How would you have handeled this "almost" incident?

[Titan]

It's 2am, you awaken to the sound of breaking glass and take your shotgun toward the source of the sound.

You armed yourself without knowing of a specific threat. Premeditated, or simply prepared?

50 years ago, blood anywhere inside the house from a non-relative was evidence of self-defense.

You didn't ask me, but if it were me, I'd tell the cops I never intended to use the shotgun. I was just going to 'rack it' to scare the intruder away.

 

[feralmerril]

It was a rough job that was made to order for getting into trouble. Most us foremen were single, in our mid twentys. Our average contract was about two months in one area and your next one might be on the opposite side of the country. You got to a new area and you were expected to hire a crew of maybe three guys and be working in a day or two. We paid our help minimum wages for dirty hard shovel work. To our company our workers were just a temporary number. For us crew foremen than gave us a lot of latitude and would protect us in various ways unheard of today. Some might get in a bar fight and the company would send someone to bail you out. Some had women trying to find you for whatever reason and the company didnt know where you were.
You would usualy get a cheap furnished studio apartment or drag a small travel trailer with the company truck.
We all had our favorite kincks to put a crew together and do the job. Some would go to the employment office. I never did. Some would go to the local jail and hopefully get guys out that was sitting there for non support or whatever. My favorite tatic was to go to a filling station, ask the owner did he know someone that wanted to work. They always had a son or nephew that would work. Once I got him they always knew friends that also needed work. Durring the winter we left the colder areas and would double up jobs and foremen in the southern states. Putting a bunch of wild guys together made wild times. I remember once 8 of us pooling together and renting a old duplex together in louisianna. $100s a month split 8 ways! 4 guys to each side of the duplex! It was a wild couple three years!