Just found out from a client that I had a run in with this scumbag. I was surveying next to his house and he came out and ran his lawnmower up and down and right near my tripod. When I tried to talk to him he just scowled and ignored me.
You never know what kind of crazy is right under your nose. I'm glad I wasn't feeling confrontational that day!!
Our officer is doing well, lucky the bullet hit him in the shoulder and nothing higher!
http://www.winknews.com/2016/11/20/sanibel-causeway-shut-down-due-to-police-activity/
The1400 block of Sand Castle Road sure doesn't look like the low rent district I assumed a low life like this would live in.
Andy J, post: 400717, member: 44 wrote: Our officer is doing well, lucky the bullet hit him in the shoulder and nothing higher!
Good! I am a "blue striper" (subcontractor) with FDLE.
Happy Thanksgiving!
One I will share with my guys, the dangers are everywhere, and not just from dogs, cactus, and misplaced snakes!
We run across neighbors protecting their Pot grows with all kinds of weaponry!
Not really dangerous to us, but we were working on a residential development and one of the adjoining existing residential properties was occupied by the quintessential "cat lady", an osteo-shrunken little silver-haired octogenarian that had 250 friggin' feral cats all over the place. The screen was gone on her storm door and the cats came and went through the hole as they pleased. She fed them on the back patio with a trash can full of dry cat food and a dust pan for a scoop. I'll leave it up to you to imagine what the place smelled like.
She was pretty much a "creepy" neighbor. And we had given her plenty of chances to chat, but all we got was her scowl. Then she would totter off talking to herself. I never had a good feeling about her.
About six months after that I see her house on the news, but it wasn't for the cats. She actually had an adult son, apparently confined to a wheel chair that required constant care; which I don't think he was getting....Human Services had come out on a complaint and they found the son crammed back in a room. From what I remember she was not only neglecting him, but apparently tormenting and mistreating him also. Gave me the willies to think that poor guy was stuck back there the whole time we were working on the vacant property next door.
You just never know about some folks...
I just got shot at yesterday or at least she shot in my direction. I could hear the shot from the shotgun in the trees above me.
Really have to be careful there are some real crazy people out there.
mattsib79, post: 400883, member: 1138 wrote: I just got shot at yesterday or at least she shot in my direction. I could hear the shot from the shotgun in the trees above me.
Really have to be careful there are some real crazy people out there.
Dang, Matt!
mattsib79, post: 400883, member: 1138 wrote: I just got shot at yesterday or at least she shot in my direction. I could hear the shot from the shotgun in the trees above me.
Ya musta got too close to the Still. 😉
We just had a 16 year old local kid go missing a week ago. Good kid, not running with the wrong crowd. His Bronco found burned on a remote road. Not the first time it's happened. There are some real scary people out there and I'm out trompsing around their back yards.
Shawn Billings, post: 400884, member: 6521 wrote: Dang, Matt!
I was looking for a corner about 300' in front of this woman's house. She came out of her house and a couple of dogs came out. She started yelling so I thought she was yelling at the dogs. I just started walking away and then BOOM!!! Well needless to say I was not going to go back and explain what I was doing I just got out of there.
3 hours later finally made it back to my truck to find the game warden and sheriff deputy waiting on me. She called the cops and said someone was out in her woods and he had a bow and orange arrows. (I was carrying my Javad LS and a stake bag with my orange bypod legs sticking out.)
I'll be packing my 45 the next time I go back. These people are crazy.
A good reason to send letters out to adjoiners - especially in the woods where folks don't normally walk around. Also, good idea to stay out of the woods in deer season. Unless your the one hunting 😉
mattsib79, post: 400883, member: 1138 wrote: I just got shot at yesterday or at least she shot in my direction. I could hear the shot from the shotgun in the trees above me.
Really have to be careful there are some real crazy people out there.
Wow, watch out Matt
My normal time to being shot at ratio is about twice a year. It depends on if I feel like I accidentally found myself behind a shooting range or something like that on whether I shoot back. I know there are readers of this board that were physically there with me during one of my times of a gunfire incident. Like others have mentioned, it is almost common to find drug operations, although small meth labs are the most common around here. I have had a crew watch a family assault, the lady of the house chased the man of the house out the front door, kitchen knife in hand, and got it planted in his back before they hit the curb.
Had a drug addict come tearing out to chew out my rodman in the summer of '15. She was furious that we had dug a tiny (maybe 4"x 4"x 2" deep) hole in HER yard. Trying to explain we were in the street right-of-way was pointless.
Turns out we should have called in one of our buddies for help. He was "entertaining" her on a regular basis and had the right thing to make her forget about intruders on HER (rented) property. I think her husband appreciated the "assistance".
