Texas City: home invasion robbery

[seamusTX]

An 88-year-old woman was beaten and robbed around 2 p.m. Sunday, January 11, in the 1600 block of 11th Street in Texas City. (The story doesn't say north or south, but it has to be north.)

The women opened her front door to investigate a noise. A man pushed inside, knocked down the victim, and kicked her. He stole blank checks and the woman's car.

The car is a gold 1990 Pontiac Grand Am, Texas license plate TLP 052.

- Jim

[skennedy]

This is where I have a lot of respect for our policemen. I am afraid if I caught this guy I would be thinking about my grandmother and he would not make it to the station house.

[seamusTX]

Bad guy arrested, charged with aggravated robbery and felony theft.

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewc ... 761d90e2cf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Another one, from the Galveston County Daily News, this date:

Woman Pistol Whipped By Robbers

TEXAS CITY — A 41-year-old Texas City woman was pistol whipped and had several hundred dollars stolen Tuesday during a lunchtime break in.

Texas City police said they were called about 12:50 p.m. to a burglary at an apartment in the 7500 block of Blue Jay Drive. The woman who lives in the duplex apartment said she was home alone when suddenly she walked in on three masked men.

All three were wearing bandannas covering much of their faces, Texas City police spokesman Cpl. David Viel said. The woman reported the robbers demanded money from her and that one of the men struck her in the face with what she thought to be the butt end of a handgun.

The robbers made off with about $320 in cash. Viel said police suspect the robbers got into the apartment from a window and were unaware the woman was home.

— T.J. Aulds

This neighborhood is close to the stretch of Texas Avenue (FM 1765) east of I-45 that has been the locale of numerous home invasions in the past four months.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Another one, at the Sundance Apartments at 3404 Ninth Ave. N.

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewc ... f9af596165" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Memo to Texas City residents: Get a burglar alarm, and lock your doors.

In an apparently unrelated incident, three women were targets of a drive-by shooting in the 4500 block of Timothy Street (near FM 1765 and state highway 3):

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewc ... 3b6ed6ed46" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

[bdickens]

Memo to Texas City residents: Get a burglar alarm, a shotgun and lock your doors.

- Jim

Fixed it for ya!

[seamusTX]

All the weapons in the world won't help if crooks can sneak in while the resident is asleep, or residents open their doors to strangers at night.

- Jim

[SlowDave]

True enough, but I think Dickens' point is that it's not very consoling to have an alarm, hear them breaking in your window (since you kept the doors locked), and then sit around waiting for the police to come and find your shot-up body. You need all of it: alarms, locked doors, weapon, and maybe burglar bars, mace, tear gas, flash grenades, etc.

Of course, on the home alarm commercials, when the bad guy busts in and hears the alarm, he always runs away, so you could hope for that. Funny how he never comes in and takes a hostage, or disables the alarm, or forces the homeowner to disable it, or try to find some easy quick stuff to steal before he has to run, or...

[KD5NRH]

True enough, but I think Dickens' point is that it's not very consoling to have an alarm, hear them breaking in your window (since you kept the doors locked), and then sit around waiting for the police to come and find your shot-up body. You need all of it: alarms, locked doors, weapon, and maybe burglar bars, mace, tear gas, flash grenades, etc.

You forgot the multilayered perimeter; first dogs and bullnettle, then feral hogs, then rabid bobcats, then a brahma bull, then they get to the heavily mined yard.

[bdickens]

Don't forget the concertina wire and claymore mines, either!

[wheelgun1958]

Don't forget the concertina wire and claymore mines, either!

and the foo gas!

[tfrazier]

Hang on, this has gotten plain silly.

Can someone please make a neatly compiled single list? I don't want to be scrolling back and forth on the blackberry when I go shopping for this stuff...

And do they sell the Bobcats already infected, or do you have to buy the rabies virus separately?

[Purplehood]

Isn't there supposed to be something about hanging Coyote-urine from tree branches, or am I mixing up my home-security methodology?

[bryang]

Hey, what about a moat around the the house filled with rabid alligators and psychotic-flesh-eating fish??

-geo

[DoubleJ]

Hey, what about a moat around the the house filled with rabid alligators and psychotic-flesh-eating fish??

-geo

With Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasers attached to their heads????