Whew! I thought it might have been me, when I first saw this! I am so glad it was not!
I did, however, recently pull a gun on a dtd salesman ... and will do so again, if I ever need to.
Some background: League used to be a "no soliciting" town, until our current City Council decided that was too harsh on the illegals that mow our lawns and want to leave their calling cards on our doors, so we can employ them. Yeh, like I'd ever make that mistake, again, after one tried to rape me in my back yard! League City, to our shame, is a Sanctuary City. The City Council has even put up a bicycle rack and Port-A-Potty next to the Police Station, sending the illegals the mixed message that they can do whatever they please, and they are protected by the Police, as that is what that means in their country.
So, dtd salesmen don't even have to check in with the City, any more. No permit, no badge, no legal solicitation times, no nothing. They are free to go wherever, whenever ... with City Council's blessings. I know, because I called the Police to report the young man that forced me to pull my gun and they would not even come out.
He came to my door, stuck his foot in the door. I told him to go away. He kept talking. I told him that I had a gun and would use it, if he didn't go away. He told me he wasn't there to sell me anything. Liar! Then, I slammed my door on his foot and locked it. (Once the foot was taken out of the door, of course.)
I realized that the gun wasn't in the house, so I went out to get it, and he waved at me from the neighbor's house across the street. Later, I learned that he told the neighbor that I was "mean" to him. Well, big fat duh!
He was acting very strange, like someone who was manic or high. His behavior frightened me. I wondered if he might break into the house, as he was acting in such an erratic manner. Instead of continuing on down the street, he, then, started back across the street toward my house, waving and smiling really big and walking kind of bouncy, headed straight for me. Not behavior one would have, after having been threatened with a gun ... even though he had not seen it at that point. Maybe, he just didn't believe me.
I thought about locking my door and just going upstairs, but didn't want to confront him alone, inside the house, if he broke the door down. So, I stood in my doorway, just inside the house, with the door open to see what he was going to do. When, he came down the sidewalk, in front of the house, I pulled the slide back and let it go loudly to let him know that I was ready, if he came too close. He waved really big and said, "Happy Tuesday!" I just said, "Just keep walking," with the gun held sideways in front of my stomach, not pointing at him, so that he could see it from the side and know that I had it.
He just kept walking, but tell me one thing: What kind of a nut would act that way, when he had been told from the beginning that I had a gun and would use it, if he forced me to? Why would he double back to come toward my house and not continue down the block? I wasn't very nice to him at the door, as he had awakened me from a deep sleep and I was running a fever and felt like barf warmed over. So, there was no chance that he could have interpreted anything I said as a come-on.
Well, not a week later, just after dark, we had a couple ring the door bell saying that they wanted to "clean" for us. They had a rag and some spray cleaning solution of some type in their hand. They were acting strangely, too, as if they were high.
So, League City is wide open and easy pickings for any and all criminal elements, and the homeowners who pay the taxes are left to fend for themselves and hope the Police feel generous the day they have to come to our door.
BTW, the illegal lawn men were at the Pasadena Gun Show a couple of Sunday's ago, trying to buy guns. A local Policeman told me that they carry anywhere between $2,000-3,000 on them at any given time, and they steal from each other ... IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS!!!! I recognized two of them from League City that work in my sub-division. Now, how long is it going to be before they have a shootout and their bullets penetrate an innocent homeowner's house and harm someone?
I am so angry at City Council right now!!! They have taken a beautiful, peaceful little community and turned it into a no man's land.
Gr-r-r!!
I hope we can move, soon, to somewhere that ISN'T a sanctuary city.
