Had a rough week (here are just a few of the highlights):
1. closed on our house Wed--selling for $50,000 less than we paid 2 years ago
2. Had to clean out old house with hardly any help (21 hours working on it on Monday alone).
3. No clients paying on time.
4. Handgun missing out of my own house.
Out of all of them, #4 stings the worse.
90% of the time I carry (which is always--even to church), I use my IWB holster and Taurus snubby .38spl.
After reading on the INGO site about the recent rape in Terre Haute (magazine door to door sales), I make a conscious effort to leave an easy-to-use handgun accessible to my wife when I am gone.
So at 10:30am yesterday, I had to run out.
I put the revolver in a hidden, and yet easy-to-reach place.
Concerns about the kids (who never touch the guns) are discussed.
I move the gun to the kitchen and stick next to the microwave.
1:30pm wife uses microwave and did not see gun there (but didn't call me or say anything).
I get a PM about my holster, so I go and check.
I cannot find the gun. Wife and 2 small kids to not know where it is at.
I spend until 3:30am looking through ENTIRE house and come up with nothing.
It is GONE.
My wife was home all day. Inside.
Didn't hear or see anything (which you cannot hear someone even banging on the door when you are at other end of the house).
I wish I was home at the time.
Then we wouldn't be talking about a robbery here, but about who a good attorney might be.
I talked to the neighbor and he said that almost 2 weeks ago the car parked across the street was broken into at 3am.
Another neighbor was up anyway and heard commotion. He ran out there and almost tacked the kid. Just before he grabbed him he slipped on the wet ground and wiped out.
I was also told that just a couple years ago, people's homes were being broke into in broad daylight. Purses and small items were taken from homes that didn't lock their doors (because they all know each other and had no reason to). Ended up being a Michigan couple that would drive down here and cruise through neighborhoods looking for victims.
Michigan is 8 miles north of here.
I know this might sound like a typical South-Chicago neighborhood, but it isn't.
I live in the country in a small 3-street subdivision of all nice, newer homes.
and (very quiet, nice neighborhood out in the country).
County came out and made a report.
I guarantee that I won't ever see that gun again.
1. closed on our house Wed--selling for $50,000 less than we paid 2 years ago
2. Had to clean out old house with hardly any help (21 hours working on it on Monday alone).
3. No clients paying on time.
4. Handgun missing out of my own house.
Out of all of them, #4 stings the worse.
90% of the time I carry (which is always--even to church), I use my IWB holster and Taurus snubby .38spl.
After reading on the INGO site about the recent rape in Terre Haute (magazine door to door sales), I make a conscious effort to leave an easy-to-use handgun accessible to my wife when I am gone.
So at 10:30am yesterday, I had to run out.
I put the revolver in a hidden, and yet easy-to-reach place.
Concerns about the kids (who never touch the guns) are discussed.
I move the gun to the kitchen and stick next to the microwave.
1:30pm wife uses microwave and did not see gun there (but didn't call me or say anything).
I get a PM about my holster, so I go and check.
I cannot find the gun. Wife and 2 small kids to not know where it is at.
I spend until 3:30am looking through ENTIRE house and come up with nothing.
It is GONE.
My wife was home all day. Inside.
Didn't hear or see anything (which you cannot hear someone even banging on the door when you are at other end of the house).
I wish I was home at the time.
Then we wouldn't be talking about a robbery here, but about who a good attorney might be.
I talked to the neighbor and he said that almost 2 weeks ago the car parked across the street was broken into at 3am.
Another neighbor was up anyway and heard commotion. He ran out there and almost tacked the kid. Just before he grabbed him he slipped on the wet ground and wiped out.
I was also told that just a couple years ago, people's homes were being broke into in broad daylight. Purses and small items were taken from homes that didn't lock their doors (because they all know each other and had no reason to). Ended up being a Michigan couple that would drive down here and cruise through neighborhoods looking for victims.
Michigan is 8 miles north of here.
I know this might sound like a typical South-Chicago neighborhood, but it isn't.
I live in the country in a small 3-street subdivision of all nice, newer homes.
and (very quiet, nice neighborhood out in the country).
County came out and made a report.
I guarantee that I won't ever see that gun again.
