[kirklancaster]

OK - So it's Halloween, and you return home on your own to an empty house because all your friends/flatmates/relatives are away. It's 3 am and your in bed, a noise wakes you - it's the stairs creaking as someone climbs them quietly. You switch on the bedside lamp and you take out the loaded gun that you keep in the drawer of your bedside cabinet.

The creaking outside your bedroom is now immediately outside your bedroom door. Do you flee gun in hand out of the bedroom window and down the fire escape stairway? Or do you stay with the gun trained on the door?

If you stay, and the door is suddenly flung open and some THING - a zombie or someone dressed in a costume - races into your bedroom towards you screaming, would you fire the gun or then try to flee?

Is it some real Zombie? Is it a burglar/killer dressed up for Hallowwen? Is it one of your relatives/mates playing a prank?

Do you care? And would you just shoot first and worry later?

What would you do? Scoot or Shoot?