When did you think you were about to die in your own home?

Someone walked past my window, which might not have been that weird, except I'm on the 8th

frickin' floor. I almost had a cardiac. Apparently there were renovations being done on the

building, and they were building the scaffolding up to my level. There's a state prison

less than a mile away from my house.

When I was 18, my family was out of town. My dad called the house saying someone had escaped

from the prison and to lock all the doors and have something handy to protect myself with,

which I did. It was at night and I turned on the police scanner. He was incarcerated for the unspeakable

act with over a dozen teenage girls. I looked out the window in the back door just in time

to see a man in an orange jumpsuit, jogging through my backyard, stop, see me and start walking

towards my back door. Next thing I knew, police ran into him and tackled him. One of the most terrifying moments of my life.

This was back when we still had a landline at my house.

Ours was the very last one on the line, so it sometimes did funny things like ring for no reason or just drop a call in the middle.

One night I was home alone and it started to storm really bad and the phone rings. I pick

up and it's the woman from 911 asking why I called. I say, I didn't call 911. I've just received

a call from this number. Are you home alone? Yeah, no one could have made that call. Are you sure? Would

you like me to send a car? In my head I was thinking, God yes, come save me. But I said, I don't think so. I really didn't car. Okay, ma'am, have a good night. I sat on my couch with my dog and didn't move till my parents came home. It freaked me the freak out. In short, on a dark stormy night, my phone called 911 by itself. For people saying they would have sent a car out anyway, one, I live at the end of a very

long private drive, so they very well could have sent one by, and I wouldn't have known

it.

Two, this was only the first time it happened, and the second time they actually did send someone.

I mean, having your house's weird phone lines get you blocked from the emergency services

line because there were too many non-urgent calls, seems like it could be a really bad thing

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