Last Tuesday night..

[Drich]

TRich and I were sound asleep, and we have two dogs that sleep in the family room. Every once and a while one of them will have a bad dream and let out a bark or one will scare the other and let out a yelp. But last Tuesday night both were barking like the house was on fire, so I jumped out of bed and started to run Towards the door to yell at them quietly... Then I thought, wait a tick what if they are barking at someone... so I went back to my night stand and got a gun.. I opened the bedroom door, and walkout and looked at the dogs, then Saw a blue led flashlight beam hit my kitchen window. (It over looks out screened in porch, no one should be in their at 3 o clock in the GD morning for any reason..) So i thought to my self this is real, and I'm about to shoot someone in my underoos.. So I go to the back door which has a big window in it and I see this a-hole bent over the propane tank of my gas grill, and I got really pissed.. I thought this guy is going to make me shoot him for a 30 dollar tank and 10 dollars worth of propane... Then I thought I've been out of a dead sleep maybe a total of 30 seconds maybe I should not shoot till I give him a running start.. (Didn't want to be on the news) so I took my .45 and tapped it on the glass of the door window and said in a deep voice, while pointing the gun/safety off finger on the trigger "get the fuck out of here before I put another hole in your ass!!!" (Because his ass was up and facing me as he was bent over my propane tank.)

Then the idiot shines his light in my eyes, so I duck back and hit the porch light and stuck the gun back in the window, and said leave or I will shoot!!! Then He said "Sherriff's department, put down the gun!" Then I stuck my head around the door to look and sure enough he was wearing, a polo shirt with the Sherriff's office logo on it, and wouldn't you know he brought his gun to our little show and tell... Then two of his buddies who were all dressed the same also had the same gun... (How embarrassing for them, they all brought the same gun to show and tell) so I put down my gun and placed my hands on the glass. Apologized, and the lead guy asked if I heard anything from my neighbors? I said no. He said someone called in a domestic dispute at 3am and they are not answering the door. He asked if they fight.. At that point I was so rattled I would have ratted out my own mom if he asked me to. So I said yes the fight like cats and dogs, and after really big fights there usally broken furniture out for collection on the following trash day, he said thank you and moved on..

I never did find out what he was doing with my propane tank.. The next day I saw the neighbor lady. She's a stout 6 ft 220, and he's maybe 5'5" 120 soaking wet. She had a light scratch on her right cheek and he look like he said something he should not have said to ray rice in an elevator..