me and the rest of the world don't think alike

[Alpo]

I posted a thread here few years back.

 

There were three TV shows. A Perry Mason episode. I believe a Twilight zone episode. And an NCIS episode. And the plot involved a young kid finding a gun in a vacant lot or in the woods or somewhere. He took it home and stashed it with his secret stuff.

 

At the end of each episode the adult was telling the kid that he should have told his father that he found the gun. And I asked the Saloon (ACS) at large if they would have told their father.

 

Everybody that responded said they would. Ain't no way I would have told mine.

 

When I was in junior high school there was this kid that frequently showed up with no lunch money. And he would sell me neat stuff for my 40 cent lunch money. He sold me a Case Trapper, which is the two bladed pocket knife about 4 1/2 inches long. He sold me a Zippo lighter. He sold me an Italian switchblade. All three of those, and other neat things, or confiscated by my father immediately upon finding out I had them.

 

When my older brother was 15 he bought a pistol from a guy down on the street corner. When he was 16 Daddy found out about it and confiscated it. He locked it up and when my brother got to be 21 he gave it back to him, unlike my knives in my lighter, but still he confiscated it.

 

There is no doubt in my mind that if I found a gun in the woods and I told my father that I found a gun in the woods I would no longer have that gun.

 

I just found a thread on another board. Zombie thread - 2003. The kid - he says he's 17 - says he just found his father's backup set of keys to the gun safe. And he's wondering whether he should tell Dad that he found them. Says that on the one hand he likes the fact that if an emergency happens he can now get to a weapon. And on the other hand he is sure that if he tells Dad he found the spare keys, Dad will change the hiding place. So he's asking for opinions on should he tell Dad or not.

 

I've only read seven responses, but all seven said he needs to tell Dad. I wouldn't. I wouldn't use the keys to get in the safe and play with the guns, and I wouldn't tell my friends were the keys were. But knowing where the keys were? That might come in handy.

 

Would any of you, if you found a gun in the woods when you were 12 or 13 years old, not tell your father? If you were 17 and found the backup keys to the gun safe, would you tell your father you found the keys?

 

I do wonder what he was looking for when he found the backup keys, but that's not the question.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

I did find a gun in the bush once as a kid.

A SxS shotgun, but I turned it in to my Father and he contacted the Service Police and they contacted the RCMP, since it was off found off base and no one on base had reported it missing or stolen.

Turned out it was stolen from a home a couple of hours away. 

[Blackwater 53393]

 

Pssst!  Maybe if we ignore him… 🤣

[Pat Riot]

When I was 7 we were looking at a rental house. My parents were with the landlord in the front or living room. My brother and I decided to see which room we liked best. 
I was snooping in a bedroom closet and my brother gave me a boost yo look at the top shelf because I thought I could see something. 
There was a 6 shot revolver, pretty sure it was an S&W model 10 snubbie. It was loaded. There was also a box of ammo. 
With my brother’s help we got the gun and ammo down. From watching some cop show I knew how to unload it, so I did. We put the cartridges back in the box. 
We discussed keeping but then decided the beating wouldn’t be worth it if we were caught, so we put the revolver and the ammo back on the top shelf then went and told my parents and the landlord. 
I said “I think there is a gun in the last bedroom on the top closet shelf.” and excitement ensued. 
Later my Dad asked me if I fooled with the gun. He knew I was a gun but even back then. I told him “Yes, it was loaded. I unloaded it.” I got my arse whooped, but good. 
 

So, in answer to your question Alpo, “No!” I wouldn’t tell my parents. Especially after I got a bit older and my old man got meaner. 

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

I posted a thread here few years back.

 

There were three TV shows. A Perry Mason episode. I believe a Twilight zone episode. And an NCIS episode. And the plot involved a young kid finding a gun in a vacant lot or in the woods or somewhere. He took it home and stashed it with his secret stuff.

 

At the end of each episode the adult was telling the kid that he should have told his father that he found the gun. And I asked the Saloon (ACS) at large if they would have told their father.

 

Everybody that responded said they would. Ain't no way I would have told mine.

 

When I was in junior high school there was this kid that frequently showed up with no lunch money. And he would sell me neat stuff for my 40 cent lunch money. He sold me a Case Trapper, which is the two bladed pocket knife about 4 1/2 inches long. He sold me a Zippo lighter. He sold me an Italian switchblade. All three of those, and other neat things, or confiscated by my father immediately upon finding out I had them.

 

When my older brother was 15 he bought a pistol from a guy down on the street corner. When he was 16 Daddy found out about it and confiscated it. He locked it up and when my brother got to be 21 he gave it back to him, unlike my knives in my lighter, but still he confiscated it.

 

There is no doubt in my mind that if I found a gun in the woods and I told my father that I found a gun in the woods I would no longer have that gun.

 

I just found a thread on another board. Zombie thread - 2003. The kid - he says he's 17 - says he just found his father's backup set of keys to the gun safe. And he's wondering whether he should tell Dad that he found them. Says that on the one hand he likes the fact that if an emergency happens he can now get to a weapon. And on the other hand he is sure that if he tells Dad he found the spare keys, Dad will change the hiding place. So he's asking for opinions on should he tell Dad or not.

 

I've only read seven responses, but all seven said he needs to tell Dad. I wouldn't. I wouldn't use the keys to get in the safe and play with the guns, and I wouldn't tell my friends were the keys were. But knowing where the keys were? That might come in handy.

 

Would any of you, if you found a gun in the woods when you were 12 or 13 years old, not tell your father? If you were 17 and found the backup keys to the gun safe, would you tell your father you found the keys?

 

I do wonder what he was looking for when he found the backup keys, but that's not the question.

I would keep my mouth shut as well. Confiscation would have been imminent!! Never mentioned that I had located his hiding place for his 22 either! Divulging that fact would have lead to much interrogation and grounding. Never got caught sneaking the 22 rifle out either and Western Auto sold us ammo for 50 cents. Wonder now how he didn't notice that it was dirty, although I never saw him clean it, matter of fact I never knew he had it until I found it! My mother must have disposed of it after his passing as it was never to be seen again!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Alpo, define  "think".  

[J-BAR #18287]

Slightly different...

 

My dad found a .22 rifle in the basement of a house we moved into when I was in 3rd grade.  He said, we don't tell anyone, and we enjoyed shooting it together for years.

 

So, would I tell him if I found a gun?  Yeah! And we would go shoot that thing!

[Cypress Sun]

 

I learned early, always have a good hiding place 

 

and....

 

 

[Cactus Jack Calder]

• Not a Gun!

Dad had a spare house key in the garage. I knew it was there but not where it was stashed.

I was scheduled away from home for a few days. Returned a day earlier and found no one home. The next door neighbor said the folks had gone on a day trip. It was early in the day when I arrived home. They asked did I want to stay with them until the folks were home? I said, “No, I knew where the spare key was”. 
 

The garage was locked with a combination lock, the kind with 4 rollers that had numbers 0-9 on the roller edge. I didn’t know the combination but I didn’t tell the neighbor. I started with 0000 then 0001 etc., etc. until I got into the garage. Suffice it to say there were several 1000 combinations I tried before the lock opened. Now to find that key. I had worked with Dad on many projects over my few years and he had pushed me to think like he did. So I found the key in much less time than it took to dial the several 1000 combinations.
 

When the folks got home, Dad asked, “How’d you get in the house?” I told him. He said, “Okay, now you know how to get in. Make sure none of your friends or your younger brothers find out. When your brothers are old enough for the responsibility we’ll tell them.” 

leason learned:

Trust is a wonderful thing to have! Responsibility is the way to earn it!

 

CJ

Edited March 21 by Cactus Jack Calder
Spelling & grammar

[Texas Lizard]

Are you sure you want us to answer that question????

 

Texas Lizard

[Subdeacon Joe]

I would.   Wouldn't have gotten in trouble for it as long as I handed it to him unloaded and action open.  He would have asked where I found it, and likely called the police and had me show them where it was.   

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

I would have told him. My Dad didn't care for guns, but he wasn't anti-gun. He WAS as honest as the day is long, and I trusted him to do the Right Thing. I'm sure that it would have meant calling the Police and turning it over to them.

Even if I HAD found a gun as a teenager, what could I do with it? Even back then I wouldn't have been old enough to buy ammo for it. I wouldn't have been able to go shoot it anywhere. By the time I could have, I'd have almost been old enough to do so on my own. Which is exactly what I did.  

And No, Alpo, you and the rest of the world DON'T think alike. We have enough problems.

[Texas Jack Black]

 There responses are why we have strict  gun laws. Some of you are your own worst enemy.

Edited March 21 by Texas Jack Black

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

7 minutes ago, Texas Jack Black said:

Some of you are your own worst enemies.

Well if you want it done right you got to do it yourself.

[Texas Jack Black]

49 minutes ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

Well if you want it done right you got to do it yourself.

I did

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

well I AIN'T never found a gun 

 

  where would one look to find one ? 

 

  askin' for a friend 

 

  CB 🤣

[Eyesa Horg]

Ya never can tell. BIL was helping renovate a room in the MIL's home. Tore off some old plaster and lath to find an old Spencer rifle. Saw it once, but don't remember details.

[Cholla]

I wouldn’t. My dad was an irrational drunk most of the time. And, the neighbor kids would have told on me long before I got home with any gun. 

[J-BAR #18287]

Eyesa Horg:
 

A local college found a mummified cat carcass between 2 walls in the campus chapel, having been trapped there during a previous renovation over 100 years previously.  The cat mummy is displayed in the science building, "...a victim of compulsory chapel attendance."

 

And now back to lost guns...

Edited March 21 by J-BAR #18287

[Seamus McGillicuddy]

When I was in high school someone “found” a single shot 410 barrel and stock both sawed off rather crudely. Asked if anyone wanted it. Like the idiot I was I volunteered to take it. Tossed it on the back seat floor of my car having no clue about how illegal it was. Drove around with it there for a while. Considered trying to shoot it was wasn’t quite that stupid. Finally realized how much trouble I could be in if the police found it knowing that whatever they did to me would pale in comparison to what the Old Man would have done. I think we ended up tossing it in the river 

 

Seamus

 

 

 

 

 

[watab kid]

well , i saw all of thgose episodes amnd as i recall the firearms had been used in crimes and the kid got into more trouble over it , 

 

in answer , yes i would , my father was very good about such things , if it was not a problematic item he would let me keep it , my grandfather gave me lots of knives and such and they were never taken away , my grandfather gave me a handgun ant that wasnt taken away either , nor the rifle he gave me , 

[Springfield Slim SASS #24733]

My father told me where he kept his home defense handgun when I was 11 years old, in case I ever really needed it. Said if I ever wanted to shoot it just tell him and we would go shoot it, which we did a couple of times. Was told to never take it out without permission, which I never did. My Dad was a responsible person and I like to think I am also. I now have that handgun, and yes, I would absolutely tell my father. Not my Mom though, she wasn't a gun person.

[Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129]

Alpo; you are so special, that there are none like you in all the earth...

Thank God...

 

Jabez Cowboy

[Blackwater 53393]

The world has certainly changed!

When I was a senior in high school, a “friend” of mine was arrested on campus for possession and dealing weed! Everybody knew my dad was a cop and a couple of the biggest idiots in school decided that I had “narced him out”!

 

I was repeatedly threatened, with the full knowledge of the school staff, and I took measures to protect myself and spent two weeks with my head on a swivel.

 

I had a couple of friends who knew I’d had nothing to do with the cops and I had enough sense to alter my behavior. I parked my car at the front of the school, directly in front of the main entrance and I made sure that there was someone watching when I entered the school.  I also carried adequate protection.  
 

One morning, as I was walking up the sidewalk into the school, the principal shouted for me to look out behind! I turned to face this idiot hippie chick with a butcher knife raised to stab me! I pulled out my dad’s Detective Special and slammed the barrel into her forehead! I told her that I would “blow her head out in the street!” and pulled the hammer back slowly.

 

The principal came out and took the knife from her and my gun from me and escorted us both into the office.  He called the police and my dad, who was on duty at the time. 
 

A squad car came and took the girl to juvenile detention.  My dad arrived moments before they left and stormed into the office!!

 

The principal told him what happened and handed him the revolver, which he promptly handed back to me. The principal went ballistic, but the old man told him that if they couldn’t protect me they had two choices! They could either let me keep the gun and go about my business, or he could assign a couple officers to escort me while I was at school!

 

I kept the gun for another week until the kid that got busted returned to school, at which time he informed those who had a problem with me that I had tried to take his stash when I saw the cops coming for him and that I had nothing to do with him getting busted.

 

That was the spring of 1971.

 

 

Edited March 22 by Blackwater 53393

[Eyesa Horg]

God would I have loved to be a fly on the wall when Dad handed you the gun back! That's absolutely precious! Bet that girl needed a change of panties. 

[Blackwater 53393]

Just now, Eyesa Horg said:

God would I have loved to be a fly on the wall when Dad handed you the gun back! That's absolutely precious! Bet that girl needed a change of panties. 

My old man was a trip!  He spent several years as assistant superintendent of the jail in Nashville. He was in law enforcement for almost all of his adult life and dealt with the roughest thugs you could imagine!

 

This wasn’t the first encounter with my principal, although most of the previous ones had been friendly.

 

I wasn’t a model student either!  I constantly cut classes and challenged authority.  I skipped all or part of 78 days during my senior year!

 

By the time I reached my junior year, most people just left me alone.  I had an upper classman try to bully me when I was a freshman and I chased him and three of his buddies around with a lawnmower and a “lively lad” one afternoon.  Most of them figured out that I was a “crazy sumbitch” and I was liable to do just about anything!!

 

My sister tried to talk Schoolmarm out of marrying me, even at the last minute, standing on the front porch of the church!!  Even she was convinced I was crazy. (I think she still is!)

 

Half the pickups in the parking lot had a rifle or shotgun in a rack in the back window and nobody thought anything about it!  IT REALLY WAS A DIFFERENT TIME!!

 

That girl that tried to attack me was really trash!  She wound up arrested numerous times in the next few years for about anything you can think of and we finally lost track of her after that.

[Eyesa Horg]

👍🤣

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

me and the rest of the world don't think alike

yeah we figured that out.

[Alpo]

3 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I chased him and three of his buddies around with a lawnmower and a “lively lad” one afternoon.

For those of y'all, like me, that had never heard of a lively lad.

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Yeah! One of THESE…

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I found a German .22 revolver, a real POS, on a school ground as I was walking to work.  After school I took it the police station.  I went in, told them I had found a gun, it was in my car, and I wanted to turn it in.  Two cops walked me out to my car and I found myself looking down the barrels of two guns.  A third cop came out handcuffed me and searched me and my car. 

 

They questioned me and got all pissy when I demanded an attorney (my wife's boss) be present.  I was yelled at, cussed at, threatened, and insulted, asked totally unrelated questions, insulted, and generally harassed.  Finally an officer who was assigned to the campus of yhe school and knew me quite well, came in, questioned two of the cops, an HE called my wife's boss.

 

After four hours I was turned loose without any comment from the jackasses that had tried to violate almost ALL of my constitutional rights.  Mister Jaffee sent a letter to the police Chief, the City Council and Mayor, every news paper ,TV, and radio he could think of, the California State Bar Association, and anyone else he could think of.

 

I was suspended from my teaching job without pay and never set foot in that school again.  I had a friend pick up my personal belongings.

 

After two weeks I got a note saying "We are sorry for your inconvenience and any misunderstanding that there was."  No punctuation and lousy English.)  It was on OPD stationery, but was unsigned.

 

That was California about 2008.

 

If I ever find another gun I will carefully take it without touching it, shoot a couple of holes in a school house or church with it, and hide the gun  in the Police Chief's back yard or in his car....and make an anonymous phone call to a TV station.

 

I had no use whatsoever for California cops and never will.

 

Arizona LEOs are a totally different breed and I have nothing but good contact with those I have met here.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

7 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I had no use whatsoever for California cops and never will.

 

Arizona LEOs are a totally different breed and I have nothing but good contact with those I have met here.

I was at a gas station here in Tucson some years back when a Newby Tucson Officer, (who it turned out was from Kalifornia), started giving me crap for carrying my gun. His T.O. yanked him aside and informed him that this was NOT Kalifornia and that guns are LEGAL here. The T.O. then came over to me and apologised for his Trainee's behaviour. I told him not to worry. I figured that he would straighten the guy out. As  was getting ready to leave, the Trainee was STILL giving me the Evil Eye. Just because I'm an A$$hole, I turned, with my hands down at my sides, and said "You'll never make it". His eyes bugged out, he started yelling and gesticulating wildly, and the T.O. grabbed him again as I got into my Jeep and drove away.