Has your home ever been broken into while you were STILL in it?

Question

What happened? What did you do?

Answer 1

I keep an 12 gage over and under behind the bedroom door and a .38 special in my bedside drawer. A aluminum baseball bat also. It's kind of like one, two three, your out.

I sleep very light, something learned from 'Nam and can hear a mouse fart from 200 feet while sleeping.

I did have one experience years ago, I heard the front door knob rattling, I went out the back and while this guy was trying to "Jimmy" the lock with a butter knife, I stuck a .45 in his ear and asked him if his plans for the day included a visit with God.
He pissed his pants, my wife called the cops and they cuffed him, we pressed charges, he was some ministers son and has been window peeping, I guess he graduated to breaking in.
The minister asked me to drop the charges, I told him "no" I believe he had graduated from peeping to maybe trying something bigger, so, he went to a youth prison and consoling.

Answer 2

Mine is more funny than a "there I was". Years ago I had this house where my garage and bedroom were seperated by a thing wall. I awoke to a noise in the garage and at first thought "great..... I locked the cat in the garage again" but as I listened I realized that it was not the cat.

To all the John Wayne types who have 3 guns I FIRST CALLED THE POLICE as any sensible person does if one can. Best to let the police handle something as even if you shoot someone in your house there can be possible criminal liabilities for use of excessive force. Families of burgelers have successfully won in civil court even if the homeowner is cleared criminally.

I have been in the Army all of my adult life and have directly participated in most every declared or undeclared action in the past 20 years in all sorts of funky places. When this happened I had just returned from such a place and with the Army Special Forces. So being SF hence one of the most highly trained and experienced soldiers in America (giving a nod to the Seals, Recon and others... all are great at what they do). Given this I still called the police first.

But to be fair.......... if one awakes to find someone in one's living room all bets are off. Thoughts of paperwork and potential liabilities are forgotten. What matters in the safety of myself and most importantly family. The details can be sorted out later. Plus who knows how some guy is going to react if he is blantant or stupid enough to not figure out how to rob a house that is empty.

Anyway..... garage on noise. I crept around to the door that goes into the house from the garage (that had a top half window) with my weapon and a turned off flash light. While waiting for the police it was obvious that someone was trying to jimmy the lock. It was kind of looking like they were about to get in so I bore down w. my weapon and turned on my very bright flashlight. The guy was on his knees w. a screwdriver, mouth open and trying to adjust his eyes to the light.

I had been organizing my garage and doing yardwork that day. Mowers and stuff were everywhere. So the dude takes off and trips, I hear (insert cursing) and crashing. It was silent for a moment then I heard more cursing and crashing. Then more banging and tripping.

The cops got there as he was at the end of my driveway. The guy was bleeding everywhere with grass seed stuck all over him........ and was trying to get out an extension cord that he was tangled in.

Answer 3

Yes! About 10 years ago. However, it was a man who lived next door to me and he was drunk and walked in the wrong house. The police were called but after we discovered who it was no charges were filed. Since then he has been a great neighbor.

Answer 4

My second wife was alone in the house (I was at work). Guy jimmied the lock on the back door and got as far as the living room. Hummel, the wife's Rottweiler, nailed him there. Just about ate him alive. He spent over a week in the hospital. He was lucky, my second wife was (and still is) a crack shot with her Ruger SP101, .357 mag. Even though we are now divorced, I still try not to piss her off.

Answer 5

I woke up about 4am. heard noise. Got my weapon out of the closet, caught the guys in the act, loading up things into pillow cases. I turned on the light, they saw me pointing my weapon at them. I told them to lay down on the floor and put their arms straight out from their sides with the palm of hands up , told them if they moved, they would be missing a head when the cops got there. I called 911, cops were there in about five minutes. I opened the front door, two cops walked in. I told them what happen, they handcuffed the burglars. One officer and I checked for point of entry, found they had cut back bedroom window with glass cutter, opened the lock and crawled in. When the officer and I went back to where the other officer was with the burglars, they had them stand up, one had urinated on himself. They took all information they needed, plus pictures and left. About two weeks later, I had to go to court, they plead guilty and went to jail. The day after that happened, I installed burglar bars and a alarm system. Figured this way is better than putting a hole in them that a team of surgeons could not patch up. However, they were inside my house, broke in and I caught them with the goods in hand, and if they had not done like I asked or tried to harm me, it would have been a totally different situation, I would have had to call out a carpet cleaner. Sad thing about it, two young men, 17 and 18 yrs old, not only have they really messed up their life, but could have paid a very serious price for one DVD player and 18 movies, if they had decided to harm me or run.

Answer 6

Yes, a strange man walked into my house one night while my in-laws were visiting; we were all asleep at the time, but heard the noise, came out to the living room to find this man; he'd taken off every stitch of his clothing and was asleep in the living room chair! Of course, we called the police.

Answer 7

My home has never been broken into at all, thank goodness.

Answer 8

Only one time someone tried to force my door . Before he could get the door open I informed him that when he came through the door I would take his head off needless to say he didn't come in .

Answer 9

yes.it was very horrible.and the worst thing is we could not even go to the police...because i was in Mexico city so this was the compadre of the policeman for sure.they took all our jewelery...but fortunately nothing else happened.they tied us,they were sort of considerate with my grandma....

Answer 10

I left him like that door knob he wish he would've used properly!