The article fails to suggest whether the children should be locked inside or outside the home.

Actually, to me, the sentence suggests that it is the house that should be locked up.

We have had a wide variety of crime in my neighborhood, but nothing like that!

The most similar incident, I think, was the woman who was yanked out of her car by a carjacker at 8:30 in the morning. Thankfully, she was OK and the police caught the perp after a few blocks.

I don't think a crackhead would ever want someone's kid (probably has plenty of his own). He would need something he could sell quickly for more crack, like your phone. You could shoot him for that, I guess...

Crack head / terrorist / meth head / Pedo / Robby the fucken Robber / Dumb ass / garden Variety Bad guy
All the same when it comes to a situation like this ,

Round Here it would sound like a small WAR Happening ,
to the cops " Hell i didn't know or CARE what his deal was , I was worried about the kids "
Cops " Oh Ok , thanks for the Help "

Let's face it. Most on here are "sheeple" who believes the government will always be there to protect them within 15-30 seconds. When in rural areas help can be 30-45 mins away.

Around here the home invasions are carefully planned around the work day so they won't inconvenience anyone. The people leave for the work day and someone puts a brick through their window, nabs a quick few things and leaves without anyone noticing (because the neighbors are at work too).

Sarge, I believe you will personally be there to protect me. I'm sure you'll manage it somehow. :)

UT, as I use the term, "home invasion" is when the residents are at home. If they are absent it is burglary. Is it different there?


The phrase "home invasion" is quite a new term, the same crime has existed for years under the name of aggravated burglary.

Oh and burgle (verb), burgled (past participle, adjective), burglar (personal noun). If someone uses burglarized then I'm upping them to burglarizerer.

Well then around here there are no home invasions, as long as you make it a rule to only deal with civilized people.

I'll bet that's rare. Hasn't happened to me in 52 years. Or anyone I know, probably not you. I knew someone who had his own gun wrestled away from him and used on him, killing him. I know someone who missed his one foot by inches while target shooting.

If everyone was armed, there would be increased death due to mistaken intentions (the guy took your kid because he thought s/he was in danger) and cross fire.

I hear of home invasions occasionally in other parts of the city, but it seems rare. If they started happening all the time, more people around here might keep guns in the house. It could be that they already do keep them, just no one talks about it.

The two 'home invasions' in my neighborhood over the years resulted in the residents getting shot and killed, but word was they were drug dealers or involved in some other kind of shady business.

We have both kinds, of course, and a lot of the home invasions are related to word getting around that someone has a grow-room in their house. That and fires from amatuer wiring jobs are the main risks of cannabis, it seems.

Guns are used on Cops, too.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/132516393.html

http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...hoots-Suspect/

Yes, violence against cops is all too common in Philly. They get shot at, punched, hit with cars...and even get cheesesteaks thrown at them.

More truth in that than you may think. A little over a year ago, my neighbor was shot in the back by her son. He is now locked up after the fact.

So, you would have been happy to hang out with that fine upstanding member of society until the police decided to show up?

Probably wasn't more than 15-30minutes...:eyebrow:

I remember you talking about that.