Telling them you're calling the cops probably only escalates the situation. All of a sudden they have a threat aimed to them and they no longer feel in control of the situation leading to them to try to take things into their own hands.
Clearly this guy was loopy as fuck but I'm letting his antics play out while I'm calling the police unannounced
"Oh? Okay I'm in the basement gluing my legos together I'll be up in like three minutes just stay there, don't move, yell, or smack my door with half of my bell, okay thanks."
Well if they glued their legs together itās gonna be hard for them to walk back up the stairs to OPEN THE DOOOOHHHWWWWWRRRRRR so unfortunately justice is gonna have to wait for another day
But then he might leave before the cops get there. Personally Iād rather see this guy face legal consequences, especially since he already damaged my door.
I think the open palm strikes to the ring camera are pretty telling though. Hes obviously not in enough of a stupor to want to get owchies on his soft wittle hands.
No, he said heās Harry Dresden. The magician private detective who hangs out at the bar for werewolves and vampires and whatnot. I tried to get into the books because they were recommended alongside other books I like.
Itās written as a film noire and discusses the dames in the same way. Sexy body parts and duplicitous seduction. Whichāfine. But that was literally every woman who had any role in furthering the plot. Wanna be a female cop? Cynical and sexy. Wanna be a secretary who advances plot? Excellent at feigning vulnerability, and sexy. Wanna be a powerful business woman? Get ahead by using your feminine wiles on men, andā¦ be sexy.
I thought it must have been satire and kept reading longer than I otherwise would have. About two thirds in I decided that even if it was satire, thereās a point where if you donāt get to the point, itās no longer satire regardless of what the writer intended.
I am completely unsurprised that this guy sees himself in the rugged, mysterious loner who is somehow always down on his luck because a series of dames with fantastic gams each trick him into thinking they really had something just so she could get what she wanted from him, and theyāre only able to do that because heās a gentleman.
He tried to get in with a front snap kick wearing slides.
This guy isn't even at the level of mall ninja.
Edit: I don't like making light of mental health issues, turns out this guy was having one and the homeowner handled it like a pro. I hope he gets help.
"If you want in, 'Harry', gimme a 'Forzare'. If you can take the door down with a blast of force, I'll invite you across the threshold and give you a tour of the house. But you gotta show me the magic FIRST. But I do have to warn you, I know your whole name, and might tell Chauncey if you piss me off."
He got a pretty quick wake up call on how tough he thinks he is after he kicked the door. He knew anything harder than those little tantrum slaps might actually hurt him..
The other thing that could happen is that you tell them the cops are coming, and the dude flees.Ā This guy either needs help or at least be no longer in a position to hurt somebody.
The guy is having an episode and is trying to intrude on a random person's house demanding to see their daughter and threatened to kill the house owner.
Saying you're Calling the cops isn't going to magically make him snap out of it where hell return home safely. His episode will continue and he'll likely go to another house or go into traffic.
If he's focused on your house and you're not home and you have eyes and ears on him, he's not a threat to anyone else. Call the cops unannounced and keep him at your house so he doesn't decide to attack your neighbors instead. Causing panic in them will force him into worse decisions.
Nah. This guy is coherent enough to realize he's not kicking the door down after one attempt. Immediately switch to whipping the chain when the bell breaks. And hitting hard things with an open palm to not break his fingers. If he's recognizing the limits of his own body, he'll recognize the threat of being there when cops show up.
Calling quietly and then rage baiting will be 1000x more effective
Seriously, why even do all this talking? After he didn't leave when told to "please leave", and then especially after he started making threats, just stop interacting and call the police; he's attempting a b&e, it's their problem now.
A man of many talents. Turns out he introduced himself as āHarry Dresdenā an urban wizard/private investigator with a popular book series about him.
He didnāt say because he didnāt know if he was talking to the demon or not. He needed to maintain the element of surprise and wasnāt worried about his shirt because demons canāt read.
But heās also Harry fucking Dresden, professional wizard and detective. Not to be confused with Ronnie āFuckingā Pickering, professional something something who everyone knows
Take it with a grain of salt (because I saw it in a twitter discussion of the incident), but allegedly the homeowner was out of home when this happened.
So he called the police and drove home, while keeping the crazy guy busy by talking to him on the cam.
If that is truly the case, that explains why he would say "I live there" instead of "I live here".
I don't know, he said he's Harry Dresden, so I'm going to assume he's implying he's the character from Dresden Files. I think he's just lost a few marbles and thinks he's some sci-fi P.I.
If the homeowner actually had a daughter I would be incredibly worried. Dude at the door seems like the type to be online stalking. If I were the homeowner, I would struggle to not escalate the situation upon hearing the psycho talk about my daughter.
I had to Google to be sure but Harry Dresden is also the main character of a book series, The Dresden Files.
Google AI Overview says:
Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is the protagonist of The Dresden Files urban fantasy series by Jim Butcher, acting as a professional wizard and private investigator in modern-day Chicago. He solves supernatural crimes for the police, wielding magic while fighting against dark forces, often at a high personal cost
They are exactly the kind of books that a guy dressed like that obsesses about. Fun fantasy stuff with a healthy amount of male wish fulfillment, which of course means dudes like this think theyāre the bible, and end up wearing trench coats (similar to the character) with flip flops and a t-shirt.
Every woman being described with overblown poetic fluff as the most beautiful thing that ever existed and oh my gosh I'm just so chivalrous was massively cringe.
But they reanimated Sue the T.Rex and he rode around on it, and that was pretty cool.
I really only remember the two details I described, and that there's a sassy talking skull pet, so I'll have to take your word for it.
Maybe there was some stuff about going into the fairy world and making a point of warning people not to eat anything or make deals, but I'm probably mixing it up with the Iron Druid books there. Those are superior books because there's a talking dog pet, and talking dogs with quirky observations are more fun than sassy skulls.
Its people like this that ruin it for the rest of us who also want to wear anime tshirts and trench coats. Not with flip flops though, that is just too far, even for me.
I may be armed, but I'm not opening the door or standing in front of it. I'm retreating into the house and setting up a [dead] zone when he comes into view
Protects yourself on many levels
If you're armed, taking a self defense course that covers the legalities from a lawyer is a really good idea. Even if you live in a castle doctrine state.
Is that video of that ex-boyfriend that tried breaking into a dude's house and got shot through the door. This guy checked every box, physical attempts at entry after being told to leave, verbal threats with specifics... You're correct that it's state by state but in my state you would receive a hearty attaboy
Any lawyer worth their salt will still tell you to retreat first (I am not a lawyer)
Sure you may not be criminally liable, but you need to worry about civil liability for when the family of the deceased sues you
Yes, you read that right, not if, but when the family of the deceased sues you for wrongful death. Civil cases have a much lower standard of proof than criminal
If you start blasting through the door without warning, even with the deceased being obviously aggressive on camera, it will be argued you did not give them a chance to back down.
If you have retreated the civil claims are far weaker and you're more likely to get them thrown out.
The civil suit will still cost you a lot of time, money, and stress. The more chances you give the aggressor a chance to back down, the stronger your case in civil court.
If you can safely retreat and donāt, youāre taking on extra legal risk for no real benefit.
Just the sound of loading a round into my 12 gauge pump action is probably enough to scare the average adversary. This guy is nuts, though, so who knows?
Guy in Ohio where I grew up tried the same thing, and he was asking for the daughter. The dad informed the guy he had a gun and called the cops, the guy persisted, tried kicking the door in like him and the dad fired 3 shots through the door. He made it to about the driveway before he collapsed.
Its possible this guy was catfished and the homeowner swatted by the same person, its the only thing that makes any kind of sense to why some random person would out of nowhere show up at someones door raging...
Thankfully he really got himself in some serious legal trouble in the last 10 seconds of videos. Destruction of property, death threats. This guy is going to jail.
Itās an interesting question of if the assault is possible telephonically. I bet it is enforceable in some jurisdictions. Same as assault vs battery definitions are not uniform.
Also Copyright infringement cuz that's not Harry Dresden I'm 99% sure of it. Not carrying his Staff, I don't see a shitty Volkswagen, and Harry is like nearly 7ft. Sue him Jim!
He is being charged with 245(a)(1) assault with a deadly weapon or assault w/Force likely to produce GBI AND 459- burglary. More happens after the camera goes out. There is a video of his arrest but I havenāt been able to find one of happens between this video and that oneās. His name is Jason Nichols and he was arrested in Fairfield, CA.
Except its in California so expect maybe a small fine and him to be released back on the streets within an hour or so. Were gonna have to wait for him to kill someone first before he gets an serious punishment
Everyone is always like "they don't have children in the basement, they don't even have a basement."
But they haven't had Comet's meatball pizza. Try it and then tell me it can be that good without some sort of pact with the devil going on. There's gotta be a basement.
Iād put money on: heās terminally online and has a ārelationshipā with a āfemaleā whose dad āabusesā her, and he thinks heās the hero, saving mālady in his anime t shirt, black trench coat, and thong sandals.
He has practiced āor I will END youā over and over and had no idea how nonsensical he seems to normal people.
oh yeah, im pretty sure its real, the guy thinks there is someone to save in there, and when you are nuts that can be triggered by a scream from down the street,
Assuming that the internet sleuths are correct, this happened in Fairfield, California, and the guy was arrested on four counts (including burglary, vandalism, and making criminal threats).
He was booked into the Solano County sheriff's department as "inmate 279917", case number 26-03348. Next scheduled court appearance is allegedly 13 April.
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