Home invasion, has it ever happened to you?  

well we have been robbed twice and lucky for us we weren't home,

but if I was being robbed and I was home, I would be very afraid,

I would just them them anything they wanted and hope they wouldn't hurt me.

I've never been robbed but then I live in a tenement flat - apartment block. I would probably use reasonable force if anyone tried to break in but then I do a martial art so wouldn't advise most people to confront a burglar.

Get a good lock on your door and always make sure the door is securely locked. Keep your mobile by your bed to call 911 is also a good idea.

When my son was a tiny baby,
We lived in a condemned building with his Father who was to say the least, well, a bit off the mark shall we say hahahxoxo
Anyway, I slept right by my little son..he was around month old..he was on the couch next to me and I in the bed beside him..
My mothers instinct kicked in (it was around 2 am) and I awoke to see a man standing in the room doorway in the dark of the night..I quickly sat up when I saw him move toward my son.
I elbowed the other fella(his Father) who jumped up no clothes on as they had stolen his clothes as well and he ran down the stairs after them in the buff.
They were huffers if you know what that is..and when the police came I gave them all the details and they caught them..they also set fire to the cellar to find whatever tools they could sell of my Husbands.
They would have taken my son and sold him for drugs..that is why they were looking over him..
With the grace of God, all was well..
The police caught them and they got at that time a minimum sentence of 10 years for arson and burglary..
They had taken any food out of the freezer looking for cash..
After that incident, and I was not so well then, as I probably never will be, with all the trauma, I sat at the window for 3 days with a loaded shotgun in constant fear.

Hey Esoteric.
I've had two breakins at my home.One of the breakins we were not at home it happened in broad day.
They got away with my laptop,my kids playstation,a dvd player and some dvd's and they trashed the place.
But the second breakin was by far the scariest because my kids and i were home at the time, thankfully we sleep through it.They didn't get anything because one of my neighbors who was just getting in from partying saw them and chased them off,then called me to wake me.
The scary thing is one of them was already inside and the other was the lookout.It's been a few years since that incident, but i'm now prepared should it happen again. God forbid.

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when I was eleven,my family lived in a old house .One day,about four o'clock ,it is very early and the day still in a dark.My auntie shout out that the door was open,my father and mother was awoke,they went to the balcony from where they found two men was running.Then,my parents checked out to find a mobilphone had been stolen.If I was awake when found them in my home,the first thing I would do may be scream.

yes, several years ago our house was broken in to and the vandal/trespasser was found in a drunken stupor sleeping - soaking wet, on our living room floor.

I had started down the stairs and saw him - ran back up stairs and grabbed the clothes rod out of my closet - it was heavy and the only thing up there I could find - while my husband called the police.

We have been burglarised one time before we moved to the home we live in now. We were at work. they stole all kinds of stuff. If someone invaded my home and I was in it, i would be so scared and would not be able to fight them back. We never did get any of our things back. We now have ADT on our new home but thiefs know how to disalarm it also.