Woke up this morning after hearing helicopters for a while... Happens, every now and then. So I went downstairs to prepare some coffee and tea for us when I caught a glimpse of something moving in the backyard.
Went to the patio door, opened the blinds a bit and saw one kid sitting on a chair on the deck and another popped up in the glass door saying "Please sir, let me talk to you it's important..."
Though I still had to get that fist sip of coffee and my brain really wasn't processing information as efficiently as it normally would, it was quite obvious that these kids (I say kids, but they must have been around 20) were hiding from that helicopter under our covered patio. And that there were at least 2, maybe more.
Went upstairs and yelled to my wife to call 911 and get dressed while I grabbed my trusty baseball bat and sat in the stairs, where I could see outside the house almost all around and not be seen.
Funnily enough, when the 911 lady asked to talk to me, she told me to put down the bat. Yeah, right, that's exactly what I bought this thing for. To put it down!
Like Titus says -
Everyone has an enemy - that's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
Anyway, not knowing if they were armed or not and how many of them there was, I was not going to go after them. I'm a big boy but I'm not stupid. All I wanted was to have the baseball bat handy if they were to try and break in, otherwise I could sit and wait - as long as my wife was safe, I'm ok.
Police and K9 were here a couple of minutes later, the kids had ran away but they had caught 2 of them - one which I could kind of identify from a distance. And they just caught the 3rd one, an hour later.
Turns out they were burglars and had been spotted trying to enter a house in a nearby street.
What a way to wake up...