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Originally Posted by tdawg3782 |
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This reminds me of an experience I had about a year ago. We have a pretty big canyon system where I live. So I frequently go hiking with my kids there. It's normally very peaceful and fun.
Well one Saturday me and my 4 kids (aged 5, 7, 10, and 12 at the time) went on a hike in an area I don't normally go so I didn't know it very well. So we start and we are just kind of meandering around heading Northeast. We are basically right in the middle of the trail when we start to hear some dude randomly yelling in Spanish. Basically cursing I we and over.
At first I did t think much of it because it was pretty far off. But as we kept walking it was getting closer. But it was really hard to tell where it was coming from. And I couldn't spot the dude anywhere. But he just kept telling every 15 sec or so.
By this time I'm trying to play it cool because I could tell my kids were starting to get freaked out. Figured if Dad was calm it would rub off. But inside I was planning on what to dude if there was an encounter.
Finally it felt like this dude was right on top of us but I still couldn't see him. I didn't want to stop on the trail because it was pretty narrow and it would have forced an encounter. Luckily there was a drop off the main trail to a dry creek. So we went down there, picked up are speed a bit, then I had my kids hide behind some bushes.
This was the moment of truth. We were down about 15 feet off the main trail and there were some trees separating us. But if the guy looked he'd see us. I not kidding guys. I had already planned out how to kill this guy if he came after my kids. I was so hyper focused and it scares me how easy it was to come to that decision. I didn't even have a second thought at all. I had my back pack with my big hydro flask ready to swing at him and then I was going to take him out anyway possible.
Thank god dude just kept walking. We waited a bit and then backtracked out of the canyon. Really rattled my kids for a few days and myself because of what I was prepared to do. Obviously dude had some serious mental health issues. But ya that was a scary scenario.
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My sister had a similar situation last summer. Her and her family live on an Air Force base and my BIL was deployed so it was just her and her four kids (a 12-year-old, 10-year-old and twin two year olds).
To make a long story short, they just got back from the grocery store and she heard the door open and close. She thought maybe one of the kids went outside, then the 10-year old said: "Mom, there's a man standing in our kitchen". She went in and there stood a bloody drunk guy leaning on their kitchen counter. She told the two bigger kids to grab the twins and go upstairs.
Once they were gone she confronted him and asked him to leave. He was mainly just incoherent and mumbling but after 5-10 minutes, he eventually went out of their backdoor and stayed in their backyard until the police arrived. Apparently, he was trying to get into other apartments as well and the reason he was bloody was because he had gotten attacked by a dog in one of their neighbor's backyards so the police had already been called.
Ultimately, it was just a little excitement and good scare but could have been much worse.