"Prank" Home Invasion

[Hanzo581]

That situation could have turned out terribly....there are something things you joke about and some things you don't....home invasion wouldn't even cross a normal persons mind when thinking of pranks.

 

[Heartless_Conservative]

That reminds of a story from my sophomore year; a couple jokers thought it was funny to use a pellet gun to "fake rob" some of the other students (meaning it was a real robbery up until they gave the wallet back and ran off laughing). Now I've never been in a serious incidence of violence in my entire life so far and thus cannot predict how I would have responded if it was me, but I can tell you that the only time I don't have a knife in easy reach is when I'm on an airplane.

The gist of it is that it sounds like a real nice way to commit suicide by armed citizen.

 

[kayak-man]

I don't think the kids were stupid. I really don't. We are talking about college students here, and when have college students ever been known for painstakingly well thought behavior. (No offence to students, I am one, so I feel justified in saying that)

I doubt anyone on this forum would play that type of prank, but lets face it: pranks are not supposed to be "nice" or "friendly." They are supposed to scare the living daylights out of someone. I highly doubt that either of the pranksters grew up around guns. Think about it, most of us by definition of reading this forum, are interested in self defence. If thats not your mindset, if you're someone who grew up never thinking about the "what ifs," I can see the prank sounding like a good idea at the time.

I know some people say that they don't tell people they have guns, but I do tell my friends, even the anti's, that I own guns. I make it painstakingly clear to them that if they stop by in the middle of the night, I'm going to answer the door, and I'm going top be armed.

At the begining of my post I said that I don't think the kids were stupid: I think they were ignorant. I don't think it was a matter of intelligence, or lack there of, but of not having the frame of reference or having the experiances that should have told them "Hey, this is not a good idea." If they never had guns, if they never anticipated a home invasion happening to them, it doesn't really make since for them to assume that people are going to be armed, or not find it funny.

You can overcome ignorance with teaching, but you can't fix stupid.

Chris "the Kayak-Man" Johnson

I'm not defending the kids actions.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Make a point with her, hand her a red splatter white paper, tell her you are redecorating, and can she and her buddy come by your place and try that one again, you need to achieve just the right effect.

 

[Sam1911]

So we've got a few ideas on how not to get pranked (or robbed, for real) while in the apartment.

And we have several suggestions (ranging from perhaps acceptable to downright alarming) of how to scare the prankers into abandoning such plans.

And we have a LOT of "+1"s about this being a very stupid (or ignorant, Chris) thing to do. But we probably all knew better before we read this thread.

So, what else, from an S&T standpoint, can we learn here?

 

[LAK]

Sounds like a deathwish to me. Someone needs to speak frankly to the lads before they get hurt, or killed.

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Je Suis Prest

 

[cleardiddion]

Last year we had a sort of prank pulled off on us.
Long story short, we invited an old friend to come hang out at my apartment at something around 2100 but he didn't show up till 0300ish in very bad form.

Basically, he was with a bunch of his friends who were all drunk and who also thought that it would be hilarious to try to scare us at that ungodly hour. They were met by both myself and my roommate (both in sleepy wonderful moods) and two sidearms. Being that my roommate was more friendly with the group they were told in no uncertain terms that if they pulled stunts like that again they were leaving in an ambulance. Stupid *nonhighroad expletive*ers still tried to dingdong ditch us. /facepalm

 

[david58]

How did they get in to the house? Did they have a key, or did they break in? Or was your door unlocked?

College kids are notorious for loaning keys, or giving keys to friends so they can stop by any time. Bad idea, as demonstrated here.

Assuming this is an apartment, and not a dorm, how do you best set up "security" to prevent this type of breakin?

More difficult are some rental houses, where the places are old and just don't lock up real tight. Or, how do you handle the security in a converted Victorian, with numerous flats or studios?

 

[TexasRifleman]

Last night, I heard someone knock on the door. My roommate was in the living room, so he was the one to open the door.

The legal and self defense situation aside, the real problem is this right here.

Opening the door for an unknown? There's your strategy and tactics, "don't do that".

Not even a gun discussion honestly.

 

[Kleanbore]

Posted by Sam1911: So we've got a few ideas on how not to get pranked (or robbed, for real) while in the apartment.

And we have several suggestions (ranging from perhaps acceptable to downright alarming) of how to scare the prankers into abandoning such plans.

And we have a LOT of "+1"s about this being a very stupid (or ignorant, Chris) thing to do. But we probably all knew better before we read this thread.

That sums it up.