). Me: Is he in uniform?
Wife: Yes
Me: Look out the window, look a few houses down in both directions and tell me if you see a marked car.
Wife: Yes... down by (2 houses down) house.
Me: I'll be down in a minute
So... there's a LEO in my house with his patrol rifle (AR) and me upstairs, out of sight with a shotgun. Coulda been bad.
Officer asks some question about our alarm (did not go off), checks ID, leaves.
Maybe 20 minutes later officer returns and apologizes... The alarm call was the same house number on the other side of the neighborhood.
I thanked him for following up. The mutual head nods were, to me, an acknowledgment that things could have gone differently fairly easily.