Posted: 11/13/2005 10:14:12 PM EDT
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My aunts trailer was invaded a few days ago the came in while she was sleeping, she woke up at about 3:30 in the morning and saw her purse dumped over the floor, the front door hanging open, and her car was stolen.... She was sleeping while they were in there, but they got in, and had full access to her trailer, and were aparently only after the purse, and the car but it could have went differently, she lives in a run down crime infested trailer park with her teenage daughter, I'm trying to tell her that she has to look into getting something to protect herself with, or at the minimum an alarm, but shes scared to death of guns, she was in the Navy, and they were training her on the 1911 but had to stop because she was shakeing to much to keep the pistol pointed forward to give you an idea, and she only says a luke warm "I'll look into it" when I mention an alarm, do you have any suggestions on how she could improve her security, and how I could convince her to take action, and if she finnaly decides to get a gun are there any suggestions?.... |
| Hate to say it but there's a good chance those guys were in her home before as guests. You said she has a teenage daughter. I could be wrong but I would ask the teenager who she has been inviting over .NOT trying to bash her at all. But sometimes she might not know ,a friend of a friend that came. |
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ok, for a "non-gun" person- a "J"frame .38 and a day or so of training, lock the doors and all that... but, no offense, she seems to be an, well, let's just say a person incapable of taking care of herself..... it's not your problem do what you can if it doesn't work then WALK AWAY  and if you can handle it, buy insurance on her 
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| The Tracker is right, if she isn't interested enough in self preservation and the safety of her daughter to take immediate action, then you need to tell her that she is doomed to live life as a victim, she is endangering her daughter by not acting responsibly as a parent, and you wish her well. |
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They found the car.... It was found by city workers ditched in the woods at the bottom of a hill next to the Rouge River in Detroit, the Hub caps were stolen, the engine is makeing a grinding noise, and the radio was tuned to rap, the fact that it was found at the bottom of a hill next to the river back in the woods suggests that they tried to roll it into the river.... The Detroit cops not surpriseingly were not interested in helping (same department that shoved me in the back of a patrol car for standing while white, when I had to go down town for jury duty....), she called them 3 times, and waited with the car for an hour but they never came, so she left then tried the state police, they werent that interested eighther, and told her to have it towed out of the woods, and looked at by the insurence compeny before theyle even look at it, so the car had to sit in the woods in Detroit overnight untill it was towed the next morning, it's in the driveway now, and it still hasn't been looked at by the police, checked for prints, or any other evidence.... She does seem to be showing some mild interest in alarms, and weapons now though.... |
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Isn't a home invasion when the door is kicked in and rapid comtrol of the occupants is gained, followed by the looting thing? This seems more like the burg of an occupied residence. Glad she didn't know it happened til well after they wer gone. Get her out of there. Easy mark, they'll prolly be back. |
Yes. It's a burglary with a dramatized poster.  A home invasion is a robbery that occurs in the victims home. Edit: In Florida, this would be burglary of an occupied dwelling. |
Burg in the 1st degree in NY |
Not really. It's more a media term or style of robbery named for the locale in which it takes place. It generally involves forced entry of a dwelling known to be occupied. Threats of violence or violence are used to get the goods. Like it was said above, think of it as a strongarm robbery, just not in the street but your home. Interesting digression... Chinese gangs excel at home invasions and usually commit them within the Chinese community. These are very lucrative for them for a couple reasons. 1. Newer to the country chinese immigrants distrust banks, and frequently keep large sums of money in their homes. 2. Newer to the country chinese immigrants distrust the police and seldom seek assistance from law enforcement.This distrust is a carry over from China where the police are very corrupt and offer no assistance whatsoever. Nonetheless, the quiet burg of an occupied dwelling that does not wake the residents is not a home invation in the eyes of the law. Even f they wake you up unintentionally and run, it's not a home invasion. If a cat burgular quitetly takes a painting or a jewel from a museum, it ain't a museum invasion. Certainly your dwelling has been invaded my evildoers |
She needs to move. Trailer parks like that need to be torn down and the occupants relocated and perhaps allowed to return after the park is rebuilt. The problem is often absentee landlord ownership; all they care about is getting that lot rental, they don't care that their lack of screening of occupants and poor maintenance creates problems. |
| Well, I'm learning that shooting without knowing for sure what you are shooting at is cool as long as you are afraid or believe you are being invaded. Two or three nights of gunfire at any noise outside should make her less of a target. Just make sure to let the bad guy get in one good kick first. |
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yeah get her a gun and start shooting in a trailer court Had 2 trailer court shootings around here one a marlin 22 and the other a SKS Do not hide in a trailer (or behind 5-6) if a guy is shooting at you with a SKS heck t I think they said the 22 made it through 3 |