Nothing like an early morning yard sale on a Saturday. Especially, when you can have some entertainment at the same time. This past Saturday, we set up a small yard sale about 1000 feet down the road, in a small clearing near the storage buildings. Around 6:30 am I heard what sounded like two gun shots. I thought perhaps it was a hunter in the woods across the road.
About 30 seconds later, we see a stocky white male running around the front of the house in this picture about 200 feet from us, and then run around behind the house, as if he were hiding. Moments later he reappears from behind the house, looking like a squirrel trying to dodge an oncoming vehicle. Sprints across the yard and jumps the fence, then runs towards our trailerhood. The area is soon swarmed by sheriff’s deputies. We learn that the two shots were fired by a homeowner of the house that the young man was trying to break into.
To make his day even worse
The county finally located and apprehended him in the trailer-park, he probably lives or stays with someone in the park. He was more than likely looking to score some easy loot, to sell for crack. To make his day even worse, after being shot at, he starts having chest pains and goes into a full-blown panic attack. An ambulance arrives and checks him out, then he is carted off to jail. He may have had a worse day, had he attempted to rob us of the change we had for the yard sale instead of burglarizing a house. I had a weird feeling that morning, so carried my licensed concealed firearm, as did Michelle.
It’s a sad statement of our society, when you have to arm yourself just to have a yard sale. Yes, Spring is here, the weirdos are starting to thaw out.
Comments welcome,
Carrying weapons to a yard sale. That says so much about life in modern-day America, Ron. And gunshots for entertainment too.
One thing about living there, it’s never dull! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
Thanks Pete, I found both your posts in the spam folder, I marked them as not spam, so hopefully that won’t happen again. I guess they adjusted something. I haven’t changed anything on my end.
Thanks for the comment!
Glad you found them, Ron. 🙂
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I just read of a man getting arrested for shooting at crows with his shotgun too near a school. You are right. Spring thaws out the crazies. Here it brings motorcyclists trying to race down our very short street.
That racing is annoying, and loud. We have some sport bikes that pass here some evenings running over 100 mph. Noisy!
Wow. That is fast for such a dopey vehicle.
I keep expecting one of them to encounter a Deer.
Wow a yard sale no less. I actually think excitement looks for you Windwalker. hee hee hee. Glad you carrry a concealed. Good for you.
Sometimes I think the same thing, Sandy.
At least you were prepared for whatever spring would give you. Hope you did well with the sale. Next time perhaps you can sell tickets for the show!
The yard sale, was a bust. It decided to rain about an hour later. Although it wasn’t supposed to, according to the weather guessers. Sorry, Kate. I don’t know why the spam filter has gone nuts, but it has. I keep having to check it often. Thanks for the comment.
Wow! I never know what surprises await when I read your posts. This was a rich one.
You just never know Anne. Things around here happen in Spurts. Especially as things warm up. Thanks for the comment.
Love the last line about the weirdos thawing out.
I’m glad you liked that, Maggie. It just popped into my head as I was writing.
I was just thinking that people on the cell phones are driving into buildings these days – all the time! Be careful out there.
I see them in the city, on the Interstate, putting on makeup, texting, and even reading a page of the paper. They’re nuts!
Catching up on my reading, Happy Wet Sunday afternoon Ron.