I LOVE A HAPPY STORY: ‘PROTECTED BY GOD AND A GUN’: 3 Thugs Motivated To Beat a Hasty Retreat in California Home Invasion. “A trio of masked thugs broke into a multi-million dollar home in the Hollywood Hills near Los Angeles Thursday evening. A sign on the property warned that, ‘This house is protected by God and a gun. Screw around and you’ll meet both,’ should have offered the young scholars a clue to pick another house. But to be fair, they probably couldn’t read. Anyway, the trio forced their way in around 10:30 and not fifteen seconds after making entry, they had poked the bear and the bear opened fire. All three of the felons fled in great haste.”