To think that if you're going to knock on someone's door at 2.15am...

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SaltResistantSlug · 09/03/2012 06:58

...you should at least get the right house?

We live at 129. He said, "Oh sorry, I thought this was No. 9."

Cue me lying awake for the next hour considering every possible (bad) eventuality as it all seemed a bit dodgy to me.

Not to mention we have a toddler and a baby and sleep is pretty high up on my agenda.

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mummytime · 09/03/2012 07:10

Oh poor you!

pearlgirl · 09/03/2012 07:14

We had something similar once - but it was 3 policemen - who were insistent that they had had an abandoned emergency call from a mobile registered to our address - they hadn't, they had the wrong house. Thankfully the children slept through it.

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SaltResistantSlug · 09/03/2012 07:30

That must have been a shock seeing police there!

Just not sure how he confused our house with one 2 digits shorter at the other end of the street.

Good job it was last night though and not Tue or Wed - DH was away and I think I would have completely freaked out.

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pearlgirl · 09/03/2012 07:37

Mind you I have slept through neighbours hammering on the front door in the early hours to say our car had been vandalised so the police were lucky I woke up.

Floggingmolly · 09/03/2012 08:42

It's awful, isn't it? We had some drunken idiot hammering on our door at around 3.30 last year, insisting this was where the party was and demanding we let him in before all the alcohol ran out! He became increasingly agitated and eventually tried to break the front window with the recycling bin. The police were supposedly on their way by then, but sadly turned up 3 hours later. And sods law dictated this happened on the one weekend DH was away on a rugby trip

Pusheed · 09/03/2012 08:54

Idiot ding-dinged my house at 3am. His mate lived somewhere on my street. Did I know x and if yes, which is his house? Don't ask me why he couldnt simply called his mate and ask.

everlong · 09/03/2012 09:02

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Ringo81 · 12/03/2012 10:52

I had that happen once, I ignored it, 30 seconds later my windows were being smashed in by a smack head!!!!

mummymccar · 12/03/2012 12:56

We were burgled at 4am once and the police decided it would be the perfect time to knock on every door on the street looking for witnesses. I was so mortified that I went round that afternoon and apologised to every house.

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