What would you do..

we have a golf club behind our bed/couch.

I would grab it and start screaming to get out or I'll bash your fucking head in. I would swing at the knees if I had to defend myself so I wouldn't have murder hanging over my head.

It sucks that you can get charged with assult for hitting someone who breaks into your house, but you can. I'd rather do that than risk them getting away

 

This has happened to my family. Thankfully my father used to be a cop, and handled the situation quite well. He had my mother dial the police while he carefully confronted them with a rifle. By carefully confronted I mean he stayed in the other room within earshot of the guys and said, "excuse me, but this is the wrong house for you to be in" then cocked his rifle. A nice "chink-chink" for the burglars to hear. That was plenty enough to get them out of the house.

The same tactic works if someone is trying to steal your car - as proven again by my father.

We grew up in a very bad neighborhood in Flint, MI. :&