To be worried about my sister and the face at the window.

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My sister lives in a large house at the top of a longish drive in a very quiet residential area.

She was sitting watching TV with her curtains open, this evening. She often does this as she is not overlooked by neighbours.

She happened to glance up to see a man staring at her through the window. She jumped up and he ran away.

She then saw two men running away down her road. She switched the lights off and watched from a bedroom window. The two men appeared again and stealthily walked back up her road keeping close to the hedges and started to approach her house. They must have caught sight of her in the window and they ran away.

She is really frightened, I live a few hundred miles away and obviously can’t get to her tonight. I wonder was it an attempted burglary or a peeping Tom or a silly prank. I wonder how seriously we should treat this.
She is alone with her teenage son. It’s a very low crime area.

Any thoughts would be welcome.

@Gone4Good Ah, so you are in America.

"In our state you can walk about in public like a gunslinger with a side arm if you wish."
Charming. So glad I am too frightened to visit America lest I be shot. Sounds like Beirut or Iran. Having access to firearm never keeps anyone 'safer'. I wonder when Americans will ever learn that and catch up with the rest of the civilised first world countries.

@Loopy3585 Yeah I don't get how come people don't have curtains, even in the kitchen. Firstly, privacy is very important to me. What if you get up in your underwear to make a coffee? Secondly, you don't want strangers seeing into your house and what you have.

if I ever live somewhere like this I am definitely going for the crunchy gravel idea.

I really hope your sister’s ok. This happened to me many years ago. I walked into my living room and right in front of me was a man staring through the window. I think he was as shocked as I was as he clearly thought no one was home. He ran off and I foolishly decided to chase him. He got into a car that was waiting up the road. I phoned the police and they came out. I gave them a description but nothing came of it. I just wanted to let you know that they never came back. Clearly the sight of me petrified them!

Hope she's ok now OP.