A Reddit user said the whole thing happened late at night at his own home, which is probably part of why it stayed with him. According to his comment in the thread, somebody started banging on his door at about 1 a.m. Then the man moved to the window and started talking to him through it. Right away, the whole setup felt wrong. This was not some neighbor locked out in the cold asking to use a phone. The stranger claimed he used to live at that address and said he was visiting, then asked whether he could “keep his bags in my place.”
The homeowner looked outside and noticed something that made the request even stranger. There was already a car in the driveway, the engine was running, and someone was sitting behind the wheel. So the man at the window was not standing there alone with nowhere to go. He already had a ride, another person with him, and a running car right outside. That was what made the whole “I need to keep my bags in your house” line sound so bad to him. The commenter even added that he lives in a place where he normally leaves his own car unlocked with the keys in the ashtray or ignition unless there is something valuable in it, so this was not a neighborhood where people were usually on edge over petty theft. Even in that kind of area, he still knew the situation was wrong.
He said he told the man to keep the bags in the car and leave. The stranger did not take the hint. Instead, he kept talking and kept pressing the same line, insisting that he did not want anything to get stolen from the vehicle. From the way the homeowner told it, the guy was not hearing a firm no and backing off. He was standing there at the open window in the middle of the night, still trying to talk his way into access to the house while someone else waited in the running car outside.
That was the point where the homeowner decided he had heard enough. He wrote that he finally got pissed, grabbed his 9mm, and told the man to leave. Because the stranger was looking through the open window and talking through the screen, he could see the gun. The homeowner also said that after showing the pistol, he moved to cover the front door, which makes it pretty clear he thought the next step might be an attempt to force entry or at least test another way in.
But the sight of the gun ended it.
According to the comment, the man took off running, jumped back into the car, and the vehicle left. The homeowner said he never found out exactly what they were up to, but he added one line that pretty much summed up how it felt from inside the house: “I’ll never know what they were up to but I bet it was bad.” That was the whole encounter as he told it. A stranger banging on the door at 1 a.m., then asking through the window to stash bags in the house while another person waited in a running car in the driveway, and finally bolting the second a 9mm came into view.
What do you think — if somebody showed up at your window at 1 a.m. asking to leave bags inside while another person sat in a running car outside, would you assume they were trying to set something up, or give them the benefit of the doubt for even a second?
Original Reddit post: Have you ever had to draw your firearm on someone or something?
