So I'm walking around with a baseball bat...
 

Yeah, a metal baseball bat. I looked in my parents room five minutes ago and the door was open and the closet door was open. At least I swear it was because I was thinking why in the world would it be open.

I know the door was open because the door pushed it open, so I closed it, leaving the closet door open. Now, I'm thinking that I should go close the closet door and I open the edroom door and the closet is shut.

So, being me, I grabbed a bat and checked it out. Nothing anywhere that I looked, but I had been outside for awhile, so they could've changed places.

I'm probably just freaking myself out, but my bat makes me feel safe. My dog isn't helping because he's scraping antlers against the side of the house.

So, what's your safety object? If you were in someone else's house, where would you hide? and how would you feel if you saw the owner walking around with a metal baseball bat?

I'd be scared out of my mind, but still thinking that the owner is just a little girl...with a baseball bat. With bigger muscles then I have... Yeah, that's right, the buglar better be scared!

Sorry, paranoid = babbling.

Okay, as long as I'm not the only one who gets paranoid. My mind just over thinks everything! Every sound is magnified too, so that doesn't help much, but as long as I don't have to go down in the basement I'll be okay.

What if they blocked the stairway?! This morning the power went out too, so I had to go check the breaker downstairs. I was so scared, I dragged my dog down there with me. He's outside now, so I'm still paranoid.

an umbrella, a big metal stick-type umbrella it scared the neighbor boys pretty good so I'm bettin it'll scare a burgular
but my dad has a huge hunk of wood right next to his bed and whenver he hears something weird he picks it up and lugs it up the stairs kinda funny c:

I had something like that happen to me once. Basically, I knew my bathroom door (right across from the unlocked back door) was open, because I threw a dirty sock in there from halfway down the hallway. How else would I have been able to get the sock in if it wasn't open? When I came back later to check if the laundry was done, the door was closed.

Freaked me the heck out. I grabbed the closest thing we had at the time that could be used as a weapon. It was a broom. xD I'm glad there really wasn't anyone there, because I doubt it would have helped me much. I never did figure out what closed the door though. My back door stays locked now.

Now days, I'd just grab my boyfriend's shotgun.

If I was, for some stupid reason, sneaking around someone else's house, I'd make sure I was hiding somewhere with an escape route. A room with extra windows or doors, definitely, because I know that there are some owners like me who would go grab their guns. I also know there are some that are not like me and would shoot on sight, no questions asked and no thoughts about whether or not I was really there to do physical harm.

@ Randeh: Yeah, I would recomend sopmeting heavy for zombies. You never know how hard you're going to have to hit them.

@ Canary: I don't own an umbrella, so I wouldn't know if those are good weapons. I like the hunk of wood idea though!

I keep a knife by my bed just in case. I'll never forget one night I was on the phone with a friend and I went to turn the light off and when I did I saw someone's shadow walking away from my window. I live on the first floor of the building so I get paranoid a lot.

Oh that would be scary! I hate seeing people walk by and I always hear people talking.

I just have this in my room
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-...0/Picture9.jpg
I tend to keep it under my pillow, and some people think it's for kinky purposes, but It's a nightstick, not a sex toy >:
Not had to use it so far (for either purpose) 0_0

I had someone break in before and I yelled and they left. It was some dumb kid though so it's not like some high school student's very intimidating to begin with. They came in my back hall way that's attached to my kitchen when I was cooking in the kitchen so they pretty much saw me then closed the door and ran for it. I'm not very paranoid since I'm pretty confident I can defend myself against anyone that would try anything. I may be little, but I do know how to fight when I need to. I don't really have any weapons anyway, except for a pocket knife, but that's more for cutting things when I need to at work than for use as a weapon.

@ Thunder: Well, I'll never try and break into your house.

@Mystic: See, the problem with me is that I can't yell when I'm scared. It come out like this little "squeak" and I'm pretty sure that won't scare away anyone.

@Ebil: Not gonna lie, I had no idea what that was.

Thank you. xD Though I wouldn't shoot unless you tried to attack me.

I think it'd be wise to stay out of everyone's house uninvited. I used to think thieves were cowardly, always trying to sneak around and stuff, but now I think they've got to be pretty ballsy to break into someone's home when they have no idea who they are and what they're like. As I said, I know there are quite a few people out there who would shoot first, ask questions later. I guess that's why they always try to time it when there is no one home, or just a woman. I guess they figure a woman would be less likely to confront them or something. =/

True.
Here in Canada though, we have some pretty interesting ways.
Someone can break into your house and you can shoot them in self defense, but you would get charged before them. Same thing as if you just waxed the floor and they broke in and slipped and broke a bone or something, you would get charged.
So, I would have to think three times over before shooting or wacking someone with a bat.

>.> Well, theres a cast iron frying pan in our kitchen.
Baja likes to think one whap upside the head with that would scare off any would-be bugler.

Lapin Blanche -
I don't know the official law here. From what I've heard, if you have multiple 'No Tresspassing' signs staked around your house and you tell the person at least once to leave, when they don't, you can shoot them. I don't know how true that is though. All I know is that if someone is trying to attack me, a friend, or a family member, I'd just have to deal with the idea of jail time. Which is a horrible thing to say. ._.;;

I think it's stupid that they can sue you for hurting themselves while on your property uninvited. It sounds like a news report I heard the other day though. Apparently, a man hurt himself while trying to escape prison. So he sued the prison. xD I don't know if he won or not, but either way, it doesn't make much sense to me.

@Maria: I got stabbed with a pencil once. It left a big hole in my hand and it looked disgusting. That was back when I was in kindergarten though, so I don;t know if a pencil wound would other me anymore.

@Baja: Frying pans are a classic!

@Thunder: Yeah, it's kind of stupid. I mean, come on, if they weren't stupid in the first place, they wouldn't have hurt themselves!

Once when I came home from school, the front door was cracked open even though I knew I was the only person there and my mom left the house before I did. So I freaked out, thinking there was some serial killer that had crept into my house. xD

I think I grabbed a pair of scissors, or an umbrella or something, and talked to my mom on the phone while walking around the house.
Turns out, I didn't close the door all the way when I left and it had just bounced open. xDD

That's funny. I would probably do something like that, but end up hurting somebody or some random imaginary thing.

Oh, air vents!
I wish there were really air vents that big, but only Hollywood can make them that big! =).

Re: So I'm walking around with a baseball bat...
 

1.OMG SAME HERE. Except a louisville sluggah. Those can do some damage, and I happen to be an exceptionally strong nerdface.

2.Someone elses house? I'd gtfo of there.

3.I'd challenge him to a duel of the bats!