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Very scary CF Parking Incident

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2018SoFarSoGreat · 10/02/2020 17:34

The same car has blocked my driveway two nights in a row. Today is garbage day, and the CD car was blocking the only spot where my bins can go on the kerb for pickup. We hemmed and hawed what to do, and finally decided to report it. Looked out an hour or so later (10 30 pm ish), CF car is gone. Good. DH put the bins out.

At 4:00 my Ring doorbell went off, then again. We jumped up in a panic, not quite sure what was happening, I instinctively ran to the hallway and put the light on. DH told me to come back in the bedroom, while he looked at the ring camera on his phone. A young man was standing there, alternately pounding on the glass and ringing the bell. The ringing continued, and loud banging on the glass panels in the door. I called the police emergency line, and they said they’d send someone. I was on that phone for 11 minutes – the longest 11 minutes in my life. The guy kept banging, louder and louder. Ringing and ringing. He was not going away. I can only assume his car was towed – but it was not in my house!

I swear, I thought my heart would leap out of my chest. I locked the bedroom door. Then went into the en suite and locked that door. All the while my DH was watching on the camera. The dispatcher at one point asked if I needed medical help (!) – no, just someone to come make this stop! She asked did we have any weapons in the house. For the first time in my life I wished the answer was yes. I thought this is how it would all end for us. So frightening.

The police arrived and it all went quiet. I reviewed the footage, and did not see the guy walk away, so assume he was arrested. Will follow up with the police department today. He knows where we live! He could come back. I swear I am ready to flee the country.

Just had to tell someone.

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Stravapalava · 10/02/2020 17:44

Oh my goodness, that sounds awful. Was it the guy who's car it was or just a randomer being weird? I hope you get some answers.

ASureSign · 10/02/2020 17:47

Is this in the UK?

It sounds scary.

jomaIone · 10/02/2020 17:51

This is bizarre. Why did the police not knock on your door? How would the car be towed without you knowing? The guy was maybe just a random person?

2018SoFarSoGreat · 10/02/2020 17:56

Not in the UK.

The police dispatcher said the next knock you hear will be the officer. Never happened.

I can only assume it was the guy's car, but still.

Our bedroom is at the back of the house, and we have double glazing so would not hear a tow truck from outside in the street.

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Heismyopendoor · 10/02/2020 17:59

How scary! Hope you are ok now. Definitely give the police a call and find out what happened and who it was.

icansmellburningleaves · 10/02/2020 18:04

It sounds like you’re massively over reacting to someone knocking on your door. I don’t know where you are, maybe it’s a country where people can carry guns or such like.

2018SoFarSoGreat · 10/02/2020 18:07

@icansmellburningleaves - Really? Are you calm when someone is hammering on your door at 4:00 in the morning? Repeatedly. Not leaving. Really?

Oh. Well. I guess I'm overreacting. Thanks for that.

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AgentProvocateur · 10/02/2020 18:08

Where are you that you called the police rather than just stick your head out the window to ask what he wanted?

babybrain77 · 10/02/2020 18:08

@icansmellburningleaves I think in the OP it says the guy was hammering on the door at 4am? I think most people would find that pretty unnerving

2018SoFarSoGreat · 10/02/2020 18:09

America. People who would do this may also have guns.

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BrieAndChilli · 10/02/2020 18:10

How do you know it was the person who’s car it was? Maybe someone was having a heart attack in the street and they were trying to find medical help for them, maybe they were being followed, maybe they were locked out

NotYourTypicalNerd · 10/02/2020 18:12

Who had you reported the car to?

Sounds a scary situation!

CherieBabySpliffUp · 10/02/2020 18:12

That wasn't "knocking on the door" that was someone pounding on the glass and ringing the bell continually Hmm
I would love to know how you would have reacted at 4 in the morning in the same situation @icansmellburningleaves

cheeseismydownfall · 10/02/2020 18:13

I've lived in both the UK and the US. In the UK, I would find that experience unpleasant and unsettling. In the US, it would find it extremely frightening. Guns change everything.

Southmouth · 10/02/2020 18:14

That sounds terrifying OP! I hope you get to find more out. Definitely call the police back if you haven’t heard from them.

Alpacathebag · 10/02/2020 18:14

If you have a ring doorbell does it pick up movement on the street and does it save recordings? Can you see if he was arrested from your driveway or if the car was towed?

Sounds scary, but try not to let it frighten you too much. The police know now and hopefully would help you again.

2018SoFarSoGreat · 10/02/2020 18:14

I could see the guy on the ring camera. He was very angry. Of course I peeked out to see if there was anything going on in the street - and would be a good neighbor if needed. BUT I know all of my neighbors, live at the end of a dead end street.

Well. I guess I should not have bothered posting. Seems like I'm just some over nervous unfeeling person making assumptions.

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SmellMySmellbow · 10/02/2020 18:15

Ah, yes in America I would prob shit myself. Fucking guns. UK I would be anxious for sure, if someone banged my door at 4am, but not to the same degree.

AgentProvocateur · 10/02/2020 18:16

Maybe if you said you were in the US in your first post.... Guns change the scenario completely.

Catting · 10/02/2020 18:17

Op, mumsnet has some weird competitive nature about it: see the under eating threads etc.
Posters will try to one up anything. Even calmness seems to be a sport now.

2018SoFarSoGreat · 10/02/2020 18:25

Yes, @Catting. I've been around quite a long time, and know there is so much ant-American sentiment, but FFS I didn't think it would come into play here. I shared because I was scared. That's all. I did not post in AIBU because for some ridiculous reason I did not think I was.

Thanks to those who did not make me feel worse.

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Elephantonascooter · 10/02/2020 18:25

Why didn't you speak to him through the ring door bell and ask him what he wanted? Isn't that the point of the ring door bell?

imarocketman50 · 10/02/2020 18:25

I completely understand your fear. I had a man hammering on my door at 7am one morning. I'd just got out the shower and hubby had already left for the day.

When I looked out the window he had blood on his face and was clearly high on something. He was shouting some womans name (not mine). I rang the police as I was terrified he break the glass in the front door. They were there very quick. Turns out the guy was drunk, high and had the wrong street.

It was bloody terrifying and even a good couple of years later, my front door stays locked 100% of the time unless I'm walking through said door.

Fairenuff · 10/02/2020 18:26

I thought someone was trying to break into my house one night as they were fiddling around with the door. The police came out and it turns out it was a very drunk neighbour who had got confused as to which house was his. At the time it was very scary though.

Itwasntme1 · 10/02/2020 18:27

I don’t live in the states, but would still be frightened of someone was hammering on my door at 4am. Call the police is absolutely he right thing to do. This man clearly wanted a confrontation,.

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