It happened to me last night. I ended up doing nothing, just laying, terrified, in bed. Now I'm still feeling shaken and shattered and wondering what I do if it happens again?
I always considered myself to be quite brave and usually go and investigate bumps in the night quite happily but last night I froze.
I was alone in the house with just the little dog, who was shut in the kitchen at the back of the house. There was a massive smash, which I initaillay thought was my window and a man screaming obsecities in the middle of the street. Turns out he was throwing glass bottles at my door/walls.
He then started kicking my door screaming "Let me in you fat, ginger graff, I want a taxi," I'm not ginger so assume he thought someone he knew lived here.
He was right outside my door and my phone was on the top landing. If I'd gone for it to ring the police he could have seen me and I was worried that would cause him to start trying to get in again. Lots of people were shouting that they'd rang the police but I never heard them turn up. A neighbour came out and told him move away from my house.
It carried on for about an hour. I'm alone in the house tonight and feeling a bit scared, which I guess is the point of the thread. Obviously my phone will be kept in my room tonight but there's no working plugs in my room to keep it charged.