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You find a random drunk women sleeping on your sofa - What do you do?
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OvertheUnder
20-12-2016
Interesting situation.

Here a video from the US of a couple finding a total stranger curled up on their sofa, who somehow snuck into the house and took a nap.

They try to throw her out. She's clearly drunk and wants to sleep off the booze. I'd want to help her by sobering her up and getting hold of her parents/friends rather than call the police as she's behaving and compliant.

What would you do, given that she's a stranger, clearly drunk, lost and disorientated - Throw her in the street? call her a taxi etc, let her sleep off the booze with some supervision?
Les Corker
20-12-2016
depends if she was hot
Fairyprincess0
20-12-2016
Ring the police.....
Palafrugel
20-12-2016
Call the police.
James Frederick
20-12-2016
Let the Police deal with it
francie
20-12-2016
Look at the colour of her feet on that clean sofa. I'd blow a fuse.
Jane Doh!
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by OvertheUnder:
“Interesting situation.

Here a video from the US of a couple finding a total stranger curled up on their sofa, who somehow snuck into the house and took a nap.

They try to throw her out. She's clearly drunk and wants to sleep off the booze. I'd want to help her by sobering her up and getting hold of her parents/friends rather than call the police as she's behaving and compliant.

What would you do given that she's a stranger, clearly drunk, lost and disorientated - Throw in the street? call her a taxi etc, let her sleep off the booze with some supervision?”

Why wouldn't you call the police? That will protect the drunk woman and yourself. Seems pretty obvious to me.
OvertheUnder
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by Jane Doh!:
“Why wouldn't you call the police? That will protect the drunk woman and yourself. Seems pretty obvious to me.”

Clearly calling the police would a No.1 priority for the reasons you mentioned, but I'd feel pretty bad, if this women just had a very bad night and got lost in a drunken haze. By the letter of the law she's trespassing on my property, but perhaps a cub of tea and a quick chat might solve a few problems i.e work out why she is lost, who to contact before the police turn up.
Jane Doh!
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by OvertheUnder:
“Clearly calling the police would a No.1 priority for the reasons you mentioned, but I'd feel pretty bad, if this women just had a very bad night and got lost in a drunken haze. By the letter of the law she's trespassing on my property, but perhaps a cub of tea and a quick chat might solve a few problems i.e work out why she is lost, who to contact before the police turn up.”

The police wouldn't necessarily arrest her. They have a duty of care and they'd just let her sleep it off in a cell if they couldn't get her home.

My priority would be protecting myself against allegations (if I were a man), and making sure she receives medical attention if necessary.

I think it would be unlikely she would be arrested for trespass if she were that drunk.
Union Jock
20-12-2016
Make her a coffee then send her on her way.
OvertheUnder
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by Jane Doh!:
“The police wouldn't necessarily arrest her. They have a duty of care and they'd just let her sleep it off in a cell if they couldn't get her home.

My priority would be protecting myself against allegations (if I were a man), and making sure she receives medical attention if necessary.

I think it would be unlikely she would be arrested for trespass if she were that drunk.”

Yeah as a bloke, I'd wary of any allegations, if say she blacked out due to alcohol and then came round the next morning confused, hungover in a strange house with no idea of how she got into my house and on my sofa.

The situation would be totally different if the genders were switched. Crazy scenario for a single women to be in, to find a strange man, asleep on her sofa in the middle of the night. Coppers would be called straight away.
James Frederick
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by OvertheUnder:
“Clearly calling the police would a No.1 priority for the reasons you mentioned, but I'd feel pretty bad, if this women just had a very bad night and got lost in a drunken haze. By the letter of the law she's trespassing on my property, but perhaps a cub of tea and a quick chat might solve a few problems i.e work out why she is lost, who to contact before the police turn up.”

Wouldn't you have to want to press chargers for that you could let the Police take her away but just tell them you don't wish to press any charges.
annette kurten
20-12-2016
i`d be making sure she`s ok and see if i can get a number from her of someone to call, i certainly wouldn`t throw her out into the street in that state.
TARDIS Blue
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by Jane Doh!:
“The police wouldn't necessarily arrest her. They have a duty of care and they'd just let her sleep it off in a cell if they couldn't get her home.

My priority would be protecting myself against allegations (if I were a man), and making sure she receives medical attention if necessary.

I think it would be unlikely she would be arrested for trespass if she were that drunk.”

That's what I was thinking. As a bloke I wouldn't think twice to call the police. Too much of a risk not to.
RobinOfLoxley
20-12-2016
Mebbe shoot her, just in case she is a threat.
WhatJoeThinks
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by RobinOfLoxley:
“Mebbe shoot her, just in case she is a threat.”

Aim for the spine, she might be wearing a vest.
Pink_Smurf
20-12-2016
Throw a cup of water in her face to wake her up and throw her out. I once found a bloke asleep under the stairs in the block of flats I live in. I woke him up along with my big dog, let him have a cigarette and just asked him to go home which was fine with him. Finding someone on my sofa is a whole different kettle of fish though. I'd chuck her out in no uncertain terms.
muggins14
20-12-2016
Apart from wondering how the hell she got into the house I'd also call the police, explaining the situation and that she needed taking care of or taking home, that I didn't want to be going through her private things and that they would be better equipped to deal with keeping her safe than I was.

Re the link in the OP specifically, she's obviously disorientated, doesn't want to leave, keeps saying 'I caught this house' which means what? I would definitely contact the police. Not sure if she's drunk or drugged up but obviously does not want to leave.
I, Candy
20-12-2016
It's woman, for Christ's sake.
gdjman68wasdigi
20-12-2016
Originally Posted by WhatJoeThinks:
“Aim for the spine, she might be wearing a vest. ”

I repeat...remove the head or destroy the brain..

"Shaun..There's a girl in the garden.."
sorcha_healy27
20-12-2016
I'd ring the police immediately. The idea of People entering my place terrifies me..I've been broken into before so I couldn't put up with this scenario
intoxication
20-12-2016
Call the police. Anything could happen. Read a story recently to someone waking up and finding a drunk man holding their baby daughter and then when confronted threw her on the sofa and tried to escape (I don't think the baby was injured).
Maxatoria
20-12-2016
She's lucky in some parts of the US they'd probably been within their rights to just shoot her dead.

Lots of places in the US don't seem to bother locking their doors and then slap a shotgun by the bed incase anyone wanders in....logic 101 its cheaper to flip the door to locked than have to keep buying ammo and getting blood stains off the walls and carpets.
1Mickey
20-12-2016
To get through a double locked door or locked first floor windows she'd have made a lot of noise and a lot of mess so i expect the nosy neighbours would hear it but if not then i'd call the police because someone would have to pay for the damage and i'd at least try to make sure it wasn't me.
grauniad
20-12-2016
Ask her how she likes her porridge.
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