to understand my story you sort of have
to know a tiny bit about trespassing laws in our country and that we don't have any so
long as you're respectful and non-destructive you can walk over any Hills you like and in my
case camp on any Beach of your choosing so long is once you leave the area is how you found
it I used to love camping when I was little our family would do multiple times a year with a
large group of my parents friends and their kids on average there were maybe 10 of us at a
time
which was a bit of a logistical challenge since we always headed out to this one really remote beach
on the coast actually we weren't the only ones there are always Yachts bobbing just off the short
with people in them and other campers lining up and down the beach most of them also had children
or teenagers so it wasn't a wild party scene it was very much an informal family holiday
spot there was even a small building with toilets and showers installed nearby even
though this was in
the middle of nowhere I guess the local Council must have figured it
out and got sick of people peeing behind bushes we took a trip up in Spring 2011. I'm really
bad with time but I know this because I got my dog in Winter 2010 after picking her out that
November from the shelter as a birthday gift from me to me as I paid her adoption fee
Reddit I know you love dogs and she will be very important to the story later on so
let me tell you a little bit about parmesan parmesan came to me as a
six month old puppy who
had been rescued from a dog fighting situation we're not entirely sure what breed she is
exactly but my best guess is a lurcher staffy mix she is a wonderfully well-tempered dog with people
and most dogs but you absolutely do not threaten her she'll have you so by the time of this
camping trip I'd had Parmesan for a few months she'd never come camping with us before but
far as my family are concerned dogs go on camping trips so when we all piled into the
car she cam
e to unusually though none of the family fries could make it so it was only me my
sister my dad and my mom I didn't mind I wasn't that attached to the other kids I'd rather
play with my dog and I'd still have my sister the drive took the best part of six
hours and because we'd left a bit later although I don't remember why we'd left
later than normal we arrived at sunset not a good time to be building a tent but we'd
expect it to arrive with other campers already set up and the beach illumi
nated in campfires
the beach was empty in spite of this my parents started taking stuff out and trying to build the
tent they asked us to fetch some of the lighter bags from the boot of the car while they sat
pointing a flashlight at the sand to seat properly I rolled down the window of the car for parmesan
before getting out it was pretty hot for that time of year and I wanted her to have air always
gotta be looking out for my furry little homie as we're fumbling about in the dark on a bea
ch
in the middle of nowhere it's pretty spooky the one road that led to this beach was circular
and had a bridge over the water meaning you could basically circle around the beach like a big zero
shape if you felt like it I wasn't really paying any attention to the road I was complaining I
was tired as kids or want to do but my mom was after maybe 15 minutes of my dad trying to nail
the tent into the sand my mom's asking him had he seen that car drive round it's been a few
times my dad kin
d of shrugged her off he's sort of like that I don't know if he said anything
back to her but after a few more minutes A car pulled up next to ours on the road and someone
got out it was maybe 15 or 20 feet from the Cars to where we were and the light was pretty low
except for the Torches we weren't expecting to see anyone else out here at this point and
I think my mom said it must be the security I don't know why a random Beach would have
security I think what she meant was the wildlife tr
ust or something as they do occasionally come
down to do their nosy the guy was walking pretty unevenly he must have been drunk or hide because
he had that stagger to him there was absolutely no way this guy was sober cool a junkie not an
unusual find but it's rare to see them in the wild as he walked into flashlight range we realized
he was carrying a large knife maybe 15 inches although I was small at the time so maybe my sense
of scale was off I don't like my dad but credit to him once h
e saw this he got up immediately holding
onto the camping Mallet and put us all behind him the man began to shout wildly at us that we can't
Camp here and he was just letting us know my Dad tried to and it Ally be a bit low-key with the
guy and told him that was fine we'd leave but this didn't work he kept coming closer to us so my dad
started shouting and the man kept shouting back my sister and I were crying I remember shaking I
was utterly terrified as I'm sure anyone would be in that si
tuation it really did seem like this guy
and my dad were going to fight and I'm going to be honest I didn't fancy my dad's chances while
it's Grim to consider I'm absolutely convinced he would have killed my dad and possibly us
as well once he was done as I don't think my mother would have had the common sense to run
with us I love her but she's always put dad and her relationship with him above us this
isn't how it went down a bolt from the black like a wolf descending on its prey took us
all
by surprise most of all the man with the knife in that moment parmesan was the apex predator
large canines represent in nature she got him good by the arm and clamped down hard ripping
his jacket and shredding the skin underneath he dropped the knife as it had been in the arm she
had got him by he kicked her he punched her and eventually got her off he grabbed the knife from
the sand and ran back to his car and drove off parmesan didn't follow him she stayed with us
muzzle covered in b
lood quickly as we could we gathered our things and all got back in
the car all pretty shook up by the incident I looked part me over she was okay but the
car's window was much more open than I'd left it we think what happened was when the shouting
started she must have put her paws up on the Gap I'd left for her as it was an old car and had the
raleigh-down windows and not an electric button we think she must have been able to hit it with
her paws to force it down enough to squeeze out thi
s is not the end of my story we were all
pretty scared and since we had the dog with us we couldn't book into a hotel for the night my
parents decided just to drive home so we could all feel safe but first had to drive into the
nearest town for petrol as they were kind of low I spent the time trying to clean parmesan up a
little I'd always loved dogs but what she just done for me blew my mind as we drove into town we
came across a petrol station but it looked closed my dad drove up closer t
o get a better
look and stuck his head out the window to get a better look at the sign my mom
asked him what on Earth he was doing and he told her he was trying to see when
it opened never my heart freaking sank parked in the corner behind a van so we hadn't
seen him at first was the man with the knife he was sitting on the bottom of his car using some
tissue paper to clean up his arm it looked pretty bad without stopping to refuel or look anywhere
else in town my dad drove right out of th
ere he decided to go to the next town over but this
was removed the next town over was 60 miles away he didn't have that much petrol
we realized as we began driving we were going to break down that's
fine dad said we had AAA cover they come tow us home or at least to
somewhere acceptable for the night better than staying in the last town after driving
for maybe five minutes lights flashes from behind another car the same car the man had been
driving it was him following us he must have rea
lized we were low on petrol the next half
hour was one of the worst half hours of my life I had a complete and utter breakdown as did
everyone really I could tell my parents were trying to keep it under wraps so it wouldn't
upset us but we weren't really little kids we were both double digits we knew how dangerous
this situation was dad turned off the radio to conserve petrol and the man followed us for 55
miles before he peeled away onto another road our fuel meter was on the big red e for
empty
for the last 10 miles we were driving on fumes I don't really believe in God but if he does
exist that was definitely one of his miracles once we got there we drove into a petrol station
and refilled to a full tank before driving the rest of the way home sister and I slept in
the car after that I only woke up once we made it all the way home just grateful nothing
worse had happened than that after getting some sleep my mom phoned the non-emergency line for
the police and reported wh
at had happened they never got back to her after that but apparently
the woman she spoke to said they may wish to in the future as he matched the description given of
a suspect wanted in relation to a murder charge no idea if he actually was that guy or just a
random psycho as I said they never got back to her so what's the takeaway then other than crazy
man on the beach let's not meet well for me it's that I love parmesan she's still with us
now old as the hills and twice as grizzled as on
e of my mom's friends likes to joke I don't know
why she did what she did that day I couldn't tell you what her thought process was what I do know is
that this poor puppy was born into an environment where they abused and neglected her only to be
rescued and taken to a shelter where mother and siblings all found homes before her despite how
badly people had treated her when I took her home she forgave but never forgot I think the saying is
I never trust a person who doesn't like a dog but I
always trust a dog when they don't like a person
they have a very good understanding of human body language and I think she must have understood how
much danger we were in if you're able to please adopt you might find yourself in a situation like
mine one day I promise you if you're willing to save a four-legged friend's life they will pay
you back tenfold if they're able to without a thought for their own safety I paid 78 pounds for
parmesan's adoption fee which is a lot when you're a kid
but it chills me to my bones knowing if I
hadn't been so instant on a dog I might be dead I just found this Channel and I love it I have
several stories to share but this one came to mind first because I was just retelling it to my
younger brother who recently got a doberman puppy the year was 1995 and I was 16 years old I
lived in a three bedroom two bath house and a middle class suburban community with my mother two
younger brothers and our 140 pound Doberman Turbo from the front door of
our house which
is relevant you could see directly into our living room which had an open concept
floor plan with the kitchen and dining room our couch was on the wall directly
in front of the front door it was the summer between my sophomore and Junior
years in high school my brothers and I spent a decent amount of time Outdoors because
this was back when people still did that I suppose anyone paying attention knew who lived
in our house and I suppose they knew that the only adult was go
ne when the only car was gone however
prior to the man showing up at the house I'd never noticed anything off and I never noticed anything
afterwards so maybe we were just a random Target it was a Saturday and Mom and the boys had run to
the grocery store in Nevada in the 90s almost no one had air condoning so to cool off you would
open all the windows and doors and use fans on this particular day I had the backsliding door and
front door wide open to get a crossbreeze neither screen door w
as locked I was napping on the couch
in full view of the front door and shorts and a tank top with unlocked doors it's good we gain
intelligence with age in my defense there was 140 pounds of protective dog muscle on the floor next
to me and probably only for that reason am I alive around the approximate time I expected my
family home from the store turbo began barking assuming he was barking at their arrival I
told him to shush and tried to go back to sleep turbo God bless his sweet protec
tive Soul
continued to bark becoming more and more intense and even aggressive with his barking finally
after five to ten minutes for Turbo refusing to quiet and my family never coming in from
the car I set up realizing something was wrong a man who I didn't know stood seemingly Frozen
staring at my frenzied and barking Doberman assuming that the man had some appropriate
business at my home I hurried the 10 steps to the unlocked screen door constantly shushing
Turbo I apologized for my dog
and for not hearing his knock he never knocked the man explained
that he was from the phone company and he was here to check our lines he never took his
eyes off Turbo turbo never stopped snarling I leaned forward far enough to see the street only
unmarked privately owned cars lined the streets I looked at the man who was dressed in tennis
shoes jeans and a t-shirt I was 16 and dumb enough to nap in front of an unlocked door but I was no
fool phone company person La always wear uniforms B
always drive company Vehicles C don't come
without being called and D don't work weekends I looked at the man who had yet to look up from
a 140 pound dog that was now foaming at the mouth I grasped the screen door handle and held
it this got his attention he met my eyes as I said you have 30 seconds to show
me identification or I open this door I don't even think he made an
incoherent excuse as he ran away I fell to my knees and hugged turbo I
then gave him all the meat in the fridge I bel
ieve with absolute certainty that I
would have been attacked if we hadn't had him I like to think that if I hadn't had a huge
overly protective dog I would have been in the habit of locking doors but what would a screen
door latch do against an intruder and that creep stood there and watched me for five to ten minutes
perhaps he was paralyzed in fear but maybe he was working his angles and only Turbo's insistent
display of his willingness to kill anyone who threatened me changed his mind th
at's my theory
turbo has long passed but his legacy lives on and two loving loyal and lethal when
necessary dogs sleep in my room every night
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