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Impromptu home-defense (or: learning never to answer doors late at night)
cj iwakura
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So last night at around 3:00AM, I heard the unmistakable 'da da da da da, da da!' knock on the door.
I assumed it was my housemate, who tends to work graveyard-esque shifts.
Turns out it was some random white guy who looked drunk off his rocker and a woman who I can only assume was a prostitute.
The resulting conversation was as follows:
After this, the two went around the block, either seeking out the appropriate client, or more likely, looking for some poor sap to part from his money or, god forbid, their life.
A co-worker happened to ask why I didn't take them up on the offer. :P Morals aside, I like not winding up dead on the morning news.
So how would you have reacted, SE?
You know, aside from not blindly opening the door in the middle of the night like an idiot.
(Just getting that out of the way in advance.)
Postscript: the authorities are supposedly looking for the two.
Seeing as how we're referring to Coral Springs, Florida's police... uh, don't hold your breath to hear about any arrests.
I assumed it was my housemate, who tends to work graveyard-esque shifts.
Turns out it was some random white guy who looked drunk off his rocker and a woman who I can only assume was a prostitute.
The resulting conversation was as follows:
-Did you call for Cindy?
-Uh... no.
(At this point I'm pulling the door shut, realizing I was dead wrong.)
-Aww, come on, man!
(As if stunned that I somehow wasn't interested. He tried to prop the door open, I slammed it in time.)
After this, the two went around the block, either seeking out the appropriate client, or more likely, looking for some poor sap to part from his money or, god forbid, their life.
A co-worker happened to ask why I didn't take them up on the offer. :P Morals aside, I like not winding up dead on the morning news.
So how would you have reacted, SE?
You know, aside from not blindly opening the door in the middle of the night like an idiot.
(Just getting that out of the way in advance.)
Postscript: the authorities are supposedly looking for the two.
Seeing as how we're referring to Coral Springs, Florida's police... uh, don't hold your breath to hear about any arrests.
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my front door doens't have a peep hole so we gotta kinda look through the porch window to see people
luckily the only people who come knocking late at night in the suburbs are myself or my siblings
Show me a castle without booby-traps.
I want the right to equip my home with booby-traps.
When in fact it's just someone coming home late and walking down the hallway where sound travels as if they're standing right next to you
That is the closest I've come to home invasion.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/coral-springs/
I think I actually saw that happen.
Guess they haven't found them yet.
and the dude
equal bonin
I think we should...uh...bong them over the head with a pot. Or something. To make them wise up
Marijuana
you could maaaaaybe get away with a moat
any other type of mechanized trap is severely frowned upon
that window looks out over the fire escape
some nights Teens climb up on the fire escape and proceed to the roof adjacent to my apartment, probably to commit Crimes
Breaking and entering? They'll get to it eventually.
That is my exact point
I think I heard/read about it back in high school and it is entirely possible/probable that it is apocryphal.
i've read a case like that and if it is the same one the guy very much got into trouble
the shotgun was "only" rigged to shoot at legs but the guy was convicted of attempted murder
well then
threadbare, i hope you didn't start on your shotgun foyer before reading ubik's post
This episode is fucking great
Because it certainly won't be anyone I know or want to know.
knock knock
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
Another odd time was last month when after working out I stripped down and was stretching as this was the fashion at the time. Suddenly someone is at my front door constantly turning the knob like crazy which scared me and then I could hear a key being put in with some more turning. So there I was standing there at the ready naked and with this prop sword I had near by in my hand. I almost wanted someone to break in and witness this nude warrior that I am.
Those people at CJ's door had the right idea.
i read this as moustache
how does one brandish a moustache, much less a rusty one
The dude said he was flying a model aircraft in the park nearby and he thought it had landed in our yard.
He took him out through the house and to the yard. Then they 'looked' around for a bit and my brother offered to get on the main roof and look around and the dude went outside to tell his wife he was going to be a bit longer. Never came back.
Called the police and they were in foot pursuit of an individual matching his description for casing a bunch of places in the street. My brother may have let him give them the slip.
By being a robotic gentleman.
Why I do say he'd score our fine flooring with his terrible feet and/or treads
I'm still annoyed by it
I guess they can have fun with that?