30 years ago a friend Ron lived out on a lake in the country . Super nice guy, very quiet. Per his wife, one night they woke up and found a guy crawling through the window. Ron grabbed a model 27 and placed it against the guys head

. He ordered the dude to lay in the floor, spread eagle, then proceeded to sit astride this clown, with the pistol barrel against the dude's head. Yelled at wife, call the Sheriff's office. She did, only to be given a runaround, busy, it'd be 45 minutes to an hour before they could get there. Wife tells Ron, he takes phone and says "sounds like you don't want this a..hole, and I sure as h-ll don't, so I tell you what, if you can't make it here in 15 minutes just forget it . I'll blow his head off and throw his body in the lake and we'll forget the whole thing.

. Per his wife, in 10 minutes there was a deputy and two state troopers "on scene"

. She said the poor burglar had crapped his pants and was crying begging my friend not to shoot him. In talking about it Ron said the deputy asked him afterwards "would you have really shot that guy?" Ron said " I dunno, but it sure got your dispatcher to send me the help I needed didn't it"?