Military Mom Awakens to Find Intoxicated Stranger Asleep in Living Room

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Military Mom Awakens to Find Intoxicated Stranger Asleep in Living Room
Posted By: Jennifer Lindgren     3 hrs ago

ATLANTIC BEACH, FL -- The wife of a deployed sailor woke up to feed her baby Sunday morning to find a strange man passed out in her living room recliner.

Gina Street says she woke up around 6 a.m. Sunday, when she noticed a bathroom light on down the hall. As she got up, she heard her six-month-old daughter cry and went to get a bottle.

When she sat down on the couch with her baby, Gina sensed they were not alone.

"I froze. I looked directly across from me. There was a man just sitting in the recliner asleep. He had the remote in his hand," Gina recalls.

Gina did not know this person. Her husband, Joshua has been deployed with the U.S.S. Sullivans since September, and no one else but she and the kids were supposed to be in the home.

Trying hard not to panic, she carried her baby into the bedroom where her two-year-old daughter slept, locked the door and quietly dialed 911.

While on the phone with police, she heard the man stir and call out the name of a woman she did not know.

"I could hear him while I was in the room with my daughters. I could hear him get up and walk around. Open and shut the doors," she recalled.

She says JSO officers arrived around 45 minutes later. By that time, the intruder disappeared.

Gina and the officers searched around the house, and discovered signs of that someone had broken in.

They found the screen on the kitchen door had been removed, and the sliding door lock forced open. Gina also found cigarette butts in her bathroom sink, where the light was on.

"It's not a good lock," Gina said.

Based on Gina's account, police say the intruder was likely intoxicated, and may have been a neighbor who mistook the Streets' home for his.

Police are looking to interview this neighbor before any charges are filed, but Gina wishes the officers had done more at the time of the crime.

"[The officer] said, 'Well, [the intruder] didn't harm you. He didn't hurt your kids. He didn't steal anything. So we really don't feel we need to arrest him'," Gina recalled.

JSO Assistant Chief Robert Connor says the case is far from closed, but that it's too early to make an arrest.

Connor says police are working to determine whether this is a simple trespassing case, or something more serious.

"My husband is in the military on deployment. I have two small children. There's not much else I can do by myself," Gina said.
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Heck at least JSO showed up at all right? I mean it isn't like we pay them to serve and protect.

[jandar]

45 minute response. Wow!!!!

[Johnny]

Dang 45 minutes? He must've left because she wasn't a good hostess... I mean, no breakfast? WTF?!

[JeffreyS]

I am glad it was just a drunken mistake that situation could have turned ugly within forty five minutes. I bet his girl lives next door.  We can't blame the economy for our lack of police presence that is years of neglect.  My neighbor who is an officer says they have started hiring and training as fast as possible with JSO.
Johnny I say if you feed last nights drunks you are inviting Tomorrow  nights dinner party.

[Deuce]

I have been really drunk in my life and I'm been drunk+, but I've never been this drunk. I don't even see how this is possible. How blind drunk do you have to be to not realize you're in the wrong house?

[Johnny]

I have been really drunk in my life and I'm been drunk+, but I've never been this drunk. I don't even see how this is possible. How blind drunk do you have to be to not realize you're in the wrong house?

Especially when you had to break in to get there... I can only imagine the feeling though when he sobered up...

{What the heck, she got new furniture last night? Where's the ash tray and who painted the walls?}
"Stacy???"
{Who's kids are those in that picture...Shit, this isn't my house!}

[grimss]

Umm . . . kind of embarrassed to admit this, but after attending my first fraternity party in college, I set off on a wobbly walk back to the dorm.  When I woke up the next morning, I met some very nice strangers who asked me what I was doing sleeping under their dining room table.  Of course, I had no clue. Soooo many bad things could have happened, but they just dusted me off and pointed me in the direction of campus. And no, I will NOT be sharing this story with my children

[Shwaz]

I know a guy who lives in a condo complex in Alaska.. the kind where all the units are identical. He had a neighbor that would come home drunk a few times a week and would try to get into my friends condo by mistake. Apparently he was married and would bang on the door in the middle of the night trying to wake his wife who was fast asleep next door. My friend was kind of a recluse and would wait for this guy to stop, pass out or realize he was at the wrong house. It drove him crazy to the point he was going to wire his front door knob to a car battery and juice this drunkard. He may have...