My answer is "A"...I think that's safer for ME and MY FAMILY.Stupid wrote:When you hear a noise in late night, which one is safer:
A. Grab a gun, go to the noise and investigage
B. Grab a gun, but turn on your camera and monior watching it from your bedroom with door locked.
I have one camera hooked up to show me the front doorway only. I'd take a look at that first if that's where the noise came from. If not, I'd investigate to find the source of the noise before the noise came looking for me. As has been said earlier, I know my house a heck of a lot better than some random bad guy.
Kind of related: The other night I was grilling some burgers out back and went to check on them. I saw 2 local cops searching the neighbor's back yard with flashlights and hands on their hips ready to draw.
They glanced at me and went right back to their searching. Rather than distract them and interrupt their search to ask who or what they were looking for, I went back inside and grabbed the hi-power, strapped it on and quickly told the wife what was going on and that she should stand by the back door and be ready to slam it and lock it if she saw someone other than me or a cop running towards her.
I searched around the back of my house and by then the cops had apparently finished their search and went to the front of the neighbor's house. I haven't talked to the neighbor yet, (I think the husband is out of town), so I don't know what the problem was, but it looked like they were searching for someone who shouldn't have been there.
So right there, one (probable noise) situation was handled two different ways. The neighbor called the cops to investigate, and I did my own investigation, thinking maybe the cops were looking for a bad guy that might have crept into my yard.
I'd much rather be proactive than not to a noise heard late at night. What if the cops didn't do a thorough enough search? You can bet I thoroughly searched every hiding place in my yard. I have more riding on it than them.
