| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning 13:46 - Jul 1 with 7816 views | MaySixth |
a young man asking for help, asking for something to eat and drink, no ID, phone and could not speak a word of English
do you shut the door in his face or try and help him?
obviously the latter despite numerous others deciding not to
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 10:11 - Jul 2 with 794 views | Churchman |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 20:10 - Jul 1 by MaySixth |
Or you just look into someone's eyes and realise they need help and stop being so scared [Post edited 1 Jul 20:11]
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It has nothing to do with being scared. And in any case fear and caution are natural responses to protect oneself and others. The decisions you make next are what counts.
Yes, you can tell a lot by looking in somebody’s eyes and of course their body language. But not everything.
Attempting to help people is laudable, but there is a time and a place for it. 1am on one’s doorstep isn’t it unless you work for somebody like say Crisis and know what you are doing. [Post edited 2 Jul 11:25]
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 10:14 - Jul 2 with 781 views | NewcyBlue |
I have cameras front and rear on my house, with door sensors to alert if the doors have been opened during certain hours. The cameras record sound and have damned good night video recording too.
I can log into the system from anywhere in the world, and see live footage, recordings, and the status of various other sensors from around the house.
I highly recommend at minimum some form of video doorbell. |  |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 10:53 - Jul 2 with 734 views | Ryorry |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 10:14 - Jul 2 by NewcyBlue |
I have cameras front and rear on my house, with door sensors to alert if the doors have been opened during certain hours. The cameras record sound and have damned good night video recording too.
I can log into the system from anywhere in the world, and see live footage, recordings, and the status of various other sensors from around the house.
I highly recommend at minimum some form of video doorbell. |
Have been thinking about it for past month. Needed an emergency tradesperson on BH Monday, the only firm I could find who would come that day turned out to be a rogue outfit (RMM Maintenance covering NE England - swerve, swerve swerve - tried to flog me a new unit for £3,500 that actually costs £250 average + 1 hr fitting but wasn't even the cause of the problem which regular tradesman sorted next day for £150).
Maybe coincidence ... but but but ... towards midnight that same BH Mon, had intruder in back garden for first time in 12 years at this house. Took some getting into in v. rural area as garden gate was locked & only entry was via a neighbouring field. Luckily the door is see through glass & motion sensor lights meant my dog spotted him & gave voice. Felt I need something more than motion sensor lights front & back, and dog though!
Last words to me from my late Mum have stuck with me - "trust no-one". Sadly good advice these days. |  |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:29 - Jul 2 with 628 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 20:43 - Jul 1 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You must have incredible perception to tell that someone isn't a threat just from their eyes.
I wouldn't be "scared" but I'd be wary at that time of the morning. And I wouldn't put Lady Dollers through the worry, since she was assaulted on her doorstep in the past. |
As I said, my initial thought was he wouyld be on the rob or some others would quickly approach the house so I was wary but having born and bred in in London and seeing a lot of stuff happen, I parked the street sense when I could see he was desperate. | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:30 - Jul 2 with 626 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:32 - Jul 1 by Scuzzer |
Yeah but its pretty obvious why its been posted on here isn't it. |
As it was so surreal and to see what others would have done | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:31 - Jul 2 with 625 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 21:17 - Jul 1 by MK1 |
Admirable, yet stupid at the same time. You put yourself and those you love at potential risk. Next time, send them on their way for your own safety. |
Not stupid at all in my opinion, I was right to bring him and until the police did their work and took him onwards | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:32 - Jul 2 with 624 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 08:28 - Jul 2 by FrimleyBlue |
Id rather be scared and know ive protected my family
End of day my way helps them whilst also protecting my family its a win win for both. Theres no need for them to be allowed in my home. |
He clearly wasn't a danger to me or my family. | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:32 - Jul 2 with 620 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 08:29 - Jul 2 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
I'm not opening my door to a stranger at 1am. Simply too risky.
Not to say I wouldn't help him though. Would happily pass him some food and call people who can assist. |
Yeh called the police straightaway and they arrived in 25 mins and did a great job | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:37 - Jul 2 with 617 views | MaySixth |
All done by Google Translate but he also told us he had been beaten earlier that day asking for food.
I asked him to show me the wounds and although he had some scratch marks on his back and forearms wasn't rnough to call an ambulance and he wasn't in physical distress.
When he said that I was actually more wary than ever as that would be an obvious thing to say to get people's sympathy.
Subsequently found via the police translation that the place he had run away from was nearly 4 hours from the front door.
God knows how he got there, must have hitched a lift part of the way.
Also said he was sleeping rough and he had about £2 in change in his pocket.
The incident was processed and cleared and the simple instruction was to get back to his hotel as it was technically a safe space and process his aslyum claim through immigration as he couldnt go round knocking on doors for food.
That bit made sense but no idea how he would get back to where he left as he had no money or ID or anything. | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:38 - Jul 2 with 615 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 20:16 - Jul 1 by armchaircritic59 |
By any chance, did he look S.Asian? Thai, Filipino etc? |
Why do you ask? | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:58 - Jul 2 with 586 views | leitrimblue |
Surprised so many people who are saying that they wouldn't even open the door. My first thought would be that it was a neighbor or someone in trouble.
Would definitely go to the door and check who it was. If its just some tw4t would be far from impressed and close the door pretty quickly. But would definitely go an check just in case. |  | | |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:02 - Jul 2 with 577 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:58 - Jul 2 by leitrimblue |
Surprised so many people who are saying that they wouldn't even open the door. My first thought would be that it was a neighbor or someone in trouble.
Would definitely go to the door and check who it was. If its just some tw4t would be far from impressed and close the door pretty quickly. But would definitely go an check just in case. |
Firs thought was it was the neighbour | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:02 - Jul 2 with 577 views | Chris_ITFC |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:22 - Jul 1 by Ryorry |
I think most people understand the mime implied by a hand cupped to mouth ... |
Yep.
Straight red card. |  |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:06 - Jul 2 with 574 views | leitrimblue |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 10:53 - Jul 2 by Ryorry |
Have been thinking about it for past month. Needed an emergency tradesperson on BH Monday, the only firm I could find who would come that day turned out to be a rogue outfit (RMM Maintenance covering NE England - swerve, swerve swerve - tried to flog me a new unit for £3,500 that actually costs £250 average + 1 hr fitting but wasn't even the cause of the problem which regular tradesman sorted next day for £150).
Maybe coincidence ... but but but ... towards midnight that same BH Mon, had intruder in back garden for first time in 12 years at this house. Took some getting into in v. rural area as garden gate was locked & only entry was via a neighbouring field. Luckily the door is see through glass & motion sensor lights meant my dog spotted him & gave voice. Felt I need something more than motion sensor lights front & back, and dog though!
Last words to me from my late Mum have stuck with me - "trust no-one". Sadly good advice these days. |
Perhaps another bigger dog to accompany yer current one? Otherwise, sounds a bit extreme but could you apply for a gun licence?
Not sure about the law where you are, but you clearly live in quite a rural setting.Here you just have to say you have a rodent problem and need a firearm to deal with it.
Might be a bit extreme, but nearly all my elderly farmer neighbors are armed to the teeth  | | | |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:16 - Jul 2 with 549 views | giant_stow |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:37 - Jul 2 by MaySixth |
All done by Google Translate but he also told us he had been beaten earlier that day asking for food.
I asked him to show me the wounds and although he had some scratch marks on his back and forearms wasn't rnough to call an ambulance and he wasn't in physical distress.
When he said that I was actually more wary than ever as that would be an obvious thing to say to get people's sympathy.
Subsequently found via the police translation that the place he had run away from was nearly 4 hours from the front door.
God knows how he got there, must have hitched a lift part of the way.
Also said he was sleeping rough and he had about £2 in change in his pocket.
The incident was processed and cleared and the simple instruction was to get back to his hotel as it was technically a safe space and process his aslyum claim through immigration as he couldnt go round knocking on doors for food.
That bit made sense but no idea how he would get back to where he left as he had no money or ID or anything. |
Sounds like you took a risk, but it paid off. Well done.
Had a smaller but similar thing a while back - cam across a distressed young fella on my street and asked him what was up... he was deeply upset, pissed & couldn't walk, saying he was suicidal and smelled of a big bag of skunk. Ended up driving him to his place at the local YMCA and called in the office to let them know he was in a state. That turned on me quickly as he wasn;t allowed to be pissed - I just wanted them to know about the suicidal stuff, but it turned into me almost being in a position of grassing him up.
This stuff is very tricky to navigate and there's definitely danger, but if nobody steps up, things get worse. |  |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:33 - Jul 2 with 516 views | Ryorry |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:58 - Jul 2 by leitrimblue |
Surprised so many people who are saying that they wouldn't even open the door. My first thought would be that it was a neighbor or someone in trouble.
Would definitely go to the door and check who it was. If its just some tw4t would be far from impressed and close the door pretty quickly. But would definitely go an check just in case. |
Quite - I put my phone on silent at night, & if anyone rang/knocked on my door at that time, my first thought would have been it's a massive emergency, possibly a neighbour alerting me that my house is on fire! And I'd only talk through the door, not open it unless it was someone I knew.
Re your later post suggesting a shotgun licence - no way, think I'd be more likely to injure myself than any intruder! An air rifle maybe, used to have one for dispatching myxie rabbits at the old house, but no rabbits here so I sold it. | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:45 - Jul 2 with 484 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 14:32 - Jul 2 by MaySixth |
He clearly wasn't a danger to me or my family. |
You can say that now
You cant base safety on the look of someones eyes imo.
IF anything bad had happened youd be saying he clearly was a danger but you were taken in by their eyes.
Just not worth the risk for me. Phone police. Leave food outside. Your safe. Hes got food and help on the way. |  |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:07 - Jul 2 with 448 views | ellaandred |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 10:14 - Jul 2 by NewcyBlue |
I have cameras front and rear on my house, with door sensors to alert if the doors have been opened during certain hours. The cameras record sound and have damned good night video recording too.
I can log into the system from anywhere in the world, and see live footage, recordings, and the status of various other sensors from around the house.
I highly recommend at minimum some form of video doorbell. |
I have 5 dogs 4 of which are shepherd dogs.
We have a bay window so I can look to see who is at the door and at the same time they are all barking their heads off.
If anyone wants to break in I'll carry on and clear up the mess afterwards!! |  | | |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:10 - Jul 2 with 437 views | ronnyd |
Are you sure he wasn't looking after next doors cannabis farm? |  | | |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:26 - Jul 2 with 394 views | leitrimblue |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:10 - Jul 2 by ronnyd |
Are you sure he wasn't looking after next doors cannabis farm? |
If he is, I'm gonna have the right hump if he's knocked on my door late at night without a big bag of weed  | | | |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:43 - Jul 2 with 357 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:45 - Jul 2 by FrimleyBlue |
You can say that now
You cant base safety on the look of someones eyes imo.
IF anything bad had happened youd be saying he clearly was a danger but you were taken in by their eyes.
Just not worth the risk for me. Phone police. Leave food outside. Your safe. Hes got food and help on the way. |
I can say that now as I knew it at the time mate | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:49 - Jul 2 with 348 views | MaySixth |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 15:45 - Jul 2 by FrimleyBlue |
You can say that now
You cant base safety on the look of someones eyes imo.
IF anything bad had happened youd be saying he clearly was a danger but you were taken in by their eyes.
Just not worth the risk for me. Phone police. Leave food outside. Your safe. Hes got food and help on the way. |
Getting the poor frightened sod off the street and into a chair to wait 25 mins for the coppers is not a risk IMO although fair enough if some think it is.
The police interviewed him via a translator for an hour afterwards without any cuffs in the kitchen | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:57 - Jul 2 with 341 views | Ryorry |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:07 - Jul 2 by ellaandred |
I have 5 dogs 4 of which are shepherd dogs.
We have a bay window so I can look to see who is at the door and at the same time they are all barking their heads off.
If anyone wants to break in I'll carry on and clear up the mess afterwards!! |
I have a 11" x 8" fun sign in black & red, including a logo of a snarling black lab with big teeth, saying -
"Welcome dear burglars, I'm happy to accept your organ donations without any anaesthetic or waiting time". | |
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| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 17:14 - Jul 2 with 304 views | ellaandred |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 16:57 - Jul 2 by Ryorry |
I have a 11" x 8" fun sign in black & red, including a logo of a snarling black lab with big teeth, saying -
"Welcome dear burglars, I'm happy to accept your organ donations without any anaesthetic or waiting time". |
I just have a 'Beware of the Dogs' sign on the front door and back gate ! | | | |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 17:19 - Jul 2 with 296 views | ronnyd |
| Got a knock on my door 1am Monday morning on 17:14 - Jul 2 by ellaandred |
I just have a 'Beware of the Dogs' sign on the front door and back gate ! |
Not much good if the poor sod can't read English. | | | |
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