Scary experience

[mrblanche]

Originally Posted by RAFM

Word of advice from another Texan: When you hear gunshots, go the OPPOSITE direction, not closer to them.

Glad you were safe though. I once went outside to take my dog for a walk and when I reached the end of my front walk path, it seemed like a dozen officers were all over me telling me to get back in the house. I hurried my butt right on back up that walkway.

I actually did. I stayed in the garage until I was sure I didn't hear anything else, and I thought it was safe.

 

[captiva]

I'm glad you are safe. Very scary and it's very sad that this is common place in our country now

 

[tara g]

Glad you are safe - situation could have gone worse!

We unfortunately have a "drug house" down the street from us. We live on a quiet, 5-home street with a good bit of woods around. They put their trailer in a couple years ago and there's been tons of random "traffic" at all hours of the day and night now. I've got a loaded 9mm in my nightstand, and two loaded shot guns in the room. Someone stole our tow dolly from us one night (it was recovered at a local pawn shop a week or so later when they entered the VIN. If we hadn't had the title for it still, we probably never would have seen it. SC doesn't require titles for trailers). It was then that the county sheriff admitted that they knew the drug house was back there but they'd yet been able to bust them. I've heard gun shots before, but there's also people who hunt in the fields at the end of the road and in the woods.

My in-laws, who live in front of us (their driveway is off the main road) never lock their doors. When I lived there, it always freaked me out. The only time they did was when someone was on the run from the cops in the area. I always lock my car and my doors, especially now with that house back there at the end of our dead-end road.

 

[my4llma]

That is scary! Glad you're ok.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Oh my goodness! I'm glad no one was hurt!!

About a week ago the house directly across from a friend of mine was broken into and the 2 occupants were murdered. A very elderly gentleman and his son; who was into his 60s himself. My friend was a wreck! She has 2 small kids!! Needless to say they beefed up their home security immediately. Then they made the arrest of who the evidence says did it...it was another man who lives nearby!! This guy was a familiar face to a lot of people who live in that area.... I'm just glad he's off the streets.... My heart breaks for the family of those poor men.

 

[kailie]

WOW, incredibly scary!

I used to deal with similar situations all the time at the previous place we lived. It was a HORRIBLE part of town and I hated it so much. We heard gunshots all the time.

Where we are now is wonderful, and the complete opposite thank goodness.

 

[mrblanche]

Originally Posted by Kailie

WOW, incredibly scary!

I used to deal with similar situations all the time at the previous place we lived. It was a HORRIBLE part of town and I hated it so much. We heard gunshots all the time.

Where we are now is wonderful, and the complete opposite thank goodness.

Really? Gunshots in Canada? I thought your strict gun laws made that an impossibility!

 

[kailie]

Originally Posted by mrblanche

Really? Gunshots in Canada? I thought your strict gun laws made that an impossibility!

There's always a way hun, unfortunately.

 

[momto3boys]

Originally Posted by mrblanche

Really? Gunshots in Canada? I thought your strict gun laws made that an impossibility!

There's LOTS of gun shots in Canada.

Where I live it's mostly people shooting wild animals

But yes there is human shootings all the time....humans are scary!

 

[Winchester]

Last spring while we were planting the veggie garden, we heard a lot of yelling and screaming coming from the house across the road from us. They don't realize that, because they're in a gully, every little sound travels and it goes pretty far; there have been times when I've been in bed with the tv on and still heard them screaming about credit card bills and the like. (And you know what? I don't want to know about the credit card bills. I don't want to know that she had had too much wine. I don't want to know these things, I don't care how often they argue, as long as I don't have to listen to it. It's really bad.)

Anyway, she started screaming, "OMG, OMG, what did you do? What did you do?" And he was yelling back at her to shut the **** up. It was nasty. DH was working in the flower bed in the front yard and I was planting green peppers up in the back yard. He came up to me and I was just standing there in shock. He asked me what we should do....I said to let it go for now.

And then we heard the gunshot. I ran into the house and called 911. There were state police and local police there in just a few minutes. They escorted the man out of the house and in the car and some of the police left. Others walked around the inside of the house for hours. My neighbor, who can see down there better than we can, thought they were there for about 4 hours or so, walking around both inside and outside of the house.

We never found out what exactly happened, but it was an ugly situation.

 

[mrblanche]

It's not like this is a totally new thing. When I was 4 years old (this would have been about 1956) we lived in an upstairs apartment. The young couple downstairs were arguing all the time, loudly. After we moved out, the husband came home with a gun and killed his wife. Then the cold-blooded b*****d went to the bathroom mirror, pulled forward the skin on his neck, and shot through it. It looked like a horrible wound, but it just just through the skin. He tried to plead insanity, etc. The defense attorney called my mother to try to get her to testify for him, but she told him if she testified for anyone, it would be the wife, who deserved justice.

 

[momto3boys]

Originally Posted by Winchester

Last spring while we were planting the veggie garden, we heard a lot of yelling and screaming coming from the house across the road from us. They don't realize that, because they're in a gully, every little sound travels and it goes pretty far; there have been times when I've been in bed with the tv on and still heard them screaming about credit card bills and the like. (And you know what? I don't want to know about the credit card bills. I don't want to know that she had had too much wine. I don't want to know these things, I don't care how often they argue, as long as I don't have to listen to it. It's really bad.)

Anyway, she started screaming, "OMG, OMG, what did you do? What did you do?" And he was yelling back at her to shut the **** up. It was nasty. DH was working in the flower bed in the front yard and I was planting green peppers up in the back yard. He came up to me and I was just standing there in shock. He asked me what we should do....I said to let it go for now.

And then we heard the gunshot. I ran into the house and called 911. There were state police and local police there in just a few minutes. They escorted the man out of the house and in the car and some of the police left. Others walked around the inside of the house for hours. My neighbor, who can see down there better than we can, thought they were there for about 4 hours or so, walking around both inside and outside of the house.

We never found out what exactly happened, but it was an ugly situation.

WOW

I think the only time I ever encountered anything was when I was about 12 or so. Me and my friends used to always play underneath a bridge that was close to my house, we were on one side (underneath it) and there was a ma on the other side cleaning something in the water. We couldn't see what it was since he was so far away but then all of a sudden the cops came, sirens and lights blaring and cuffed the guy.

He had just stabbed his girlfriend and was washing the blood off his knife, thankfully he didn't kill her...

It was kind of exciting at the time

We got asked lots of questions from the police, I don't think Mom believed me when I got home what happened until the cops showed up later.

 

[mrblanche]

Well, I may have mentioned it at the time, but the house 2 doors down was invaded a few years ago. A kid with a shot gun got under the garage door, which was open a little ways, then came in through the inside door. The family was eating dinner. He threatened them, demanding $600 and the keys to the Excursion in the garage. When the homeowner walked past him toward the bedroom (ostensibly to get the money), he (a former Marine) notice the kid didn't keep him covered with the shotgun. So, he turned around and grabbed the gun, and his wife jumped on the kid's back and got him around the neck. The kid wouldn't let go of the gun, even after the homeowner hit him in the face a couple of times, so the homeowner got the gun turned and shot the kid in the belly.

Lots of excitement around here, that night.

In addition, I think the our next-door neighbors had a big fight and the wife shot the husband, but I never could find anythng about it. But, again, they were separated and were arguing all the time when he came around.

 

[momto3boys]

I think you need to move!!!

 

[mrblanche]

Actually, it's a pretty quiet neighborhood, with mostly owner-occupied homes. But Dallas is just a block away, and that area is mostly rentals. And even Cedar Hill is heavily minority, although some very wealthy minorities live in the area, such as Dallas Cowboys, etc.

And the town goes from pretty heavily built-up to absolute raw land. Odd little town.

 

[trouts mom]

How scary! I would have ran back into the house, locked the doors and called 911!

I don't know if I've ever heard gunshots and I live in the capital of Canada. There is not a whole lot of violent crime here, more petty crimes.

In October we are moving to the 'wisteria lane' esque part of Ottawa so I can't wait. Hopefully no more car break-ins

 

[nerdrock]

When I first moved to London it was to a very bad neighbourhood right near the college. I didn't really have a choice of living anywhere else - I needed to be close to school and all the neighbourhoods that are that close are pretty bad. Ours was a dead end street, I lived in two houses on that street - right at the end, across from each other. There were always people that would park at the end and have sex in their cars, at least once a week there were cops down there, and about once a month the forensic unit would be down there too. The first week that I lived there someone got shot a block away at a bar.

Where I live now is much better, but it's still the ghetto end of the nice area, lol. We're very close to downtown (5 min drive, 15 min walk) so I think that has something to do with it. There are also a lot of apartment buildings on the block that I live in, they have very cheap rent and a lot of not so great people. They're trying to make it nicer by raising the rent, which is nice if you can afford it, lol.

We had a band from Texas staying with us last year. We were all hanging out in our living room when we hear a loud noise, the singer said that it was a gunshot. We didn't believe him, lol, the next morning the newspaper said there had been a drive by up the street from us (in the nicer part actually). Now we have a saying here, "If a Texan says it's a gunshot, it's a gunshot!"

 

[algebrapro18]

I live about a block and a half from a very gang infested apartment complex so I'm used to this kind of event. I just love it when the fire fights go past my house at midnight...always fun. I also suspect there are a lot of meth labs around here because at least once a week the fire engines get dispatched around the neighborhood.

Glad your okay though and that no one was hurt.

 

[catlover19]

I have never heard gunshots, thankfully. I live in the 10th most dangerous city in Canada and I hear about a lot of crime, but have never seen anything.

I am pretty sure my neighbour is a drug dealer. We are moving in October or November and can't wait to get away from here.

 

[tara g]

Originally Posted by algebrapro18

I also suspect there are a lot of meth labs around here because at least once a week the fire engines get dispatched around the neighborhood.

Ah yes, forgot about the meth labs. They've busted 4 in town in less than a month. Wonderful.

All the criminals are being pushed out this way while they "revamp" the ghetto part of the city of Charleston (N. Charleston).