  Royal Oak's best just left moments ago... I heard someone walking behind my apartment window. The sound of what I heard was too heavy a foot to be any sort of wild animal. I'm convinced. The policemen that arrived did a thorough search, and found no one in the vicinity. Thankfully so. I asked the officers if they saw any footprints in back. I was told that they saw a lot of cut weeds back there. My landlord just cut down all the brush and weeds behind my apartment...which would make most things difficult to see at this time of night. I get nervous about these things. I had a 'Peeping Tom' attempt to watch me when I was in the shower a few years back.
I had a good idea of who it was, a handyman that my landlord had hired to do some work around the apartments. An officer came to the apartment, saw footprints where the window for my shower is, and 'spoke' to the man in question. I didn't have a problem after that. Did you know that it has been said 1 in 13 women will be stalked in their lifetime? I am in those statistics...which is another reason I am very cautious. Been there, done that, and could have written a book. I've thought about having something on hand in my apartment for personal protection. I respect other's rights to own a gun.
I do not want one in my apartment. I'd rather have a stun gun, a non-lethal way to take an attacker down. In the state of Michigan, it is illegal for anyone but law enforcement to possess them. I'm thinking about seeing what it would take to introduce an initiative that would make them legal in Michigan. I know I'm rambling a bit. Let me blame that on the hour at which I am writing this. I am heading back to bed, and will see about having a motion detector light installed sometime this week.
If my landlord won't pay for it...I will. I'm a firm believer in the saying, 'Better safe than sorry...' ~ Michelle "Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. " Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. " urlLink - urlLink Seneca , Letters to Lucilius 
