Thanks for posting. You never know. BE PREPARED! (especially at home)
Were you to live on the border you would have dumped illegals doing same thing. Often.
Need food. Water. Is this Phoenix? Hide me from la Migra.
It is my understanding that meth use causes a whole different level of psychosis.
I do not answer my door at all unless I already know you are coming in advance, and I look through the hole and see that it is, in fact, you.
And anyone who does knock at my door can hear the significant canine presence on that on the other side of their position.
Thanks for that reminder, and you are correct. I'm one of those guys who always thinks this way. I'm never more than 40 or so quick steps from a firearm. And I pretty much always have a knife on me. Good solid advice.
Good reminder and thanks.
We also live in the country and only lock our doors when we go to bed - often leave them unlocked when we are gone for awhile. Meth heads are everywhere. Sad. Worst problem we have in the US right now I think, drugs of all kinds - from prescription to illegal.
Thankfully I live in a safe area but having a dozen main floor windows makes me paranoid at times. Doors are alarmed, cameras around the property, but something can happen in seconds. A couple of weeks ago I had a woman banging on our door asking me to unlock the gates to our back yard so she could look for her lost cat. She seemed nice enough so I did. She came back 5 times over the next two weeks and I let her check. The last time she told me that a psychic had told her that her cat was still alive and hiding under someone’s deck. I stopped answering her calls. I’m not a cat person anyway ;-).
Glad it ended OK. Not to dox you but can you give us some idea where this happened, i.e urban or rural, red or blue state?
I’ve been wearing out the screendoor lock since a couple of hood-rats broke into a house a couple of doors away in the broadlight a couple of years ago.
Who wants to waste precious ammo?
“So......lock your screen doors as well as your front doors. Understand that those on mind altering drugs are not rational or predictable creating a whole new realm of danger.”
No shit.
Wanting open borders for the country and leaving your front door unlocked - about the same thing......
IMO, unless your front door is a mile or more from the nearest road and you have warning systems in place, you should have a firearm on your person at all times even at home. YMMV......personal protection is NOT a hobby, it is a lifestyle. Live free or die isn’t just an expression.
You say you live in a rural area with zero crime or problems? You may want to think again. The meth problem has invaded middle America. I cannot speak for your location of course, but this is where a concentration of methamphetamines is taking root.
Thank God you stayed safe!
You can also remind your neighbors not to talk to strangers, as I’m reminding you.
Get through my front door! Meet my buddies, Messrs Smith and Wesson.
However, whether it's a suspicious knock or a battering ram, either make sure you have a tile floor at the entry way or, if you don't, spread plastic sheet over the rugs...
Then simply let them get one-step inside and and "fill'em full of lead" as the old saying goes...
Not critiquing or criticizing...but...I live in a primarily rural area and I trust no one.
Heavy meth presence.
White trash perpetrators.
My gun or a gun is always within reach and will be in my hand long before a phone will.
Just the smart thing to do and after about a week, it becomes second nature.
I open the door for no one that I do not know or that is not family.
To even get to a door to knock on, one has to go thru a locked chain-link fence and cameras are all around.
It's equipped with an intercom and Facetime camera, so no one has an excuse, even law enforcement.
They might get past my two pits and get to the door, but they go beyond knocking...I will kill them.
That's just the way it is.
And believe me, I can live with it.
I even carry a special insurance rider for such possibilities.
Fort Home will be defended.
Home invasions can happen anywhere
We live in a very rural area and had one screaming his head off and pounding on our door at 2 am in the morning about 5 years ago.
I got half-dressed, grabbed my Glock 30, looked out thru the peep hole and this guy was naked from the waist up and covered in blood. He was screaming his head off to let him in because demons from Hell were after him. I told him “No way and that I was calling the police”. He kept pounding and trying to barge thru the door. I shouted a warning that I was armed, and I would shoot him if he busted thru that door. Meanwhile, my wife was already on the phone with the sheriff’s dept. He tried again and again, but the door held. By now, my wife had also gone back to the bedroom and grabbed our 12 ga shotgun we keep back there loaded with 00 buckshot. We swapped guns. I gave her the .45 cal. Glock 30, and I now had the Remington 870 riot pump with a 00 buck round in the tube, safety off and ready to go. We were still on the phone with the Sheriff dispatcher, and she could hear everything that was going on. We also had pushed the front room couch up against the door, and we were behind another sofa with guns drawn ready to shoot him if he made it thru the door. He kept trying over and over again. That old door held, thank God.
Finally, 15 minutes later, 3 sheriff cars come screaming down our driveway with lights flashing/sirens blaring. Yeah, it took em 15 minutes to get out to our place. This guy tried to fight them, but got pepper-sprayed, cuffed and tossed in the back of one of the cruisers. Neither of us ever did get back to sleep after that. Too much fear and adrenaline, I guess.
Turns out the guy was a known drug abuser/heavy meth head...had a record a mile long with some of it pretty violent. To this day, we still don’t know how he got way out here where we live, especially that hour of the night...weird.
We ended up replacing our doors with heavier ones and added additional locks after that little episode, but he really could have just smashed a window and got in. We beefed those windows up as well. Drugs make these people crazy and potentially violent. Also, no matter where you live, be vigilant and be aware it can happen any time/any place.