What would you do if you were broken into?

Royal Irish · 13-02-2011 04:55AM

Pocketfizz wrote: »

A drunk man came into my house tonight and tried to get his hands around me I freaked out and ran upstairs and the boyfriend eventually got him out.

To be honest I froze! If my boyfriend hadn't of been there I don't know what would of taken place!! I always thought I would be better in a situation like that but I guess you don't really know until it happeneds!!

I just wanted a hug

Craebear · 13-02-2011 05:02AM

Grab my bible and cross and by the power of christ compell him to stand down.

Cú Giobach · 13-02-2011 10:36AM

I would take the samurai sword off the wall and intimidate the living shite out of him/her?.
Anyone trying to break in here would be faced with two very territorial and large dogs and someone acting like a psychopath looking for blood while deftly brandishing a sword.

fitzgooble · 13-02-2011 11:59AM

I'd round up some hard hittin' niggas and get medieval on their ass.

Snakeblood · 13-02-2011 12:00PM

I'd stand at the top of the stairs throwing shoes down and crying.

Alter-Ego · 13-02-2011 12:10PM

There's been a few break ins in my area over the last 2 weeks, mostly during the day, so I'm on watch out. I'm at home, alone most days so I keep a pole under my bed and there's a chainsaw in the hall in case I need to get all Patrick Bateman on their ass.

Cant rely on the gardai at all, at all.

ToniTuddle · 13-02-2011 12:22PM

bodice ripper wrote: »

Like I said - i am a short, dumpy woman. And I am inclined to walk about alone at all hours. All joking aside, I'd rather walk about where and when I liked and lose a tenner here and there than cower like a dog at home telling myself that it wasn't safe for the likes of me on the streets.

I've had one mugger hand me back bus fare. One mugger one so incensed to find me upchucking beside burgerking with no money on me that the mugger held my hair back for me and ate the face off my mates when they came out for leaving me alone. I find they key is to not give anyone a reason to get physical - it is only money and I don't carry much.

(and as an aside - if some one asks me for change at night, I always give them some. I appreciate that that they asked when they could easily have mugged me around the corner)

Where the hell do ye live? :eek:

melekalikimaka · 13-02-2011 12:31PM

i came down the stairs to two guys robbing my house, i chased them out the house and down the street with a bar trying to kill them....in boxers... they ot away... turned out they had fleeced a gp next door and dumped all the drugs in my living room as they ran, win win

Clooney1 · 13-02-2011 12:41PM

I would sit him down and brew him a cup of tea then tell him I sympathise with his situation. I would tell him that society has failed him and that its my fault not his. Then I'd bring over the pot of tea pour it all over his face and hit him in the head with the pot. I'd then ring the guards and tell him he threatened to stab me before conveniently placing one of my knives in his hand.

chicken fingers · 13-02-2011 12:42PM

In the unlikely event that I encountered a burglar where I live at night I would capture, incapcitate or kill him. I have shot people before and I am convinced that violence for self-protection it is human nature, the natural thing to do.
Where I live, guns are common and a burgler would most likely have one. Its not a crime to kill somebody who is robbing your house or place of business. So if I could see a gun I would kill him, if it was dark I would probably put a couple of rounds beside him and try to take him alive.
If he tried to flee, I would try to shoot him in the legs.

There would be no chit-chat. If anybody can break into my house they are not a friend or an innocent mistake.

Pity Ireland has such awful laws regarding the same situation.

messymess · 13-02-2011 12:43PM

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Grab my airsoft m4, spray his face with bb's and blind him. Then clobber him repeatedly with the stock.

*Gets charged for assault

I'd often thought about getting one of those airsoft weapons for home protection. Are they powerful enough to stop someone just charging at you though?

chicken fingers · 13-02-2011 01:06PM

no they are not. Those airsoft "weapons" are not weapons, they are toys for overgrown boys.

messymess · 13-02-2011 01:19PM

chicken fingers wrote: »

no they are not. Those airsoft "weapons" are not weapons, they are toys for overgrown boys.

I noticed you can get them converted to use the more explosive red gas ... perhaps use steel ball bairings .... how about then?

chicken fingers · 13-02-2011 01:49PM

messymess wrote: »

I noticed you can get them converted to use the more explosive red gas ... perhaps use steel ball bairings .... how about then?

Are you kidding? When it fires a bullet that can kill a person its a weapon. Until then its a toy. Back in my day, kids gave up the BB guns when they were 12 or so but I guess times change.

Actually in many countries if you tried to rob a place with a toy airsoft gun you would end up dead fairly quickly. Ive read stories of people killing robbers (armed with replicas) using chair legs and whatnot.

13-02-2011 01:53PM

Get my brother and step dad and basically kick the **** out of him, then ring the Gards.

Solnskaya · 13-02-2011 02:04PM

Bit off topic, but still fairly relevant, I was sitting in the reception area of a well known(now closed) Nissan main dealers on the long mile road, waiting to see a salesman, when four shiny new vans pulled into the carpark and eight or ten lads got out. Each and every one of them was seriously built, and they proceeded to wander into the sales area and across to the coffee machine where they helped themselves to a brew each, and called the saleman across.
At this stage, you could hear a pin drop. It struck me then, that these lads could do just exactly what they pleased and there was feck all anybody was going to say to them, no matter what. As it happened, one of the guys enquired about the cash price for one of the top of the range Pick-ups outside, and then they left.
The point was, i'm big enough, the lads in the dealership were all fairly solid lads, but really, faced with those guys, you would not pick up a knife or a bat or a gun, because it would be shoved up your hole without a shadow of a doubt. So, I suppose, what you would do in a situation depends a lot on the situation. Faced with few teenagers, yes, fighting would work, but faced with a group of serious hard cases, you would have no hope. I would pity the Guard that had to attend at a scene to deal with the likes of those fellas from the dealership, they would need a lot of manpower, and I would not envy them that job.

WolfForager · 13-02-2011 02:43PM

Was home alone one night, heard something moving around downstairs and decided that stringing the bow that i've had in my room since i was 12 and grabbing an arrow was the best thing to do. Stood at the top of the stairs waiting for some fecker to try and walk up, turns out i almost killed the family cat :pac:

Cybertron85 · 13-02-2011 02:43PM

I'd refrain from ever picking up the soap in the shower again.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 13-02-2011 02:57PM

Tbh, initially I'd probably be scared sh*tless and not afraid to admit it.

Then I'd unleash Richo & Ruby..

Who I have no doubt would kill and intruder.

bodice ripper · 13-02-2011 03:04PM

ToniTuddle wrote: »

Where the hell do ye live? :eek:

Cork street, and I went to college in Summerhill. shockin.

Willbbz · 13-02-2011 03:07PM

bodice ripper wrote: »

I've had one mugger hand me back bus fare. One mugger one so incensed to find me upchucking beside burgerking with no money on me that the mugger held my hair back for me and ate the face off my mates when they came out for leaving me alone. I find they key is to not give anyone a reason to get physical - it is only money and I don't carry much.

How did that come about?

CorkMan · 13-02-2011 06:54PM

Solnskaya wrote: »

Bit off topic, but still fairly relevant, I was sitting in the reception area of a well known(now closed) Nissan main dealers on the long mile road, waiting to see a salesman, when four shiny new vans pulled into the carpark and eight or ten lads got out. Each and every one of them was seriously built, and they proceeded to wander into the sales area and across to the coffee machine where they helped themselves to a brew each, and called the saleman across.
At this stage, you could hear a pin drop. It struck me then, that these lads could do just exactly what they pleased and there was feck all anybody was going to say to them, no matter what. As it happened, one of the guys enquired about the cash price for one of the top of the range Pick-ups outside, and then they left.
The point was, i'm big enough, the lads in the dealership were all fairly solid lads, but really, faced with those guys, you would not pick up a knife or a bat or a gun, because it would be shoved up your hole without a shadow of a doubt. So, I suppose, what you would do in a situation depends a lot on the situation. Faced with few teenagers, yes, fighting would work, but faced with a group of serious hard cases, you would have no hope. I would pity the Guard that had to attend at a scene to deal with the likes of those fellas from the dealership, they would need a lot of manpower, and I would not envy them that job.

Fair enough at the scene you couldn't do anything, unless it was a place where 2 or 3 men behind the counter could pull out guns. But in Ireland you could leave them go but identify what they looked like and they will eventually get caught.

If they were to steal they would know they'd be on camera.

Jaxxy · 13-02-2011 07:19PM

It is true that you'd never know how you'd react unless you've actually been in the situation before. I'd always assumed that I'd be an absolute nervous wreck, useless shaking back and forth in the corner possibly in the fetal position, but when it happened to me I was actually quite calm. I'd grab my phone, hide in the wardrobe and call the gards. If I was found I would use any means necessary to defend myself. I have a baseball bat and a large hunting knife down the side of my bed and now that I live alone I wouldn't think twice about using them to ensure my own safety.

mikemac · 13-02-2011 07:25PM

Never been mugged but got a punch from drunk person just walking down the street in the middle of the day.
And I froze

So I'm not going to post that's I'd attack the burglar as I may well freeze again.
You never know until you are in that situation, that goes especially to all those posting about bats and knifes in your bedrooms.

You just don't know.

Alter-Ego · 13-02-2011 07:27PM

Dustin Old Noodle wrote: »

Tbh, initially I'd probably be scared sh*tless and not afraid to admit it.

Then I'd unleash Richo & Ruby..

Who I have no doubt would kill and intruder.

You're screwed if the burglar has a few T-Bone steaks on him.:pac:

Dohnny Jepp · 13-02-2011 07:32PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90FR8m-zEH4

This is my plan.

sonic85 · 13-02-2011 07:32PM

i didnt vote in the poll - id like to think id try fight off anybody who enters my home with bad intentions but its impossible to know how id react in that situation until it happened. hope it never happens though

sonic85 · 13-02-2011 07:41PM

Dustin Old Noodle wrote: »

Tbh, initially I'd probably be scared sh*tless and not afraid to admit it.

Then I'd unleash Richo & Ruby..

Who I have no doubt would kill and intruder.

jesus thats some pair of dogs! :eek:

BQQ · 13-02-2011 07:54PM

rofl @ Gardai arriving in 5 mins.

A friend of mine was being burgled and she told the Gardai "there's someone in my house right now" gave her address and...

Gardai arrived late the following evening about 23 hours later :eek:
(Luckily the burglar had heard someone upstairs and ran off.)

Anyway, definitely wouldn't rely on the Gardai for help. I'd lock myself in an upstairs room and make some noise.

MonTheBiffy · 13-02-2011 08:12PM

BQQ wrote: »

rofl @ Gardai arriving in 5 mins.

A friend of mine was being burgled and she told the Gardai "there's someone in my house right now" gave her address and...

Gardai arrived late the following evening about 23 hours later :eek:
(Luckily the burglar had heard someone upstairs and ran off.)

Anyway, definitely wouldn't rely on the Gardai for help. I'd lock myself in an upstairs room and make some noise.

Ever hear the story about the man whose shed was being robbed? He rang the gards who said they'd be an hour at least. So the guy says right f**k that, ring the gards back and says lads take yer time I've shot the 2 of them. Every gard in the town was there in 3 minutes.

What would you do if you were broken into?

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