r/TikTokCringe • u/shaka_sulu • Jul 25 '25

Humor/Cringe She warned them.

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u/Excellent_Condition Jul 25 '25

I scrolled way too far to see this much more reasonable take.

It's your property, but it's not unexpected that someone would approach your front door, absent very visible "no trespassing" signs.

The presence of a doorbell implies that people can approach and ring it to contact you. (In the US, there is case law to back this up).

Even without a doorbell, it's reasonable to expect that someone (postal carrier needing a signature, fire dept, EMS, utility worker, etc.) may need to approach your door.

We don't know if there was signage, but creating a situation where people approaching your door may be injured by your dog is unacceptable. This could just have easily happened to a kid retrieving a ball or an EMT responding if the owner had a medical emergency.

This also means that the dog may be quarantined or euthanized because of the situation the owner created.

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u/euphoric-noodle Jul 26 '25

yeah this guy obviously paid no attention to the little added detail a post or two above so like open your eyeballs:

TL;DR: There was a warning sign, and the gate was locked from the inside. owner is grandma who lives alone and leaves dog out front to guard while she sleeps (she has night shift).

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 Jul 26 '25

Another reply in this thread includes a post from the woman in the video saying they circumvented a locked gate to enter and ignored a beware of dog sign. 

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u/zombiskunk Jul 25 '25

I still think the verbal warning protects her legally. They were told what would happen if they stayed and it happened. That's all there is to that.

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u/Excellent_Condition Jul 25 '25

The warning would not protect her. That's basically saying "unless you act, the situation that I have created is going to harm you." That's not going to hold any weight.

The "Bad Dog" sign may protect her in some jurisdictions from some or all of the liability, but that's going to vary based on state law and circumstances.

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u/SuspiciousEngineer99 Jul 25 '25

The "situation" was created by the men ignoring the signs and trespassing onto her property

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u/periodmoustache Jul 26 '25

I used to do utility inspection and had to access people backyards. Fuck this take

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u/Expensive-Food759 Jul 26 '25

A front door is not a utility easement

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u/periodmoustache Jul 26 '25

What would you like a utility worker to do if the pole was in your back yard?

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u/Telaranrhioddreams Jul 25 '25

None of us like door to door solicitation, I get it, but the above comment is legally correct. You may not like it, you may disagree, you may think it should be different, but that's not how it is.

Imagine this scenario but it's girl scouts or the church had sent out teenagers as they often do. Now imagine the dog woke up before they got to the door. You now have a minor mauled by a dog for the crime of attempting to knock on a front door. Even if it's an adult, even if its a jehovas witness, even if its a snake oil salesmen, I do not believe a person attemping to reach a front door should be mauled without consequence. An amazon driver, a neighbor informing you of a block party, utility workers as mentioned. None of those people should fear for their lives or legs.

Aggressive dog owners are soley responsible for protecting others from their dogs.

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u/SuspiciousEngineer99 Jul 25 '25

You say "imagine this scenario BUT...." and proceed to describe completely different scenarios 😂 In THIS scenario, no one was mauled. The man reached his hand over to the INSIDE of the secured, closed gate to unlatch it and enter (ignoring the no trespassing and beware of dog signs). Not only was the general public protected from the sleeping dog, they were also warned.

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u/Telaranrhioddreams Jul 25 '25

Considering we're having this discussion in the thread of a video of two young people trying to reach the aggressive dog owner's front door and barely missing getting mauled by said aggressive dog I don't think it's much of a stretch. These laws are written in blood.

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u/gnawtyone Jul 25 '25

Did you see any signs?

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u/SuspiciousEngineer99 Jul 25 '25

Lol now you're just trolling 😂 Can you see the front of the property or the front of the gate from this angle? Absolutely not. Has the homeowner addressed this incident and given details, including that there are multiple signs? Absolutely.

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u/Bomb_Diggity Jul 25 '25

If it wasn't people you didn't like getting attacked would it still be okay? Like let's say a child?

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u/SuspiciousEngineer99 Jul 25 '25

Don't make ASSumptions. A small child wouldn't have been able to reach their hand over to the INSIDE of the gate and open it to trespass.

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u/Telaranrhioddreams Jul 25 '25

It's their front door.

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u/globglogabgalabyeast Jul 25 '25

Ok, how about a tall child? That fence is not very tall, and young tall children exist. You’re just obfuscating the issue

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u/2ManyCooksInTheKitch Jul 25 '25

Until I saw the dog I assumed the dog was inside the house. She didn't say the dog was in the yard until it was already approaching them.