The cops knocked on my door last night
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Normally I'm awake until 11:30pm but last night decided to go to bed early around 10:15. At 10:30pm our doorbell rings, which is of course alarming to us. They ring the bell again. Then they knock loudly. My wife loves reading true crime so she immediately thinks it someone with negative intentions and says I shouldn't go to the door. I think either a neighbor has an emergency, or they see our garage on fire, either way, we can't ignore it so I go to the door. Plus, if someone had negative intentions, they probably are hoping to NOT see activity. As you guessed from the thread title, it was a police officer.
So I opened the door and they apologized for the late call but said they received a report from someone earlier that said a car (Honda Accord) with my license plate was seen around 10am with the driver taking a toddler out of the trunk and putting them into the car seat and driving off. So they were concerned.
Well, it's true. I admit. I did that. I told the cop it's true.
I told the officer I was at a sporting good store with my 18-month old who had a massive diaper change needed and the trunk of my car is the only flat space where I can change the kid. So I opened the trunk, put him in, changed his diaper, then put him in his car seat and drove off.
LOL, it's not like I closed the trunk (or opened the trunk) with a kid inside.
I guess I'm glad citizens reported a concerning sight if they didn't see me changing the diaper.
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Normally I'm awake until 11:30pm but last night decided to go to bed early around 10:15. At 10:30pm our doorbell rings, which is of course alarming to us. They ring the bell again. Then they knock loudly. My wife loves reading true crime so she immediately thinks it someone with negative intentions and says I shouldn't go to the door. I think either a neighbor has an emergency, or they see our garage on fire, either way, we can't ignore it so I go to the door. Plus, if someone had negative intentions, they probably are hoping to NOT see activity. As you guessed from the thread title, it was a police officer.
So I opened the door and they apologized for the late call but said they received a report from someone earlier that said a car (Honda Accord) with my license plate was seen around 10am with the driver taking a toddler out of the trunk and putting them into the car seat and driving off. So they were concerned.
Well, it's true. I admit. I did that. I told the cop it's true.
I told the officer I was at a sporting good store with my 18-month old who had a massive diaper change needed and the trunk of my car is the only flat space where I can change the kid. So I opened the trunk, put him in, changed his diaper, then put him in his car seat and drove off.
LOL, it's not like I closed the trunk (or opened the trunk) with a kid inside.
I guess I'm glad citizens reported a concerning sight if they didn't see me changing the diaper.
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There are those who would tell you to never talk to cops, even if you’re innocent. I wonder what the outcome here would have been if you had taken that advice.
@Horace said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
There are those who would tell you to never talk to cops, even if you’re innocent. I wonder what the outcome here would have been if you had taken that advice.
He would have gone to bed secure in the knowledge that he had exercised his constitutional rights. Not his own bed, of course, but a bed. A couple of weeks later he could have posted an irate video on YouTube about it.
I was only joking
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@Horace said. "There are those who would tell you to never talk to cops, even if you’re innocent. I wonder what the outcome here would have been if you had taken that advice."
Good point. It would have been...interesting.
Here's what's weird. I slept in this AM (til 7 or so) and I had a vivid dream about driving a mini-van and getting pulled over by the police. One of the cops opens the sliding door on the passengers side and GETS INTO THE VAN. Despite my protestations of "Officer you do not have permission to enter the vehicle," he gets in and starts rummaging around.
And then I woke up. Would have loved to have seen how that story ended,
Oh, and what @Jolly said.
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@Horace said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
There are those who would tell you to never talk to cops, even if you’re innocent. I wonder what the outcome here would have been if you had taken that advice.
He would have gone to bed secure in the knowledge that he had exercised his constitutional rights. Not his own bed, of course, but a bed. A couple of weeks later he could have posted an irate video on YouTube about it.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
He would have gone to bed secure in the knowledge that he had exercised his constitutional rights. Not his own bed, of course, but a bed.
Ok I LOL’d
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@Jolly said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
You need a way to see who is at your door without opening it.
True. There are doorway windows on either side of the door so I’m able to see, kind of. Which is what I did. But at that point whoever is knocking at my door at 1030pm can also see me.
We have a storm door we will install soon, although that doesn’t matter. Maybe I need a peep hole, or video camera, or BLM sign.
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@Jolly said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
You need a way to see who is at your door without opening it.
True. There are doorway windows on either side of the door so I’m able to see, kind of. Which is what I did. But at that point whoever is knocking at my door at 1030pm can also see me.
We have a storm door we will install soon, although that doesn’t matter. Maybe I need a peep hole, or video camera, or BLM sign.
@89th said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
@Jolly said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
You need a way to see who is at your door without opening it.
True. There are doorway windows on either side of the door so I’m able to see, kind of. Which is what I did. But at that point whoever is knocking at my door at 1030pm can also see me.
We have a storm door we will install soon, although that doesn’t matter. Maybe I need a peep hole, or video camera, or BLM sign.
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@Jolly said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
You need a way to see who is at your door without opening it.
True. There are doorway windows on either side of the door so I’m able to see, kind of. Which is what I did. But at that point whoever is knocking at my door at 1030pm can also see me.
We have a storm door we will install soon, although that doesn’t matter. Maybe I need a peep hole, or video camera, or BLM sign.
@89th said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
@Jolly said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
You need a way to see who is at your door without opening it.
Maybe I need a peep hole, or video camera, or BLM sign.
I wonder how many of those with BLM signs proudly displayed in their front yards, take them down if they try to sell the home. People who find wokedom repellant, buy homes too. I guess the situation would present another opportunity for social progressives to establish that they are unwilling to make personal sacrifices for the ideals they love to make noise about. Because there is no way those BLM signs stay up alongside a for sale sign.
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Wonder why it took them 12 hours to come see you?
A potential kidnapping of a kid - I would have think they would have been much faster.
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Wonder why it took them 12 hours to come see you?
A potential kidnapping of a kid - I would have think they would have been much faster.
@taiwan_girl said in The cops knocked on my door last night:
Wonder why it took them 12 hours to come see you?
Cops will often visit very early in the AM or late in the evening to increase the intimidation/fear effect. They may have had reason to believe there was no urgency in re a kid's safety.
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If the witness had seen him take a child from the car seat and put him in the trunk, it may have been different…
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Yeah I'm guessing it was more of a welfare check than kidnapping (otherwise, like you said @taiwan_girl it should've been an emergency alert). No idea. I kind of wonder if they went to the store to look at the parking lot footage.
@LuFins-Dad maybe we are weird but we don't want a doorbell camera. I dont want the alerts or even a video of me coming and going during the day. I try to remain analog with a few things in my life, LOL. Although I have thought about getting a passive driveway camera just in case something ever happens that we need to look at footage of, such as a stolen package or even a kid running in a direction without our awareness.
