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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Due-Performance8475 on 2026-01-12 13:35:08+00:00.
I (26f) was walking my dog at 3am in the pitch black dark, and as she’s taking her sweet time sniffing everything in my yard a large figure comes barreling out of the dark from around the side of my house, my dog immediately backed onto my feet as she’s trained to do and I flipped open my….emergency cake cutting device…. Prepared to defend myself from whoever was rushing me. (I am a small stature female and live in a very sketchy area of town) The figure, that I can tell at this point is a larger man, stops about 3 feet away from me and as he raises his hands in the universal surrender gesture. He, hands still raised, points behind me and just goes “my cat got out, ran that way” that’s when it hits me through the sheer terror, it’s my neighbor. The poor man was trying to catch his cat and was met with a growling German shepherd and a knife wielding woman in Stitch pajamas. I quickly told him to go ahead and get his cat and put the knife back on my waist band. As he walks back by me, giving me a VERY wide berth, he holds up the cat like evidence and goes “this is skittles, sorry to scare you” “same” is all my adrenaline addled brain could come up with.
TLDR; Neighbor chasing his cat ran at me in the dark and I nearly stabbed him…