Someone knocked at the door...

[Jeff White]

This is where your sixth sense or gut feeling comes into play. You know, most people manage to live their entire life interacting with people and they aren't ever attacked. It is possible for a person to be aware and live a safe life, without coming off as either a crazed hermit or an eccentric, paranoid survivalist to other people.

It all boils down to making a few simple choices, like looking out before your open the door, locking your doors, windows and vehicles, not going to places where violence is known to happen, not hanging out with people who's lifestyle attracts violence or violent people to them and being proficient in whatever method of self defense fits your lifestyle best....Then listen to your gut feeling.

Jeff

 

[Zundfolge]

I heard about a guy years ago who volunteered at his church to go door to door passing out fliers and inviting people to come down on Sunday ... I think he took his kid too ... anyway, he was a clean cut kinda guy (well spoken, no tats, short cropped clean hair, dressed well).


A couple weeks later he was arrested for several counts of burglary ... seems he used this opportunity to case the houses in the neighborhood and check out the goodies people had in their living rooms.



There is no law requiring you to answer the door when the bell rings.

 

[Carl]

Tom Waits is the man.

 

[zoom6zoom]

As a parent, I can tell you that there is no such thing as a high-cap diaper.

But the box says, "10-12 pounds"...

 

[TMM]

Tom Waits is the man.

That, my friend, is the truth, and then some. hear about his new album coming this month? can't wait!


back on topic. it is true it could have been a bad guy, but i don't just swing the door open. i came downstairs, and patted my pocket - nuts. didn't put my Benchmade in my pocket after i got home from school. i go to the door, and peer out the side window. no one at the porch, but i see the man walking toward the barn where my dad is working. i open the door a crack, which causes the stoom door to suck closed with a rattling sound. he was about 30 feet away, giving me plenty time to size him up.

I always crack open the door on uninvited guests. rude to not answer, stupid to open all the way.

~tmm

 

[kungfuhippie]

Crooks use thing to gain trust. Babies make them look like a "Daddy" brochures make them look like "salesman" uniforms make them look safe like a "meter reader"

So yeah, I'm paranoid. I give people an oportunity before dark to bug me. But after sundown I don't answer the door and have my Star 9mm ready to shine

After dark is when the innercity punks show up with rubbermaid tubs of crap to sell. They just want to "stay outta gangs" (can you say WINDOW SHOPPING) If they wanna stay outta gangs they should go enlist, not harrass people at night in their homes!

We have a "security screen door" that I like for one reason. You can see thm but they can't see in, day or night. Not possible to case my house from the front door since friends and relatives (only some) get past the metal mesh "security door"

I just wish it wash balistically rated

 

[ilbob]

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I would be more concearned as to why a man wanted to know the color I used to paint my house

Yeah! My thoughts exactly.

I would have been pretty suspicious, seeing as I have vinyl siding.

 

[Ryder]

he asked me if i knew what the paint color of our house was, because he liked it.

And is the color of your house unusually nice? I'd have to be concerned myself since "puke green" isn't particularly pleasing.

How hard is it where you are to just go down to the paint store and check a color chart? Seems unusual, I'd not knock on a stranger's door for such a thing.

 

[Joe Demko]

You're lucky to be alive. I'd have released the nanotech-enhanced attack weasels on him first thing. How much longer do you think you can live your life in condition white and survive?

 

[LoveMyCountry]

You're lucky to be alive. I'd have released the nanotech-enhanced attack weasels on him first thing. How much longer do you think you can live your life in condition white and survive?

Can I get those in a squirrel version? I have a huge tree out front and I could rain Squirrel Death on any intruders!



LoveMyCountry

 

[Juna]

When I get a knock after dark and do not recognize the vehicle/person, I answer open the door only partially exposing myself; my right hand is behind the door with a pistol in it.

I did this once when we had one of those storm doors with a window on the top half and just door on the bottom half. It turned out to be a young guy soliciting at night, but I had my hand just below the glass with a pistol ready to go when I opened the door just in case. I was polite the whole time, and he had no idea I was holding a pistol below the glass.

 

[redneck2]

Bet it wasn't really a baby.

Bet it was that little dude Mini-Me from Austin Powers. They were casing your place so they can rule the world.

 

[hso]

This one has turned silly.

I think everyone's gotten whatever point they're going to take away from it.