WWCOJ do? Late night knock on door (Page 2)

Reminds my of my apt. roommate in college at UMass, Amherst.  Steve had this HUGE male Rotweiller, Hudson.  Hudson looked like he could eat your head in a single bite, but in reality, he was the biggest baby EVER!  Strong though.  Steve would put a doggie chest harness on him and he would tow Steve all over campus on his skateboard.  And it was a BIG campus.  Hudson would sit in the grass outside the engineering bldg. and just sleep until class was over and Steve came out.  He never walked away - he was basically afraid of everything.

One day I'm in the student union at the student credit union and I hear this commotion in the union.  People start screaming and running.  I walk outside and there's Hudson sitting in the middle of the floor.  He's growling because the people are screaming and running and he's looking for the threat, not knowing that it's him causing the commotion.  I walk up to him and bark out, "HUDSON!  YOU STOP THAT GROWLING RIGHT NOW!  YOU'RE SCARING EVERYONE!"

Well that did it.  He lay down, put his snout under his paws and started howling and bellowing doggie tears.  Ever see a dog cry?  I couldn't get him to stop.  I asked other people to help try and console him, but it was no use.  I had to go get Steve.  "What happened?" and I told him.  "Ah $hit!  He's going to be like this all day now!  Dammit!  Come here you big baby."  Steve picked up the massive 150-lbs dog and had to haul him home, howling and crying the whole way.

Looked fierce, but gentle as a kitten...  Afraid of kittens. 

Ya... big no no answering the door... you are allowed to talk through it. A cell phone is not some invicible object.... do you really think you are going to get a call off to 911 when she bursts through the door and her accomplice comes from around the corner and gets control of you? They don't usually allow you one phone call.

I have done it but I also have two dogs and a gun with me. I used to get knocks on the door late at night because the stupid pot heads had the wrong house. I would tell them to get the right f'n address and get off my porch. My next door neigbour was a pot dealer that I do not have to deal with anymore..... but even when I did that after wards I knew it was not the smartest thing to do.

There is nothing right about that story. Mothers ask for help with their sick child, they don't ask for $20. Crack heads ask for $20.

Yeah I have no idea why I opened the door! DUMB!! It kept me up most of the night thinking of what else that could have been...

And yes the "I need $20 for ______" scam is old as day, I get that a lot in parking lots or down town, but never at my own house. I could kinda see through the glass (no peep hole) it was a white woman and not to stereotype but some how I felt that was safer to open. Again, DUMB.

I've texted my next door neighbors to give them a heads up and see if they know anything. 

This is truth.  1045 is about 15 minutes into midnight shift for my department, it's like our 9am...

OH UPDATE: Text back from my next door neighbor:

"Yes, she really is our neighbor. Lives in the rental across the street. She knocked on our door a few nights ago. Supposed to pay me back tomorrow. Now I'm probably going to start a rumor but I'm wondering if its for alcohol or something else. Hard saying, and if its really for her son I will feel bad. But that would be quite a bit of otc meds for $40."

Give me the Cash!

They already have no self-esteem, so there's nothing left to destroy. And it's just a numbers game -- they know if they knock on enough doors, they'll get what they want.

I wouldn't have opened the door either. I never open the door. I don't have a peep hole. So... I can't tell who's out there.

That's a really nice hat.

You like eet?

When were you in UMass?  I thought I saw a scene of some dog pulling a guy up the incline from the Campus Center entrance. 

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1987-1989 is when we had the apartment (I used to live in Southwest - Washington Tower).  If you saw a big black dog towing a tall skinny guy on a skateboard - that would've been Steve & Hudson.

I would have been really pissed off that someone was knocking on my door at that hour and potentially waking up my sleeping children.

I seriously doubt I would hand out cash to the person I'm angry with but I can also be pretty gullible.

Then again, I have turned away many girl scouts and they are at least selling something good. I also turned away my little neighbor girls who were going door to door asking for donations for their aunt/cousin/someone who had cancer. I did go back later to offer a donation when I found out the illness was legit. They just happened to catch me right in the middle of putting my kids to bed.

Good to know this is a scam though!

Even in this rural area we have people slinking around. Last spring it was carpet cleaners. Knocked on the door offering to clean one room for free, some nonsense about my neighbors all signing up. What the heck do I care if my neighbors get their carpets cleaned?! I was ticked and a little nervous and not the slightest bit nice about it. I made my kids come inside (they were playing in the yard) and locked up the house. Maybe I'm paranoid but there was one guy knocking door to door and then an unmarked white van driving around to pick him up. 

Long time scam, but something that happened here recently gave me a chuckle: We've had a number of fairly severe wind-storms blow through this winter, and some guys were going house to house claiming to be roofers offering to check shingles and chimneys and what-not .. who knows how many people they scammed before one home-owner clued in when one of the "roofers" fell OFF the roof. No safety harnesses or anything. He denied the offer of help/ambulance/911, his buddy carried him into the van, and they were never seen again.

Karma. She'll getcha, eventually.

I don't usually answer my door when I'm home alone in the evenings, but I *always* make it known that I am home - turn on the porch light, etc. It's a common way for theives to check to see if homes are empty - ring the front bell, if no one answers no one's home so they go kick the back door and steal your tv.

We've had this discussion before.  I knock on strangers doors for a living recruiting families for the Nielsen TV Ratings.  The nice part is that I give them money to watch tv.  The company wants us out till 10 pm but I usually cut it off in the dark winter, like tonight at about 8pm.

You think you are scared to answer the door at that time.  Try walking around the dark streets alone at that time in Las Vegas neighborhoods.  I feel like I have one of the famous neon signs on my back saying mug me.

I get lots of no answers, yelling thru the doors and windows, but I also get a lot of people that open their doors, and let me in to talk to them.  It must be my charming personality.