My Hero

Adventure #48 Woken up to a Horrific Nightmare!

A lot of people in and out of Brutus's life have criticized him as a drooling, dumb dog. He doesn't listen. He doesn't mind me. He is not trained. Too all those people, I would like to say HA! Last Tuesday night, well Wednesday morning about 2:40 A.M. I was abruptly awoken by the loudest and scariest bark! I sat up and thought that couldn't be my dog? I barely opened my eyes and realized the lazy always conked out guy next to me, wasn't. I then tip-toed towards my living room and there he was: My 65-pound English bulldog, bowed up and barking like a Rottweiler! His chest high to the ceiling and his bark unrecognizable! With Halloween right around the corner, my love for scary movies had overspilled into an all-day, all-night marathon of Freddy, Michael and Jason. With my blood pumping like crazy, I peered through my blinds on my one level Florida Style, Non-Alarm house and saw one large man pillaging through my Jeep, just four steps from my front door!

      Those of you that have never been scared or those of you that are males particularly, do not understand my anxiety and fright! I hit the ground and made my way back to my cell phone and immediately dialed 911! Operator, "What's your emergency?" I begin to tell her about one man that was just steps away from my (by the way opened window) when I looked through the blinds again and realized that there was a strange sedan with there lights off and another man in the driver seat! I do the math in my head. Me, single + dog, crazy + 2 men breaking in my house - me, no gun, no alarm = no nothing. Every possibility went through my head as the operator asked: "what did the people look like?" At this point, I was too scared to look again as I heard the blaring cop car chasing down my street. According to the newspaper, from the time of my call and when the officer arrived at my door, was exactly one minute. Though I would have disagreed, it felt a Hell of a lot longer! The next ten minutes was a blur. One officer asking questions. Brutus trying to break through the front door. Three squad cars racing down Osprey Ave. towards the criminal's crappy beater. Me not being able to identify the make and model of the car? Then all of a sudden, my officer gets a call takes of running and tells me to sit by myself on the porch! I go in the house grab Bru and a sweater and sit of my front porch... Terrified!  I call "Daddy" and begin trying to recap the last few minutes of chaos!  Then, here comes the criminals whizzing back down my street and four squad cars! Lights and sirens like crazy! It takes everything for me to hold Brutus back! In the end it turns out; One criminal takes off running, gets tasered and gets arrested. Many bags of cocaine were thrown from the driver who later gets in a horrific car crash with a light pole and another officer. They both are in jail and one cop was injured. I haven't slept well this last week and Bru is back in his spot in the window!  Don't Mess. Don't Hate. He's On The Watch!