A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, during my divorce, her "friends" gave her advice to gain leverage over me. Drum up a totally BS "restraining order" because she was afraid, and I owned guns.
The problem was, I ran the Marina where the County Sheriff's kept the Lake Enforcement Boats, and often brought prisoners from the County Jail to clean, wash, wax the patrol boats. Over the years I knew these Deputies on a first name basis, even had some to my house for BBQ, and beer (off-duty). I almost became an Iredell County Sheriff. Was () that close.
When I was served at work, Deputy "Jeff" said this was the biggest bunch of crap he has ever seen, but had to enforce the order.
He would follow me home to gather some clothes, etc,...at the end of the day.
At home, I told Jeff to take my guns as I was afraid the soon to be ex would pawn them, he actually knew the wife, me, and let me take them! Told me to lay low, go to work, and go to court. He than offered to testify on my behalf.
When the court day came, her lawyer wanted this and that, and couch, and TV, and etc,.... I told him to "F" off until this BS restraining order was rescinded. As I had 3 Deputies ready to testify on my behalf, he quickly talked the ex into dropping the order. Benefits of a small town. But during that 10 days she emptied the house and moved out. Except for my guitars, and a couple of other things that was it.
She didn;t get my guns though,...except for a Davis .380 I bought for her for $99.00

Your right Peg, if it wasn;t for the Deputies that I knew, I may have been totally screwed. I was still screwed from the divorce but not as badly...
