I keep an eye on my neighbors and get used to their habits, and they may be doing likewise. If something looks weird, I would thank them for calling LEOs.

I was sitting in my car at 4pm one day, waiting for a feral cat to go into the trap (she was just sitting in front of the trap, looking at the food, deciding).

I was across from a bank. A bank that was robbed while I was sitting there. The perp was wearing a blue t-shirt and a white baseball cat. I was wearing a blue shirt and a white baseball cap.

Let me tell you, the approach of those two officers from behind me was very, very cautious!

Sue

I suppose the Este Lauder gym bag in the back and red nail polish on the fingers hugging the steering wheel were helpful in their initial walk up. Otherwise I'd guess the ponytail helped.

haha.

I had the occassion to drive up to my house and see a large man with a flashlight near my garden level bedroom window. Both the wife and I met him with our pistols drawn. When asked who and what he thought he was doing at midnight at our house, he responded that he was the neighbor diagonal from us and that our dogs were barking. I responded back that they were taught to react that way when a person approaches our house at midnight with a flashlight looking around. I then explained as we were holstering our weapons that he was A: never to come onto this property again - ever. and B: Smart people do not do what he did as some people in WY dont like home invaders, rapist, burglers and other bad people - it was a good way to come down with a terminal case of rapid lead poisoning.

The wife and I both were law enforcement officers and that is the most personal it ever got. Dont ever want to do that again.

Last spring we discovered that a person had been snooping around our yard while we were out, wearing an orange vest that said safety on it. Our neighbor confronted them and they refused to identify themselves. Had either me or the wife been home, the suspect would've been speaking into the end of the barrel pretty quick, or he'd have sprouted some lumps and been waiting face down and hog tied for the cops to come get him, assuming he didn't resist.

God watches over fools.

I saw the movie "Gran Torino" this weekend. Good movie. The end was a bit predictable.

But not so predictable for the teens aged target audience - that's for sure.

I used to do this also, but decided that I didn't want the hassle of a police visit by a well meaning neighbor. Walmart has some nice LED nightlights with a photocell that turns them off during the day. I've installed enough of them that, with good night vision, I can easily move about the house, check on kids, go to the bathroom, etc., without turning on a light.

I keep a few areas in the house pretty dark for tactical reasons, anyone coming towards me down the hallway will be lit up fairly well, compared to my dark corner at least.

I can certainly understand that.

But I'd hate to be his neighbor when those rounds start popping through my drywall!

Had you been wearing a white baseball cat, I bet the officers would have been even more cautious.....

Sorry, I could not let that one go.