Listen to this moronic occurrence:
My GF came over and we fell asleep on my bed (no, sorry...no pictures).
About an hour later (12am) I am awoken by a noise.  Took me a couple seconds to realize what it was: someone was trying to get in the front door of my apartment!
*Massive adrenalin dump* (had to use the term...no reason not to)
Still half asleep I jump out of bed and yell "what the fuck!?"
I realize that I had only latched one lock on my door and am afraid the person is about to kick it in.  The hawk axe in the corner catches my eye, so I grab it and run to the front door to brace it from being kicked in.
I get to the door and the person is still trying the handle and shaking the door, so I literally punch the door and yell "what the fuck do you want!?" (I guess in an attempt to startle them? Made sense to me at the time.)
The reply I get is some unintelligible language (e.g. not english or Spanish.)
I then assume that perhaps its my Chinese neighbors, whom I'm friends with, so I crack the door.
There I find standing an Indian guy (dot kind), who says "is this apartment ###?" (which is the corresponding apartment to mine in the adjacent building...dumbass was trying to use his key on my door).
I simply say "no", and close the door in his face.
After I fully woke up I started to think about what had just happened, and it started to bother me allot.  Had it been an actual burglar, I made several absolutely stupid mistakes that could have gotten me killed or worse.
1) I grabbed the first weapon I saw, a hatchet hawk, rather than the gun which was just a couple feet farther away.  I can't even begin to tell you how stupid this was.




2) I should have had all of my locks on my door locked door instead of just one. Inexcusable carelessness.  




3) I didn't tell my GF what was going on at all.  Lets say some shitbird did kick in the door (and my retarded ass was now fighting him with an axe hawk)...my GF would have had no clue what was going on until it was too late.




4) I opened the door.  What the fuck? How stupid can I be?  "I don't know who is there and i'm still half asleep...let me open it and see".
Normally I don't care about my own security that much...but the fact that someone else could have been severly harmed due to my stupid behavior really upset me.
Today I installed a peep hole on my door, no more opening it to see who is there.




I will lock my door better, every time.




I will be getting a lock box for my handgun so its closer at hand rather than using some random camping tool since it is "closer".




I will tell anyone else who is in the house with me what the hell is happening if any potential shit starts to hit the possible fan.




I will train my girlfriend on my handgun, so that she knows how to use it in case I'm off somewhere being a moron.
I think I've learned my lesson...and I hope that anyone who reads this learns from my blatant failures.





ETA::Edited because people were bitching about me not using the proper terminology for a tomahawk. Didn't want to sound like the "katana unboxing guy", so I varied the wording.  Guess that was a mistake.
 

I didn't read OP's post but I'm pretty sure it will be a train wreck.

You need to move.

Lumbee's ain't Injuns.

Wait.....you said like Gandhi, not Sitting Bull.  Well, my point still stands.

A Hawk is a  perfectly good hand to hand weapon. Zimmerman should have carried one.

Dumb ass. Gun aimed at entrance behind cover. Call police.

Deadbolt, door handle, and safety chain.



Just had the door handle locked at first.



 

I bet you don't say that very loud in Robeson County.


















I sure as fuck don't.

Correct.



 

What is irony for $200, Alex? Oh, dot, not feather, damn.

I'm dumb, but I ain't retarded.  

Stopped reading.




Glad you guys are okay...for next time, have a plan rehearsed.



 

Thought about uploading some pics of my ex-gf as a peace offering...but then I realized if my current GF saw me doing that, I would actually die tonight.



 

Glad you learned something. Thanks for the lessons learned.

Needs more



 

Shoulda grabbed your grandpappys double barrel and blasted 2 through the door and called crazy uncle Joe Biden to back you up.

Glad you didn't get murderraped.

Unfortunately that's over 500 miles away.



What about two rounds from the balcony with an ar15? Or would Uncle Joe disapprove?



 

If you kill an intruder with a tomahawk do you invoke the teepee doctrine?

why are you impeding my Dell technical support traffic?

Explain please.

This is how you should check the door

 

Now that I have a brand new peep hole, it is a possibility.



 

Oh dear, where to begin with this.

You from around Lumberton by any chance, or some other area of the country?

For TL;DR crowd OP's screen name sums up story well.  Oh and he mentions a GF but no pictures

Unlock the other lock.
Sit back on your sofa with your gun.
Wait.


Naturally, I'm just kidding.

What firearm was a few feet away?

If it was a highpoint you may have done better the with 'hawk.

so when you saw it was a guy from India, did you think your GF had you outsourced
damn it Jim I'm not an Entomologist I'm a...........

you reacted... that was good.



you grabbed a weapon...that was good.



you did not call 911...that was good.



you went to go investigate...that was good.



and you were able to "think" during a massive adrenalin dump...that was good.

Well played sir.

380 (from the day's CCW) was on the dresser...normally not where I put it.


loaded ar-15 was just a few steps (and one lock) farther than that.

Other guns weren't loaded and would be infinitely less useful than the hawk would have been.





 

this proves again KISS wins
why you grabbed the ax? cause it's simple and close, and you can't think woke up in the middle of the night
get a KISS handgun or rifle, with no light or buttons need to press

Because some one got confused about the Apt Building number?



ROFL...  Do you jump every time someone says boo?



 

I thought it was an Indian with a feather ... I am dissapoint

I've seen that guy several times since going into the other apartment...he does actually live there (or at least, has friends who gave him a key.)





He gives me a wide berth.





He's probably posting on some Indian forum right now about some wild eye'd, half naked, foul mouth white guy who startled the shit out of him (he never saw the hawk, as it was obscured by the door.)





 

White Castle sticker on yo crib door?

My apt has no identifying markings as per OPSEC.



 

This at door linked to computer/Tv

they sell a 4 pack at Walmart



work smarter not harder

This detail ruined the whole story for me.

Confused was it a Tomahawk or a Hatchet-HUGE Difference

Hey just out of curiosity any relation to this dude?

well, it was actually a hawk.
I just felt like a dick typing that word over and over.



When I said "camping tool" yeah...bit of a stretch.





ETA::I'll probably regret this, but fuck it, its just the internet.  The one on the left.






 

Heh.

Oh the irony if it was the feather kind and he had been killed that night. "Indian killed by white guy with a tomahawk". There would have been some

Without pics of the GF this thread is all hearsay.

Okay fine, here you go.



I hope she doesn't get mad at me.







 

that wuz a 7-11 injun,,,not a bingo injun,,,,,

neato





#4 is a non-issue, she would have figured it out