# Homeowners recognize & capture burglars, hold at gunpoint until cops arrive. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342 "2014-12-16T01:32:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/1 "2014-12-16T01:32:07Z")
Man, these burglars just kept coming back. They robbed these people’s home two days earlier. Then had just robbed another home when they were recognized and caught. Car packed full of stolen loot. Criminals better leave this neighborhood alone. Even the ladies are packing heat. [http://www.wsfa.com/story/27628185/burglary-victims-catch-suspects-hold-them-for-authorities](http://www.wsfa.com/story/27628185/burglary-victims-catch-suspects-hold-them-for-authorities) > [@](#): > > The victims of a home break-in near Warrior caught the alleged intruders on Sunday afternoon and held them at gunpoint until authorities could arrive. > > A home surveillance system captured video of the suspects breaking into the Wyatt family home on Gobbler Knob Road on Friday afternoon. > > The surveillance video shows a woman knocking on the family’s home. > > When no one answered, a male accomplice kicked the door open. The woman and two men helped themselves to two TVs and several of the family’s Christmas presents, including gifts for their 1-year old-son. > [@](#): > > While deputies were still on the scene investigating the second burglary, the Wyatts called the sheriff’s office to say they had found the suspects who broke into their home and were holding them at gunpoint. > > Sarah Wyatt said that by chance, her husband Chris and other relatives recognized the suspects and apprehended them on Sunday afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/2 "2014-12-16T01:38:09Z")
I’ wish the road had been named after the local brothel rather than the birds. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/3 "2014-12-16T03:04:28Z")
This was a risky choice. There’s a lot of ways it could have gone wrong. Confronting someone out on the open road isn’t the same as catching them inside your house. They’re lucky the car was full of stolen items and no gunshots were fired. Otherwise it might have been the homeowners getting arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/4 "2014-12-16T03:22:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’ wish the road had been named after the local brothel rather than the birds. So what is a gobbler knob (or Gobbler’s Knob); other than the hill where Punsuxy Phil does/not see his shadow? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/5 "2014-12-16T05:32:19Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > So what is a gobbler knob (or Gobbler’s Knob); other than the hill where Punsuxy Phil does/not see his shadow? Hee, hee. Switch around “gobbler” and “knob” and there’s your answer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/6 "2014-12-16T06:32:48Z")
Huh. Looks like you can menace someone with a pink pistol. Granted it looks like there were a few more. “Homeowners getting arrested” could also just mean that the cops will sort everything out later, not that they would get in trouble and the burglars would get off scot free. I’d be more worried about someone doing something stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/7 "2014-12-16T06:40:58Z")
Well, I recommend against it. There was a similar “hero” in a nearby town this weekend who caught some kids breaking into cars, held them at gunpoint on the porch until the cops arrive. Oops, one of them took out a piece of his own, and shot him dead. Don’t have time to link, but Google it - it was in Portage, Indiana. It sucks that this guy died, but threatening to shoot some teenagers for rifling through cars? Ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/8 "2014-12-17T17:53:32Z")
Maybe (INAL) its legal to do that in their state. Maybe they won’t get a DA who looks at it & says “OK, I’ve got 3 easy win convictions on possession of stolen property, 3 easy convictions for menacing (or whatever gun charge that can easily be proven by the video tape). Six wins to bump my batting average? Done. So, whose ordering take-out?” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowners-recognize-capture-burglars-hold-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/707342/9 "2014-12-17T18:09:17Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > So what is a gobbler knob (or Gobbler’s Knob); other than the hill where Punsuxy Phil does/not see his shadow? A hill with turkeys on it?