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Posted: 5/28/2023 11:48:40 AM EDT

I live in an unincorporated area of the county about 3 miles from the nearest town. It's a neighborhood of paved streets and maybe 200-300 houses of various values with lot sizes from city size to a few acres. We have low crime and people are generally good folks that wave when they drive by. In the almost 30 years I have lived here, I have never seen a single spot defaced with graffiti. All that being said, it's still 15 miles from the border and a 1/4 mile from the main north-south highway and we all know what that means in this day and age.

I was sitting on my bed watching TV at 8PM last night when my doorbell rang. Very unusual and unexpected. It might have been anything from a neighbor seeking help in an emergency to some pendejo looking to rob me or steal my car. I grabbed my G19 out of the night stand, stuck it in my front jeans pocket and looked through the window at my driveway. There was a car at the street end of my 60 foot driveway with the lights on. I turned on the porch light and looked through peep hole to see an unknown man standing there.

What would you do?

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:50:20 AM EDT

[#1]

Fuck it's scary out there!

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:51:06 AM EDT

[#2]

Worst story ever.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:51:41 AM EDT

[#3]

I look at my doorbell camera and only answer the door if it’s someone I know or expecting.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:52:00 AM EDT

[#4]

Yell what do you want through the door?

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:52:22 AM EDT

[#5]

Where did you bury the body? Or is he still chained up in the underground rape dungeon?

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:52:27 AM EDT

[#6]

Open door naked and erect. “You look better in person than online. I’ve been waiting for you.”

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:52:28 AM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2023 11:52:41 AM EDT

[#8]

I'd get on my Ring doorbell and ask the person to explain his or her actions.

If it was a solicitor, I'd ask if he or she can read the "No Soliciting" sign on the door, and tell him or her to get lost.

If it was something other than a solicitor, I'd tell him or her to get lost. I'd make an exception for someone who I know personally who had an emergency or just wanted to drop in and say hi.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:52:44 AM EDT

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This, and just start making loud sounds, or bang your wife on the front porch.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:52:57 AM EDT

[#10]

Shoot the culero through the peep hole

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:53:11 AM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2023 11:53:27 AM EDT

[#12]

it's not even dark at 8pm

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:53:31 AM EDT

[#13]

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I grabbed my G19 out of the night stand, stuck it in my front jeans pocket and looked through the window at my driveway. There was a car at the street end of my 60 foot driveway with the lights on. I turned on the porch light and looked through peep hole to see an unknown man standing there.

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I’d be thinking about keeping a cheap clip on holster so I don’t have to resort to sticking a Glock in my jeans pocket.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:53:35 AM EDT

[#14]

I’d open the door, but I don’t live where you do

So I’d ask what he wants through the door

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:53:47 AM EDT

[#15]

Isn't it like 143 degrees at 8pm there most of the year? Why would you have a jean jacket on?

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:54:05 AM EDT

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you must not have read the gas station thread this morning.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:54:25 AM EDT

[#17]

Do you shit your pants when he threw you on the floor?

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:54:38 AM EDT

[#18]

Just don't answer the door in a criminal manner and you'll be good to go.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:54:50 AM EDT

[#19]

I want my click back.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:55:19 AM EDT

[#20]

Yell No Hable Espanol!

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:55:26 AM EDT

[#21]

Arm the Boomba Roomba.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:55:58 AM EDT

[#22]

I never open my front door and actually have a recliner sitting in front of it. I sneak out through the garage and meet them from behind with my pistol in my waistband.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:56:15 AM EDT

[#23]

Jesus, OP is he still there? Are you still undecided about what to do? You’ve come to the right place; just keep him on your front porch so we can help you make a decision.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:56:16 AM EDT

[#24]

The fact that anyone can just walk up to your house and stand on the front porch or ring the doorbell means that you have already failed.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:56:18 AM EDT

[#25]

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I live in an unincorporated area of the county about 3 miles from the nearest town. It's a neighborhood of paved streets and maybe 200-300 houses of various values with lot sizes from city size to a few acres. We have low crime and people are generally good folks that wave when they drive by. In the almost 30 years I have lived here, I have never seen a single spot defaced with graffiti. All that being said, it's still 15 miles from the border and a 1/4 mile from the main north-south highway and we all know what that means in this day and age.

I was sitting on my bed watching TV at 8PM last night when my doorbell rang. Very unusual and unexpected. It might have been anything from a neighbor seeking help in an emergency to some pendejo looking to rob me or steal my car. I grabbed my G19 out of the night stand, stuck it in my front jeans pocket and looked through the window at my driveway. There was a car at the street end of my 60 foot driveway with the lights on. I turned on the porch light and looked through peep hole to see an unknown man standing there.

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You gonna tells us what you did and finish the story you started ??

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Posted: 5/28/2023 11:56:41 AM EDT

[#26]

Asking the person why they're at my door will happen with the door still closed and locked. I'll open the door if and when I'm good with that.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:57:02 AM EDT

[#27]

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That's my second line of defense. You gotta get past the bees first.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:57:49 AM EDT

[#28]

Ask him wtf he wants, without opening the door.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:58:00 AM EDT

[#29]

Open the door with gun in my hand, and not let it be seen.

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:58:18 AM EDT

[#30]

So did you tip the pizza delivery guy or not

Posted: 5/28/2023 11:59:54 AM EDT

[#31]

Where is your rifle?

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:00:28 PM EDT

[#32]

I would flip the switch that electrified the doorknob and the wet doormat.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:01:02 PM EDT

[#33]

Glock already in my hand behind my leg not visible to him open the door and see if he has friends that rush around to force entry or if he’s just lost.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:01:57 PM EDT

[#34]

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Posted: 5/28/2023 12:02:04 PM EDT

[#35]

I speak with them via my security system/cameras, and ask them what they want.

Duh.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:02:14 PM EDT

[#36]

Safe thread

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:02:50 PM EDT

[#37]

By the time I found and put on clothes the person would have given up and left.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:03:43 PM EDT

[#38]

OP, you should answer the door dressed like this:

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:05:20 PM EDT

[#39]

Don't open the door!!!

The Most Terrifying Footage Caught on Ring Cameras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39GdvUAME7s

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:08:11 PM EDT

[#40]

1) Kill the lights to the house.

2) Grab the rifle and switch on nods.

3) Start playing "Fortunate Son" on the intercom.

4) Party

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:09:28 PM EDT

[#41]

Assume he may be the lookout and others are coming to the back door.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:15:20 PM EDT

[#42]

You live in a rural area and some unknown person is knocking on your door past business hours......don't open the door.

You could call out through the door or speak to them through a doorbell camera if you have one.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:16:41 PM EDT

[#43]

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Arizona doesn't do daylight savings time/set their clocks forward an hour in spring.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:23:03 PM EDT

[#44]

You messed up by looking and not having the gun in your hand. You’re supposed to rip the door open and run outside gun up and yelling. Fail.

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:29:22 PM EDT

[#45]

We get calls like this all the time. Usually older people who live alone are scared if someone comes up to their house that they don't know and call us. Of course they are usually gone or its some salesman. Once it was the old man's neighbor wanting to tell him his fence was knocked down during the storm.

We have to tell them that its not illegal to go to someone's house and ring the doorbell unless its a continuous nuisance (ding, dong, ditch) or someone who has been trespassed off the property.

But we understand that in this day and age it can be scary. Usually we tell them the best thing to do is...........

Posted: 5/28/2023 12:30:39 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2023 12:31:51 PM EDT

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We get calls like this all the time. Usually older people who live alone are scared if someone comes up to their house that they don't know and call us. Of course they are usually gone or its some salesman. Once it was the old man's neighbor wanting to tell him his fence was knocked down during the storm.

We have to tell them that its not illegal to go to someone's house and ring the doorbell unless its a continuous nuisance (ding, dong, ditch) or someone who has been trespassed off the property.

But we understand that in this day and age it can be scary. Usually we tell them the best thing to do is...........

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