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A shotgun and a lecture.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)
Ever been awakened by pounding on your front door at about 1:30 a.m.? When Judie Martel woke up on January 25, her first thought was, "Is that thunder?"
A January 29 Seacoast Online article indicated that she barely had time to arise when the door nearly disintegrated and a stranger entered her Kennebunk, Maine, home.
"He was as surprised to see me as I was to see him," Martel told the reporters. The stranger appeared young, so her response was that she "scolded him like a mother would." Pushing the man back outside the door as she reprimanded him, she did what she could to close the shattered door.
Spotting what looked like a toolbox outside, she realized the man's invasion was not a mistake, but a burglary. Watching the man, she noticed with some concern that he was rounding the house toward an attached barn. Martel then ran upstairs to enlist the aid of her husband, and to call 911.
A sleeping John Martel awoke and reacted quickly. A Vietnam veteran, he inserted the single shell he kept in the house in his shotgun and ran downstairs. Once outside, he saw that the burglar had already broken into the family's barn and was now heading toward him. Martel aimed ...
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