Smith
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I live in a nice neighborhood: nothing too fancy, but not bad either. My neighborhood has been relatively crime-free. Last summer, at approximately 2:00 AM, my mother was awakened by three loud bangs coming from the front door. She barely woke up (she is a heavy sleeper), assumed she must have been dreaming, and fell back asleep. She later got up to use the bathroom and noticed that the front door appeared to be cracked opened. After further investigation of the door, she discovered that the door frame had been splintered from repeated blunt impact and noticed that somebody had toilet-papered our front lawn. My mother awoke my dad and they assumed that whoever had cracked the door was part of a crew of overzealous toilet-paperers (possibly my cousins or some of my brother's friends).
The next morning, we all inspected the front lawn and discovered that the door had actually been kicked in almost entirely. The door frame was severely splintered to the point that a forceful shove would have pushed it open (there were large boot-looking prints on the door). We are the second house from the opening of a cul-de-sac, and there were tire marks across our neighbor's lawn, onto ours, and nearly up to our front door. We discovered that the toilet paperers were not involved in any way. Our neighbors had seen them at 1:00 AM and recognized them as some of our close friends. We know the the toilet-paperers very well and they would never seriously vandalize our property. I slept through the entire incident (I sleep through everything
). My parents notified the police and nothing like it has happened around here since.
So long story short, somebody drove up onto our lawn, attempted to kick the door down, nearly succeeded, then left. What does this sound like to you guys? Home invasion/robbery? Drunk/high person mistaking my house for his? Why didn't he/they kick the door just one more time and gain entry? I propose that our house may have been targeted because we were clearly all asleep, due to the fact that we had been toilet papered and failed to notice. Maybe he/they pulled the car up so close to the door so he/they could quickly load it up with loot and leave in a hurry? Perhaps he/they planned on the door failing after one kick and left because they assumed we had all been awakened by three kicks? What do you guys think?
The next morning, we all inspected the front lawn and discovered that the door had actually been kicked in almost entirely. The door frame was severely splintered to the point that a forceful shove would have pushed it open (there were large boot-looking prints on the door). We are the second house from the opening of a cul-de-sac, and there were tire marks across our neighbor's lawn, onto ours, and nearly up to our front door. We discovered that the toilet paperers were not involved in any way. Our neighbors had seen them at 1:00 AM and recognized them as some of our close friends. We know the the toilet-paperers very well and they would never seriously vandalize our property. I slept through the entire incident (I sleep through everything
). My parents notified the police and nothing like it has happened around here since.So long story short, somebody drove up onto our lawn, attempted to kick the door down, nearly succeeded, then left. What does this sound like to you guys? Home invasion/robbery? Drunk/high person mistaking my house for his? Why didn't he/they kick the door just one more time and gain entry? I propose that our house may have been targeted because we were clearly all asleep, due to the fact that we had been toilet papered and failed to notice. Maybe he/they pulled the car up so close to the door so he/they could quickly load it up with loot and leave in a hurry? Perhaps he/they planned on the door failing after one kick and left because they assumed we had all been awakened by three kicks? What do you guys think?
