Got an email today W/ a story about a guy that survived a home invasion because he and the wife had a plan.
I have to give the guy props on two points 1.) He had a plan and 2.) He and his wife drilled it and used it when needed.
But I also have a critique, and I'd like to get some feed back. Here's the story
Toney neighborhood, early evening, man & his wife just finished dinner. Man's in the living room in a recliner, wife is in the bathroom.
Man's sitting in the LR with a small dog the dog gets up and walks into the kitchen. About that time the man here's a loud crash assumes the dog knocked something over and gets up to investigate, as he approaches the kitchen he comes face to face with a crackhead armed an aluminum baseball bat. This is where the emergency action drill commences.
Man turns and runs, yelling the emergency codeword (special word that would never come up in normal conversation such as "gorilla butt". At the sound of the word wife comes out of the bathroom and runs to the bedroom husband right behind her. BR has been made into a safe room. Plan was they both hole up in the safe room, wife grabs XD45 off the nightstand, and husband grabs the 870 and gets ready to defend the door while wife is calling 911.
The plan worked ok except for wife almost shut husband out of the room.
Bad guy is locked out in hallway starts kicking door. Husband takes up shot gun and after a few minutes pounding on the door the crack head runs away. The police arrive and said crackhead is found down the block wandering in a daze and arrested.
Like I said, they had a plan, they practiced it and, ultimately, it worked.
My critique
when husband moved toward the kitchen he moved away from his defensive weapon and his safe room. This was an older couple what if the BG beat him to the room? What if Wife locked the door W/ husband on the wrong side? (As almost happened) What if God forbid the husband sat in the chair a few seconds longer because he assumed the noise was generated by the dog?
I have to give the guy props on two points 1.) He had a plan and 2.) He and his wife drilled it and used it when needed.
But I also have a critique, and I'd like to get some feed back. Here's the story
Toney neighborhood, early evening, man & his wife just finished dinner. Man's in the living room in a recliner, wife is in the bathroom.
Man's sitting in the LR with a small dog the dog gets up and walks into the kitchen. About that time the man here's a loud crash assumes the dog knocked something over and gets up to investigate, as he approaches the kitchen he comes face to face with a crackhead armed an aluminum baseball bat. This is where the emergency action drill commences.
Man turns and runs, yelling the emergency codeword (special word that would never come up in normal conversation such as "gorilla butt". At the sound of the word wife comes out of the bathroom and runs to the bedroom husband right behind her. BR has been made into a safe room. Plan was they both hole up in the safe room, wife grabs XD45 off the nightstand, and husband grabs the 870 and gets ready to defend the door while wife is calling 911.
The plan worked ok except for wife almost shut husband out of the room.
Bad guy is locked out in hallway starts kicking door. Husband takes up shot gun and after a few minutes pounding on the door the crack head runs away. The police arrive and said crackhead is found down the block wandering in a daze and arrested.
Like I said, they had a plan, they practiced it and, ultimately, it worked.
My critique
when husband moved toward the kitchen he moved away from his defensive weapon and his safe room. This was an older couple what if the BG beat him to the room? What if Wife locked the door W/ husband on the wrong side? (As almost happened) What if God forbid the husband sat in the chair a few seconds longer because he assumed the noise was generated by the dog?
