I called the police and I feel like a tit now

[Kulio]

I'm not even sure why I'm posting but I'm still shook up and I need to get this out of my head.

I live with my 2 young boys. Both of them fast asleep in bed about an hour ago. I was in bed messing about on my phone. DS1 bedroom is above the kitchen. My bedroom is at the front of the house.

Clear as day I heard the sound of window being smashed. It sounded like MY kitchen window. It woke DS1 up too. I went into his room to check out of his window which is directly above the kitchen. I had my phone in my hand and in my panic I called the police.

I was on the phone to operator, I was totally shaking and trembling. DS1 was frightened and crying. Operator tells me to check the house. I was still shaking like a leaf at this point but I went downstairs and my kitchen window is fine. All the windows are fine. I checked my shed as it has large windows. All fine. I checked my car (parked at the front of the house). No problems there. Police operator takes my details and tells me to lock all windows and doors and to call back if anything else happens. They can't send anyone out as it looks like there is nothing to inspect.

After I hung up the call, I went out again to check the neighbours houses and again, nothing.

I looked out of DS1 bedroom window again to check NDNs conservatory (neighbour lives alone and she is out at the mo). Nothing.

Ds1 had climbed into my bed by this point and Ds2 had also woken up and got in my bed too. I had to calm eldest down as he was still frightened. He said it sounded like the kitchen window so I told him I'd checked and it wasnt.

What on earth was it? It took a while for me to get kids back to sleep. Theres no evidence of any of the houses on this street being broken into. But it was so loud and crystal clear I was convinced my kitchen window had been broken in to. So loud it woke ds1 up! What the hell was it???

I did apologise to the police operator as I felt like I was wasting their time, but being a single parent I cacked my pants and when I called them I was upstairs with no idea if someone had broken in or not. I panicked. I can still hear the sound of the glass breaking replaying in my head.

I dont know why I posted this, I'm still shaking.

Off to check Jewel, I hadn't thought of that.

Not a roof tile. Nothing on the ground at all apart from some weeds and some epic slugs.

I heard that once several years ago when I was in bed and thought it was a drunk dropping a bottle (I lived opposite a pub) nope, was my front door window being smashed! Far better to already be on the phone just incase!

Kulio

I'm such a sucker for late night scaring myself.
once while staying at PILs I had to rummage in a downside room for something. switched the light on and almost had a heart attack because this dude was staring at me from right outside the window.

of course there was nobody there. it was the reflection of a large photo behind me. of my husband. when he was a young teenager. ffs. 🤣

Check the glass in your washing machine door. We heard glass smash the other night and I thought a glass had fallen off the draining rack but all looked fine. Later we found it was the washing machine. It was empty and switched off. I have no idea what caused it to break.

Don't feel bad. Imagine if it had been something- you'd have been on the phone already to the right people! (and people phone 999 for really insane reasons, you won't be the talk of the station!)

False alarms happen. You didn't do anything wrong.

A tile off a neighbour’s house? You would hear the nasty scraping if it was your roof but only the smash from another house.

You're being very brave all this investigating!

Try to get some sleep. It was probably a neighbour a few doors down Noise travels so far & so ckearky at night.

It is scary when you're the only adult and have children to 'protect'.

If it makes you feel any better, one of my neighbours in my building had a loud party so another neighbour banged on their window to tell them to be quiet as they weren't answering the door. A third neighbour thought it was someone was banging on her bedroom window (on the 3rd floor) and ran into the street screaming, straight into the arms of an armed police office. Two armed police officers then searched the entire building doing that back to back formation thing with their guns up

Aliens... it's the only explanation 👽

Shower screen?

Something glass in the bathroom?

A mirror?

There an iPhone text tone of breaking glass. Could it have bee that? Someone walking past? It’s a very realistic sounds that really travels.

Thanks for all the replies. I checked everything mentioned and can't find anything broken. Honestly no idea what it was but I hope I never hear it again. Didnt get to sleep til about 3am 😴

Maybe one of your neighbours will know what it was...any updates, you know where we are!

Years ago, I heard smashing glass in the middle of the night. Looked out the bathroom window to see men trying to get into the first floor empty flat next to our house. I shouted for DH, he phoned police and men ran away. No sign of the men by the time the police arrived. Felt pleased we had disturbed a burglary.
Went to work the next day. When I got back home, shop owner beneath the flat said when she went in, in the morning her shop was flooded. Turns out the flat was a cannabis farm, and the men had disturbed the irrigation system, police seized lots of cannabis.
I felt awful for weeks after that. It was the fact we didn't know that our bedroom was next to it, and the irrigation and heat lamps. No wonder we had a problem with damp in there!

It's never a waste of their time if your concern is genuine, you did the right thing. Thankfully it did turn out to be nothing, despite being really odd, but it's not the same as deliberately wasting their time at all.

I once called the police because I had witnessed a woman being dragged through my garden by her hair. She was covered in blood and screaming for my help.

It was a night terror - but at the time it was so real. I have never ever been so utterly utterly terrified in my life.

They were very understanding once I’d realised what had happened.

@Kulio

Not a roof tile. Nothing on the ground at all apart from some weeds and some epic slugs.

It was the slugs vandalising something.

I called the police a month ago at 1am as I thought some people were messing around with building equipment at the school next door to us. There were some major works going on and the week before a digger had been stolen in the night. I could here reversing beeps and also metal clanging. The police came straight away and then phoned me to say it was works on the rail line which is about a mile from us. It was a still night and I guess the sound just carried easily across the fields. It honestly sounded like it was next door. I felt silly but they were really nice and it said definitely right to call them.

It'll be something outside, in the nicest way of putting this, get over it.

@itsnotnormalisit

Aliens... it's the only explanation 👽

🤣

Quick update. I just spoke to the next door neighbour at the other side of me as I was fetching in my washing. I asked him if he heard anything last night. He said yeah, he thought he heard someone smash a car window. I told him I thought it was someone breaking in.

He said he thought it could have been a glass bottle breaking but then said it definitely sounded like a big pane of glass though.

Reminds me of a time just after we got married. DH was out at a scout meeting and I had had a bath and wasin the living room in my dressing gown. I heard someone rifling through my kitchen cupboards. I yelled "go away" and ran to the front door ready to make my escape if necessary and stayed there until DH got home about 29 minutes later. It turned out the intruder was a toad in the vegetable rack.

I wonder if anyone nearby's patio door shattered.

A good few years ago ours suddenly shattered into a million pieces during the evening for no reason. It's to do with tension vs temp or something. Really loud. And scary!