take from this what you can as applies here to aftermath at least.

take from this what you can as applies here to aftermath at least.

thanks...good point!

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So far, the discussion has focused on situations in which you are in the house, and there is an intruder who is attempting to gain entry into (or has just gained entry into) your home.

I wanted to switch things up and pose a not-so-hypothetical scenario.

What happens if you come home to find an intruder already in your home?

I just learned about a friend of mine (actually, his wife and young daughter) who experienced such a situation about a month ago…

Wife picks up Daughter, after work, and goes home.

Wife doesn’t notice anything out of the ordinary when she pulls into the garage, so she proceeds to open the front door and enters home.

Daughter runs into the house, and goes to her bedroom.

Wife heads to the bedroom and drops her things onto the bed.

Wife notices slight movement out of her peripheral vision, near the bedroom closet, and assumes it was her husband (my friend) home early from work.

Wife hears a male voice say, “I don’t want to hurt you, but give me all your money.”

Wife turns to see a male intruder just inside the bedroom closet with face partially obscured by a tshirt.

Just then Daughter runs into the bedroom.

Wife tells Daughter to go back to her room; Daughter complies.

Wife goes to purse on bed, retrieves approximately $60.00 from her wallet, and throws the money onto the floor (as many people advise you to do in such situations, to maintain distance between you and perp).

The intruder tells Wife to pick the money up from the floor and hand the money to him, whereupon the intruder grabbed the money pushes Wife out of the way, and runs out the door.

They do have a house alarm, but apparently, one of the small windows that the intruder used to gain entry was not tied into the alarm system.

Thankfully, no one was injured, but the entire family is deeply traumatized by the experience.

I think that getting a dog is on their short-list of “Things To Do,” and I'm sure avoidance/deterrence is critical, but does anyone have any thoughts or comments on how to deal with this kind of situation?

Mag dump into chest  hah nah

This happened to me.

Mid day, mid week I was at home playing Blackops or similar on my Xbox360. I was sitting on the couch, the front door to this place was on my left. Approximately 50ft from me, but visible if I turned and looked with my head only. I had a screen door on with the handle locked. So I'm blasting away and hear the door yanked open, I turn and I see a guy walking doff his shoes then proceed to walk down the hall. I blink for half a second, stand up into a run. Crank my arm back into a chambered baseball pitch with the intent to throw my controller like a fast pitch into his face. Simultaneously I yell "WTF, GTFO". The guy looks at me from 15ft away and says "oh she wasn't playing games when I left." He then proceeds outside with his small handbag and leaves. I stand there and process the event for a minute then go outside to look for him. He is no where to be found so I go to several different neighbors to say some dirt ball just walked into my place. About 3 doors down a new tenant says she was having a plumber over.
In retrospect at that time (2011) I lived in a townhouse complex, an upstairs unit and my screen door lock wasn't very secure. Though  gain access to my front door you have to open my front gate that was waist high.

If he was a threat my plan was to beat his ass with my Xbox controller. If I threw or lost the controller, I kept several 28-34" thick rattan sticks and a 1"diameter pipe next to that front door. Without self glorifying I have a lot of experience training to hit things with sticks and anything handy. This includes people, heavy bags, dummies, tires and the like. If I had to retreat the kitchen was 8-10ft next to the door in which I could have grabbed the next useful weapon. At that and this time I do not have a firearm readied for an intruder(s). I do have a young child, including his mother who are not ready to have one around. I do have numerous weapons placed throughout the house that would seriously dissuade them from continuing to stay on my property. I use a large safe and have thought of the Barska with manual metric access for quick availability, but don't have a high threat level so there is minimal need vs want.

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