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| Tank Testing His Welder-Generator |
After settling his case relating to his hand being
rebuilt, our son, Tank recently decided to treat himself to a tool relating to
his profession. He bought a nice
commercial grade welder-generator combination.
He had the welder-generator loaded on his flatbed truck with plans of
securing to the bed of the truck to avoid theft and/or misuse. He hasn’t gotten that far yet. Now we do live in a nice quiet area, we have
security lights all around our place, and we’re on the edge of town.
On Saturday night, right after our son purchased his
generator; he pulled his truck into our driveway and parked it there for the
night, thinking it would be secure, and no one would bother it.
Sure!!!!!
Around 11:15PM, I’m sitting in the living room
watching a little TV. Bulldog Man just finished reading a book, and was in bed,
just turning out the lights; our son, Tank, is already in bed sound to sleep,
snoring like a log.
A commercial comes on the TV; I mute the sound in
order not to hear the commercial. That’s
when I heard a whistle…………….one of those whistles to let someone know something
was up. I got up out of my chair, and looked out the back window, and didn’t
see a thing. I proceed to the front of
our house to check on my son’s welder sitting on his flatbed truck. I see someone running from the side of our home
to a car sitting out in the road with all the lights off, and the driver side doors
open. I can’t see our son’s truck
because he pulled in the driveway instead of backing in like he always
does. I go into my bedroom and alert
Bulldog Man; we get our guns, and go back to our front door. We look out the window, and still can’t see
clear enough to figure out what was going on.
Both Bulldog Man and I check our front porch, no one’s on it or close
by. We open the front door in the dark
just enough to attempt to see what’s going on.
And we hear what sounds like a generator running. We look at each other and say “son of a gun (actually
we used another word)”, can’t move the generator to steal it so you’re going to
use it. Now remember, our son hasn’t had
an opportunity to bolt down this welder or put a security box over it. I lock our front door, and Bulldog Man and I
run to the garage through the house. I
pull the security locks on the garage door; we both looked at one another in
preparation of what’s going to happen next. We both said, “Let’s do this”. I pushed the garage door button in the open
position, and both Bulldog Man and I were ready for what was on the other side
of that door. The security lights come
on, Bulldog Man went to one side of the truck and I went to the other side; the
generator was not running. The sound was
coming from down on the road, it was one of those little compact air
compressors you use for blowing up your tires.
An unknown subject was walking around a vehicle out
in the road, the compressor was working, and the other subject who ran from the
side of our house through our bushes was sitting inside this vehicle.
After seeing both Bulldog Man and I fully armed and
ready to protect our property both subjects took off as fast as they could and
never looked back.
The moral of this post; even if you live in a quiet
safe location, you just never know what’s going to happen when you least expect
it.
So always be prepared!
