We almost got robbed
Talk about an interesting day. I’m sitting here in my office reading my email this morning, just like I do every morning. Brendan was still sleeping so I was trying to be quiet. Jonah starts getting really antsy about something going on outside which he does from time to time, like when people walk their dogs down our cul-te-sac, or if there is a cat walking by or something so I didn’t think much of it. Then he stands up and desperately starts howling. I notice that the dogs next door are also barking more than usual. I get up and go down the hall and I see this mexican coming in my back door. I see him, he sees me and he bolts. He jumps the porch, then jumps the fence, then runs down to the road where he just walks non-chantantly like he owns the neighborhood.
While this is going on I’m waking Brendan up and I’m dialing the Kennesaw Police Department. They got here in a matter of minutes. At first the cop just wanted to know which way they went and he went walking through the woods toward the area I pointed him to. He came back and pulled back up in front of my house and behind him came 3 other police cars. He told me he was sure glad I called because a house was robbed in the neighborhood right behind me which fit the description of one of the guys I told him about. While all this is going on I’m standing at the very top of our driveway. A lady cop gets out of her car and comes up and says they had caught two males and they needed me to ID them. They pulled each one out of the car and stood them up in front of the police cruiser and right away I knew that was the guy that was in my house. When they pulled the other guy out, I told them that it looked like his hair, but he was wearing white before. When he was standing there he had a green shirt on. They pulled a white jacket out of the cruiser and I told them that was definitely the other guy. As I ID’d each guy they put them in handcuffs and read them their rights.
Brendan and I both had to write out a witness statement about the encounter. We learned that one of the robbers was armed. SCARY! That picture I took was the 4 police cruisers out in front of the house. The two back ones each had one of the robbers in it. The police came in and petted Jonah and told him what a good boy he was. If it wasn’t for him howling in a de-stressed way that I wouldn’t have caught him just walking in. He probably would have had his pockets full or hurt either Brendan or myself. I caught him when he had two feet in the back door leaving the back door open. Ugh, scary!
When the police left all my neighbors had a little get together in the middle of the cul-te-sac to talk about what happened. All of us admitted that we leave our back doors open mostly all the time due to this being such a safe and quiet neighborhood. I also found out that Brendan and I are the only ones that don’t down a gun. I told them if I ever needed one, I knew where to go. Not sure about having one in the house yet. Still undecided about that.
I’m wiped out after being outside for so long without my oxygen and really short of breath. Stupid lungs. These are desperate times and I’m sure lots of safe neighborhoods are going to see this sort of thing. It’s sad, but I guess we gotta do what we gotta do. I’m definitely making sure all doors are locked at all times from now on. This is my house dammit, and I’m not about ready to let them make me feel unsafe in my own house.
