About 6 years ago I was living alone in New Jersey ( not any more ). I came home one night after work and pulled in my apartment complex. My apartment was situated as such that I could see all the lights were off. I went to unlock the door and discovered the deadbolt was locked along with the normal lock. I never locked the deadbolt but my lease was almost up and thought that my Landlord had came by to check the place out. I still had an uneasy feeling. I finally unlocked it, walked in, and turned the living room lights on. Everything was there, stereo, tv, VCR, etc.. I started to relax a little bit but noticed my cat was not around to greet me, which he usually did. I walked throught the hallway to my bedroom to get undressed. I passed by the bathroom, which had it's door shut and now the lights were ON. At this point I turned the lights on in my bedroom and saw it was ransacked. My gun locker was open and my Buck hunting knife was not there, but the guns were! I grabbed my Ruger P89, inserted a full magazine, and loaded the weapon.
I can not convey to you all the thoughts and emotions going through my mind at this time. It was a mixture of fear, anger and outrage. I began to see red. All I knew was that some motherfucker was in my bathroom with my knife. After I loaded the weapon, I went to the bathroom and kicked the door of it's hinges and was prepared to fire if he made any move resembling a threat.
He had popped the window out and escaped outside before I even saw him. All this occurred in a matter of 15 seconds or so.
Oh, sorry, back to the point. I called 911 and they showed up 10 minutes later. I was winter and there were clear tracks he had left in the snow. 3 cops all together showed up, but not one followed the tracks. One cop was really cool, one was a dick and almost accussed me of staging the whole thing, and one just stuck to the facts. They raised a few eyebrows when they saw my collection of guns and stash of ammo, but did not say anything. I don't expect teh police to be there to save me but goddamn it, there were fresh tracks right there to be followed and they did not do anything about it.