# Have you or anyone you know in the real world ever been victim of a home invasion? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 30, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847 "2013-01-30T23:09:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![activgurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@activgurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/activgurl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/21 "2013-01-31T00:53:56Z")
Chiroptera, you are totally correct. A home “invasion” is precisely that: you can invade privacy, invade thoughts, but a home invasion is an enraging act against you & your sanctuary. No “violence” has to occur. I don’t care if I catch a crook in stocking feet who throws up his hands & hollers “no foul!”. The damage is already done. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/22 "2013-01-31T01:00:23Z")
I may not understand what home invasion is, I thought a non-violent one when the occupants weren’t home counted but I don’t know if home invasion is the same as burglary. I have never met anyone who was a victim of a violent home invasion that I know about. I’m sure it has happened to people, they just haven’t told me. I have known of people having their homes burglarized when they were gone, but those were not violent crimes per se. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/23 "2013-01-31T01:03:21Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Hmmm. Sitting with my shaking, invaded, violated friend as the police dusted her television for fingerprints as she sobbed over the loss of her wedding ring, the necklace her (recently deceased) dad bought her when the graduated high school, the macaroni necklace her baby boy had made her his first week of preschool, the magickal talismans she’d created over 30 years as part of her religion and much more… And as she contemplated that the perpetrator was probably a person she’d bought soda and pizzas for and could come back at any time and help themselves to more stuff, or, should they decide, hurt her and her children…I’m not sure I see a great distinction, emotionally. She acted and spoke exactly as (some) women who I’ve sat with waiting for their rape exam act. She no longer feels her home is a safe place, while at the same time she doesn’t feel it’s safe to leave her home unattended. > > But it’s your thread, so I officially withdraw my second anecdote. 🙂 > > ETA: “OH and another thing…” Your OP asks for home invasion, not violence. I know, which is why I didn’t complain stridently. To me, the term “home invasion” implies that violence was either committed by or threatened by the criminal. It hadn’t occurred to me that others might not see violence as being implied until I read your post, as you are clearly didn’t see things that way and you are neither an asshole or an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/24 "2013-01-31T01:17:19Z")
Look, you can take the word home and the word invasion, put them together and come up with any definition you want. But there is a specific law enforcement meaning to the term “home invasion.” It doesn’t matter that you might feel violated or invaded by a burglary. A burglary is not a violent crime. A home invasion is a robbery in your home. Robbery is taking something by force or threat of force. Burglary is simply entering a stricture for the purposes of theft. A home invasion is when someone breaks into or forces themselves into a home knowing there are people there. It is a violent act. Sorry if your personal definition does not match the law enforcement definition. I have known multiple people that have been victims of home invasions. All on a professional basis. None of my friends or family have been victims of such crime. It hasn’t happened often in this town but I’ve been doing this for 15 years so its happened times in my career. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/25 "2013-01-31T01:21:17Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Look, you can take the word home and the word invasion, put them together and come up with any definition you want. But there is a specific law enforcement meaning to the term “home invasion.” It doesn’t matter that you might feel violated or invaded by a burglary. A burglary is not a violent crime. A home invasion is a robbery in your home. Robbery is taking something by force or threat of force. Burglary is simply entering a stricture for the purposes of theft. A home invasion is when someone breaks into or forces themselves into a home knowing there are people there. It is a violent act. Sorry if your personal definition does not match the law enforcement definition. > > I have known multiple people that have been victims of home invasions. All on a professional basis. None of my friends or family have been victims of such crime. Loach, if I recall aright, you’re a cop. In the thread that inspired this one, I laid out my plans for dealing with intruders in my home. Here it is: > [@Trying to understand the 'home defense' gun argument](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-understand-the-home-defense-gun-argument/648838/20): > > he tv-thing of a married couple hearing a noise in the middle of the night and going to confront the intruder is stupid, particularly in the era of cell phones. What you do is this: > > 1. If you live alone, get up, close and lock the bedroom door, grab available weapon, and await developments. If you hear more sounds indicating that an intrusion, call 911 and await help; do not attract intruder’s attention. If the intruder tries to come into the bedroom, loudly inform them that you are armed and willing to use it, and that you have called for help. If the intruder persists, move to most defensible position and await developments. If they seem to have left, wait till the cops arrive to go outside your bedroom. > 2. If you don’t live alone, but everyone in the house in in the bedroom with you, do the same as above except that also rouse your bedmate. > 3. If you don’t live alone, and there is someone in another bedroom, get weapon quietly, rouse that person, retreat to most defensible room, and proceed as in (1). > 4. If you don’t live alone, but it is conceivable that it’s another resident trying to move stealthily to keep from awaking you, secure bedroom, have gun in head, and call that person’s cell phone before calling 911. Presumably they’ll answer and say, “Yeah, it’s just me, sorry I woke you up,” or “No, I’m still at my boyfriend’s house, stepdad.” In the latter case, call 911, etc. > > Confrontation is the dead last option unless you are Spider-Man. If you are Spider-Man then your sense has already informed you whether the noise is Mary Jane coming home from her Esquire shoot or a burglar, and anyway you’ve already broken the intruder’s jaw for scaring Aunt May. Have you any problems with it? ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/26 "2013-01-31T01:26:05Z")
Does my mooching loser roommate count? And can I use that “stand my ground” thing in this circumstance? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/27 "2013-01-31T01:29:24Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Loach, if I recall aright, you’re a cop. In the thread that inspired this one, I laid out my plans for dealing with intruders in my home. Here it is: > > Have you any problems with it? Not really. Sounds sensible to me. It’s hard to plan for every contingency ahead of time. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/28 "2013-01-31T01:44:01Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > So we’re clear: “by home invasion,” I did not mean simple burglaries in which the resident was not aware of the intrusion until after the criminals had left, nor instances in which the intruder used no violence nor threat of violence, or immediately fled when the resident appeared. I meant instances in which the intruder used or threatened violence in the home (either as the primary purpose of the crime, as in my friend’s case, or as a means to an end, as in my co-workers case) or cases in which the intruder only left because he himself was threatened with violence. In that case my answer is no, I don’t personally know anyone who has experienced a home invasion. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/29 "2013-01-31T01:44:56Z")
I voted before reading, so apologies to Skald for throwing off his stats because none of these are “violent”, but I totally agree with WhyNot. 1. When I was very young, my aunt had her heirloom jewelry stolen from her bedroom while she was home during the day - out in her backyard with my cousin in the pool. Re-read WhyNot’s post, and that’s about where she is regarding the feeling of violence and personal invasion, STILL, nearly 30 years later. No arrests, never found the jewelry. That’s the only one that even sort of counts according to the revised guidelines. However, there’s also all of this: A) I was in a parking lot walking towards my car when I heard glass shatter. I remembered that I left my purse in my car on the seat, and sure enough, it was my window that had been broken while I was headed right towards it. Dark night, alone in that parking lot, with no phone or ID or any way to protect myself from whoever just stole my stuff? Yeah. Violated. B) Purse-snatched in England. Classic snatch-n-grab in a busy internet cafe - ripped it right off my leg (I had the straps wrapped around my legs while I sat at the computer). I had just gotten a wonderful 15 page handwritten letter from my aunt which contained her memories of my father - her best friend, who had passed away several years before. That letter was in the purse, of course, along with everything else stolen - hotel key, ID, school course info. That was nearly 10 years ago now. I STILL wake up in murderous rage wishing nothing more than to have a baseball bat and an hour with that asshole. I will NEVER get over the loss of that letter. Ever. C) Husband’s car broken into and everything stolen from it while it was parked in our driveway in our (we thought safe) neighborhood, while we were inside having dinner. Violation? Hell yes. We moved away shortly thereafter. What if they hadn’t been satisfied with what was in the car? What if they were on drugs? We didn’t lock our doors in that neighborhood, and knew all our neighbors! No one saw anything - no arrests - never got any of his things back. He still gets depressed over the loss of most of his CD collection. None of these involved physical violence, or even the invasion of a home, but I would argue strenuously that violence was done towards all of us emotionally, and places that we consider safe “our” spaces (car, purse, driveway) were invaded. That’s just as bad, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/30 "2013-01-31T01:56:24Z")
> [@activgurl](#): > > Chiroptera, you are totally correct. A home “invasion” is precisely that: you can invade privacy, invade thoughts, but a home invasion is an enraging act against you & your sanctuary. No “violence” has to occur. I don’t care if I catch a crook in stocking feet who throws up his hands & hollers “no foul!”. The damage is already done. I agree with this. I spent years doing sexual assault crisis counselng and still remember a cringe-worthy thing I said once to a woman who had been digitally raped by multiple people…I said something incredibly moronic along the lines of “well, at least you weren’t ACTUALLY raped!” Seriously that was an awful, truly horrible and insensitive thing for me to say and thankfully that woman set me straight in no uncertain terms and I never forgot it and I learned from it. Which is not to say that there is not a qualitative difference between someone breaking into your home whether you are there or not. There may well be, and certainly the level of danger in a home invasion is greater than when the homeowner is off running errands or working. > [@](#): > > I think you’re misunderstanding my position. I’m okay with your beating an intruder who refuses to beat feet or surrender when alerted to your presence. All you need to do, in my judgment, is say, “Get the fuck out of my house, asshole!” or “I am armed, put your hands on your head and surrender.” If the criminal disobeys, feel free to brain him (and in fact I’d rather you were pointing a gun at him rather than brandishing a baseball bat). All I meant was that, if the criminal has retreated, or is off your property when you discover the intrusion, you may not ethically shoot him, and chasing out after him with a baseball bat, tire iron, or whatnot is foolish. > > Someone breaking into your harm when you are present may be presumed to wish you ill; there I agree. It’s only if they are RETREATING that you are forbidden to shoot, because shooting at someone is attempting to kill them. No disagreement that a retreating person should not be shot in the back (and as I understand it, the castle doctrine does make this distinction) but in real life: as a small female alone in a house in a high-crime area, just how much latitude do I give an intruder? How many warnings do I give him or her? If you are already in my house without permission at, say, 2 a.m., why do I have any responsibility to give you the opportunity to retreat or run away? I don’t get that. 😕 To put it plainly: If you are a stranger to me and you are attempting to break into my home whether I am present or not without permission and for whatever reason, I personally believe you have relinquished your right to not being maimed or killed. And you should accept responsibility for said action. And were I the type of person to own a firearm I see absolutely no reason why you should not be shot dead on sight. Again: I am a single female person of small stature, living alone. A stranger who refuses to identify him or herself in on my property. That I pay for and care for and am responsible for. That person (let’s establish right here that I’m not getting stupidly paranoid about the water meter reader, my neighbor’s sister checking the mail, my neighbor down the road taking a walk with his dog, etc) is in my house, on my property, at 2 am and is not immediately responding to my cease and desist demands. Perhaps he’s loopy and drunk, yet harmless. Perhaps he’s slow and not getting TFO as fast as I would like. Perhaps he’s got something in his hand that looks like a gun but I can’t be sure. Perhaps he’s fucked up and is lurching about being non-responsive. Perhaps he is mentally ill and delusional. At what point, in the heat of the moment, do I determine no threat, possible theat, definite threat? And why should the onus be on me to determine that in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![newme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e0b2c6/32.png) [@newme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newme)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/31 "2013-01-31T02:02:51Z")
When I was about 20, I was staying at my parent’s home between semesters. It was after midnight, and my parents and my younger sister were sleeping. I was reading and could have been seen through a side window if anybody had bothered to look in. I heard a noise at the back door. Thinking it might be my older brother, who was in the habit of showing up unannounced, I went to the back door and flipped on the outside light. It was a burglar trying to pry open the door, and the light coming on did not seem to bother him, as he kept at his work for several more seconds. I yelled “Hey” in my loudest and deepest voice, and the guy finally ran away, leaving behind a huge 30 inch two-handed screwdriver which would have made a formidable weapon. Anytime someone breaks into a house knowing someone is home or not caring if someone is home, I would call that that a home invasion. In my mind, this was an aborted home invasion. An armed guy tried to enter a home that he had no reason to believe was unoccupied at the time. ---
**Author:** ![activgurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@activgurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/activgurl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/32 "2013-01-31T02:15:57Z")
Originally posted by Chiroptera \*[If you are already in my house without permission at, say, 2 a.m., why do I have any responsibility to give you the opportunity to retreat or run away? I don’t get that] Oh! I like your thinking! ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/33 "2013-01-31T02:27:30Z")
Last week actually. My neighbor. I live in a condominium building; an old building in the city. A neighbor in my building was ‘home invaded’ last week. A guy forced in with a butcher knife, took his change and ATM card and had the audacity to force him outside to go to an ATM. Once outside, the neighbor ran to a another neighbor who was outside. The next door neighbor was petrified and couldn’t help. The perp had the nerve to chase down the victim and ‘re-capture’ him. Once he got to his car the victim hit his key fob and thankfully it only opened the drivers door. Armed with only a knife, the perp was helpless as the terrified victim drove off. The victim lived there for 17 years. He’s walking away and will not return. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/34 "2013-01-31T02:43:16Z")
Sort of. At uni, a big old rambling Victorian, roommates all away, heard noises very close by, thought it was raccoons in the neighbours yard! It wasn’t. I sat and listened very closely and heard nothing, decided it was all in my head, jump up to merrily off, and heard a sound like it was right in the closet. Called the cops. They ordered me to the first floor and stay inside until they come to the door. Oh, and don’t turn on the lights! So I sat in the dark awaiting a blazing siren and the lights of a police car, unable to hear a single thing! Before they arrived, (creeping up to the house with flashlights), I’d convinced myself it was nothing and was preparing for the embarrassment of being a small young women, alone in a big dark house! Suddenly there was shouting and the clears sounds of running across the roof, suddenly I was scared all over again! They caught him and dragged him off to their car, parked around the corner. He was on the roof of the bay window, using a knife to take down the screen. His pants were undone! ⭕Scared no longer covers it, believe me. (And to everyone in law enforcement-you rock!) The police called me a few weeks after to tell me he’d been convicted, and was off to prison for a long time because of added parole violations. Not sure if this qualifies or not. Technically he didn’t get in. Additionally it’s Canada and neither he nor I had a gun. Furthermore, if it happened again, my first instinct would be the same, call the police! I’m going to guess for all these reasons this incident is of no interest, though I think it should count. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/35 "2013-01-31T03:58:15Z")
A couple of armed young men attempted to jack my elderly father’s car while he was sitting in it in his driveway. I counted that as a home invasion for purposes of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/36 "2013-01-31T04:48:31Z")
My friends were asleep when their apartment was broken into. All of their electronics that were in their living room were stolen. The cops said someone who worked in the building could have been the perpetrator as their door had been unlocked, it wasn’t jimmied open. They moved shortly after. No violence, but they were pretty disturbed that it happened while they were sleeping just a few feet away. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/37 "2013-01-31T04:49:45Z")
Nope. No burglaries, no robberies, no break-ins, no invasions of any sort. Not me and not anyone I know personally. ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/38 "2013-01-31T05:25:05Z")
I can understand how people might feel personally invaded even when there’s no violence, but it’s not that way for me. Our house was broken into while we were asleep. They took my handbag, purse, some jewellery and our camera, and drove off in our car. It was annoying and sad to lose my stuff but after that we made sure we locked up better. I expected to feel freaked out by the invasion of my space, but I didn’t. I saw a woman get mugged while walking home, about 50 yards from me (about 300 yards from my house). He tried to snatch her purse but she hung on to it. He punched her in the head a few times until she let go. The physical violence added a lot of adrenaline, fear and stress to the situation. I felt unsafe in that street for ages. Voted no in the poll. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/39 "2013-01-31T05:36:09Z")
I had a home invasion. The guy fled when I went for my gun. He was in another room and never saw it, but he heard the loud “SNAP” when when I popped the holster strap loose. I lived in a large house at the time that was an upstairs/downstairs duplex. The guy didn’t take anything but he roamed around the house for 20 minutes or so until I finally decided to go for my gun. The cops think he didn’t know the house was a duplex and he was trying to find a way upstairs where a young woman lived. My sister and her husband were burglarized while they were sleeping by a guy who cut the screen and entered through an unlocked patio door. My parents’ home was broken into and burglarized while they were out of town. Don’t know if that counts as a home invasion but my parents certainly felt it was. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847/40 "2013-01-31T07:49:14Z")
Back in 1976 my and my then husband’s house was broken into. The only things taken was some food and my entire cache of yarn and pattern books. I can only assume it was someone hungry for a close-knit connection. (Gawd, I had to reach for that. But the incident is true…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-in-the-real-world-ever-been-victim-of-a-home-invasion/648847.md?page=3)