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3 True Craigslist Horror Stories - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: 3. I'm a 22-year-old girl. I was looking on Craigslist
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  Speaker 1: to buy a couch for my new apartment a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: I found something I thought seemed like a good deal.
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  Speaker 1: From the pictures, the couch seemed to be in great shape.
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  Speaker 1: The seller wanted to be contacted by email. His email
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  Speaker 1: was mexicanpoppy666 at hotmail.com. I felt that email was a
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  Speaker 1: bit off-putting, but I still went ahead and emailed the
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  Speaker 1: man my offeror. He responded within five minutes, accepting the
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  Speaker 1: offer and asking for my address. I honestly felt uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: with his asking. I did not want a stranger coming
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  Speaker 1: to my house. I suggested that I just come to
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  Speaker 1: his house to pick it up, but he continually insisted
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  Speaker 1: that he come to my house. Eventually, I stopped responding,
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  Speaker 1: and a day later, he emailed me again, giving me
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  Speaker 1: his address. I didn't know if I should go at
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  Speaker 1: that point, but it seemed like a steal. almost too
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  Speaker 1: good to be true, and according to his address, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't live too far. So I got in my van
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  Speaker 1: and drove over to the seller's house. I immediately noticed
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  Speaker 1: that the house was a bit smaller than all the
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  Speaker 1: other houses on the block. When I rang the bell,
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  Speaker 1: a middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap answered the door.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me a huge smile and invited me in.
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  Speaker 1: I was immediately feeling uneasy. He led me into his
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  Speaker 1: living room, and I saw the couch. Immediately, I saw
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  Speaker 1: scuff marks and small tears in the couch. It was
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  Speaker 1: not at all in the shape that it appeared in
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  Speaker 1: the ad. I commented on this, and he just smiled
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  Speaker 1: and offered to lower the price. I told him I'm
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  Speaker 1: not interested, and here's where things started getting creepy. As
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  Speaker 1: I was making my way out of the house, he
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  Speaker 1: put his hand on my shoulder and offered to give
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  Speaker 1: it to me for free if I was willing to,
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote, give something to him. I let out a
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  Speaker 1: disgusted gasp and got back into my car. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even look up out the window. I just drove away
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  Speaker 1: from there quickly. But it doesn't end there. That same night,
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  Speaker 1: I was laying in my bed watching TV when I
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  Speaker 1: thought I heard somebody stomping up the steps of my porch.
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  Speaker 1: I muted the TV and was able to clearly hear
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  Speaker 1: the sound of somebody fiddling with my front doorknob. I
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  Speaker 1: jumped out of my bed and tiptoed over to the
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  Speaker 1: front door to look through the peephole, but Whoever it
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  Speaker 1: was was already gone. And then, I thought I could
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  Speaker 1: hear the sound of the gate to the backyard opening
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  Speaker 1: and closing. That was when I grabbed the phone and
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  Speaker 1: dialed 911. Soon after, I heard the sound of somebody
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  Speaker 1: fiddling with the doorknob to the back door of the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: I yelled to whoever it was that the police were
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  Speaker 1: on their way, and after that, I heard the sound
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  Speaker 1: of the gate opening and closing again. They were gone.
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  Speaker 1: This was a month ago, and nothing has happened since.
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  Speaker 1: but I still can't sleep at night. I'm 99% sure
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  Speaker 1: it was the man that was selling the couch. He
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  Speaker 1: must have followed me home. There was no way it
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  Speaker 1: was just a coincidence. I don't plan on using Craigslist anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm still trying to find a new apartment. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking for a car to buy for my
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  Speaker 1: son for his 18th birthday. I was searching all the
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  Speaker 1: typical car websites, cars.com, ebaymotors.com, They were all overpriced as expected.
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  Speaker 1: Craigslist was the only place to find an actual deal.
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  Speaker 1: About a week into my search, I found an 03
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  Speaker 1: Toyota Camry. It had 67,000 miles, no accidents, no damage,
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  Speaker 1: and good condition for only $ 3, 500. This seemed like a
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  Speaker 1: steal for such a reliable car with such low mileage.
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  Speaker 1: The seller lived about 10 miles from me, which was
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable drive when looking for a car. I gave
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  Speaker 1: him a call to set up a time to come
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  Speaker 1: check it out. The man sounded normal on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: He assured me that there were absolutely no problems with
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  Speaker 1: the car. He introduced himself as Bob. I brought along $ 3, 500
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  Speaker 1: in cash, even though I planned on wiggling down the
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  Speaker 1: price as much as possible. I pulled up the dirt
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  Speaker 1: road to Bob's property about 15 minutes early. It was
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  Speaker 1: a tiny little house with a decent-sized property, only because
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  Speaker 1: it was a bit far from the nearest neighbor's. The
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  Speaker 1: garage was open, so I walked over to see if
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  Speaker 1: anybody was inside, but except for an unusual amount of
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  Speaker 1: car parts, it was empty. The car was nowhere in sight.
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  Speaker 1: The only car on the property was an old pickup truck.
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  Speaker 1: I went over to the front door to check the
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  Speaker 1: house numbers. It was the right address. The doorbell button
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  Speaker 1: was missing, so I knocked on the front door. I
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  Speaker 1: knocked for exactly five minutes before deciding to give the
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  Speaker 1: man a call. So I dialed his number and I
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  Speaker 1: heard the sound of a cell phone ringing from inside
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  Speaker 1: the house. I was extremely confused at this point. Now
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  Speaker 1: I knew I had the right house. I didn't understand why,
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  Speaker 1: if he was home, why he wasn't answering. I decided
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  Speaker 1: I had to take a peek through one of the
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  Speaker 1: windows to see if anybody was inside. Peering through the glass,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't really see much as it was pretty dark
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  Speaker 1: inside the house. I saw a very old-fashioned dining room set.
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  Speaker 1: but across from that, I saw somebody standing at the
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  Speaker 1: back door of the house, staring outside. I figured that
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  Speaker 1: must have been Bob, so I knocked on the window,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't even move. There was no gate or
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  Speaker 1: anything to the backyard. It was just a wide open yard,
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  Speaker 1: since this wasn't a rural area. I simply walked around
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  Speaker 1: the house to the backyard. I didn't understand how he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't hear me. When I got to the back door,
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  Speaker 1: I made a shocking realization. The figure standing by the
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  Speaker 1: door was a taxidermied human being. I ran straight back
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  Speaker 1: the way I came and back to my car. I
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  Speaker 1: looked up one last time before driving off. The blinds
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  Speaker 1: to the window I had peeked into had been shut,
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  Speaker 1: but I could see two of the blinds bent open.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody was at that window watching me. You can probably
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  Speaker 1: guess I had the gas pedal to the floor the
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  Speaker 1: whole way home. The whole situation still makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: All the car parts, the fact that there was no
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  Speaker 1: Toyota Camry, the taxidermied human being, the fact that there
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  Speaker 1: was no car there leads me to believe that whoever
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  Speaker 1: that man was wasn't planning on selling me anything. And
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  Speaker 1: that also leads to the disturbing thought that I was
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  Speaker 1: very close to becoming a lifeless statue staring out that
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  Speaker 1: man's back door. Number 1. I was looking to buy
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  Speaker 1: the iPhone 5 about a year ago. I found a
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  Speaker 1: guy on Craigslist who was selling his for $ 200. He
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  Speaker 1: claimed it was in mint condition and that he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to upgrade to the 5C. I didn't know much about
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  Speaker 1: how to go about testing a phone to make sure
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  Speaker 1: everything works, so I brought my little brother along who
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  Speaker 1: knew a lot more than I did. We met halfway
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  Speaker 1: at a Dunkin' Donuts parking lot at like 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at night. Two large intimidating guys stepped out of a
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  Speaker 1: black Honda Civic and walked over to us. One of
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  Speaker 1: the guys pulled out the phone and showed it to me.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't have a scratch on it. My brother took
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  Speaker 1: out my SIM card and popped it into this new phone.
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  Speaker 1: He did some testing and told me that it works.
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  Speaker 1: The guy then asked for $ 250, even though he originally
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  Speaker 1: asked for $ 200. I lied and told him I only
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  Speaker 1: brought $ 200, and he seemed a bit unhappy with this.
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  Speaker 1: I did have $ 250, but I didn't want to spend
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  Speaker 1: more than his original asking price. I kind of figured
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  Speaker 1: it was his way of making sure I didn't haggle
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  Speaker 1: down the price. I handed the guy the $ 200 and
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  Speaker 1: he and his buddy got back in their car. We
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  Speaker 1: got back into my car and I tested out the
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  Speaker 1: new phone by calling my girlfriend. I sat testing things
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  Speaker 1: around for about five minutes. My brother commented on the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the two guys hadn't left yet either, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really care. I started the car and pulled
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  Speaker 1: out of the parking lot. My brother then commented that
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  Speaker 1: the two guys started their car just as I had.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't find it too weird. I drove down the
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  Speaker 1: turnpike and eventually stopped at a red light. That's when
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  Speaker 1: I noticed the black Honda Civic pull up right behind
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  Speaker 1: us in my rearview mirror. I found that a bit weird,
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  Speaker 1: since I was sure they came from the opposite direction.
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  Speaker 1: I continued my drive home, but every single turn we made,
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  Speaker 1: they followed, and close on my tail, too. My brother
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  Speaker 1: suggested I pull over, but there was no way I
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  Speaker 1: was going to do that. I knew those guys were
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  Speaker 1: looking for trouble. It got to the point where I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to lose them and started driving dangerously. If
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  Speaker 1: they needed something, they would call or at least honk
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  Speaker 1: their horn, but they were looking for some kind of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I tried something risky to lose them. At an intersection,
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  Speaker 1: the light had just turned red. I floored it across
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  Speaker 1: the intersection before any of the cars would begin to pass.
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  Speaker 1: My brother shouted at me, calling me stupid and crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but it worked. They didn't follow. We got home after
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  Speaker 1: the extra long drive. My heart was still racing from
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  Speaker 1: the intensity of the situation. I was just happy I
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  Speaker 1: got a working phone for such a low cost. Later
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  Speaker 1: that night, I was playing around with the phone, trying
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  Speaker 1: to set some things up before going to bed. My
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  Speaker 1: parents and brother were already asleep at this point, and
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  Speaker 1: just then, the sound of two car doors slamming shut
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  Speaker 1: outside interrupted me. I looked out my window, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt like my heart completely stopped. The black Honda Civic
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  Speaker 1: was parked across the street, I could only assume the
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  Speaker 1: two guys were already halfway to our front door. I
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  Speaker 1: immediately woke up my dad and explained everything as quickly
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  Speaker 1: as possible. He got up, grabbed a baseball bat, and
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  Speaker 1: crouched behind the front door. A loud knock came at
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  Speaker 1: the front door. My dad screamed at them to go away.
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  Speaker 1: One of the guys on the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: door claimed to have a gun and said that he
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  Speaker 1: would shoot the lock off of the door if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't open up. My dad told me to call Joe,
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  Speaker 1: our friend who lives two doors down who happens to
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  Speaker 1: be a police officer. I called Joe and he said
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  Speaker 1: he would be right over and to stay hidden. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the part that still scares me to this day.
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  Speaker 1: There was the sound of a silenced shot of a pistol.
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  Speaker 1: I peeked over and saw a bullet hole in the door,
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  Speaker 1: inches away from my dad's head. My dad ran away
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  Speaker 1: from the door and we all listened. We heard Joe
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  Speaker 1: outside yelling at them to drop their weapons. My dad
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  Speaker 1: went outside to help when they lowered their guns. Joe
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  Speaker 1: arrested the two assholes. I have to say, this was
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  Speaker 1: the scariest day of my life, but it was also
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  Speaker 1: the best I had ever felt in my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.