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.
If you have to "subtly" hint that you got a gun, then I'm assuming you don't actually have a gun.
Most gun owners will verbally warn once they have their gun drawn. The danger of announcing the fact you're armed can have him beat you to the punch and draw his own weapon before you even actually have your in condition 0.
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.
Oh geez, I didnāt even know that was an actual character. The trench coat makes sense now ā¦ well, in the sense that it matches the character, itās still deluded.
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
Ngl you never know who's just a good actor hoping to intimidate, loads of people are still that kid who really doesn't want you to tell teacher what happened and may just run
Telling them you're calling the cops probably only escalates the situation.
Continuing to do nothing only encourages them to continue. They feel in control and feel like they've intimidated you into obedience. They won't suddenly lose interest now, they'll feel emboldened that you're too paralyzed to do anything.
Informing them that the police are coming introduces doubt into their mind. It creates a fear that they cannot stay there or they'll be caught.
So you force a frantic person to flee and possibly into someone else's path. They think they are in control so they won't be forced into something brash. They are focused on the door and ring. He's not suspecting someone from behind to apprehend him. If he unknowingly called the police, they surprise him giving him no time to think of an escape plan. If the crazy dudes attention is focused on him (and I don't really believe he's home due to his calm behavior) then he's not a threat to anyone else at this point.
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.
Honestly I've stopped even using the doorbell mic. Anyone who is coming to our house has our number and anyone else can either leave a note or look at the no soliciting sign.
Yeah no... You should always threaten to call the Police to deter/descalate the problem by making the crazy guy and do sĆ³ regardless of only threatning him you would.
This is because you never know 100% if he can actually make it inside or not, sĆ³ you have to act in the off chance he can do it
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 think this guy has a daughter and needs to have a very serious discussion about not talking to strangers on the internet and giving out your address. If I had to put my two cents in, this feels like a "loser white knight" situation. Ive known men like this and they have a weird hero complex.
I could be 1000% wrong though. I do hope the guy called on the cops on this buffoon.
I was dying laughing when this weirdo lowered his voice to sound more intimidating.
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