Teaching the kids what to do when home alone...

[Bill Mattocks]

This young man reacted well. It would appear that Dad might have called police BEFORE heading home to deal with the burglar himself, but it all worked out well. A 'teachable moment' as our Beloved Leader says; if you've got kids at home, do they know what to do if someone breaks in and they're home alone?

http://www.ktvb.com/home/11-year-ol...after-foiling-burglary-suspect-103002294.html

BOISE -- An unusually frightening burglary case occurred in Boise Tuesday afternoon.
Boise Police say the suspect is in jail thanks to the efforts and smart thinking of an 11-year-old boy.
Police say at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Craig J. Getzloff rang the doorbell at a home on W. Bermuda Drive.
An 11-year-old boy was the only one home, and didn't answer the door for a stranger.
He tells police that Getzloff then entered the home from an unlocked back door, and the boy hid in another room, locked that door, and called his dad, who called police on his way home.

 

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

That turned out well, glad it did because we all know alot of bad ways for it to end.

The Perp is lucky, if I beat the cops home they'd be there for clean up, in this state a scumbag in your home with your children present is a bullet magnent.

Kids need to know places to hide, how to use the phone, how to call 9-1-1 quetly and to know that if they have to stop talking, DO SO because most 911 operators are going to be sending the calvery to your house when 911 is called especially when your voice gets cut off.

When they are older, they also need to know how to take care of it themselves if it comes to that. By 11 I allreadty knew how to operate and fire accuratly and quickly rifles, shotguns and pistols and what corner of the house to put my back to if it came to it.

We were close with a family who's 12 year old son killed an escaped convict with a shotgun.
The Boy was alone in rural NY, this guy came busting through the door, the boy was upstairs, grabed his Dad's shot gun and then came to the top of the stairs.

He told the intruder to leave. The intruder started up the steps, probably thinkging a young boy woould not shot him.
WRONG, the boy shot him in the gut and then the face.

Now granted this kid was not from some shelterd suburbs, his Dad was in a Motorcycle club (the same my step dad was in) and was raised to be self sufficient and to fight back when threatend but to do so in a maner that wins.
All the boys around the club were taught this and this young man was held up as an example of what to do IF it came to it IF they would not leaver IF you could not get help.
The Motorcycle club subculture, for all the crap it gets (and some deservidly) from most people at least does not raise victums or the needy.

 

[altc]

Calling the police and knowing what to tell the police such as knowing the address are big ticket items. If the kid was home by himself, it would have been good if he knew to keep ALL doors and windows locked. That in itself may have prevented the whole thing happening altogether.

Lock all doors and windows, don't answer the door, and know how to call the police and provide the necassary details.

As a fall back, have a room that can be locked down that the child can go into and safely wait for police or other help.


And maybe not leave 11yr old children at home alone at all...