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People wake up, hear intruder, call 911 and hide in the closet!

They are somewhat noisy. Ours is a Neato brand and is several years old. It had straight beater bar brush on it. It was very loud on hard floors. I replaced it with a spiral brush and it cut the noise by 75% or more. The funniest thing with it is one of the cats had diarrhea and couldn't make it to it's litter pan in the garage. The robot ran though it and spread it all through the house when we weren't at home. At least it's all hardwood floors and the carpeted bedrooms were shut. The smell was unbelievable being spread out that much. I had to throw away the brush and belt, and the other parts were soaked in bleach water for a few days and hosed off. If it hadn't cost nearly $500, I would have thrown it all away.
 
T-shooter said:
They are somewhat noisy. Ours is a Neato brand and is several years old. It had straight beater bar brush on it. It was very loud on hard floors. I replaced it with a spiral brush and it cut the noise by 75% or more. The funniest thing with it is one of the cats had diarrhea and couldn't make it to it's litter pan in the garage. The robot ran though it and spread it all through the house when we weren't at home. At least it's all hardwood floors and the carpeted bedrooms were shut. The smell was unbelievable being spread out that much. I had to throw away the brush and belt, and the other parts were soaked in bleach water for a few days and hosed off. If it hadn't cost nearly $500, I would have thrown it all away.
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That’s an awfully expensive cat...
 
True story: I’m sitting in the living room of our cousin’s house after a fine Christmas dinner. The discussions are floating around on different subjects until we land on “Texas bugs and how you deal with them”. My wife HATES bugs. One of the older boys says: “ You buy that really small snake shot . It’s OK to use indoors.”
I love Texas!!!
 
After hurricane Andrew me and my partner were working in south Miami. The owners saw a snake in the bedroom and both husband and wife jumped up on the bed. A phone was near and they called the maid, after a long ride from Homestead 25 minutes latter she arrived. She walked in to the bedroom and they screamed look out you are almost stepping on the snake. She says 'I don't see no snake!" as she picks up the belt laying on the floor.
 
"The Five" discussed this yesterday. Consensus, "they'll never live it down"!
Made me think about how many people there are with no plan for an emergency. From the time our kids were big enough to get in and out of bed, we have had a plan for intruders and fire.
Fire, get out and meet in the road upwind (west) from the house, I call 911.
Intruder, get to our bedroom by crawling on floor or get under their bed and STAY DOWN, so I didn't have to worry about shooting one of the kids. I man the shotgun, wife the pistol and she calls 911 to report a possible homicide (cops get there faster). Thank God, we have never used either, but the plan is in effect!
 
bsekf… Reminds me of the story of the party calling 911 a couple times and dispatch told them it will be a while as all officers were busy.
party called back third time, said don't rush, intruder has been shot, funny but this time police were there within 3 minutes.
Might just fit into your plan... SMILE.
 
I live out in the country and several years ago I was outside and heard distant gunfire and bullets whizzing overhead. I called 911 and reported it while finding a secure place for me and my family. A little over 3 hours later a deputy showed up and took the report. Then she drove around to see if she saw anyone. NO, they quit target practice a couple hours prior. They were in a corn field on a path way off the road about 3/4 mile away. (saw them shoot there at a different time.) I had a talk with the owner of the property and told him if it ever happened again, I would return fire. He was sorry and said it was relatives shooting and it wouldn't happen again, and it never did.

I later heard that a house about 3 miles away had a bullet come through the wall. The house is a group of about 3 and no other homes within nearly a mile. Who knows? Something else that happened I believe in Ohio. A guy had been hunting with a muzzle-loader. To get rid of the last load, he fired it out across a field in the air. It killed an Amish girl over a mile away.
 
Step Dad called the Police Dept about LOUD Music behind his house, late at night. Cops said they were busy. He said, never mind. I'll throw a bomb over the fence. Cops were there in 2 minutes.;)
This guy was a little off at times? Ended up with a Gold Digger" cause he was thinking with his "little head" and NOT his big head.:rolleyes: I think he was in his mid 80s at the time?
Lady friend (Gold Digger) wanted out of the house to go party with her "boy friend drug dealer" and Pop wouldn't let her out of the house. Somebody called the Cops, he put up a fight (I told you he was a little off at times) and the Cops used a Taser him.:eek: They had to take him to the hospital to get the probes out.:mad: Good thing I wasn't there or the Cops would have their butts sued off.:mad: I guess the two of them wern't big enough to hold the old man down.:confused::rolleyes:
 
Bill K said:
bsekf… Reminds me of the story of the party calling 911 a couple times and dispatch told them it will be a while as all officers were busy.
party called back third time, said don't rush, intruder has been shot, funny but this time police were there within 3 minutes.
Might just fit into your plan... SMILE.
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This is how I heard it:

Phillip Hewitson, an elderly man, from Norwich, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. Phillip opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked ”Is someone in your house?"

He said "No, but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me.”

Then the police dispatcher said "All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available."

Phillip said, "Okay." He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again. "Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well you don’t have to worry about them now because I just shot them." and he hung up.

Within five minutes, four Police cars, two Fire Trucks, and an Ambulance showed up at the Hewitson`s’ residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to Phillip, "I thought you said that you’d shot them!"

Phillip said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
 
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