No smoke detector, no RIGHTS! -- Notes from Zarahemla Political Forum

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, [6], 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 13:22:45 08/23/05 Tue
Author: TastingTheBlood
Subject: No smoke detector, no RIGHTS!
In reply to: Chuck in ND 's message, "I'm afraid that our "long list"" on 12:48:09 08/23/05 Tue

Here's quite a story that I think all of you will enjoy...

I was showering one morning when I heard my dog going nuts. I shut off the water and just listened for a couple seconds. I heard a man's voice. ( I knew it wasn't my dad because he uses the back door and the dog doesn't bark like crazy AFTER he comes in. ) I open the door and go into the hallway ( on the second floor ) and listen for a few more seconds, where its clear that I don't know the man OR the other man that I heard as well! I quietly go up to my room and get one of our rifles and go back to the second floor. I went into the doorway to my sister's room and pointed the rifle at the entrance to the stairs going downstairs and waited. I heard them walk up a few steps and they started yelling, "Hello?! Hello?!" I thought this was strange. By now I was quite scared. After a few seconds, the one man goes, "Mr. Nebelski?! Its Bob Coleman from Johnston Realty..."

So I go downstairs ( with gun in hand ) and asked what the hell they were doing because I almost shot them. The man with him was from the CITY OF ALTOONA there to make sure we put in our ( let me rephrase that... to make sure we RE-DID ) smoke detectors. Because of this, they came into our house ( which we are renting ) and almost got shot.

We had smoke detectors, but a few months earlier the city had come in for an inspection and found a few things wrong with our house. The 1st floor smoke detector needed to be 2 feet away on the other side of an open doorway wall. The 3rd floor smoke detector needed to be on the other side of a window, and the hand rail to the third floor needed replaced.

I know it sounds awful, but part of me wished they HAD come around that corner at the top of the stairs. Sure, if Bob Coleman had been in front I would have recognized him and not shot, but it would have at least caused them to soil their pants. But if it was the other guy first, I may have fired. The funny thing is, I had always planne on what I would do and hiding on the second floor waiting was just one of my plans. One of them involved never seein their faces until AFTER I shot them in the legs ( due to the set-up of our stairs ) If I had decided on that one......... yeah.

I was tasting the blood after that little visit to say the least...

TTB

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]