeded to tell us we were a bunch of stupid #@$&*%. We loaded up in our car, drove to the nearest pay phone and called the police. (There was a quarter in the change return.) We sat down the street and watched the police arrest them then rode by and waved at them.

PitbullMidwest · Jan 25, 2002

In my short lived drinking days my buddies and I would back my Blazer up a farm lane that would conceal us from the road. We were only caught once. The irony is that my father in law has never mentioned it to me, I now live on that very piece of property!

When we first moved on the property we had to chase a lot of drinkers off our lane. But the funniest trespassors were the 70 year old couple naked as could be "gettin' busy" in the back seat of their Cadillac /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif.

The police didn't respond very quickly to our calls about drunks pounding on our door untill one of them drove through the neighboring airport fence and got lost on the runway, later told them he couldn't find his off ramp. They show up pretty quick now /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird · Jan 25, 2002

My parents moved from Texas to Anchorage, AK, in the Fall of '65. They had lived most of their lives in Oklahoma and Texas, never locked a door (didn't even have a key), never took the key out of the ignition on the car (didn't need duplicate sets 'cause no one carried a key), etc. They bought a house in Anchorage and one evening in the middle of the Winter, a drunk Eskimo just opened the front door, walked in, and sat down on the sofa./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif They called the police to come get him and started locking their doors./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

woodmills1 · Jan 25, 2002

back when i was snow plowing streets, I came up on a blazer sitting on top of one of my piles of packed snow. there in the street was a preety drunk teenager waving his arms. he asked me to pull him off. I gave him the chain and said you hook it up. he fell a few times and then succeeded in looping the chain around the front spring. I mentioned how this might cause a problem but he had no worries, untill he realized that he had locked his keys in his still running truck. On my next pass through that part of town there he was again waving his keys at me. again he hooked the chain to his front spring. I pulled him off and he happily motored down the road with both passenger tires flat as can be.

JoeR · Jan 25, 2002

I have a similar story... My wife had just put the children to bed for their afternoon nap, and decided she would take one too. Our home is about 800 feet from the paved road. She was awakened by the doorbell, and the painter had arrived to do some work. The painter had stated that he was glad someone answered the door since he had seen 2 people in a Camaro leaving our house. This disturbed my wife, since she never heard or had seen anything... I end up installing a driveway sensor at the front gate for $350, and a mighty mule gate opener for $500. All because of some curious people... At least I think they were harmless...

Joe

MossRoad · Jan 25, 2002

When I was a kid my dad was taking me up to boy scout camp at night after he got off of work. We were out in the middle of nowhere, lost, when the car started acting up. We started walking down the road, stopping at every house we came to, knocking on the doors asking people to please call the police for us. At several houses we were chased by dogs let out of the front doors. At one house we had a shotgun pointed at us out of the window and were told to leave. We went back to the car and sat for a long time, until some other lost boy scouts picked us up. We got to the camp and called a towing company. They picked us up, we went back to the car and it had a ticket on it.

snowman · Jan 26, 2002

We've had that problem too of people just driving up our driveway.

The way our house sits and our neighbor's house sits, it kind of made our driveway look like a dirt road, even though there's a mail box at the end.

I remember last spring taking my son up to bed about 9 pm one time, and as I passed by the window, I saw two cars driving down my driveway back to the road; kids looking for a place to drink, I assumed.

I've since made the entrance look "more residential" by putting a bunch of "no trespassing" signs up. We've also paved it, so it doesn't look like an old road. Seems to have helped, as I haven't noticed anyone driving up or down anymore, but there's no way to tell for sure.

It'd be nice to put up a gate, but I would think it would be such a pain to get out each time to open and close it. In the winter, the snow piles (doesn't apply this year, of course) would also make it hard to use I would think.