Recently we went up to attend a wedding in the Bay Area and we stayed over with one of my wife's cousin's house. The cousin lives alone and she was a little worried as their area had suffered a rash of home invasion robberies recently (she had a $700,000 house in a semi-private area...her next door neighbor is about a half an acre away) so she was glad to have the company.
On the night of the reception, we got separated from my wife's cousin on returning to her house and after a half an hour of being lost, we got on the right route back.
We had the key and let ourself in the house.....about five minutes later...about midnight, the doorbell rung.
The cousin had waited up for us, so she walked to the front door to see who it was, thinking it was one of the party goers bringing something back from the party.
You are in the living room, sitting where you can see the front door...it is a young woman by herself, but she keeps looking behind her at the ground where there is a dark patch. The girl looks innocent enough, but you think something is wrong. You have your home defense gun on you...just before you signal the cousin to ask who is it without opening the door, you hear the girl whispering to someone and something in the shadow moves.
(looks like a human size object)
What do you do?
Turned out it was one of the other cousin's grown up niece whose boyfriend got hurt in a fight outside of the party and she brought him to her aunt's house for help.
As it is, I had the aunt turn out the inside house lights while my wife and I kept the girl and the injured boy friend outside until we could get corroboration to identify them through the closed door. My daughter watched the back door while we worked out a solution at the front door.
On the night of the reception, we got separated from my wife's cousin on returning to her house and after a half an hour of being lost, we got on the right route back.
We had the key and let ourself in the house.....about five minutes later...about midnight, the doorbell rung.
The cousin had waited up for us, so she walked to the front door to see who it was, thinking it was one of the party goers bringing something back from the party.
You are in the living room, sitting where you can see the front door...it is a young woman by herself, but she keeps looking behind her at the ground where there is a dark patch. The girl looks innocent enough, but you think something is wrong. You have your home defense gun on you...just before you signal the cousin to ask who is it without opening the door, you hear the girl whispering to someone and something in the shadow moves.
(looks like a human size object)
What do you do?
Turned out it was one of the other cousin's grown up niece whose boyfriend got hurt in a fight outside of the party and she brought him to her aunt's house for help.
As it is, I had the aunt turn out the inside house lights while my wife and I kept the girl and the injured boy friend outside until we could get corroboration to identify them through the closed door. My daughter watched the back door while we worked out a solution at the front door.
