On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:40:23 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article ,
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:46:15 -0700, jps wrote:

Climbing in a stranger's window in the middle of the night is a pretty
dangerous thing to be doing.

He might have about 10 seconds to explain himself but it would not
take much belligerence to shorten that window.

Good answer. In 10 seconds you'd probably find he's drunk and in the
wrong house.

Fortunately I have a big yellow dog that handles most of that 10
second interchange. That takes me off of the hair trigger status and
gives me time to assess the situation. I really do not want to shoot a
neighbor's kid, even if he was a burglar but if I felt my family was
threatened, bang bang.

I assume that JPS has never had to deal with a belligerent drunk.

He met you?