sixdogs said:
Could the guy have just been a Peeping Tom? I don't mean "just" but that's less than a potential intruder.
+1 to this. If the guy was scoping the house, why would he approach with someone outside? Makes no sense. Might have just been curious and gotten caught being so. It happens. I had someone walk right across my property, straight line like, while I was entertaining one afternoon. Sometimes people have it in their heads if they aren't damaging/ stealing anything it isn't illegal. To an extent, they are correct. Almost nobody prosecutes for simple trespassing. The person may have simply been walking and stopped "for the show".
He could have been a mass murderer, but what is more likely, really?
Enjoy your day, lock your doors for a while, give it no more thought. After all, even if he was there to case your house, he'll case the next place instead, a place where they haven't seen him and suspect nothing. An alert owner is too risky for most crooks. There are plenty of easier targets to be had.
Sorry I didn't give you a reason to build an arsenal of weapons and bury land mines, with a perimeter of lethal attack dogs which haven't been fed in weeks, but I like to think most people aren't deserving of death for taking a walk, trespassing or not.
Live is too short to be paranoid.
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