Originally Posted By tashajilek "Also, taking a gun when you travel is not at all uncommon. If you have ever had someone try to force entry into your hotel room while you are in it you would be much more open to the idea" WTF? I stay in hotel rooms some 30 plus nights in the US and never thought someone was going to come and kill me. I have heard of hotel staff giving other people the wrong room before, so i wouldnt be so paranoid.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I'm thinking that must have been a shady hotel in Atlanta. Most Hotels (as opposed to motels) are pretty secure. I have to admit that motels don't give me warm vibes as anyone can walk up to your door, but that model seems to be headed for extinction, except at the very low end.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I'm thinking that must have been a shady hotel in Atlanta. Most Hotels (as opposed to motels) are pretty secure. I have to admit that motels don't give me warm vibes as anyone can walk up to your door, but that model seems to be headed for extinction, except at the very low end.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad It was a RAmada inn and they were trying to kick the door down. I'm not being paranoid. My family is too valuable to trust to others honesty. My work partner was robbed leaving work and they beat her up pretty bad. So why not be prepared. She gave them everything and they still assaulted her.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip But why would they have the gun in their car? Any handgun would easily fit in the room safe.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad Who can know. I leave as much as will fit in the safe and I really don't fear for my safety in the world but outside in Orlando I'm not so open. But Stuff happens. I have had two close friends carjacked at gunpoint here in Charlotte so you always have to be aware of your surroundings.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip It's just so easy for crooks to break into cars, and once they are in there is usually a trunk release button.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad Yea and have you ever noticed that car alarms go off and nobody thinks anything about it. Once my keys got wet at a water park so I couldn't turn the alarm off. I had to drive all the way home with my alarm going off. A policeman even passed me but no one did anything. When I got home I told my wife and she said " I guess alarms aren't much good"
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>It was a RAmada inn and they were trying to kick the door down.<< Did it have a motel or hotel format? I've seen Ramadas that are motels. So, when they tried to kick your door down, what did you do? Did you shoot them?
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad We yelled through the door at them telling them the room was occupied and that we were calling the police. I don't think they knew we were in the room at first and they left after the yelling started. It was more of a motel format with the room doors open to the outside. We now only stay at places with internal hallways.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Please CarolinaDisneyDad, let us know where you are at all times, seems like LOTS of crimes happen around you...
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad I know right? I'm guessing this kind of stuff doesn't happen to everyone. I've seen a lot of stuff that makes you wonder how humans have survived.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip The only time something similar happened to me, I was in a nice hotel in a not-so nice part of St. Louis. The hotel's parking ramp was surrounded with high barbed-wire fencing if that gives you any indication of the area. Except this time I was the "burglar". I went to the room number the desk clerk had written on the key-card folder and inserted the card in the lock. The light came up red so I took it out and inserted it again. Again red and I hear a voice from inside shout "this is not your room". Glad he didn't have a gun and decide to blast me through the door. We called the front desk from a hall phone and asked the manager to get up there fast with a CORRECT room number and key-card.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad I'm work in retail in a nice area of Charlotte and my first week on the job the store was robbed at gunpoint. The 2 friends who were car jacked shared season tickets with me for the hornets. So when I say close friends I'm not stretching the truth. One of my neighbors had their explorer stolen from their driveway. It was found 3 days later and had been driven over 1000 miles. Another person I worked with for 5 years had her accord stolen and it was never found I don't think. I could go on and on
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad I will say though that I never saw any of this kind of stuff growing up in a small town in the mountains.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Yea... "The Lou" is certainly different from Minneapolis too. I don't think I ever saw barbed-wire in even the WORST areas of Minneapolis! Kind of glad I live out in the Ozarks and not in St. Louis! All I have to be afraid of here is the conservatives and their penchant for "modern sporting rifles". LOL Well, that and the Meth cookers.
Originally Posted By schnebs <<But why would they have the gun in their car? Any handgun would easily fit in the room safe.>> Yeah, but this was a rifle. Not too many hotel safes a rifle would fit into, I reckon...
Originally Posted By RoadTrip So why the heck did they have a rifle? I've never owned a gun of any kind, but people generally don't go around carrying rifles for self-defense.
