I didn’t answer and another person knocked on my door again an hour later. To kick down a wooden or hollow-core door that swings away from you, start by standing a leg’s length away from the door, with your non-dominant foot planted firmly. She was demanding me to open the door. 2) Determine specifically how your door has been damaged. They had to drill holes thru the steel for the screws that mounted the door, hinges, and locks. "I was terrified," Davidson said in an interview Thursday. A person once tried to break into my apartment via the back door, which they had accessed from the fire escape. “Someone tried to kick in my door last night in Brookland. Turned out it was some guy who'd come home drunk, went up the wrong set of stairs and couldn't figure out why he couldn't get into his apartment. I have never heard someone go down stairs that fast, but the sound of a shotgun is an equalizing statement in every language in the world. It would be so easy for someone to kick in my door with a single try, take their time going through my things, torture my cat, and leave without being noticed.

Thank God it was locked. A Superior Township resident called police to report someone kicking the front door and attempting to break into the home Tuesday afternoon, according to police.. Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to the 1800 block of Hamlet Drive for a report of someone attempting to kick in the front door of a home while a resident was home, police said. This question has profoundly depressing answers.

In the United States, “officer of the court” is a very general idea which applies to all sorts of people. Both were two large strange men. Think about this, in many instances the only things stopping a robber from kicking open your front door are 1/2 inch screws, some thin metal (in the form of hinges and strike plates), and at best a wimpy 1 inch piece of wood called your door jamb.

I was scared so I didn’t answer. My husband asked who was at the door, and that's when the guy realized his mistake. It was dark inside my home. I held the 12-gauge shotgun I use for clays against the door and pumped the action once. She saw the shadow of a man in a hood, I was out at the time and she didn't mention this to me until the early hours of this morning. A couple of weeks ago, my fiance was at home in the kitchen and she saw someone at the door trying to get in by turning the handle at about 10.30pm. Her knock was so loud that I … But it could be something normal. holy shit!! Luckily it’s pretty sturdy and the attempt was unsuccessful.

I do have an alarm system, and I use it, even when I’m home, but someone still tried to kick in the back door (which leads to my garage and does have a deadbolt and an alarm sensor on it).

I was awakened by my agitated cat and heard someone trying to put a key in the lock on my front door. After my front door got kicked in, I had the contactor who installed the new door put a 3" wide, 80" tall, 1/8" thick piece of steel between the door frame and the 2x4 framing in the wall. Then, keep your center of mass in front of your back leg as you kick your dominant foot just above or below the lock, where the door … They tried to turn my door handle. I bought it about 35 years ago. I was awakened by my agitated cat and heard someone trying to put a key in the lock on my front door. Madison police said a 24-year-old Madison woman screamed loudly when she heard someone trying to kick in the front door of her apartment building. It’s the middle of the night; this can’t be right. Typically, a door is broken in by a kick landing just above the knob, which causes a split in the jamb (the part of the frame across the stop from the hinges) running up to the casing (the top part of the frame).