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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Sawoodster on 2025-10-22 02:21:22+00:00.
My wife and I are in the back of the house in our bedroom, and she’s like honey someone’s flashing a light through our front door. So I hop up, grab her gun and book out to the front. I see someone legit bending over looking in my front door with a flashlight. I yell out who the fuck are you? Then suddenly I hear (city) police department put down the gun as they draw their weapons. When I realize they are in fact cops I throw my gun down and they demand I come outside. It ends up our front light was flickering on and off and a neighbor called for a safety check in case it was some kind of SOS. After the fact they assured me I did nothing wrong and was just protecting my home and thanked me for cooperating. I apologized for scaring them with a gun too. Not exactly what I had on my Tuesday night bingo card.
Tl:Dr Cops come to my house to do a wellness check on a flashing porch light, I come to the door gun in hand, they draw back on me.