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  • (#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.

  • (#2) His First Reaction Was To Head-Butt The Intruder

    From Redditor /u/theflockofnoobs:

    I was 16 and my parents were away that weekend so I was home alone. Guy charged in through the screen door from our deck when I was lying on the couch watching TV. He just rushed straight at me.

    I leapt off the couch and just did the first thing that came to mind: full force head-butt. Shattered his nose and it felt like I got a few more bones in there as well. He fell on his *ss onto the floor. I did the same. Head-butts HURT.

    My dog, being the absolute unit he was (105 pound Golden [Retriever]), came hurtling into the living room and shoulder checked the dude into the glass of the TV cabinet/entertainment center thing. Didn't even bother biting, just ran into the guy.

    The dude struggles up and sprints back out. I called the cops. I never found out who he was or what his plan was.

  • (#3) They Pointed An Unloaded Rifle At The Burglar

    From Redditor /u/DoTheCollapse:

    When I was 17 I had a black powder rifle (I actually still have it). I was cleaning it in the basement, put it together, and took it upstairs for storage. While I was upstairs I heard someone come in through the basement garage door. I thought it was my brother or mom coming home, but when I opened the door to the basement I saw some random old guy coming up the steps (Edit: "Old" in the context of how he looked to me at the age of 17. In hindsight he was probably in his mid to late forties or early fifties).

    I asked him what he wanted and he asked if I was home alone. I grabbed my rifle (empty) and pointed it at him, telling him he needs to leave the way he came in. When he got back to the bottom of the stairs he unlocked the door he came in through. It didn't register with me until later that he had locked the door behind him when he entered the house.

  • (#4) They Scared Them Off During Breakfast

    From Redditor /u/gibbysaurus:

    One morning when I was about 10 or 11, my mom and I were eating breakfast at our kitchen table, which was in direct view of the back door. All of the sudden two guys showed up and tried to break open the back door. (One of them was probably in his 40s or 50s and the other guy looked like he was in his 20s or 30s.)

    Then they looked up and saw that someone was home, so they ran for it. We ran outside to try and get their license plate number, but by then they were already gone.

  • (#5) His Dad Held The Intruder Down - The Kid Held The Gun

    From Redditor /u/Nickldd92:

    I was 12 years old and hanging out with my dad, watching a movie around one AM. All of a sudden, there was a pounding on the door. My dad got up and twisted the knob. As soon as he did, a mountain of a man threw the door open. My dad is pretty big himself, but got knocked to the floor, grabbing the guy’s shirt on the way down. They started wrestling and fist fighting in the entrance of our doorway.

    I’m standing at the top of the steps looking down and watching all of this in slow-motion. My dad started screaming to get his shotgun out of his closet. I ran upstairs, grabbed the shotgun, ran back to the top of the steps and pumped a round into the chamber. Immediately after hearing the sound, the guy tries to run away, but my dad holds him down on the ground.

    At that time my neighbors had heard the yelling and scuffle and ran over. They called the police while my dad is holding this guy against the ground, and me, a 12-year-old kid, aiming a shotgun at the back of this dude's head. The police end up coming with their guns drawn and I put the shotgun on the sidewalk. The guy ends up getting arrested and supposedly had just gotten out of jail for a strong-arm robbery and battery.

    I can’t even imagine what would have happened if I had been alone, considering my dad has worked third shift my entire life, but it just happened on one of his nights off. My dad was literally a superhero to me after that day.

  • (#6) He Recognized The Wannabe Burglar

    From Redditor /u/dogtheplank:

    When I was about 16 or so, my dad, brother, and I were on the way home from church and saw that a truck we didn’t recognize was parked in front of our house. We had a long driveway, so by the time we pulled up and parked, my dad had told my brother and I to stay in the car as he figured out what whoever it was wanted.

    When we got close enough, we noticed that the guy - a big dude in his 40s, easily 6’6” with a giant beer belly - was hunched over by the front door. My dad is a teacher in a tiny town, so it wasn’t a surprise that he recognized the guy. He called out, “Jared? Is that you?”

    Jared turned, didn’t acknowledge my dad at all, and hustled back to the passenger side of the mysterious truck, grasping his 10-gallon hat to his head the whole time. He threw himself in head first and, his legs still dangling out the passenger door, yelled for the driver to go. They peeled out and we were left staring after them, wildly confused.

    We noticed later that he’d been trying to unlock the door with a screwdriver, but only succeeded in scraping up the doorframe before we caught him. The best part? The door was unlocked the entire time.

  • (#7) This Grandma Chased Off Thieves With Her Slipper

    From Redditor /u/chestertoronto:

    My girlfriend’s 80-year-old Portuguese grandmother was intruded upon. She lives alone in a big house because she loves her independence. They must have targeted her because she’s old and alone.

    They broke in the middle of the day assuming she wasn't there. She had just woken up from a nap when she peered out the bedroom seeing them. Most people would hide and call the cops, but no, Vavo fights! She screamed, “Wya you heeer!!!!” and chased them with a slipper.

    I think they were so shocked she was home; they bolted out the front door.

    An 80-year-old frail woman chased two guys out of her house with a slipper.

  • (#8) Her Dog Tore This Guy's Leg Apart

    From Redditor /u/womaninradio:

    I was home alone on a Saturday night and my roommate had left for the weekend. We often left the side door unlocked for friends who would go downstairs and crash on the couch. I would frequently hear "IT’S _____" as they would come in.

    So I'm laying in bed in my birthday suit reading a book at 2 AM and I hear the screen door open. My dog perks up at the noise. He's a 110-pound shepherd Newfie mix that looks like a wolf. He lets out a little "boof." Leaning forward in bed I can see the doorway. I look and see the doorknob turning. "Hello!" I shout. Thinking it was a friend.

    It was not a friend. A strange man's head poked through the door. We make eye contact. He has this weird look on his face as he proceeds into the landing."UH WRONG HOUSE." I screamed, thinking he was just in the wrong home. When I screamed, my dog got up and went to my bedroom doorway. The guy stopped in his tracks. My dog’s hackles raised and he started snarling. I was even scared by him a bit.

    The guy stopped when he saw my dog, and started backing up. "GET THE F*CK OUT OF MY HOUSE!" I screamed. My dog jumped. The guy fell backwards into the door and my dog grabbed him by the leg and shook him like a rag doll. I stopped caring about being naked at this point. I jumped out of bed and threw on my housecoat while this guy was screaming bloody murder. There was blood all over the floor.

    I grabbed my dogs back leg and sat down on the floor trying to hold onto him. The guy stumbled to his feet and grabbed the doorknob before looking back. He took a glance at me with my robe hanging open and my dog still snarling at him. "I WILL LET HIM GO." I screamed again. My dog jumped and I did my best to hold on, but one leg got out of my grasp and he lunged at the guy. The guy finally turned and fell out of the door. I immediately got up and locked it. There's blood all over my floor. My dog’s fur is still raised as he stands at the door growling.

    I called the police, they came, took a statement and left. I never found out what happened to the guy. I took my dog to the vet and he was fine. I never left the side door unlocked again. I've never been so thankful for my dog.

  • (#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.

  • (#10) This Mama Bear Protected Her Young

    From Redditor /u/Rogueantics:

    My mother heard someone walking about upstairs and immediately she takes me and my brother out and puts us in the car. I was like three years old, if that. Then she goes back in upstairs and finds the neighbor filling her pockets and generally browsing through her stuff like you would do at a mall.

    My mother then beats the sh*t out of her so badly that [she] went to the police herself out of fear. No damage, no broken windows or doors and nothing taken obviously. Just a lesson learned. Don't break into the home of an angry mother.

  • (#11) They Asked If He Wanted A Kitten

    From Redditor /u/H0use0fpwncakes​​​​​​​:

    I was living in a house with my girlfriend about eight years ago. We were fostering some kittens, and in order to keep our cats and the kittens safe, we kept the kittens in the top level of the house. It wasn't a regular upstairs, more like a finished attic with a door at the bottom of the stairs. I was up there playing with them when someone knocked on the door. For some reason, the knocking immediately set off an internal alarm. I pulled out my phone and texted my girlfriend, who was at work, asking her if she was at the door. She said no and I immediately told her to call the police because someone was trying to break in. The knocking quickly stopped, and I started to feel stupid.

    But a minute or so later, I heard dishes rattling around downstairs. This could have been one of the adult cats playing in the sink, but that feeling of something being off got a million times worse. I kept texting her, saying please call 911, I don't want this guy to hear me talking on the phone and realize someone is in the house. I'm freaking out. I have no idea what to do. The windows are too tiny for me to jump out of and all I'm armed with are quarter-pound fuzzballs. What am I going to do, throw a kitten at him? So I'm just sitting there praying the guy doesn't hear me and doesn't open the door.

    Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he does just that and I hear feet pounding up the stairs. The guy sees me and I could see him calculating what to do. I burst out with, "Hi!" The guy looks confused and says, "Hi?" back. Then I asked, "Are you here about the ad for the kittens?" Guy looks at me blankly and turns around and runs out of there. At this point, he obviously knew I was there, so I called 911.

    They didn't catch him, unfortunately, due to bad luck. My girlfriend had called 911 but she worked in a different town and was connected to their emergency dispatch system. We only lived a block or so away from the police station, so they got there almost immediately. He'd gotten away but had broken into two other houses on the street. The other piece of bad luck was he entered the house through the kitchen window, which was right over the sink. I had gloves sitting right there that he put on, so no fingerprints. But he didn't take anything and didn't hurt me so it worked out okay.

  • (#12) Their Dogs Held The Intruder Down Until The Police Arrived

    From Redditor /u/kcurtp:

    My wife was at home without me. Midday, she was in the front of the house in the living room. She hears the gate to our privacy fence open and then close. She looked out the window to see a man she didn't know walking along our house through our backyard. Our dogs were both home with her, we had a boxer and a boxer-Rottweiler mix.

    She went to the back of the house to lock the back door, but by the time she got there, the guy had already started to open the back door. She tried to push the door shut on him, but he was much bigger than she was, and he pushed his way into the house, knocking her on the floor. Both dogs jumped over her (one of them actually used her as a launching pad and broke one of her ribs) and went at the guy. Both dogs connected and latched on and began to tear his arm and leg up pretty badly.

    My wife had the wherewithal to get her phone out and call 911. The guy tried to leave and run, but our mutt (boxer-rotty) pulled him into the house and kept at him until the police arrived. My wife was finally able to pull both dogs off of him and get away once the cops arrived. He was charged with breaking and entering, as he had broken our gate. He spent three days in a hospital getting two surgeries to repair his arm and leg from the dog injuries. He deserved them. F*ck that guy.

    Since then, we have always had large dogs. We now have a boxer and two English Mastiffs. My wife still gets edgy when home alone.

  • (#13) A Jealous Lover Tried To Break In

    From Redditor /u/stephancypantsu:

    This was in college, in a three bedroom apartment. One of my roommates lived there with his girlfriend. His girlfriend started cheating on him with a guy she met at work (all three of them worked at the same place, but my roommate's girlfriend and the other guy worked in a different building). The other guy got really drunk one night and wanted to come into our apartment to fight my roommate and take his girlfriend away with him. We tossed him out and locked the door.

    He started screaming and beating on the door over and over again. We told him to leave or we would call the cops. He left for maybe two minutes before he was back, pounding on the door again. I confronted him several times through the door about leaving, but he was just getting more and more violent. Eventually he stopped banging on the door for a few moments before slamming into the door and breaking it open.

    My two roommates and I immediately started beating the sh*t out of this guy to the point where he couldn't stand up anymore. We tossed him into the hallway, closed the door, and called the cops. The cops took him away, we filed a police report for the damages, and figured that was the end.

    It was certainly the end of my roommate’s relationship. His ex moved out a couple days later. Turns out she went straight to that other guy and they both left the state and he skipped his court date. As far as I know, those two moved to an adjacent state and are still together.

  • (#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.

  • (#16) She Was Literally Saved By The Bell

    From Redditor /u/JunkieMcflunky:

    Last year I was staying in a duplex in the sh*ttiest part of town. I was home alone and someone knocked on the front door. I thought it was my husband coming home from work early, so I excitedly opened the door, only to see it was a man who I've never seen before.

    I closed the door halfway and asked if I could help him. He didn't say anything and barged in my living room. I ran to my bedroom and tried to lock the door but I wasn’t fast or strong enough. He cornered me and pulled out a knife and told me not to move. He saw some money I had on my computer desk and grabbed that. I told him he could take whatever, but just hurry and leave. He just kept telling me to shut up.

    Finally, he held the knife to my neck and told me he was going to have sex with me and to get on my bed. I knew I wasn't strong enough to fight him off, so I tried to lighten the situation by laughing and saying he didn't need the knife, and I'd just do whatever he wanted. He kept saying get on the bed over and over. I got on the bed and he started to unbutton my pants, I was holding my hands up to show I wasn't going to do anything.

    Then, as he looked down I reached for the doorbell that was on my bedside table (I had just replaced the battery and hadn't put it back outside yet) and pressed the button making the chime go off. He freaked out and ran outside, I immediately got up and locked my front door and called 911 and my husband.

    I never got a good look at him as he was wearing a zipped up hoodie and it was dark, everything just happened so fast. There were no witnesses, and he was never caught. I still have trouble being home alone without having a panic attack, and I always lock my door and have weapons hidden all over the house. I've moved since then to a much better area so that's helped a bit.

  • (#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.

  • (#18) Her Mom Grabbed A Butcher Knife

    From Redditor /u/Cacec04:

    My mom was outside mowing in the middle of the day, and I heard the phone ring. I ran downstairs to try to answer it, missed it, but then saw a tall man stand up in the backroom out of the corner of my eye. I was a little kid so don't ask me what I was thinking, but I went to guide him to the front door to get out of our house.

    My mom walks in from the back door, the guy runs up the stairs, and she immediately can tell from the look on my face that someone is inside. She grabbed a butcher knife and began chasing him around the house (the guy must have been high). He was so scared he was begging her not to hurt him.

    He ended up getting away, but not before my mom cut him because she was trying to hold onto him until the police arrived.

  • (#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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