Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Somebody messing around on my porch

10 pm, short but fairly loud rumble.

Thought kid knocked something over in her room. Nope.

Somebody on porch clunkin or messin w front door.

Called non emergency PD and told em.

Maybe somebody visiting nearby and wrong house?

They were on foot though

LOL….well ok.

Wouldn't like that very much.

Spend the coin on a Ring doorbell and a couple of their outside cameras. I am pleased with the units and company interactions.



Added, I really like being able to check everything without getting my lazy arse out of bed.

Spooked the kid and ol lady.
They thought I fell coming in, getting something out of vehicle.

Get yourself a doorbell camera.

Its friggin 26 degrees w high humidity.
Kinda chilly to be hoofin it through the hood.

Will check w neighbor guy tomorrow, see if his buds got wrong address LOL

Wrong house idiots, kids being stupid, or somebody thats looking for trouble.

About 25 or 26 years ago when we were first married we lived in a lake front cabin up lake Chelan in relative solitude. My wife worked for Airlift Northwest at the time and frequently was gone overnight so it was just the dog, the cats and me. I’d gone to bed when I heard commotion and thumping upstairs on our deck. I grabbed my 4” .357 Dan Wesson and made my way upstairs quietly not wanting to alert whoever was on my deck. In the short time that it took me to get upstairs I had a million possible scenarios go through my head and everyone of those scenarios involved Mexicans….being in apple and cherry orchard country we saw a lot of migrant workers come up for harvest and I was sure that it was them. When I rounded the corner where I could see down the hallway and out on to the deck I didn’t see anyone or any shadows which would’ve been cast since I had the deck lights on. Just then I heard another thump thump and I saw an apple roll across my deck and it occurred to me that it wasn’t a wetback but an animal. I slowly opened the door and walked out to confront the 2 raccoons that were trying to steal my apples that I kept in a wooden apple box. They hissed at me and jumped on the wood post and walked down it with ease. They sure got my heart rate up but I was happy that it wasn’t a person since we lived where crime was almost unheard of and despite the temporary and seasonal influx of wetbacks we never had any problems with them whatsoever, they didn’t cause problems and kept a low profile back then….but those damn coons were trouble. 😂

I hope you have the same problem as me and it’s coons causing the ruckus.

Hopefully stupid stuff and not of ill intent.

Haints.

Beware the haints

Any chance a package was delivered you were unaware of? Perhaps something resembling a package?

No delivery.

It was fairly loud, but my hearing sucks so hard to tell what or where (esp since I was in back room).
Kids room was closest.

Fed Ex. Go Condition One immediately. He gunna kick yer dawg!

Hookeye the helpless

Wow

Nobody got inside so not an emergency AFAIC.
And if they did that's where theyd scoop em up.

Never had a prob here, in over 10 yrs.
Street light across the way.
Snow on the ground.
Pretty visible.

Everything is locked. As it should be.

Just strange that somebody would be messing w my door at 10pm.

Eh, I'd pay em to kick my neighbors dog

LOL!

hookeye:

“I heard a noise on my porch and called the cops instead of protecting my household”

“Then I couldn’t wait to post on 24hr about it illustrating what a spineless cundt I am”

“I hope the government employees will protect me”


😂😂😂

Ive had raccoons try to get in my old house.
Told the ol lady to keep the cat food away from the back door LOL

Everything checked good, so called non emergency # (30 mins later) to report it should others have similar complaints.

P 365 is always close by.

I was on the forum before I was rudely interrupted LOL
But didn't post it til well after.

So GFY

LOL

Why the fugg are you posting this drivel here?

Are you looking for attention or sympathy?

Drama queen!

If you got snow on the ground it must not be fresh or you'd have answers already. Get yourself stacked with a good 12 gauge pump gun for sweeping detail.

I'll be getting the Ring stuff tomorrow.

You sure it wasn't just one of these little bastards? They can make a lot of noise for such a small critter.

One of my German Shepherds stays in the living room at night She is a good burglar alarm. Bad burglar alarm when a possum or coon walks through the yard a 3Am. She does her job. As much noise as she makes nobody would break into the house.

Lmfao, pure gold.

As cheap as they are these days, you need some cameras. Its nice to know what you got going on out there without having to walk into it blindly

Whatever you do don’t show yourself near a window or door or open the door to check outside holding a gun even if you are inside with the light off.

Lol, that's my dog too, she sounds like three tons of mean bitch!

I'm not sure what she would do if someone was dumb enough to come in.

I also suggest cameras at all points of entry. They are dirt cheap these days.
I do not, however, recommend the"WYZE" brand, they seem to go offline when you need them most.

Coincidentally, something similar happened here a few nights ago. It was 10:00 PM, and this is generally a very quiet neighborhood at night. So I hear loud black male voices sounding like they are at my front gate directing their voices towards the house. Two voices, shouting something, and laughing, and one starts imitating a large dog barking, followed by loud laughter from both men.

This is not a common thing heard from my living room while watching TV. I actually went to my bedroom, opened the armoire, and retrieved my loaded up AR, despite already being armed with a Glock 26. Kept it by me for the remainder of my time in the living room that evening, and leaned it against the wall by my bed when I retired.

Call me paranoid, but better safe than sorry. Not hard to grab a loaded AR when it's in the next room sitting in an armoire, so why not?

My first thought was actually to grab the loaded pump shotgun, but then I remembered I had unloaded it and put it in the safe a couple of weeks prior.

Hookeye,
Howdy.
Make sure to listen to some of the members here- walk outside and shoot ?whoever?- you know be 'the man' . It might cost you your home/family and your freedom but by'golly you didn't call the police.
Sarcasm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Just some things to think about for future reference:


It’s not a binary choice. You can do both at the same time. If a worst-case scenario happens, there already is someone on the way, and you will need someone to clean up the mess anyway.


If it’s not worth calling about it when you hear something out of the ordinary making a ruckus outside your door, it probably isn’t worth calling it in a half hour later. A lot of times the 90% good folks who take up less than 10% of police time are hesitant to call the police while the 10% who take up more than 90% of police time will call over anything, and on the emergency line. Then, a bunch of the 90% will apologize for “wasting” police time. You’re paying for a service. Don’t be afraid to use it. Let the complaint operators do their job and prioritize it for you.

It alarmed you enough to motivate you to run out and buy a Ring doorbell.

good dog will take care of that

Finding a sow brown bear and her cub on the deck 5 feet in front of the sliding glass door, wakes you right up. The other cub was at the foot of the stairs up. The Lab , sleeping in bed with me, had whisper-barked "bear", waking me up. Then he went back to sleep.

Hell of a bear dog!

Did the same thing on a camp on the Noatak, out of Kotzebue. Only I had to poke him awake first.... I already knew what was out there, but I didn't want him to die in his sleep....

What he said.

Two barky dogs in the house. One about 65 pounds. Two six month old Anatolian pups in the barn with the sheep. Grand daughter and her husband have a Golden Retriever and a GSD next door. Grandson's SO cruiser parked in the shared drive way. We don't get many "casual visitors". ... I am O.K. with that.

Black bear , possums , skunks, and the occasional neighborhood dopers standing in the yard gazing at the sky at night
The critters make me smile , but the dopers get a rude hello .
Get the hell out of my yard
My step daughter used to drive me nuts with her dumb shiet and friends
And acted as if they had no idea why you were so pissed
Kenneth

Ain’t you got a cream pie to bake LOL

Maybe to document this sh*% so it the SH-T DOES hit the fan - the cops have had a "heads up"?

Document a noise on the front porch at your house on 24hr campfire? Holy fuggin schit!

He doesn’t even know if it was a human being. LMFAO

I’m sure local police scan 24hr for “heads up” tips. GMAFB





Ain’t you got a bag of dicks to suck? 😂😂😂

To be continued on 'Cops' ?

You literally started a thread on how you learned to cook scrambled eggs… wtf? Chef Boyardee, you are pathetic POS and the epitome of a D’Bag!!! Lol. Are mommy and daddy still helping to foot your bills? Lol

0.02 posts per day and delivers a zinger!

Cumligia LOL 🤣😂🤣

You get any pics of them haints yet?

slightly off topic - bought an Arlo video doorbell for my MIL.

About $50 and hooks up to the existing doorbell transformer wiring.

Cheaper alternative to Ring, easy to hook up.

Reading comprehension people. Mark was talking about having it documented with the police. Not the 24hr. lmao


Either way, I would have went out to see wtf made the noise.

Had similar happen once when I was in my twenties and living with a girl in a sketchy neighborhood. (Young and broke)

We heard a loud bang like the door had been kicked in. I jumped awake and the gf's cat was standing on the bed, looking out the bedroom door, all bristled up and deep growling. He was looking towards the kitchen/living room. I grabbed my pistol and did the whole sneak thing. When I peaked around the corner into the living room, the moonlight through the front door, clearly showed someone sitting on the couch, in the dark, looking my direction.


With pistol in my right hand pointed right at him, I reached around the corner with my left and flipped on the kitchen light. Turns out to be a stack of laundry with one of my caps on top. lol

I went outside to investigate in the fresh snow and found the tracks of a stumbling drunk, that came through the yard and slammed into our back door, fell down and got up and stumbled on.

It didn't even dawn on me to call the cops before I knew what made the noise...

To each his own.

Ricky you baked that crème pie yet😂🤣

Around here it seems its a thing for high school age boys to run up to someones front door and knock like crazy then run off.
I heard several folks comment about it.

Last month my hunting buddy who is 74 gets a call from his wife saying someone was pounding on the door at 10:00 one evening but no one out there. We were a state away at our hunting lease. He gets on his front door camera app and sees it one of the neighbor kids. Dangerous game if you ask me. Good way to get your azz shot.

Them ghosts go away yet?

Come back again last night?

Never know about them ghosteses.

Geno, you seem to be very interested in this topic. Are you one of those guys who likes to mess around on people's porches at night?

camuglia - the COPS, dumbass!
This is called the campfire for a reason! We can BS about whatever we want!
Exactly like a real campfire!

You mean while wearing clothes?

Hookeye, what you need is a flamethrower on a tripwire.

LOL

Or Just:

Get serious, who wears clothes while messing around on other people's porches?

Someone mentioned it as a high school thing.

We were doing it in our neighborhood long before we got to HS age.

Ah, the good old days before the streetlights were commonplace.

WOW...

I would have thought you would have picked the mighty 38 Super Duper.

Is T1-11 highly flammable?

Asking for a friend...

That lives in Oregon.

COONS CAN BE VERY TROUBLESOME !!!!!!

Is it true what they say?

Did you really invent the flaming dog poop trick?

Nope,

the older kids already knew that one.

And the dozen or so frogs down the mail slot in the front door.

I will not admit to other reprisals against the neighborhood grumpy old folks.

Our favorite was bottle rockets, with report. Get a small diameter 3' section of pipe, duct tape one end, hide across the street, and lob one up on the porch.

Funny how we all used to F around as kids and ding dong ditch etc. and now everyone is like "that's a good way to get shot!" lol

Has anyone heard from the OP today?

He was seen an hour ago, Brother Paul

🧔🏿

When I was a kid, the neighbor had an aluminum milk box on the front porch. Milk man would deliver milk, probably 5:30 or 6:00 AM.

We camped out one night and caught an opossum. Put him in the milk box, waited and watched. Pretty funny when he popped the lid to a grinner.

Oh Cecil, you are such a stinker!

^^^

This...

The president said go outside and fire off your double barrel in the air. Probably the most sound advice he has ever given. It would put most people and varmints on the run.

I still laugh out loud every time I watch this.

Get a good security system before you need it, instead of after. When I see or hear a coon, possum or armadillo in the yard at night, I turn the dogs loose and they kill it. Always figured if someone shot my dog in my yard it would make their intentions clear.

Son in law had a Dewalt saw stolen from his porch.

I bet. Out where you live it could probably be the Hounds of the Baskervilles.

And other critters....
When I first spotted this young'un it had it's nose pressed against the door glass[same glass I took the pics through]

Particularly the ones with dreadlocks, wearing stolen sneakers.

Better his .02 posts per day than, stupid responses 50 times a day, you must really get out more.