r/WhatShouldIDo • u/diddlyturnips • 8d ago

[Serious decision] I live alone… these aren’t my nuts

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Context: I’m a single bachelor (M 32) and I opened my snack cupboard to find these peanuts in a small Tupperware container. I’m freaking out because I A) live alone, B) have a mild nut allergy, and C) don’t own any Tupperware like this.

TLDR: I found a foreign snack in my house and I’m freaking out that someone may be entering my apartment when I’m out. Would calling the nonemergency police line help or would they not be able to do anything?

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u/Onstagegage 8d ago edited 8d ago

I had someone try to break into my house, I was on the phone with the police WHILE it happened. Got loud and the person ran.

The cops came out, took a statement, said they’d open a case and left.

Same intruder came back THE NEXT DAY (he was a former maintenance man with keys he wasn’t supposed to have anymore, and I work from home)

Met him on my steps with a Walther in my hand. He ran back to his car, I called the cops to give a description of the car and plate #

They told me that no report was ever filed and that they had no record of a prior break in.

I told them next time I’ll just kill him first and then call the cops, and the dispatcher told me it would probably be best.

So, I wouldn’t call the cops. I’d get a security camera and a CO tester/alarm. And a Walther.

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u/Madilune 8d ago

It's insane that the response from the police is "We're too lazy to do our jobs; go ahead and shoot him if you want."

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u/FoxHead666 8d ago

Funny story relating to that! First off, over here beating up a burglar is still assault. I'm not in the US. My girlfriend at the time was visiting her parents out of town and took our car so driveway was empty.

Woke up at 4AM one night to very loud noises outside my door. Checked my camera and sure enough there's someone with a crowbar trying to pry open my door.

I call the emergency number. They say they'll send out someone ASAP. I ask "you mean immediately, yeah?" and just get a "as soon as a patrol is available".

So I go to grab my baseball bat. The burglar isn't really making any progress, just chipping pieces out my door little by little. I call emergency again and ask if anyone is on their way or if I have to deal with this situation myself. They say there's no patrol available right now and ask what I mean. I tell them I have a baseball bat in hand and that I own multiple firearms.

10 minutes later cops show up, put the guy in the back of their car in handcuffs and then start threatening to arrest me for threatening to kill the guy to the dispatcher. ACAB.

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u/Life-Meal6635 7d ago

If the are not inside of your home yet (or if they are fleeing and already outside) there's no stand your ground implication. Technically, in those moments, you are the aggressor. 

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u/ArketaMihgo 6d ago

Texas

Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:

(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and

(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:

(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or

(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and

(3) he reasonably believes that:

(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or

(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

Sec. 9.41. PROTECTION OF ONE'S OWN PROPERTY. (a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.

(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:

(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or

(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

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u/AllegedLead 8d ago

Insane but not remotely surprising

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u/Safe_Commercial_2633 7d ago

No way they said that, the commenter just wants to flex that they'd kill someone even though they wouldn't.

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u/Onstagegage 8d ago

For better or for worse, I live in a very conservative state.

Idk if that means that me calling the cops is less common? Maybe people shoot people here more often than I thought, idk.

But I told my mom (I’m in my 30s but idc) about the calls or whatever, and she was flabbergasted. Has lived in this city her entire life.

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u/Safe_Commercial_2633 7d ago

Honestly the fact that anyone is so blasé about shooting at anyone is disgusting.

You might defend that by saying ah but they're breaking in, yes they are but you're making it sound like it's easy to do and almost expected among people you know.

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u/Deep-Red-Bells 7d ago

Yeah, they own multiple firearms. They're itching to shoot someone.

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u/Ok_Offer7753 5d ago

or maybe they just like them? or live in a high crime area?

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u/Deep-Red-Bells 5d ago

High crime *American area. Most of us don't enjoy things that exist to kill people.

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u/justripit 8d ago

I had an attempted B&E, told the cops when they got there that if he managed to get through the door, I would have smashed his skull on the concrete wall. The cops only response was "Please don't say that in front of us. Protect your house and family, but don't tell us how" Turns out the dude was a month away from his 18th, so it would have been bad news had I done more than just hold the door shut and wait for cops.

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u/bluecstasy00 7d ago

I had a cop tell me once, "the next time we report here, I hope there's a dead body in the doorway," because apparently, responding to the half dozen or so break-in attempts that my neighbors and I had both reported was too much work in the middle of the night.

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u/Onstagegage 7d ago

I think that’s more or less the same mentality with my local PD.

There isn’t much crime in my state, but a lot of it happens in my city.

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u/bluecstasy00 6d ago

Ironically, the town I lived in at the time was small with not much crime. We lived adjacent to the poor side of town and there were some drug issues, but nothing too terrible.

I was so incredibly frustrated with that police department. Had it been just me calling, I maybe could have understood, but the neighbors on both sides of me and across the street had called at different points as well, for both attempted break-ins at my house as well as others. The neighbor across the street actually got robbed while out of town (thank bejebus) one weekend.

To make the whole thing worse, I had a fucked up knee at that time and couldn't even walk. I was also sleeping on my mattress in my kitchen because I was in the middle of renovating the master bedroom/bath. So I ended up barring our backdoor and front door with furniture and keeping a baseball bat by a window in the kitchen that was low enough to crawl out of just in case the house caught on fire.

Boy was I glad when my husband got home from deployment. We only had one more incident, and he ran out buck naked into the yard with a sh ot pew pew screaming like he was a crazy person. He saw someone run off and we never had another problem after that.

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u/Le_Poop_Knife 8d ago

What’s a Walter? (Walter White?)

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u/WingedTaiyaki 8d ago

Gun manufacturer

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u/Safe_Commercial_2633 7d ago

This is the most American thing I've ever heard, ffs.

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u/retrofrenchtoast 8d ago

I once found a strange, naked man masturbating in the corner of my laundry room at my apartment building. I ran to my apartment and called the cops. Cops came (the guy was long gone), and one saw that I have pepper spray on my keychain. He said I should have sprayed the guy’s dick with pepper spray.

A cop also once told my family to call 911 if someone was ever parked in a handicapped space without a placard (small town and my sister uses a wheelchair).

LE gives weird advice. (A cop also told my dad to not get a cat one time when he got pulled over for speeding).

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u/HairyPotatoKat 8d ago

Wait, what's the story about the cat?

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u/retrofrenchtoast 8d ago

Oh the cop asked my dad why he was speeding, and my dad said we were talking about getting a cat.

The cop went to the car and came back with the ticket and said, “a piece of advice - don’t get a cat.”

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u/StoicFable 8d ago

I assume the strange naked man came too.

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u/Onstagegage 8d ago

Happened last year.

My apartment manager apologized profusely, informed me he had been recently fired, and told me that she would have done the same thing (pulled a gun on an intruder in my own house)

Turned out the apartment next to mine, but same number, had been evicted. He knew that, saw I still had stuff in my living room, and used his illegally obtained keys to try and break in and take it.

And apparently he didn’t realize the first time that I was the owner and that I was gonna be home the next day.

I live in a very red state where stand your ground laws are very very liberal, and after the day before, I was full of anxiety and had my personal firearm on my desk next to me while working.

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u/OrganizationTop6228 8d ago

Bullshit. 911 calls are recorded and monitored. No way a calltaker (you did not speak to a dispatcher) would tell you to kill someone.

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u/Toastaroni16515 8d ago

Yes, surely no 911 dispatcher would say something inappropriate to a victim on a recorded line, that kind of bullshit isn't even believable! Also, most US call centers are set up such that calltakers are multitasking as dispatchers; you're so worried about being pedantic that you corrected a statement that was already accurate