False Sense of Security in the Country

Oggie · #41 08/22/06, 12:46 PM

We live out in the middle of nowhere. But there are three houses here at the end of a dead end road. Folks driving in quickly realize that there's only one way out. Frequently, most of us aren't home, but it always looks like someone is. When we first moved out here, I was a little worried. But folks tend to stay out of our hollow unless they know where they are going. We've been lucky so far.

On the other hand, they found a body just a few miles away. Its pants pockets were filled with Cheerios. In the shirt pocket, they found some Coco Krispies. Looks like it may be the work of a cereal killer.

ace admirer · #42 08/22/06, 04:04 PM

oh i don't know, i have motion sensitive camers at house, shop and a few gates into the remote parts of the farm....i don't have anything to hide except some things noone would want to see. but i do see a recording of every person that dumps trash on my farm roads.

Hammer4 · #43 08/22/06, 04:31 PM

The suspect in that story claims to have murdered folks he was buying and selling drugs from...

crystalniche · #44 08/22/06, 04:55 PM

Several years ago we had a murder in our town. A husband killed his wife as she screamed into the phone to a 9-1-1 operator. The police were 20 minutes away and when they got there her husband answered the door covered in blood carrying their 5 year old son. Response time even in CT is oftentimes terrible. Most everyone in the country has a big dog and a gun. They are needed. Here we are so close to some of the bigger cities that the crime comes to us. I would not be afraid to live alone in the country because most murders are done by someone who knows the victim in some way. If they know you they could find you anywhere if they so chose.

Something else to think about as well~don't count on passers-by to call in an accident. I worked in a convenience store and at times someone would come in, get their gas then tell me about an accident "up the road" I'd always ask them if there were emergency crews there and oftentimes there wasn't. I'd call it in and find out that I was the first one to call! This on a road that gets 30,000 cars on it each day! One Sunday a man told me that a car had rolled over several times and there were people hurt, I called it in and no one else had called it in even tho there were many there who had stopped to look it over. Why not make that phone call? Many have cell phones with them.

copperkid3 · #45 08/22/06, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by bostonlesley

Right here in beautiful downtown Farmington Missouri last Friday at 12:30 in the afternoon a young woman held up an armoured security truck while it was filling up with gas. She just strolled up to the guard and shoved a pistol in his face. The other guard was inside the gas station. Since nothing like that had ever happened around here, I guess the guards just didn't anticipate it..oh well.

She hopped into the truck and took off, followed by a car..now here's the good part..apparently some farmer had been troubled by the sounds of "bumps in the night" on his gravel drive and had installed a few cameras in the trees..these cameras only went on when they sensed "motion" on the gravel road. So here comes the gal driving the stolen security truck + her little buddy in the car up the farmer's gravel drive.."click, click" camera on..then along comes two other vehicles.."click click" cameras filming as the crew changes vehicles and drives off.
The FBI, the county sheriff and the local police find the truck + the car by 1

m..
the farmer strolls out of his homestead and says "Hey, y'all want to see my cameras? "
By Saturday morning, everybody is sitting in a jail cell. SWEET.
But back to the point..Everybody around here is slack-jawed over this..ARMED robbery in broad daylight on the busiest street in town? WHAT?
Just doesn't happen here..well, it did. Go figure. Hope those crooks enjoy their 25 years in a Fed prison.
Also last week, some fellow robbed a bank two towns over. It's a crime wave around here !! Guess the bad guys thought podunk Missouri was easy pickin's but they thought wrong.

Here's that news item which just showed up on the web:

Farmer Helps Nab Armored Car Suspects

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
FARMINGTON, Mo. - Farmington police have arrested three people suspected of stealing an armored car, thanks in part to crime scene pictures taken by a local farmer.

Farmington Police Chief Rick Baker said the farmer got pictures of the suspects Friday afternoon after the trio allegedly hijacked an armored car, stole the money inside and then dropped the car off on a remote country road. The farmer had the road under surveillance because of vandalism on his property.

Pictures showed a pickup truck and sedan driving away from the scene. The images were shown on the television news, and soon police got calls that led them to the truck's owner, Scott Ian Mackinnon, 25, of Desloge, on Friday.

Mackinnon then led police to Eugene M. Ford, 58, of St. Louis County, and his daughter, 22-year-old Leann Dotson of rural Jefferson County, police said.

Ford and Dotson were arrested Saturday. All three suspects are charged with first-degree robbery and felony stealing over $25,000.

Dotson also was charged with armed criminal action.

Baker said a woman approached the armored car driver at a gas station and threatened him with a revolver before stealing the car.

Bond was set at $250,000 for each suspect. Police said they recovered stolen cash and a revolver used in the robbery.

oldnndway · #46 08/22/06, 05:31 PM

" Rather live in the country, so I have an idea of where all the bad folks live, than in a city, where there's no way to know all of the evildoers... "

Me too !

Cities scare me...I've always lived in a small backwoods town and I'm not used to that many people.
Around here I know most of the "bad" guys and can usually read the sign of them I don't know.