Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

Where the HADES do you people live??!!!??

Sounds worse than the gang infested DC I moved from. Jeepers! Move already!

We lived in a ghetto in one of the worst parts of Norfolk Virginia. We stayed out of everyones business and were polite to everyone. We got the hell out of there just as soon as the lease was up and we found a place we could afford. Granted we moved to one of the very cheapest places in Virginia Beach, but it was just out the back gate and affordable for military families so a lot lived there. Much less issues and fairly quiet there. Rare issues that normally cropped up came from the section 8 housing complex next door.

 

[Amberjem]

are my posts showing up or is just noone responding to em lol? starting to feel like the twilight zone

 

[Chickielady]

Probably not. I don't have sufficient means to prevent my son from playing with guns so I don't have any.

You can lock them in alot of ways.
We got taught at a young age, very young, how to handle & respect firearms.
Even at 5-6 yrs old we were hunting with our parents, pheasant, duck, deer, and fishing.
I taught my kids.
It just was a no brainer.
The kids took lessons, and all the guns (but my sidearm) were locked up at all times.
But we did take them out & shoot several times a month.
No one "played" with guns, not even toy guns.
It is in my opinion, hard or impossible for a child to know the difference between a toy & a real gun.
Maybe being taken all around guns, and both our parents hunted bow & arrow also, and made their own arrows............
We were witness up front & personal to the BANG, the KICK, and the obliterated animal that was shot.and that, will rub respect deep down into your brain at an early age.
There was no playing around, it was constant lessons all the time.
Not many teach their children like that anymore.
It was practically every weekend, surf fishing, hunting, target practice at the range, always a family thing.

 

[Chickielady]

I prefer my .40. Enough to make most of the crazies stay down if it's needed (hopefully never is), but small enough to fit in my small hands well. The dogs go off when someone comes in the gate and just the fact that the german shepherd sounds aggressive is usually enough to keep suspicious people who park on the road out front from staying. We used to have a lot of trouble with that at night. Athena hears them, I can still see them even though they think they parked where no one can. I started going out and spotlighting them. Some times of that and there haven't been any more issues so it must have been the same people. My neighbor across the road had to escort some people off his place one night and the cops came and got them. That was the year before we moved here. It's been nice he says since we moved in and the house next to him sold that same year (owned by same people). I'm pretty sure they are the ones that robbed us. Now there is a k-9 cop living just down the road.

I always have the dogs with me. Both are pretty big stalkers and keep an eye on me since the buck tried to take me out.

Well now we have to hear the buck story !

 

[xoxocammyxoxo]

You can lock them in alot of ways.
We got taught at a young age, very young, how to handle & respect firearms.
Even at 5-6 yrs old we were hunting with our parents, pheasant, duck, deer, and fishing.
I taught my kids.
It just was a no brainer.
The kids took lessons, and all the guns (but my sidearm) were locked up at all times.
But we did take them out & shoot several times a month.
No one "played" with guns, not even toy guns.
It is in my opinion, hard or impossible for a child to know the difference between a toy & a real gun.
Maybe being taken all around guns, and both our parents hunted bow & arrow also, and made their own arrows............
We were witness up front & personal to the BANG, the KICK, and the obliterated animal that was shot.and that, will rub respect deep down into your brain at an early age.
There was no playing around, it was constant lessons all the time.
Not many teach their children like that anymore.
It was practically every weekend, surf fishing, hunting, target practice at the range, always a family thing.

Oh no I totally plan on teaching him. But he's not even two yet and I have other things to pay for right now than guns

 

[Chickielady]

ChickieLady...no, I'm not sure I know that song. Who sings it? What is the title of the song? My husband and I really like bluegrass. He plays the mandolin & banjo.

Sounds like several of you need to move to a better neighborhood. Our neighbor got broken into about a month ago...it was in broad daylight, too. Since then, we make sure our doors are all locked up tight even though we live in a semi-rural area. I used to sleep with my loaded shotgun under my bed at nights, but now that we live so close to our daughter & their kids, I've got it locked up in the gun case. I just won't take a chance with a loaded gun and 4 grandsons ages 8, 9, 10, & 11. There is too great a chance of mishap. I still feel safer knowing they are in the house. Then we have two dogs who make a racket if they hear a noise.

The Cox family,(see video below) in the movie "O Brother Where Art Thou" with George Clooney...John Goodman, wonderful bluegrass music.
Get the CD of songs from the movie if you like bluegrass.

Being in a semi- or a full- rural area is even worse than being in a regular neighborhood.
In our case, there is absolutely NO ONE out here to even hear the burgler alarm.
The dog can bark his head off, but he is in his kennel run when we are gone.
It is very easy for persons of ill repute to 'case' your activities, and know your habits, and watch you drive to town to do a little shopping.
Very easy.
Someone could watch us with binoculars from way down the road.
Or they could see us drive by on our way to town.
They can also see us driving back...and run for the property line.
And the crazies and theives are every where, in every neighborhood.
The world has gone to hell.
We have no grandkids here, and if we do, guns are unloaded & ammo locked up.

 

[Chickielady]

Yes, I agree with everyone else so far - some sort of protection is needed. We moved here from a crappy border town in AZ and had so many problems in our first apartment, it was ridiculous. Between reporting neighbors for animal abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, and having my car broken into twice we were very much over it. When we moved out of there to a house in the same town, we got a doberman, hubby got a rifle, and I got a 9mm lol. Where we live now, even though we have a lot of neighbors, just FEELS so much safer (and is, looking at crime reports and talking to neighbors). We still have all the goodies, but keep everything except for hubby's .40 in the safe and let the dobie do the scaring for us. Whenever we take him for a walk, or take him outside, people cross the street and do everything they can to avoid him. Poor guy, he's the biggest smush known to man, only barks at the door because he's excited and wants to play with anyone coming in hahaha

Someone pulls out a gun around here, and our giant nasty wanna-kill-you dog will run & hide lickity split.
My last dog, a black lab, was not afraid of guns at all & was a great retriever, but was terrified of the vacuum cleaner.
If anyone ever wanted to rob us (or worse) they could do it a dustbuster point.

 

[Chickielady]

I used to live off of highway 512 on Portland Avenue. Cute little condo, but one of the crappiest places of town. I had a guy one time just walk into my place in the middle of the day and thought he lived there. He wouldn't leave! Of course my boyfriend was sitting on the couch and never got up to see who I was yelling at. I moved shortly after that and will never live around Tacoma again.

 

[Chickielady]

Snakes are shipped with their own heat source in their own boxes with their own padding. So they are probably shipped A LOT differently than chickens. But even then I don't plan to order hatching eggs anytime soon so who knows.


I don't have anything outside worth stealing. Everything gets brought into the house at night, or garage. Makes my house look super bare and empty right now but oh well.

You should of seen us when we moved here it was bare dirt, and we built a house...so tools were everywhere & no way to lock them up, and the area FULL of tweakers up all night ripping off electrical & siding off mobile homes just yards away.
All night we could see their flash lights & their banging..............no cops could do anything about these abandoned property.
The banks screwed it up, and made these rip off junkies.

 

[Chickielady]

Snakes are shipped with their own heat source in their own boxes with their own padding. So they are probably shipped A LOT differently than chickens. But even then I don't plan to order hatching eggs anytime soon so who knows.


I don't have anything outside worth stealing. Everything gets brought into the house at night, or garage. Makes my house look super bare and empty right now but oh well.

READ THIS:

http://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/...ched-from-california-farm-weeks-before-easter