Talk about trigger happy! Last week I was at Moms’ swimming with the kids. My brother walks in the back yard with what looked like a shot gun. I told him to put it away; I didn’t want it around the kids. He says “it’s just a bee bee gun” (what do I know). I told him I don’t care I don’t want my kids around it, so he took it in the house. About 15 min later there was a cop in the neighbor’s yard (behind a large tree) yelling for us to get out of the pool and go over to him. So we did. They told us to hide behind the neighbor’s house. At this state I was really confused; of course they were ignoring our questions. I saw about five cops with machine guns walking around frantically. I finally got the attention of one of them. Told them the story with my brother and the bee bee gun. I was scared to death they were going to shoot him up over a bee bee gun. They blocked off three roads (2 major roads). Had six different police departments there, swat, the mayor, news cameras, it was absolutely ridiculous. They had my Moms house surrounded for four hours. We were a half a block away sitting in someone’s yard with swim cloths and no shoes (luckily I grabbed a shirt lol!). Oh and by the way my brother had left between the time someone called the police and the time that the cops got there (someone saw my brother walked into my Moms house with a “double barreled shot gun” (bee bee gun!). We had told the cops that “if his pick up is not in the driveway then he’s not there.” My Mom was so upset she looked like she was going to have a heart attack, she was beat red and her lips were white. We didn’t know for sure if he was in the house or not. We thought for sure they were going to kill him. There were two very loud bangs, we thought for sure they killed him, I never jumped up so fast in my life. They blew my Moms side door down with what looked like a bazooka, tour the house apart, broke an antique phone (the kind you wind up), and several bedroom doors. My brother was not home, and he was never charged with anything. I really didn’t understand the whole entire thing. My Mom lives in a very quiet town, nothing ever happens there. The only thing I can think of is that they used this opportunity to run a drill.

To top it off I had my sons friend with us that day, I just wanted to crawl under a rock.

If you actually made it through this whole story thanks for hanging in there! If anyone could tell me if they have the right to do this? Any cops reading this if you could give me some insight! Can anyone call anonymously and totally turn your world upside down. If that’s the case, it’s pretty messed up, that if someone is pissed off at you they can do this to you. Now of course everyone now is laughing about this, but if someone got hurt, if God forbid they killed my brother, or if my Mother had a heart attack, I don’t know how I would react.