Random People Who Have Had To Defend Themselves Against Home Intruders Explain How They Did It (19 items)

• (#9) This Invader Wasn't A Stranger

  From Redditor /u/bighelper:

  Four years ago, I got in an argument at a party that escalated into a minor fight. The other guy was an old friend who had recently moved back to town after living elsewhere for a decade. After the scuffle, we made up, hung out for another hour or so, and I walked him most of the way to his house. Mine was only three blocks away from his.

  I woke up in a dead panic a couple hours later to the sound of glass breaking. Someone was battering my garage door trying to get through, and not being quiet about it. I called 911, explained my situation, and posted up next to my living room door with a baseball bat. I left the phone on the ground still on the line with emergency. The intruder made it through the last door and I attacked with the bat. I connected about five or six solid hits to the head and one to the ribs before the intruder collapsed.

  Turned on the light and I recognize this person. It's the wife of the guy I fought with the evening before. She had a weapon on her, too. Police came, ambulance took her away, and everyone left after a few hours.

  It was awful. She admitted to trying to attack me in my sleep to the police. I declined to press charges after speaking with her husband, so long as she got adequate psychological help. She spent two months in ICU but ultimately pulled through. She's been nothing but a nightmare to everyone I know since then.
• (#14) Someone Tried To Rob His House Multiple Times

  From Redditor /u/mybrainisasquid:

  A couple of years ago, I lived in a duplex on a busy road, pretty much right on the divide between state university territory and a not-so-great part of town. We got a decent amount of foot traffic, in part because of the university. My duplex was on the corner, facing the side street. I was in the half farther away from the busy road and my front door was inside the fenced backyard. I lived alone with my dog and my cats. On the other side of the duplex, I only ever met Jake and his brother, but I think their parents lived there as well.

  Anyway, one day I get home from work at the usual time, 4:30 PM or so, and as soon as I get in the door, there's a knock. I look out the peephole and it's Jake, so I'm feeling apprehensive because we've spoken like twice ever and I can't imagine what he's about to say to me.

  Well, I open the door and he looks apprehensive too. He asks me if I've looked in my kitchen closet. I say no, because all that's in there is a water heater and a shelf I keep my holiday decorations on. But I do go and open it, and there's a big f*cking hole in the wall of the closet, drywall and stuff all over the floor, and I can see Jake's family's living room through it.

  So Jake tells me that right before I got home, they got home as well, and they surprised a burglar who had broken in on their side. The burglar freaked out and grabbed a knife, and then proceeded to try to smash through their living room wall to escape through my apartment, but as soon as my dog heard the commotion, she started barking like crazy.

  She sounded so scary (he couldn't see her because the closet door was shut) that he changed his mind and just ran past the neighbors and out their door. He didn't even have time to steal anything. I basically just missed all this, too. I was so proud of my girl.

  Another time shortly after that, I came home again around 4:30 PM and surprised someone who was inside the backyard trying to break the window to get inside the house. My half of the house didn't have any windows in the backyard, so if he had succeeded he would have ended up in Jake's bedroom. The guy ran out the gate, right past me, carrying a backpack and took off down the road. I have always wondered if it was the same guy, but it seems just as likely that it wasn't.
• (#15) They Scared Off Teens By Acting Like A 'Mad Man'

  From Redditor /u/gil_beard:

  I caught four very stupid teenagers going through my car in my driveway at two in the morning. What was really stupid was I was looking right at them through my massive living room window with the light on. You’d have to be blind not to see me, but I guess they were too preoccupied with my personal property.

  So I grabbed the old break action 12-gauge I hung on the wall as a decoration. I didn't even have shells for it, let alone would I have ever shot it. I then ran out my front door and began yelling like a mad man in my pajamas waving this old gun in the air. They dropped everything and ran like Hell. I defended my property, but in reality I should have just called the cops. I was lucky they didn't have a weapon.
• (#1) She Was Saved By The Dog

  From Redditor /u/wewillbekyu:

  There was a guy hanging around my apartment complex for at least five hours claiming to have been waiting for someone. At night, my husband went out to walk our dog and I was in the bathroom.

  He realized he didn't lock the door and remembered that guy, turned back after only a minute, and found the guy in the process of opening our door. My husband is 6'4" and my dog is a 65-pound bull terrier. My husband started yelling, but what I saw scared the sh*t out of him the most was my dog trying to take him down. Never saw that guy again.
• (#17) He Had To Make A Hard Choice

  From Redditor /u/SoSayWeAlll:

  Three years ago, my son was born and we had just gotten home from the hospital. We had only been back to our house for a few days. I was up around two AM with my son and could hear someone opening the storm door down in my basement. Before checking downstairs, I laid my son in his bed next to my wife and grabbed my gun out of my nightstand.

  It was very dark in the house, and as I got back into the living room, I saw a man entering the other end of the room from our basement steps. I shot once and hit the man in the chest. I heard him say “you f*cking shot me” and went to the ground.

  Still to this day I don’t know what got into me. I was so mad at the guy for putting my family in danger. I turned on the light and he was bleeding very badly. He kept moaning and mumbling then finally said “Am I dying?” For some reason I responded “yup, you f*cked up.” By this point, my wife is freaking out and I tell her not to come out into the room. I called 911 but the guy died before they got there.
• (#19) Never Sleep On The First Floor Of A Hotel Unguarded

  From Redditor /u/gonnagetthisright​​​​:

  I was staying in a hotel in northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area about 15 years ago. I carry a pistol in my truck and I bring it in at night, so I brought it in when I returned to the hotel for the night. I woke up to some guy halfway through the window (first floor). I sat up and drew my weapon from the side table. He made eye contact and backed out real slow.

  You check your windows and doors at home, do the same when traveling.

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