Four months ago, TikToker Alex (@bumbasee.mp3) was sleeping in his bed when a pantless woman tried to break into his house at 5:45 a.m.
He woke up to the sound of breaking glass. When he came out of his room to investigate, he saw shards of glass and blood everywhere.
He looked around, trying to process what was happening. A woman not wearing any pants was screaming at him from his backyard to help her and call the police because “they” were trying to kill her.
She claimed that someone was chasing her, but Alex didn’t see anyone else around.
He called the police and informed them of the situation. They instructed him to stay in the house. Apparently, they had been chasing this woman for quite some time.
Somehow, she made it onto his roof. He could hear the pitter-patter of her feet above him. Then, she managed to break into his landlord’s house by ripping the door off its hinges and fell through the carport.
“I think my favorite part about the whole encounter was realizing that I’m getting older because all the police officers that were taking our statement after the incident happened, they looked like they were 21,” said Alex.
“It was a bunch of iPad kids that I was giving the police statement to. And one of them, I swear, he never saw CSI, but he knew the trope, and he had his sunglasses on at six in the morning, talking about this lady’s behavior.”
After a wakeup call like that, a normal morning alarm probably doesn’t seem so jarring anymore. Naturally, the story drew plenty of attention online.
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Many TikTok users took to the comments section to describe their own strange encounters with police chases. Others also joked about how young first responders are becoming.
“Once, a helicopter police chase ended on the roof of my garage, and I wasn’t even home and would have never known if his sister hadn’t knocked on my door the next day asking if his phone was in my yard,” commented one user.
“Some of my favorite calls when I was a 911 operator were from frantic callers who were being chased (by police) and needed help (from police). More common than you’d expect,” stated another.
“Had a firefighter come into my work a few months back to give us a flood evacuation alert, and I didn’t register he was a firefighter at first because he had a fresh-out-of-high-school baby face,” shared a third.
“Omg, something similar happened to me like two years ago, and she fell asleep downstairs! The police had to wake her up. She left with two bags of my recycling! (Thanks, I guess?) The police were also kids!!” exclaimed someone else.
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