Yeah, her reaction was just flipping fine
There's a whole other T-shirt line right there.I'm (God help me) with the monkey on this one.
Grandma was with it enough to get a good vehicle description and direction of travel with was promptly reported to the sheriff's department.
he pushed the door open and stepped into her house.
Well done, Ma'am. I see no over reaction on her part at all.
Most people with a little common sense know that strangers are going to be "greeted" differently in rural areas. A few years ago I saw a strange Jeep across the field on my neighbors property. I knew no one should be where this guy was at. When he saw me for the first time I was about 10 feet from his driver's door with my FN FAL slung across my chest. When the guy's nads finally dropped from his throat enough that he could speak he said, "Do you always greet strangers with an assault rifle in this neighborhood?" To which I replied, "Yes". They guy quickly determined that he was in the wrong place and would not make the same mistake again. He apologized profusely until he was out of sight.
A few months ago two guys in an unmarked pickup truck stopped at my 87 year old grandmother's house in a small town here in Indiana. One guy came to the door and told her he was the guy that had put the lightning rods on her house years ago. He said he had stopped a few days earlier and had gotten up on the roof and saw that the lightning rods and grounding cables needed about $1000 worth of work, that he had went ahead and done, but since she had used him to do the work originally that he was only going to charge her $600 for the repairs. When she told him that she didn't have any money, he pushed the door open and stepped into her house. She told him that her grandson handled all her money and that she could give him his number. When he acted like this answer was not going to satisfy him she reach for her Life Alert pendant around her neck, at which time he left. Grandma was with it enough to get a good vehicle description and direction of travel with was promptly reported to the sheriff's department.
L said she recognized him as a former probationer (she's LEO). Me, I don't follow someone into their driveway late at night...
Were we being cased, or was it just as innocent as it seemed? I don't really know or care all that much, but I was pretty happy that the immediate family response was defensive and the best possible response we could have under the situation and that if he'd come out with any kind of weapon he wouldn't have made it far.
The only thing I would have done differently is to drive past the driveway to turn around.
That is great. A dog that knows what and a pissed off women in charge.