[threefeathers]

Yes I violated all my rules, so this is a lesson for all.
My wife survived major surgery Thursday. I admit to sitting in the waiting room for 8 hours of nail biting. When the Doc came in with a smile on her face and said "It was a success." I almost cried.
2 hours later my wife was wheeled to her room and waved to me. An hour later she was awake enough to talk and she told me to go ahead and go to the restaurant we have gone to for 25 years to celebrate. Casa Molina in Tucson.
Here is where I did wrong. I had my P-30 in a Maxpidition Remura as a BUG in the back of my Tahoe. I had stashed it at the hotel and when I took my wife to the hospital for surgery we talked about it and thought it was better not to leave it in the hotel room so I put it in the foot space behind the drivers seat. Her suitcase was on top of the seat.
The second rule I broke, there was only one parking place left big enough for a Tahoe, in a far part of the lot next to the side street.
I had my P2K on me and in the magic of the moment celebrating my wife being alive I left the P30 in the Remura in the vehicle. (I easily could have carried the Remura in as a 'Man' purse. I had completely forgotten that I had the P30.
I was in the restaurant for fewer than 20 minutes. When I came out I saw that the rear window behind the drivers seat had been broken out. A crow bar had driven a wedge between the window frame and the window literally popping it to pieces.
I have a very close friend who is a Tucson cop on duty and he was at my position in 5 minutes.
We got the serial number out to every pawn shop in the Southwest in very short order. But, since these people have all of the attributes of professionals we will find the gun either in Mexico, or with a thug.
Lesson learned. I will put a steel handgun safe in the Tahoe when the damage is finished.
I will never again park in any semi-dark area anywhere.
I will try to keep my happiness contained to reality in the future

 

[William R. Moore]

Congratulations on the surgery outcome, condolences on the losses.

 

[ExSarge]

Great to hear the op was good.

Had a .380 stolen after I forgot to retrieve it from under my pillow in a motel. I saw the holster on the mgrs. desk on my trip back, but it was empty. No one knew anything about it.

 

[SpecialEd]

Sucks. Glad to hear your wife is ok though.

 

[spwenger]

Given the Choice...

...between losing the pistol and keeping your wife, I'm sure you'd settle for the latter.

While most instructors don't empahsize Rule Five (maintain control of your firearm) to the extent of Cooper's original four rules, it just goes to prove that you need to be so compulsive about following The Rules that you will do so when other matters dominate your conscious thought.

I hope that your pistol never ends up linked to any crime.

 

[stand watie]

threefeathers,

FIRST: Best wishes to your wife for her speedy recovery, from the 3 of us.

Also, you may know that my lady spends a lot of her time in hospitals and our vehicles all have gun-boxes (made out of steel ammo cans) bolted through the vehicle trunk floors, as we cannot "carry" there.

a 5.56 NATO box is just right, when padded with foam to hold her Colt's Police Positive Special or my Sig-Sauer P6/225 AND locked with a good quality padlock.
(counting the boxes/foam/padlock,I suspect that each "gun-safe" cost <10 bucks.)

just a thought.

yours, sw

 

[spwenger]

a 5.56 NATO box is just right, when padded with foam to hold her Colt's Police Positive Special or my Sig-Sauer P6/225 AND locked with a good quality padlock.

At the risk of thread drift, kudos on the selection of the Police Positive Special as your wife's carry gun. No that many folks - in this day of bottom-feeding pistols - recall that D-frame Colt revolvers will fit many female hands, offer six rounds in place of five and offer better leverage to get the cylinder rotating and the hammer moving to the rear.

 

[stand watie]

swenger,

She carries her mother's (1955 issue) Police Positive, as she can load/aim/fire the little D-frame, unaided/competently, even with her disability. She cannot do any of those things with a semi-auto.
(Her mother, "Miss Mildred", carried that little Colt in her purse for over 40 years, until her death, as she was the one who made the office's deposits every day.)

Between "Bobby the Boxer" (70+ pounds of snarling protection) and my lady being armed, a prowler/burglar would do well to go elsewhere, even if i'm not home.

yours, sw

 

[IrishCop]

My family and I wish you and your wife all the best. We are so happy that everything worked out.

As for your pistol...well, it happens. The fact that you had a serial number greatly increases your chances of recovering your property.

I had a Colt 1991 stolen from me about 17 years ago. I had the serial number, so our guys were able to enter it into NCIC. A year and a half later, one of our patrol deputies was answering a domestic call and ran the gun involved. It was mine. Got it back in one piece. Few years later I sold it to help pay for a wedding.

 

[TooTall]

Glad to hear about the good results for you wife.

Every hospital here has signs on their doors that state "NO WEAPONS ALLOWED". The only problem with this is under state law here they can't do anything to enforce it.

 

[threefeathers]

Yeah, I think if the gun isn't in Mexico I will eventually get it back. I only hope no good folks get hurt. But, the number of folks who read my posts have already told me that they plan to get proper car safes, as do I.

 

[shep854]

Which comes first--good news or bad news??
GOOD NEWS FIRST! Great to hear about your wife; you can get another gun; she's irreplaceable.

 

[threefeathers]

My wife told me oday that she is going to put a new P30 on Christmas layaway for me. Wow, what a babe.

 

[shep854]

My wife told me oday that she is going to put a new P30 on Christmas layaway for me. Wow, what a babe.

Whoa...THAT'S pure-dee hotness!

 

[SpecialEd]

Yep, she's a keeper!

 

[IrishCop]

You have a good partner there, Threefeathers!

 

[threefeathers]

Thank you so much guys, I'm a bit worried about infection though.

 

[IrishCop]

Thank you so much guys, I'm a bit worried about infection though.

Believe me, Threefeathers, I understand. I spent the better part of a year fighting post op staph. I had a great infectious disease doctor, who kept me on IV antibiotics for many months. I was lucky and most of the time was spent at home. They installed a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line. It is inserted into the inside upper part of your arm and is snaked through the brachial vein almost to the heart. There are little valves in which you attach a line connected to a bottle of antibiotics that is pressurized somehow to deliver the medicine without a pump. I changed them myself every 4 hours (that was a pain in the , but worth it.) Hell I'm still on oral antibiotics and may be for the rest of my life. But no recurring infections in over a year now.

Sorry. Point is, the infections can be fought, and the fight can be won. Just hang in there, buddy. God will look out for you and yours. I'm positive of that.

 

[threefeathers]

Believe me, Threefeathers, I understand. I spent the better part of a year fighting post op staph. I had a great infectious disease doctor, who kept me on IV antibiotics for many months. I was lucky and most of the time was spent at home. They installed a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line. It is inserted into the inside upper part of your arm and is snaked through the brachial vein almost to the heart. There are little valves in which you attach a line connected to a bottle of antibiotics that is pressurized somehow to deliver the medicine without a pump. I changed them myself every 4 hours (that was a pain in the , but worth it.) Hell I'm still on oral antibiotics and may be for the rest of my life. But no recurring infections in over a year now.

Sorry. Point is, the infections can be fought, and the fight can be won. Just hang in there, buddy. God will look out for you and yours. I'm positive of that.

Wow. Today the infection seems down and she will drive for the first tme since the operation.

 

[shep854]

wow. Today the infection seems down and she will drive for the first tme since the operation.

yea!! :d