Have you ever had the police knock on your door?

[VandVsmama]

Not the police, but one time while I was telecommuting from home, the fire department knocked on my door. The neighbor across the street saw a gigantic swarm of bees fly straight into my open garage and had decided to take up residence there.

It took a few hours for a bee remover to come. I had to be on conference calls the entire time with the pulsating hum of the bee swarm in the background. It was pretty terrifying.

 

[low-key]

yes a few times but they never took me to the graybar hotel

 

[Renarr]

We did once. This local cop came by and said that a detective from Florida was looking to speak to DW. Gave us a business card with the number. We were a little suspicious, but everything we could find on Google checked out, so after a little trepidation, we called the number. Turned out her dad (who was in Florida at the time and living alone) had passed, and the cops had been called when the newspapers started piling up.

 

[lifesavacation]

Yes. When my son was 16, he went into Walmart and didn’t put his emergency brake on. His car rolled into another car in the parking lot when he was inside. Showing immature and poor judgment, when he got done shopping, he left and didn’t wait around to figure out the damage with the other driver. An officer came to the door and asked if we owned the car. They identified it using video and witnesses. We said yes. He said it was involved in an accident. I about fainted thinking the very worst case scenario with my son. The officer then told us the details. We told him that he could find our son at basketball practice and he asked if it was OK to go to his practice and figure this out. We said yes.

Our son later said he panicked and didn’t know what to do. We told him that is the perfect time to call your parents and ask for help. He’s now a firefighter so he turned out alright, but man, kids can make dumb decisions.

 

[Disneylover99]

Yes. But I was expecting them.

 

[low-key]

Yes. But I was expecting them.

that was big of you to turn yourself in

 

[bcla]

Once when my car was stolen. It was seen in a suspicious activity after it was stolen at night, so they went to the registered address after checking the plates. They said there wasn't anything they could do about it, but they took information on it for stolen vehicle report. Eventually my car was found (within days) and was written off as a total loss. Another time when I called after someone stole some change in my car when I forgot to lock the door. However, I was expecting that.

Never when I was potentially in trouble for anything.

 

[bushdianee]

Yes last year. There was a man who lived across the street who lived alone. He looked like a stereotypical hermit always wore overalls and a t-shirt, long gray beard, almost always alone. Anyways I realized in about May that I hadn't seen him since about March and the snow hadn't been shoveled and then his grass was needing to be cut. I thought that maybe something had happened and hoped he wasn't in the house. I dismissed that thought since he had had a brother or someone who usually helped him with grass and snow and he hadn't been around so he must know where the guy was. Then one day in late May or early June all of a sudden there were a bunch of police cars and the mobile forensics lab outside. One of them came over to my house to ask me questions about the guy and told me there was a body in the house. I felt bad because the thought had occurred to me but I didn't act on it. A few weeks later the story got weirder. My next door neighbor found out that the body wasn't that of the guy who I had seen since I lived here but it was his brother who had died 10 YEARS previously. The house had been foreclosed on and the new owner had gotten the keys and found the skeleton when he went in the house for the first time. The guy had moved out and the police found him and questioned him but didn't charge him with anything.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Our story also involves 911, but we weren't calling. After moving into our current home, we had cops banging on the door in the middle of the night. I had to wake DH up to go to the door. They said they'd received a 911 call from our landline. We didn't even have a landline, but they wouldn't believe him. I had to get up & put on clothes to show them I was okay. DH called AT&T. They said they looked into it & couldn't find a problem.

A couple weeks later cops showed up late at night. Once again, they made DH get me up to tell them I was okay. He called AT&T a second time. They were not helpful, so he cut the phone lines from the pole to the house. That didn't solve our problem.

We got a third visit, during the day on a Sunday. At this point, we're getting really annoyed. I'm sure our neighbors were wondering what kind of horrible family had moved into their neighborhood. I saw one neighbor peeping out their window, when I was outside reassuring the cops that I was still fine. That was embarrassing. It didn't help that the cops don't normally have a lot to do in our town, so it was always 2 to 3 cars.

It just so happened that DH ran into one of the cops that was here the first time, when he was at a store. The cop asked, if everything had been sorted out. DH told him about the 2nd & 3rd visit. He wrote down the details & DH's phone number & said he would look into it. A couple weeks later he called to let us know the number that 911 had assigned to our address had actually been given to someone who lived a few blocks from us. He said the problem had been fixed, but that was the only information he could share.

FWIW, we realize the cops were doing their job. It wasn't their fault, but stuff like this shouldn't happen. It was embarrassing for us, but could have been life threatening for the people who actually had that number.

 

[bcla]

When my son was applying to the Secret Service, an agent came to our neighborhood and went door to door asking the neighbors about my son. I am sure they got a shock when the agent knocked on their door.

That usually happens when someone is thought to be passing off counterfeit bills. Or making threats against a protected person.

https://www.rcfp.org/secret-service-searches-college-journalists-apartment/

 

[Disneylover99]

that was big of you to turn yourself in

Well, my neighbour called the cops, but they were kind enough to warn me.

 

[mrodgers]

Yes. When my son was 16, he went into Walmart and didn’t put his emergency brake on. His car rolled into another car in the parking lot when he was inside. Showing immature and poor judgment, when he got done shopping, he left and didn’t wait around to figure out the damage with the other driver. An officer came to the door and asked if we owned the car. They identified it using video and witnesses. We said yes. He said it was involved in an accident. I about fainted thinking the very worst case scenario with my son. The officer then told us the details. We told him that he could find our son at basketball practice and he asked if it was OK to go to his practice and figure this out. We said yes.

Our son later said he panicked and didn’t know what to do. We told him that is the perfect time to call your parents and ask for help. He’s now a firefighter so he turned out alright, but man, kids can make dumb decisions.

Yup, my daughter (lives with mom) told mom she hit a pole pulling into a parking spot at Walmart. Few days later she admitted she hit a parked car and panicked and left. I have no idea of any damage (except for her car which I fixed) as it was too late by then.

 

[disneychrista]

Yes because I called them.

 

[Skippy918]

My son was learning about 911 in preschool and unbeknownst to us dialed it after I put him to bed. Next thing I knew is the cops are at our door and we instantly realized ds must have dialed it. We brought the cop upstairs to explain to ds that we don’t call 911 unless it’s a true emergency.

 

[Magical2017]

Yes. I was served a subpoena to testify against someone. The prosecutor told me to expect the visit. I am sure the neighbors wondered, but oh well.

 

[disykat]

Once. I was probably between 10 - 12 and home with my two siblings. My brother, who was 3 years older than me, was in charge.

My dad was a small town doctor in the days before beepers/cell phones etc. We had strict phone rules in our house. There was an answering service people were supposed to call, but even when he was gone, people would often call the house and we'd pass on the number where he was going to be. Since the parents were gone and his answering service knew where he was, my sister ignored the phone rules and stayed on the phone. They got a busy signal for so long someone called the police and they came to the house.

From then until dad got a beeper when I was a senior in high school we had an "egg timer" that was set for 3 minutes for phone usage. It drove us crazy as teens because whoever that was should have called the answering service and there would have been no problem.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Yes, more times than I can count. It was my dad coming home for lunch. He knocked on the door because he didn't carry his personal keys when he was on duty.

 

[Southernmiss]

Yes, about 2 or 3 in the morning awakened from a deep sleep by the police.

A drunk driver hit our brick mailbox. Tore it up and got away. Cost us to replace the box.

Never did catch him.

 

[Ladyandthepuppies]

Yes, they were looking for a guy who was disorderly. My neighbors were allowing a recovering addict who was homeless to stay with them. He fell off the wagon and went on a bender. We live on a road without sidewalks and he was apparently walking across on people’s properties, shouting things and causing a disturbance. The cops came to ask if we had seen him. A few minutes after they had knocked on my door, we saw them go running down the street with their guns drawn. I heard the next day they found the guy trying to break into a house. Don’t do drugs, kids!

 

[Colleen27]

A few times.

Once, a friend of my son's posted on social media that he was going to be coming over here. He didn't, because my son told him not to. But the police did... because the friend's underage girlfriend (who was the reason DS told him not to come here) had run away from home a couple days earlier and was believed to be with her boyfriend.

When my father died, the police in his city called the police in mine since they couldn't find a current phone number for me. Neither could the local PD, I guess because we're a cell phone only household, so they sent someone over to give me the news in person.

And most recently, after several neighbors had cars and/or garages broken into over a couple of consecutive nights, an officer knocked on my door late in the evening just to ask me if I knew my back door was standing open and to make sure everything was okay. It was - one of the kids just got careless letting the dog in - but I appreciated the check-in nonetheless.