# Fuck you for scaring me, asshole!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-for-scaring-me-asshole/400614>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 18, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-for-scaring-me-asshole/400614 "2007-04-18T13:40:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jelymag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jelymag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelymag)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-for-scaring-me-asshole/400614/41 "2007-04-20T19:44:45Z")

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I don’t answer the door either. _Maybe_ during the day, but definitely not at night. If it were someone I knew, they’d have called first. Nothing is as important as your personal safety. I’m sure that “I thought he was telling the truth about being homeless/his hurt puppy/his wrecked car/the charity he is campaigning for,” is a great comfort to women (or men) who opened the door and lived to regret it.

A year or so ago I had fallen asleep in the recliner near my front door and awoke at 2 AM to some rustling sounds. I went to the peephole and it was a drunk-looking man trying to open my door. I grabbed the closest heavy object, which happened to be a rock pick. (My toolbox happened to be near the door.) When he started banging I shouted at him to go away. Then he started mumbling some nonsense that I knew who he was and told him he could come over. He left when he heard me talking to the 911 operator.

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-for-scaring-me-asshole/400614/42 "2007-04-20T19:47:58Z")

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[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]  
No doubt about it, CPD are good guys. But, just for the record, if you lived in Forest Acres, the FAs woulda had the guy face-down and spread-eagled in the middle of Trenholm Road before you hung up. 😉  
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Oh, come on. You know they’re too busy catching speeders from Columbia going 41 on Trenholm.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-for-scaring-me-asshole/400614/43 "2007-04-20T19:49:40Z")

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[QUOTE=Zsofia]  
Oh, come on. You know they’re too busy catching speeders from Columbia going 41 on Trenholm.  
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Mom? I thought you said you wouldn’t bring that up again!

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**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-for-scaring-me-asshole/400614/44 "2007-04-21T05:09:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Staggerlee]  
Charming. How do you know he was lying?

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I’ll only speak for myself here, but any panhandler claiming to be a veteran is almost certain a liar.

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> Why a shit-sucker?

For claiming to be a veteran, and for basicly acting like a potential psycho.

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> He was begging, and chose an inconvenient and annoying time to do it.

There is a difference between ‘annoying’ and ‘intrusive’. Most panhandlers already hit the ‘intrusive’ level just be asking for change outside of a store. This is several levels above that.

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