Fair play, not sure I’d chase someone carrying a Japanese steel knife just in case they stopped and turned round
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Same happened when I was a kid and I slept with a hammer and kitchen knife under the matress until I was about 13.
Dog was going mental and someone had come in the backdoor so my dad went down and the guy had pulled a knife of the magnetic kitchen rack and was going for the dog. Dad yelled and he legged it. We moved soon after that and never had any trouble. House used to back onto a forest so there was easy access. Had kind of surpressed that until now.
I didn’t know he had taken it until the farmer came round a few days later with it. 
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Had some guy try and get in my old flat, I was in it. He put his foot in his door and tried to push in, was fucking weird.
When I had the bus there was a button on the fob to open the sliding door. If the keys were in my pocket and I bent over or the kids climbed on me some times it would open on its own.
So I came out to go on a night shift and catch 2 blokes pissed up sat in the front seats. They took my iPod classic out of the glove box and that was it
Not broken into, so perhaps not that relevant to the above anecdotes, but during early lockdown some guy got into our building (house converted into 3 flats) and it resulted in an extremely creepy attempted break-in.
I was home alone at the time when someone knocked on the door of my flat. This was highly unusual, as ordinarily someone arriving would press the buzzer on the building from outside and I’d come down to receive them. I wasn’t expecting anyone as it was the height of lockdown, and I hadn’t anything out for delivery. Also, the dynamic within the building was not one where we’d knock on one another’s door. I texted the people in the other two flats but both were out and not expecting anyone either.
The person initially knocked on my flat simply saying, in a very matter of fact way, “it’s me I forgot my keys”. I told him he didn’t live here and he must be mistaken, but he insisted he did. Then there was this silence that felt like forever as he was on the other side of the door, where you felt he was considering his actions. The hushed sound of him breathing and occasionally shuffling - as well as a gentle but firm - “let me in!” changed the tone drastically from strange mistake to something pre-meditated, deliberate and decided.
He started to bang on the door, and instead of knocking to say and “let me in!” it became “I know you’re in there just let me in” which did feel like something out of a horror film. It was then that he started playing with the keyhole trying to pick the lock as well as trying to push through the door.
I was fucking terrified. I called the police trying to say someone was breaking in but it didn’t register with them how serious it was. Also, at those moments you’re trying to micro manage each element of the situation which overrules your focus and attention of speaking to someone outside of the present moment.
Things felt more sinister when he stopped banging and shouting, and he just stood outside, silently, with an occasional gentle push on the door to remind me of his being there. All I could hear was his breathing. He wasn’t overly aggressive - which strangely made it scarier. At this point he was lingering and the absence of escalating actions made it feel more scary. He was simply there, inches from me, separated by little more than the door. I could almost feel him to reach out and touch. The sight of his body from the perimeter of the door blocking the hallway light, and the sound of the carpet under his feet all combined to heighten the sense of intrusion.
After about 20 minutes he eventually disappeared. I lived on the top floor and was alternating between looking out the window at the front of the flat to try to see him,whilst running back to the door to ensure he wasn’t there and trying to trick me.
I didn’t leave the flat for 2 days after that incident.
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Cant really compete with these but came home to find a man outside the flat door trying a succession of keys off a massive bunch he had. Said something about working for the landlord (bollocks) but did one sharpish thankfully as soon as he saw me
When I was a student in Leeds a guy once robbed our house – thankfully I wasn’t there at the time as I was visiting home, but unfortunately all the girls were in which shook them up quite a lot.
Everyone was coming back from the pub and he just followed everyone into the house as one of the girls had a new boyfriend who just held the door open for the guy presuming he was someone everyone knew! Followed everyone into the kitchen and then pulled out a hammer. All the cash for the months bills was out on the counter which he got, then apparently he tried to grab the xbox but couldn’t get the wires untangled (thank god).
One of the girls was upstairs and managed to ring the police, who caught him the next day. He’d done the same thing at a few other houses, supposedly with a massive knife on him as well. Obviously never got the money back. We didn’t even live in a sketchy area.
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A criminal on the run was trying to hide from the police in my hood about a month ago. The police were looking for him with flashlights in my garden and on my terrace for about 20 minutes at 3 in the morning. I was sleeping and didn’t realize any of this, some neighbours told me about it the day after. Called the police and was told the guy had been caught.
I live about 20 minutes from the French border and there’s a fair amount of gangs driving up from Lyon to break into rich ass people’s houses here but I’ve never been robbed or anything in the 14 years I’ve lived here. I never really think about it. Some people have told me that having my hens roaming around freely possibly made thieves feel like there was somebody in the house when I was at work, skating or anywhere really. Gotta thank the chooks once again, haha.
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did anyone ever hear at school that blood in the body is blue but then turns red once it’s mixed with oxygen?
a surprising number of people believe this in my office
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yeah, your blood is blue until it hits the air and it goes red.
this is why your veins are blue, duh.
A bird shit on my head/cap yesterday.
So I did the Euromillions last night.
3 numbers.
£6.10
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My lad came home and told me this as well. But he’s 8
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First proper shift at go outdoors tomorrow, hope it goes well.
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Nice one mate - positive attitude and I’m sure it’s gunna go great!
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Gooutdoors has an amazing staff discount scheme! You’re going to get all your climbing gear for fuck all. 
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Yeah man, 35% off! Trad rack, a bouldering pad, wooden fingerboard thing to hang off the pull up bar etc. ha. The shift went pretty well today. Just getting used to the tills is a little tricky but I’ll get there.
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That’s rad.
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Im really stoked on mine @notactuallyhere working out where to put it but its rad
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