ninjaspartan
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the shooting tasers are now legal in the USA i'm getting one, oh and pepper spray hurts like hell, no ididn't get sprayed by a girlVexona said:People have approached my car or me in a parking lot with weird stories to try and get me to give them rides or let them in my car. 'My wife got hurt down the street'...'my car broke down'...stuff like that. Things that seem fishy from the get go (which is lucky, in a sense). I offer them 35 cents for a phone call and I keep my doors locked or I head into the nearest building. Whatever they want, they can call the cops, their family, or the EMS for. The theory that I, as a 5'6 woman alone in a parking lot, look like their knight in shining armor, doesn't hold water.
But coming to your home (and apparently being well dressed?!) is a different kind of violation/premise though. And pretending to *know* someone in your home is horribly conniving. I've never had someone try and trick his way or proposition me to get into my home. Wow. You definitely did the right thing in staying in the doorway and calling the police. He sounds like a predator or pervert for sure. Hopefully you calling him in and giving his description to the cops will save another woman from the same situation. And I think you'd be justified in pretending you weren't home from now on. If it's really important they can always come back later when someone else is with you.
I hate encounters like that because afterward you feel like you did something wrong or that you should have realized sooner....but you never can because it's our nature to expect people to behave rationally. You did the right thing and ended communication as soon as you ascertained his true reason for being there. It doesn't hurt that he knows you have a husband either. That sort of information usually deters creepy men.
The knife on your side is a good quick reassurance, but I'd say pick up a thing of pepper spray now that things have settled down. Pepper spray shoots like 10-20ft, and since he sounded like he had weight to him, range could be a great boon. ASP Batons are also nice, but they are more of a close-up weapon (16"-31"). Police use them to break the joints and fragile bones of attackers (collar bone, knee, elbow, wrist). The batons telescope out so you can put it on your belt until you need it. I want one of those for Christmas so I can have that + the spray.
It's guys like your door-to-door creep that made me want to learn how to fight, so I can commiserate with you =\. I got so mad after one incident at the sheer nerve of people! I think the 'hey baby' act suddenly loses its steam though when you're about to snap their arm out of their shoulder socket or put them in a choke. Suddenly it's not so fun to pick on the short woman anymore.
And as always NHB. No holds barred. Foot stomp and knee the balls until they are crying in a fetal position on the curb.
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