I can understand the OP NOT wanting to give tips or help to compition who wants to sell on E-Bay.
BUT I do agree about the comment that people should answer doors.
TRUE, you should make an attempt to see who is out there first.
But, in some safe way, answer the darn thing!
It's a sore point with me.
I live in a apt complex and it suddenly began pouring water from my bathroom ceiling!!!
I am disabled, stairs are HARD, but I pulled myself up the stairs to the apt above me and knocked on her door.
I could see through the front window.
She quickly turned off her living room light, but left the TV on.
She did NOT answer the door.
I pounded.
No answer.
So I got back down the stairs by setting on one and scooting down each of the 13 steps (knees won't let me walk down normally)
Back in my Apt the downpour was in full gear!!!
Called maintance.
No answer.
Went to a diff downstairs neighbor asked her to keep trying calling for me while I grabbed a mop!
Maintance guy finally came.
Went upstairs and she would NOT answer the door!
HE called management and management called her and told her she had to let maintance in!!!
Stupid woman had left her sink water running and it was flooding everything in her bathroom and then flooding me downstairs.
Total wet flooded mess cuz the stupid woman refuse to look to see who was out there and open her door!!!
HER EXCUSE: It was dark outside.
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Originally Posted by marilynk Just a note--it's a matter of safety that you ANSWER the door. You don't have to open the door, you certainly don't have to let them in! But, thieves will knock on a door/ring the doorbell in an attempt to determine if no one is home. If their knock/ring is not answered they then assume that no one is home and will proceed with their plans of breaking into the house.
I encourage everyone to answer the door--and by that I mean: looking out the peephole/window, asking who it is, etc.
I'll never forget a 911 call a co-worker took. A elderly lady called because someone was knocking on her door late in the evening. She told the dispatcher that she didn't know them, so she didn't answer the door. The dispatcher asked her to look out the window/peephole so she could give a description. The lady refused because "then they'll know I'm home..." So, while she's talking to the dispatcher glass was heard breaking. The male had gone around to the back of the house and broke a window to get in the house. Luckily we already had officers en route, and they were very close to the address and caught the guy before he actually got in the house. The intruder told the officers that he didn't think anyone was home... |