What can and should you do?

PlankSpanker

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Imagine that you're carrying concealed, leaving a restaurant with your wife while on vacation, and as you near your car you see someone smashing in your car window and start pulling your briefcase and laptop from the car. What is the best thing/things that you should do?
 
Call 911.
No laptop is worth killing someone over. Get description of person, license of get away vehicle. Take a picture with your camera phone. You aren't in imminent danger. No brainer.
In short, unless they come after YOU, family, or innocent victim. Stay out of the way. ("Innocent victim" is relative to the whole situation.)
 
PlankSPanker said:
Imagine that you're carrying concealed, leaving a restaurant with your wife while on vacation, and as you near your car you see someone smashing in your car window and start pulling your briefcase and laptop from the car. What is the best thing that you should do?
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You asked two things, you can do anying you like, my and a lot of peoples first thought is the BG gets a 45 cal deverstion, unfortunatly, we cannot do that, unless of course he threatens you with a weapon, seriously in the situation you discribe, I would be tempted to put a couple of rounds in the ground, not the air, I for one hope I'm never put into that perticular situation, because it would most likely end badly for somebody
 
I can shoot the guy dead over a laptop that my insurance policy will cover and have horrible legal problems for a couple years over an already outdated laptop. What I should do is call 911, be a good witness, take pictures and notes and call my insurance company and get a check for the damages and stolen stuff, then go home and have a much better night. My gun is my last resort, and I am not even going to pull it if the BG just wants my insured stuff.
 
Unfortunately, unless he makes a threatening move, there's not a lot you can do... Of course, if you holler "Hey, you!" and he turns toward you, you might be able to convince the cops that the laptop looked like a large, flat, gun... Especially if you're in Texas. :-)
 
In most states, firing into the ground would get you charged with Negligent discharge of a firearm, which could put you in a lot of legal trouble :)
 
Those are some excellent answers everyone, and i am very encouraged that i didn't see even one reply that said anything like just plug the guy! It's good to see that everyone has the good sense to realize that a gun is definitely the last resort and is there to protect lives and not property.
 
Rocketgeezer said:
You asked two things, you can do anying you like, my and a lot of peoples first thought is the BG gets a 45 cal deverstion, unfortunatly, we cannot do that, unless of course he threatens you with a weapon, seriously in the situation you discribe, I would be tempted to put a couple of rounds in the ground, not the air, I for one hope I'm never put into that perticular situation, because it would most likely end badly for somebody
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Firing into the ground isn't a very good idea either... sometimes the ground doesn't absorb the bullet and it ricochets going off who knows where perhaps to hit an innocent.

Not to mention that many towns, cities, even townships, have ordinances against discharging a gun... and if the guy is just stealing stuff and is not an imminent threat of great bodily harm, unwanted sexual penetration, or death, then discharging a gun in any direction would be........... unwarranted.
 
PlankSPanker said:
Imagine that you're carrying concealed, leaving a restaurant with your wife while on vacation, and as you near your car you see someone smashing in your car window and start pulling your briefcase and laptop from the car. What is the best thing/things that you should do?
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Your laptop and briefcase should have been in the trunk to begin with.

We don't shoot people over property

Call the cops, file an insurance claim
 
I agree that it's not worth plugging the guy over the laptop or anything else that can and will be replaced; material items. However, what's wrong with walking up to him and showing him a .45 and politely ask him to lay on the ground until police arrive? You'd be amazed at how many people would comply with that simple request.
I REALLY don't like people taking things from me that I worked for and they didn't!
 
OUTTAHERE said:
I agree that it's not worth plugging the guy over the laptop or anything else that can and will be replaced; material items. However, what's wrong with walking up to him and showing him a .45 and politely ask him to lay on the ground until police arrive? You'd be amazed at how many people would comply with that simple request.
I REALLY don't like people taking things from me that I worked for and they didn't!
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I don't think it's a good idea to show him your weapon if your not gonna pull the trigger, best thing to do is like what everyone else has said. Call the cops, get a general description and file a claim. In some states "brandishing a firearm" is illegal
 
So I suppose some of you would just stand there maybe call the cops while this guy is takeing your stuff, that is most likely going to cost you, your ins deductable for which may be $1000. and in a lot of cases cars contents are not covered, I'm not saying you should shoot the guy, the stuff is not worth going to jail, but one way or another he's not running off with my stuff, maybe I'l throw a rock at the SOB, or can one of you lawyers find a law against that to,
 
There are some States I believe that would allow you to use deadly force in defense of property alone but even so that would leave you with both moral and legal issues. In some locations any warning shots fired could get you into very serious trouble because said locations (IMHO somewhat absurdly) consider that threatening with a deadly weapon or brandishing. I say abdsurdly because somebody trying to do the right thing and just scare somebody off instead of shooting them hardly should be a crime. But the way they look at it, if you didn't need to shoot and kill the guy you didn't need to shoot at all.
 
Rocketgeezer said:
So I suppose some of you would just stand there maybe call the cops while this guy is takeing your stuff, that is most likely going to cost you, your ins deductable for which may be $1000. and in a lot of cases cars contents are not covered, I'm not saying you should shoot the guy, the stuff is not worth going to jail, but one wasy or another he's not running off with my stuff, maybe I'l throw a rock at the SOB, or can one of you lawyers find a law against that to,
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Assault...and battery if u hit him.
 
I'd make a helluva lotta noise. Most anybody breaking into your car is going to be a bit nervous in the first place. Yell, scream, threaten, call for your friends (even if they're not there), run at the guy like you're going to line tackle him. (If you're a big guy, go ahead and do so.)

Odds are he'll drop your stuff and just take off.

Then let the cops get his prints off your stuff.
 
gwjohns82 said:
I don't think it's a good idea to show him your weapon if your not gonna pull the trigger, best thing to do is like what everyone else has said. Call the cops, get a general description and file a claim. In some states "brandishing a firearm" is illegal
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In Texas (and probably most other states) you're not "brandishing a weapon" if you're defending your property. And who said that I was not going
to pull the trigger if necessary?
 
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