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As much as I support law enforcement, there are some situations where you need to handle things yourself.
Sometimes there may just not be enough time to wait for the cops to come before the moment arrives where a situation has to be handled.
When it comes to family, those times usually get a little bit more immediate. I’m not exactly a superhero, but there was one time we had a member of the family who was being abused by her boyfriend at their house.
The problem was that it was a rural area and the nearest police cruiser was twenty minutes away. Which of course meant that the boyfriend would have almost a half-hour head start on beating this poor girl up.
What he didn’t count on is that I only lived five minutes away. I got in my car and drove over, with him not realizing that I still had a key from when I had helped her paint the place a couple of years before.
I put the key into the lock and when I pushed the door open the guy’s face turned a shade of white I had never seen before. He knew that a call to the cops had been made and that it wasn’t exactly the first time. He also knew that there was about fifteen minutes before the police arrived he would have a hard time saying that the lumps he was about to get on his face weren’t retaliatory.
Truth be told, I didn’t hit him. Not once. I did however make him think I was going to. That might have been far worse for him than anything else. Usually, the fear of something bad happening does that to people.
By the time the cops arrived, this idiot was so scared that he pretty much confessed to everything before they even read him his rights.
Sometimes you just have to do things on your own. Take the case of Bethany Arceneaux. Recently she was kidnapped along with her young son by a cretin named Scott Thomas, a former boyfriend and father of the child. She was pulled into his car and sped off.
Bethany’s family was incensed and out for justice. But of course, they had to wait for the cops to do all of the things that they were required to do in these situations, which unfortunately took time.
However, they were able to act on a tip from someone who knew Scott Thomas and managed to track him down to an abandoned house where Bethany was being held.
Several family members showed up to the house where they burst through the door to find the kidnapper holding a knife to her throat and preparing to stab her.
They immediately opened fire with him dying on scene. Cops later determined that since the family members were acting in immediate defense of another person and cleared them of all wrongdoing.
