Two police officers…

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.. walking towards your front door, what is your first thoughts?

DH & I looked this totally differently, interested in others thoughts

Serious accident involving a loved one would be my fear. Then I'd think maybe a neighbour had been robbed.

I live in a rough area and several times I have police knocking at the door to ask if I’ve heard or seen anything regarding an assault or burglary. So I’d assume that but the place I grew up in I’d assume bad news was coming.

Most of you have said exactly what I thought.

Police car pulled up right outside my house (so no door to door knocking involved etc), I saw them get two out and both walk towards my door. I went straight down to the door and there was no one there. So checked our camara and as they approached, one of them said oh it’s not the house, it’s ‘x’ number (just around from me).

I text DH saying, just had a heart in mouth moment, I was shaking. He replied with, why shaking have you being doing something I don’t know about.

When he got home, I said, I can’t believe you said that (in a lighthearted way) as I genuinely thought you or DS had been in a serious accident (both drive as part of their jobs). And then he said, oh yeah sorry, I literally never thought about that. Yeah I can see now why you would say that.

Depends. If my DP was home with me, I’d assume there’d been a crime committed locally and they were knocking on everyone’s doors.

If my DP was out in the car I’d immediately think maybe he’d had an accident.

I could forget to say for petrol like a PP.

I read that and then wondered if I have actually done that!

I'd think that something had happened in the neighbourhood and that they were doing door to door enquiries.

When this happened to me, all I could think was ‘what have I done?’ 😂

A few times

• Asking if I'd had any problems with a lad who lived a few doors down. He sometimes asked for a cigarette but the police were concerned he'd been coercing me and I might be vulnerable. Surprised when I said he appeared to be the vulnerable one.
• Last time was when a house nearby had a large electrical surge/ explosion and it turned out to be a cannabis grow. I had to give a statement about seeing several men in balaclavas running down the road carrying bags of what looked like cannabis plants.

I would think someone had died. And then I would think that I had inadvertently broken the law and start feeling guilty about it, even if I knew I had not broken the law. I have a tendency to feel guilty about all sorts of things, most of which have nothing to do with me 😂

We did actually have two detectives come to our house once and my first thought was that either me or my husband had done something wrong. That wasn’t the case; they were investigating someone we knew for sexual offences against children and they needed to make sure our children had not been victims.

First thought is always that something awful has happened - I must look like a rabbit caught in the headlights when I open the door, because they always say "don't worry..."

They usually want to see my Ring doorbell footage for something fairly mundane.

Sounds like it happens often 😂

I’d think they were looking for my ex husband. He hasn’t updated his address on his driving license and they’ve been here a couple of times looking for him. The most recent was 4 of them at 5.30am.

Not that often thankfully 😅
But a couple of times because people with dementia had gone missing, and they wanted to see if they'd walked past the house.
Once because a van parked outside had been broken into...

Wouldn't know, because I don't answer knocks at my front door. 😛

Oh bless her. It's good they get on. Oh no I hope it isn't. It won't hurt to put the cream on though. I use Dakarin - the normal one, not the gold/activ one

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I’d probably assume there were there to investigate some hurty words on Twitter.

Oops. Wrong thread!

This has happened to me twice. Well, not my door but the door of a house i was working in. The first time they were looking for my employer as she hasn't arrived at work. I explained that she'd gone to X office and that cleared up everything as it was Y office that has reported her missing.

Second time they were looking for doorbell camera footage of an attempted murder on a nearby road.

I think the first time I did expect something scary but now I can say that the majority of the time, it's innocuous and I don't think someone dying would be my first thought anymore.

I had a terrible fright one summer morning about 6am. The doorbell rang and as I came down the stairs I could yellow high vis jackets through the glass. With trepidation I opened the door and 2 officers stood there with a bike, asking if it was ours. Never been so relieved in my life!! It turns out a neighbour walking to work had seen a guy in the region of our house with 2 bikes and chased him while phoning the police, who apprehended him. Tbh they were old bikes thay had been knocking abiut for ages and if the guy had asked us we would have given them to him 😅

I had this and they were looking for someone in relation to a serious crime that had been comitted.

The only time I’ve had police at my door I could see another officer talking to the couple over the road so I knew the visit wasn’t for me specifically. But, like you, if I was down as a NOC and they came to my door only, my heart would be in my boots

How strange that my immediate thought is NOT that something awful has happened to a member of my family.... unlike most people it seems.

I would think that something has happened in the neighbourhood and that they were doing door to door enquiries.

That one of my neighbours have called the police again (I had a neighbour call the police on me for looking for my cat at 1am 😅)

My mum was dead.