I was out of town for a night and when I got back home I found a large golden knife placed by my front door. I called the police non-emergency number and unfortunately a cop called me back a little over an hour later and said there really isn’t much they can do so now it sits in my garage (I used gloves while handling it). Is there anything more I should do? This creeped me out last night and I slept with one eye open.
That looks like it might be a Ginsu. Score!
I was going to say... That looks like either a really nice knife, or a really bad knife!
Not sure if that's snow or damage on the knife..
was definitely thinkin that looks like a good knife. kinda wonder if any of their neighbors are in the food biz
It slices and dices! It shreds and tears!
YOU CAN EVEN CUT A CAN WITH IT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbc3eoVHlKU
I miss commercials like this
Collect on delivery. You don’t see that anymore
👆he knows 😂
I got 3 coming today
$12.99 each
GINSU Kiso 8" Chef Knife, Black - Dishwasher Safe and Always Sharp
Sold by: Ginsu
$12.99
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0v_NGQpq4
Woohoo, free knife!
Hanlon's Razor + Murphy's Law + Apophenia
What you're saying is someone happened to be carrying a knife and dropped it on the stoop? Actually the most likely answer is that op made it up, given that this is the Internet
Unfortunately for me this is real, I’m not entirely sure how I can prove it besides it not being worth my time to go out in the cold and set this up.
There’s another possibility. Someone was running from trouble and chucked the knife which ended up seating neatly on your doorstep.
Having seen some throw a cashew nut across a room, it get lodged so perfectly and tightly in their ear that they had to go the the ER to get it removed, I know for a fact stranger things have happened.
The medical staff didn't believe your cashew story, just like some people don't believe this knife story. The world is a funny place.
I also know for a fact it did, i’ve seen it as well! Link for proof: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/
Maybe you should get some cameras
Go out in the cold to set it up? Bro it would take 3 seconds. Open door, place knife, walk back in lol. The fact that you used that excuse makes me now fully believe you made this shit up.
Honestly I believe you, it's certainly possible that it's true, I'm just saying Occam's Razor here says that most things on the internet are made up.
How far is the sidewalk? I wonder if maybe someone found it in the grass and moved it to the house? Maybe a neighbor or someone walking dropped it. Or it’s a creepy haunted knife 🤣
That was a sword, in a field.
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Is this that schizophrenia thing I keep hearing so much about?
Occam dropped the razor. It was inside a pumpkin all along. look for smashing pumkins....the song would be "Today"
Salesperson dropped it. They coming back.
… or else
Just giving OP a free sample. Good business tactic
Piece of junk wouldn't cut the shoe. He had to drop it!
Okay, well pretend this shoe is whatever you people eat...maybe it is a shoe!
Plot twist: they are not a knife salesperson.
My name is Dan, from Cutco Knives, and I'm not leaving until I make a sale
Lmaoo this can be plausible
Now when they return, remember switching to your knife is faster than reloading.
knife the watermelon
Ice pick grip, across the chest and into the ribs.
Replace it with a spoon and check back tomorrow
I'd like an update on this
Call your neighbors and post this to a Nextdoor or neighborhood Facebook group. If this is nefarious, best to get the word out. If it's not then someone may recognize the knife. I say that because over the years the internet has stories of dementia patients caught on ring cameras wandering through yards or right up to the door. I have seen one of an old woman with a knife. They may have grabbed the knife in a moment of confusion or fear, then had a lucid moment and returned home.
there actually is a senior living facility not too far down the street from me and many residents do walk in front of my house throughout the day so that is entirely possible
Contaxt them and the police. The knife might have some finger prints.
If my experience with Nextdoor is typical then OP's Nextdoor community will be full of Boomer Karens who are frightened of their own shadows and they'll agree that this is yet another sign that the neighborhood is going down the drain and has become a dangerous ghetto full of hooligans, thieves, and serial killers waiting to spring out of the woodwork.
Sounds like my neighborhood FB group. Thieves around every corner!
In my neighborhood it's all about the T Rex size Coyotes wandering around peeking in windows. When the transplants moved here and started to bang on their pots and pans to scare away Willy and friends I started lighting up fireworks at 4 in the morning as payback.
The blade has been passed on... it is now your turn to cut the chives. Good luck.
I want the knife... [rolls again] ... please
Get some cameras just in case it's not someone playing a bad joke
I'm more concerned you apparently got stuck in a 50's movie and live in black and white.
Your cat thinks you can't defend yourself.
Sherrone Moore came to you first
Should be higher
Hopefully this is life trying to cut you a break
Were you out cheating on your girlfriend and she came looking for revenge?
sadly single, and I moved here not too long ago and I don’t have any enemies that I’m aware of
looks at user name alright hope the user name doesnt check out.
It could have been to check if you were home eg. Someone left the knife to see how long it would take for it to be removed, could be looking to break in while you’re out. I hope you have sturdy locks and alarm system, just in case 😅
Is that a poop knife?
A free poop knife
Looks like a nice free knife.
Do the strike plates have scratches and shit on em? I wonder if someone was using it to jimmy the lock.
https://preview.redd.it/gxa5u842rs6g1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69e8cc6d3d5f71801cc0a461b6a50ccfa15381c6
Here is one side of it
https://preview.redd.it/fxd5v1fdrs6g1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e47c50fcb80acf8e9be7e9b80cd44deca781b8a6
Other side
What does your door lock look like? I’m thinking someone was trying to use that to break in.
there is a screen door before my front door and that is only locked with a latch which didn’t have any visible signs of someone trying to break in but I’ll do a more thorough examination when I get home from work
That’s good. Stay safe!
(Strike plates are the metal plates on your door and door frame where they come together at your doorknob.)
That is a Thyme & Table knife from Walmart.
Eww that is one shitty knife. Probably from a Carnival Cruise
It makes more sense than someone leaving a good knife.
That's definitely someone's "poop knife."
If you're cold they're cold
Now you have protection, and it didn’t cost you a dime!
NKD! Congrats
I can see that some local kid found it laying on or near your property and tried to be responsible and placed it on the nearest door step assuming that is who owned the knife.
Love this very Hitchcockian shot
I had similar happen a few months ago, but I have cameras so I could see the guy tossing a knife with red specks on it onto my lawn. The non-emergency line had me bring it in the next day and share the videos.
You have been challenged to a duel. By picking up the knife you have accepted both the duel and the weapon choice. Date, time, and location options will follow.
I never find cool free stuff on my porch.
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I'd recommend entering a 5k. You run faster with a knife. Everybody knows that.
Leave a rock there in its place. Rock beats scissors, or in this case, knife, after all.
You call that a knife?
“Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o'-lantern with a knife in the side of its head with a note that says "You." After that, I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.” - Jack Handy
I have one in the same spot of my house. Don't know where it came from. I tell people it's a threat to mice and chipmunks, but really I don't know why it's still there. Guess I just like it there?
This happened to me recently! Turns out my husband had offered to sharpen a friend's knife and the friend had dropped it off on our porch.
They just wanted to let you know it's knife to meet you!
Part of a spell. Cutting all ties with you.
Its your very own state issued knife for self defence when the red fat man comes with his horde of jolly little elfs.
Just be thankful they it wasn't a painted scythe on your driveway.
The Salamanca Twins do not mess around.
My Boys!
There's a door-to-door salesman out there freaking out about the ginsu they lost
Do you live in Pleasantville?
Sorry it was me, I dropped it by accident. It’s my favorite golden knife, im sure it was dangling from my bag and fell off then I sat on there.
If you want we can meet at the park to settle this in a knife duel, to resolve this small issue like a man.
The winner and only survivor can keep both knives. Deal?
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It saves time for Halloween trick or treaters
If you’re cold, it’s cold. Bring it inside.
Do you live near a sidewalk or driveway where someone else's might have walked or shoveled snow? It might be that someone found it on or near your property and figured you lost it and set it there to return it.
That looks like a house in the North East
Have you checked your door does there appear to be any pry marks like the person was attempting to open the door ? Look around at all your windows outside and the other door if there’s others ways in the home for pry marks…Seems like the police could’ve responded and took possession and made a report !
I would put cameras up on your home. That way you can thank the person for the knife next time.
Don’t touch it or you will be framed for murder
It's the community poop knife
It's when one shows up on your pillow that you really have to worry
Well, you don't see that every day.
My first thought was someone was carrying food and stuff to go somewhere and dropped it without noticing.
Keep it
Congratulations! The Poop Knife fairy has been by for a visit and left you a precious gift for your bathroom.
That’s a sick knife. Maybe a Shun classic?
Free poopknife
https://i.redd.it/5ft672h18t6g1.gif
you’re better off just leaving it alone
you never know what someone might've used it for
It's a wonderful knife
Free poop knife
murder weapon!
Free knife!
Those cutco guys are getting REALLY aggressive...
Stay safe tho
In my country, people doing witchcraft use some sort of medium, placed somewhere at the house, to do harms people inside and even if you have cctv video and proof whom did it, police can't do much can only charge public disturbance as they cannot link it directly. We called it "Santau" and other terms also, doctors cannot do anything as modern medicine could not detect anything wrong inside body. Those who haven't encountered it wouldn't believe for sure but when its happening in front of your eyes hard to avert your eyes. Lots of things in the world still yet uncovered
CRAP, That's where I left it!
Do you live in silent hill?
Perhaps it's a nice gesture? From someone who learned you didn't have a poop knife?
the other day I went to a concert and forgot that I had my pocket knife so, not wanting to walk back to my car, I just shoved it in a corner of a building. Maybe this guy forgot he was carrying a chefs knife?
Run.
The knife distribution system never misses. Congrats!
Person A loses a knife while walking or driving by.
Person B sees the knife on the ground, and knows someone might be looking for it, and if left on the ground, it may hurt some(one/thing) so they put it on the nearest safe spot they can see.
congrats, you've made the cut
I see this in a positive light. Someone made the decision not to commit armed robbery. Well done, fellow.
When did the snow start? That gives you a clue as to when it was placed since it has snow on it
Isaac ref
Free poop knife
Free knife!!!
Once in the 90s I came home to a loaded pump shotgun laying in my drive way, it had recently been fired. I couldn't get any law enforcement to show real interest in it, so I got friend, owned a pawn shop, to check the serial number to see if it was stolen. It wasn't so I put it in my safe, used it a few times on varmints.
Shit, I was drunk. Can I get it back?
Knife is possessed and it haunts anyone foolish enough to pick it up.
A good cop would have been proactive and come out and taken it as evidence in the event a crime they are unaware of was committed, and a weapon was ditched.
Pennywise says hello...
Police will feel stupid (but not admit it) when they find out they’re looking for a knife that was disposed of by a person of interest during a getaway through your neighborhood.
Continue to sleep with one eye open, while now clutching aforementioned knife.
Murderers aside, if you have a public sidewalk in front of your house its possible someone found it in the snow and just wanted to leave it somewhere noticeable so nobody got hurt on it.
Have you befriended crows by any chance? They'll bring shiny things to people they like.
If you have it, that means the psycho doesn't have it.
Win!
Get a ring camera
Cool! Free new knife! 😘🔪🗡️⚔️Wash it up and enjoy your new possession.
2 Poop 2 Knife
Let me guess, you live on Elm Street?
That's unsettling in a very deliberate way.
Well, now you have a knife to defend yourself
Do you live near Ann Arbor perchance? 😵💫
Is that a Shun????
Let's just hope it's not Rob Reiner's son trying to frame you for his murder.
Somebody borrowed a knife from somebody at the church supper or whatever and returned it to the wrong house. Stop dramatizing it.
A pitbull and cameras along with a small arm will solve any anxiety you have
while pitbulls are great dogs I would not get one in an "I need protection/security situation" simply because you're likely to have police at your place at least once in the near future over what you needed protection about. and it's almost a dead certainty that if your pitty so much as looks at one of the officers, it's gonna get shot for being a threat
I tend to agree. You need to watch those dogs very closely and no other household pets. But if the person gets into the house, you can guarantee their nuts will get surgically removed
Looks like a Japanese blade. I’d get it out of the snow ASAP and dry that find out
Slept with one eye open? I mean it's not a threat to you, whoever left it there doesn't have a knife now.
You should probably buy a gun,check if your state has constitutional carry if not get a CC permit
If that’s not a warning, I don’t know what is.
Am I missing something?
Id have the cops check it out. Could’ve been used in an attack or murder.
Solid poop knife
No one talking about how this could be a potential murder weapon?
The world is a violent place. Is this your first day?