Dog poo incident

[gwenlar]

I've just drove past a girl about 12 that let her dog poo outside someone's house and walked off. So I stopped further up the road and wound my window down and just said are you not picking that up? She said oh sorry and went back and I drove off. That was it.
10 minutes later a huge man knocked on my door and when I answered he said oh sorry I've got the wrong house, I asked who he was after, he said a name and said they've got the same car as you sorry and got in his car and drove off.
We never get people knocking on and I'm assuming this is to do with the dog poo thing.
I was in no way rude to the girl that is literally all I said to her and she was fine when I drove off not in tears or anything like that but I can only assume that she's gone home and told her dad/grandad and they have gone out looking for my car.
Now what? If he had anything to say he would have said it then so now I'm thinking he's going to come back.
If asked my neighbours to let me know if they see anyone hanging round and have also logged it with 101. I wish I hadn't of said anything now.

But he didn't say anything about the girl if he did have something to do with her surely he would have!

I think it was just a coincidence tbh OP.

More likely the person in the house where the dog shit saw you stop and assumed you knew the girl. That person knocked and realised you’re not related - accent, house smell, race - could be anything.

Or it could be nothing.

so many idiot posters cherry picking from your post to try and make you feel stupid.

she didnt dial 999 guys, she logged it with 101. it is strange, how would he have known your name?! im assuming he didnt actually say your name, because he doesnt know it. at the very least he might just let his dog shit in your drive as revenge, lets hope it doesnt escalate further!

No exactly it was so weird, how would he have known he had got the wrong house just by me answering the door without even asking for the person he said he was after?
So are you saying that he knocked on your door and pretended to be looking for someone else, even though he knew it was you he was looking for just to frightened you? Except that most people in your position wouldn't have been frightened at all and he would have made much more of an impression if he'd said 'I'm warning you, don't ever speak to my daughter'.

Your story makes no sense.

I don't blame you for being nervous, OP - I certainly would be too. From what you've said, I think he has made himself too identifiable to be up to no good. If it was planned, he could also have come up with a more coherent/plausible reason for knocking on your door. The garbled nature of what he said actually makes it more likely to be genuine in my eyes.

You would think but him knocking and also giving a strange reason for knocking also doesn't make sense.

It's not that strange: you think you know where someone lives, get to the right estate, but realise you aren't sure, see what you think is their car and assume you have found the house.

I've lost count of the number of times during our first 2/3 years in our current house that friends and family insisted they knew where we lived but then phoned up because they couldn't find the right road.

Your theory might be right, but everyone elses seems much, much more likely. In the absence of anything bad, happening, you should stop worrying.

P.S. Well done for telling the lass to pick it up. I'd have done the same thing, but most people would not.

Sounds like it's related. But it could also be coincidence.

I would block up your letter box in case he tries to post dog shit through it in the night.

A friend of mine asked a dog owner to pick up their dog's crap that they'd witnessed the owner leaving outside their house. The owner told them to fuck off and walked away. The next morning there was dog crap on their doorstep.

Not saying this will happen to you... but you never know. So be alert.

It doesn't make much sense to me either if he was connected to the girl as you would expect him to say something but because he didn't it makes me think he's going to do something instead.
It's too much of a coincidence I think to be unrelated.

I can understand where you’re coming from Op. I’d be worried that he was making sure he had the right house before coming back later to maybe damage your car or let his dog poo in your garden or something. But he made himself identifiable so I wouldn’t be too worried.

esk1mo the man didn't say the OP's name.

That is exactly the kind of thing that I'm expecting I have also been told my 101 to move my car

The thing is if anything does happen I know that he can't live far from me due to how quickly he came round so it wouldn't take too long to find him.

So they told their dad, granddad, whatever, made up a bollocks story about being threatened by this huge person that wanted to beat them up and they came to your door, realised you're not a huge person that's foaming at the mouth and twigged it the teen had vastly exaggerated the threat you were to her, and therefore toddled off again to have words with the teen.

^^ This will be what happened.

Would you recognise his car again, OP?

Yes I would recognise it my neighbour also saw it as he parked in front of her house.

Jesus wept, 101 for this?!

In future unless the dog is poo'ing in your own garden then MYOB, it will stop strange men knocking on your door.

As I've already said I rang 101 as near enough straight after speaking to the girl a huge man comes round my house with a bullshit excuse for knocking on

I think it's paranoia.
Why do you say it's a bullshit excuse?
The man could have known he got the wrong house because you answered!
It's more likely coincidence.

I think @Idontdowindows has it right.
Can't see the harm in a 101 call - battier calls are logged than this OP.
Hope nothing else happens.
Was he intimidating or seemed reasonable when he called?

I think you slightly overreacted bu calling 101 but if it gives you peace of mind.

January87
“In future unless the dog is poo'ing in your own garden then MYOB, it will stop strange men knocking on your door.”

“MYOB” - Seriously? 😐 It’s everyone’s business when someone doesn’t pick up poo!
And I say this as the owner of six dogs.

If this was to do with the dog poo incident, the man would not have knocked on your door, he would have spotted your car and just done whatever despicable thing you imagine he was going to do.
That is IF the 12 year old bothered to note what make your car was or knew where you lived.
OR... he would have had a go at you there and then.
You are probably best not saying anything next time if you are going to imagine revenge attacks and worry so much.

Another dog owner here who thinks OP was right to challenge the girl. People who don't pick up after their dogs make life harder for everyone.

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira

house smell wtf?