Early this morning, 0300, my grandfather was woken up by his dog barking. Without thinking about it, he got out of bed and grabbed his Sig C3 1911 and went through the house looking out the windows for whatever woke the dog up. When looking out his back windo at the garage he noticed a woman standing by one of his cars, and doing something that looked like trying to get in it. He wakes my grandmother and proceeds to tell her to call 911, and goes outside. My grandfather held the woman at gunpoint until IMPD arrived.
Once on scene IMPD (3 officers) spoke with the woman and my grandfather seperately. She began saying that she was "checking on the abandoned house" as she had done for "years".
Clearly, this house is not abandoned, my grandparents have lived there 51 years, and there was plenty of evidence thereof.
The officers determined she was drunk beyond logic and figured out that she was in town for the Brickyard and staying in a tent in my neighbor from two houses down's yard. These people stay there every year, and I am quite sure that she did not have any mal-intent toward my grandfather or his property, and she was taken back to the neighbors. Everyone else that was passed out drunk was woken up and she was told by IMPD to sleep it off inside.
The IMPD Officers came back to my grandpa's house and told him that he did exactly what he should have and to have a great night.
Thanks IMPD for reckognizing a man's right to protect his family and property. Thank you also for handling the situation in a proffessional manner.
Props to Grandpa for not hesitating to rise to the occasion when something "went bump in the night".
Just goes to show, don't mess with an old guy and his .45!
Once on scene IMPD (3 officers) spoke with the woman and my grandfather seperately. She began saying that she was "checking on the abandoned house" as she had done for "years".
Clearly, this house is not abandoned, my grandparents have lived there 51 years, and there was plenty of evidence thereof.
The officers determined she was drunk beyond logic and figured out that she was in town for the Brickyard and staying in a tent in my neighbor from two houses down's yard. These people stay there every year, and I am quite sure that she did not have any mal-intent toward my grandfather or his property, and she was taken back to the neighbors. Everyone else that was passed out drunk was woken up and she was told by IMPD to sleep it off inside.
The IMPD Officers came back to my grandpa's house and told him that he did exactly what he should have and to have a great night.
Thanks IMPD for reckognizing a man's right to protect his family and property. Thank you also for handling the situation in a proffessional manner.
Props to Grandpa for not hesitating to rise to the occasion when something "went bump in the night".
Just goes to show, don't mess with an old guy and his .45!
