What do you do when a guy comes to your door?

I have dogs that make sure their presence is known. Even salesmen skip my house.
 
The fact that the person was using a torch probably means that he was well-intentioned.

You could set up a camera to record this kind of thing.
 
whocares said:
I live out in the country, sort of. I'm a night owl so I'm always up when the rest of the world is asleep. Last night I'm in my living room solving the worlds problems via internet when a car pulls in my driveway at 4:30 am. I think probably someone just turning around, but they get out and walk up on my lawn waving a flashlight around. This quickly freaks me out (I'm also still pretty toasty from some edibles) and this is a situation that I would've confronted said person with a firearm handy, but alas I have certain issues I've alluded to and it's not in my best interests to own one. So instead I've got my 9 inch Chef's knife that I could run straight through a person, best thing I could find in a pinch. But somehow confronting a person with a giant blade seems a bit extreme and unhinged, and course I don't actually want to stab anyone to death so I stood there for a moment waiting on jibroni's next move. He got back his car and left. I felt rather paranoid for the rest of the night. My wife tells me today it was an Amazon driver, which at least makes sense, but at that hour out here Sat night/Sunday morning, I'm going to assume bad things. And for the record we've got Amazon drivers coming here every day and never has anyone showed up in the buttfuck middle of night like that. I'm not saying they don't it was just unusual for me.

What's your modus operandi if some weirdo comes to your home during the wee hours of the morning? Are you 10 times the man I am and fill the front lawn with uppercuts? Do you draw your pistola and make them strip down to their undergarments, demanding ID and what agency they work for? Do you have a hole already dug in your backyard for this exact scenario? Or do you silently shit yourself and pray to jeebus the bad man goes away? I don't think I would've had the same reaction in a city but out in the sticks it's just me vs. whatever creeps in the night.
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Get a some Ring cameras (including a Ring doorbell) and 1-3 motion lights (preferably LED as they'll cover A TON of area). Then when someone or some thing comes around it'll acrivate the motion lights (scaring away most normal people) and you'll have the camera/s to review the footage.

Another benefit of the Ring camera is they usually come with a speaker that you can talk through. So you can confront the person without ever going outside.
 
whocares said:
This wouldn't have been a big deal if I wasn't high. Got dammit I hate when people fuck with my high, it's why I wait til late at night to partake. Oops. This does raise a few questions for me, one am I prepared to kill. I really wouldn't want to (obviously) but to protect my wife? The survey said, your dead. Fatal flying guillotine chops off your fn head. The real question is when am I allowed to. I live in a state that might say you can't defend yourself until someone is actively threatening your life or some such thing. So I think running out on the front lawn and stabbing the shit out of someone might be seen as a faux pas in the eyes of the law, and "I was high so my judgement was altered" probably not the best defense. Turns out the guy wasn't a threat, but I didn't know that.

I actually have 3 smart cameras that I use for my garden to track what is messing with my crops. Going to throw a couple of them in the front yard. I technically, legally, can't own a firearm. Doesn't mean I can't own one. But the point there is my safety and everyone around me. Don't need that on my person when I turn into the hulk.
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What kinda felony you got?
 
AGGAMEMNON66 said:
When I saw this title I got depressed realizing this isn’t an @TidWell thread because he’d have specified the ‘back door’ in the title..


RIP Tidwell
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He probably would have described the intruders physique in intricate detail then reiterated his disdain for Filipinos and Manny Pacquiao.
 
whocares said:
This wouldn't have been a big deal if I wasn't high. Got dammit I hate when people fuck with my high, it's why I wait til late at night to partake. Oops. This does raise a few questions for me, one am I prepared to kill. I really wouldn't want to (obviously) but to protect my wife? The survey said, your dead. Fatal flying guillotine chops off your fn head. The real question is when am I allowed to. I live in a state that might say you can't defend yourself until someone is actively threatening your life or some such thing. So I think running out on the front lawn and stabbing the shit out of someone might be seen as a faux pas in the eyes of the law, and "I was high so my judgement was altered" probably not the best defense. Turns out the guy wasn't a threat, but I didn't know that.

I actually have 3 smart cameras that I use for my garden to track what is messing with my crops. Going to throw a couple of them in the front yard. I technically, legally, can't own a firearm. Doesn't mean I can't own one. But the point there is my safety and everyone around me. Don't need that on my person when I turn into the hulk.
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Iirc a felon can own a firearm in texas for their house so you should probably move to texas. Iirc a felon just isn't allowed ccw there.
 
whocares said:
This wouldn't have been a big deal if I wasn't high. Got dammit I hate when people fuck with my high, it's why I wait til late at night to partake. Oops. This does raise a few questions for me, one am I prepared to kill. I really wouldn't want to (obviously) but to protect my wife? The survey said, your dead. Fatal flying guillotine chops off your fn head. The real question is when am I allowed to. I live in a state that might say you can't defend yourself until someone is actively threatening your life or some such thing. So I think running out on the front lawn and stabbing the shit out of someone might be seen as a faux pas in the eyes of the law, and "I was high so my judgement was altered" probably not the best defense. Turns out the guy wasn't a threat, but I didn't know that.

I actually have 3 smart cameras that I use for my garden to track what is messing with my crops. Going to throw a couple of them in the front yard. I technically, legally, can't own a firearm. Doesn't mean I can't own one. But the point there is my safety and everyone around me. Don't need that on my person when I turn into the hulk.
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There are numerous "less lethal" items you can legally own even in a commie US states with no right to self defense and even if you can not legally own a firearm for whatever reason.

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Bear Spray.
( legal in other states. Just buy it while traveling.)


Pepper Spray.

Tazer.
 
Jesus X said:
Iirc a felon can own a firearm in texas for their house so you should probably move to texas. Iirc a felon just isn't allowed ccw there.
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Under these state laws, a convicted felon can have a gun as long as these two statements are true:
  • Five years have elapsed from the individual’s release from confinement for the felony or their release from supervision under parole or community or mandatory supervision, whichever date is the latest.
  • The felon possesses the gun at their own home or property where they live.
Under federal law, all convicted felons are permanently prohibited from owning firearms. This means that while Texas law allows you to own a gun after a felony conviction if you meet specific criteria, you could still technically be arrested and charged with a federal crime. However, this is unlikely because the current federal policy is to defer to state law in cases where state and federal laws differ.
 
There was no guy in your yard with a flashlight. The pots scrambled your brain and sent you into madness. Just be glad it wasn't a lethal overdose.

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Had it happen once, I was on the couch with my girlfriend watching tv around 10 or 11 PM on a Friday or Saturday night. Front door is right next to the couch and we heard someone put a key in the door and try to open it. The only people with keys to our apartment were her and I. I slid our heavy cabinet to halfway block the door so it would be much harder to get it. Then I got my handgun and went out over our balcony (1st floor) and went around to the front door and he was still there trying to open it. I realized he was drunk and he realized he was at the wrong place so he apologized and left. I didn't pull my gun on him I just had it at my side.
 
I'm just going to let myself be killed because self defense is pretty much illegal in Canada.

Want to rob me? Sure come on in please leave my TV and recliner. Then I'll call the police and never hear back from them because they're too busy investigating the possible suspect that stabbed a random person on a bus.
 
whocares said:
I live out in the country, sort of. I'm a night owl so I'm always up when the rest of the world is asleep. Last night I'm in my living room solving the worlds problems via internet when a car pulls in my driveway at 4:30 am. I think probably someone just turning around, but they get out and walk up on my lawn waving a flashlight around. This quickly freaks me out (I'm also still pretty toasty from some edibles) and this is a situation that I would've confronted said person with a firearm handy, but alas I have certain issues I've alluded to and it's not in my best interests to own one. So instead I've got my 9 inch Chef's knife that I could run straight through a person, best thing I could find in a pinch. But somehow confronting a person with a giant blade seems a bit extreme and unhinged, and course I don't actually want to stab anyone to death so I stood there for a moment waiting on jibroni's next move. He got back his car and left. I felt rather paranoid for the rest of the night. My wife tells me today it was an Amazon driver, which at least makes sense, but at that hour out here Sat night/Sunday morning, I'm going to assume bad things. And for the record we've got Amazon drivers coming here every day and never has anyone showed up in the buttfuck middle of night like that. I'm not saying they don't it was just unusual for me.

What's your modus operandi if some weirdo comes to your home during the wee hours of the morning? Are you 10 times the man I am and fill the front lawn with uppercuts? Do you draw your pistola and make them strip down to their undergarments, demanding ID and what agency they work for? Do you have a hole already dug in your backyard for this exact scenario? Or do you silently shit yourself and pray to jeebus the bad man goes away? I don't think I would've had the same reaction in a city but out in the sticks it's just me vs. whatever creeps in the night.
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Likely looking for a pet.... I once had a car wreck in the country (where I'm from) as a 16 or 17 year old at 1 am. I went running down the road to get back to the gf house I just left. I turned on the wrong road. Of course its pitch black and I didnt know which road was hers (no street lights in the country). Dogs were chasing me as I passed houses. I saw a big white 2 story house on a hill and decided thats the one that would have nice people. I went up and knocked on the door and 4 great danes came around a shed. I grabbed a broom and just held it between us. I kept knocking because I knew the dogs would get me. Eventually a woman came to the door...

When she opened it she had a .357 in her hand and yelled "get back". She fired it and sounded so loud under the overhang. I stepped back and felt if I was shot. I wasnt. I tried to explain that I was in a wreck but she was still yelling. She walked me to a shed with her dogs nipping at my heels. She shot the ground and I opened the door. She said "call someone and if they dont answer I will shoot you dead". I called the girl I just left and she came to get me. The lady knew the girls family and dropped the gun and apologized. She was a good shot or would have killed me.

All this to say.... you have to be patient and not panic.
 
Confrontation is the dumbest scenario no matter who you are. Even if you are a trained killer with expert level marksmanship. If you ever feel like your life is in danger and you do have an escape route, always take it.

But anyway, yeah you should have tons of cameras around your property , dogs, door jamb reinforcements, auto spot lights etc. Most common criminals aren't going to wanna deal with that shit.

I know one thing though, if I was a Amazon driver, I'd have the brightest looking reflector jacket on and maybe avoid waving a flash light around
 
666 said:
I'm just going to let myself be killed because self defense is pretty much illegal in Canada.

Want to rob me? Sure come on in please leave my TV and recliner. Then I'll call the police and never hear back from them because they're too busy investigating the possible suspect that stabbed a random person on a bus.
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Things you need:


Shovel.
Tarp (for winter until the ground thaws)

Crossbow (it's quiet)
Other weapons
 
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jeff7b9 said:
Things you need:


Shovel.
Tarp (for winter until the ground thaws)

Crossbow (it's quiet)
Other weapons
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I'm kind of confused with this bro. Are we actively killing someone because you forgot rope for the tarp.
 
Guy must have dropped something important out in your yard after leaving from banging your wife.
 
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