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Brown shirt invasion  

stardust81937 87M
4345 posts
6/28/2013 8:45 am
Brown shirt invasion

Brown shirt invasion

I'd just finished eating a juicy cantaloupe, and turned on the small flat screen TV on my desk, put my feet up, and was watching the start of an old GUNSMOKE episode when a chopper (helicopter) started buzzing my house.

My place has a double roof for summer cooling purposes, and a chopper has to be pretty low overhead in order for the sound to come though--but this one was LOUD!

So, I put on some shoes and went into the rear porch that leads into a drive-through garage (my house is home-built by me, and is over 3000 square feet of craziness, like a maze..) I walked to where I could look out and see what was happening.

It was 107 at 3 yesterday, and is supposed to be 112 to 114 today... At this time of year, the end of my garage--facing South--is covered in hanging shade cloth to keep out the sun. I can go from my living space, through the house to the outside to see what's going on, all the while being under cover and in the shade. In this case I was also completely nude aside from slip-in shoes.

When I got where I could see out, the roar of the chopper was blasting my eardrums and I saw why. The chopper was in my yard about 50 feet off the ground, and it wasn't military, it was a sheriff's chopper. At my gate were two parked cop cars and CUTTING my fucking fence were three brown shirted sheriff's deputies.. I was being INVADED.

Because I was behind the shade cloth in the garage, they couldn't see me, so I figured it would probably be a pretty good idea for me to go back inside and put on some shorts and a shirt, which I did. My little Border Collie was under my desk, and I didn't think she'd be any problem. As a matter of fact even with all the noise of the chopper, she was still sound asleep.

I started outside again, this time with some clothes on, just as the brown shirts, with guns drawn entered under the shade cloth of my garage.

It always pays to be a gentle-looking, short-haired old white dude when being confronted by cops. I put both hands in the air palms out, and asked, "What's happening?"

The lead cop was a detective and was quite nice once he found out this was my place and I was here alone and had owned this place for 36 years.

The sheriff's deputies spent a lot of time searching my property, I have a lot of "toys".
I really didn't mind too much, I have nothing to hide and I'm not doing anything illegally here. If the guy they were hunting HAD been on my property I would have been relieved if they'd captured him.

I don't know what the guy had done, and I know the cops didn't find anyone at my place. Perhaps I'll find out what he was wanted for on the news.

I AM a little pissed that they CUT my fence and broke off one of my wooden fence posts, but I can repair that in a couple of hours, so there's really no harm done.

What do you think about this? Have you ever had cops search your house or car? Have you ever been "manhandled" by cops? Do you have any friends or relatives who are cops?
What's your opinion of the police where you live?

by David Stardust... Friday, June 28th, 2013....





stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
6/28/2013 8:06 pm

    Quoting  :

Yes, I've heard similar stories HeartCollector. I was in the unit police for about two months in Germany while in the Army and got out of the unit as soon as I could. I found it was making me cynical(which I am naturally, anyway; and the work was making me mean, which I am not).

I have enough imagination to wonder at the time, if they were going to plant something in my place and arrest me for something on some scam charge... However this morning I walked around my area and found where the cops had circled s few footprints in the desert sand, so I believe they actually were in a hot pursuit and thought the guy had gotten through my fence, and perhaps was holding me captive. Sorry about your house, that was Justice turned backward. DS


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
6/28/2013 7:47 pm

    Quoting 49plus20:
    Always been lucky with police.
    They have a tough kob now days so I woild cut them some slack!
    Of course, it was not my fence!
I did a lot of walking on this desert early this morning, and I've seen where the cops were searching in a large area. In two places I found where a cop had circled a footprint in the sand, so I'm pretty sure they were in a hot pursuit. They may have assumed the guy had burst in on me and taken me hostage. The fence is no big deal, I've already put a temporary patch on it. Yeah, you're right Ed, their job is a hard one, and they were all sweating so badly in the glaring sun outside I gave them a roll of paper towels to wipe the sweat out of their eyes.DS


49plus20 69M
1518 posts
6/28/2013 7:25 pm

Always been lucky with police.
They have a tough kob now days so I woild cut them some slack!
Of course, it was not my fence!


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
6/28/2013 4:09 pm

    Quoting silk_petal_rose:
    I THINK ITS PRETTY WIERD. THAT THEY CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT..........maybe use a bullhorn to call out to you.......you would think that after 36 yrs living there the police know you and that you live there.
They said this guy was on the run through the desert. They were tracking his tracks in the desert sand and they thought he'd jumped my fence.

There was nothing on the local news about the hunt for him, but if I hear of what he was wanted for, I'll post it on this blog.

They used a lot of resources trying to get him, but I think they came up empty. If he was an X-marine or an Army Ranger he could live off this land for months... even though it is 114 outside as I write this, and supposed to get hotter tomorrow,,

I'm glad I had enough sense left in my old head to come out of the house with my hands up...thanks for your comment smooth Silky..DS


silk_petal_rose 60F  
2363 posts
6/28/2013 1:07 pm

I THINK ITS PRETTY WIERD. THAT THEY CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT..........maybe use a bullhorn to call out to you.......you would think that after 36 yrs living there the police know you and that you live there.

silky...


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