Locked Out
Police officer here.
Long story short, guy gets locked out of his house by his wife and we catch him trying to get back in to his house.
It was just after midnight and we got a call of a suspicious person looking in to a home.
We respond code 2 (lights, no sirens) and switch off the lights before we get close to mask our approach.
As we pull up to the house, we see no signs of anyone at the front of the house, so we walk around the rear and BAM, guy with a crowbar wrenching on the back door.
I yell, “Police, drop the crowbar!” Dude starts screaming and nearly crying because we scared him so bad.
Turns out he went to get a coffee as he and the wife had had a few drinks and he forgot his keys and cell phone in the house. She was so hammered she forgot he left and locked the doors like she does every night.
Poor dude tried to wake his wife up but she was passed out and didn’t hear him. He grabbed a crowbar from his shed to try to pop the locking mechanism out and we caught him.
We managed to get a hold of her by calling her on my cell. When she answered the door, she admitted to accidentally locking him out and gave us the exact same sequence of events.
I honestly wish we had body cams so we could replay the poor guy’s face and high pitched scream. Story credit: Reddit / Foreversingleandsad