[Southack]

"Once, when I was on 3rd shift, someone was pounding on my door at 2 in the morning. My wife called me at work, I called the police, then drove home. It took me 35 minutes to get home, it took the police another 2 hours to get there."

A former girlfriend who lives just outside of Atlanta was home alone when a man began pounding loudly on her front door, shouting that her car was about to be towed. As she was approaching the front door, one of the man's accomplisses was coming into her house via a back window, which she barely saw in time to pull her 9mm. The sound of the 9's action also seemed to chase away the man at her front door.

Then she had to wait 15 minutes for the cops to respond to her belated phone call (not really a bad response time, but lots of bad can happen in that amount of time).

Oh, and she didn't even have a car at the time. As you no doubt surmised, it was merely a ruse to distract her while her home was being broken into.

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[Marauder]

My ex-wife and I once went to San Antonio for Diez y Seis de Septiembre and finally got into bed at our motel about 3:00 AM after partying on the Riverwalk.

Around 5:00 AM, someone started banging on our door but refused to identify themselves, even after I asked several times.

So I retrieved my .45 ACP from the suitcase, held the muzzle against the big steel door, and loaded a round. The sound carried very well, and by the time I opened the door, they were gone.