The 17-year-old was revising upstairs at home in Ninian Road when the doorbell rang.

BBC: Aamir Siddiqi

When the doorbell rang on a normal April Sunday afternoon, 17-year-old schoolboy Aamir Siddiqi volunteered to answer.

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"We're looking out the peephole when the doorbell rings now, where we maybe we weren't before, " he added.

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Once, when the doorbell rang, I rushed downstairs to the front door, but it was only a boy with a jar collecting money for a new Scout troop.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

Colorado's corrections director, Tom Clements, was killed March 19 when he answered the doorbell at his home outside Colorado Springs.

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Killick drove to the home of his former girlfriend, Jackie Lothian, to seek answers about their recent split but when he rang the doorbell he was greeted by her brother, Jason, who said she was not in.

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She was preparing for bed when she thought she heard the doorbell ring again, and again her first thought was that it had to be Ilsa, come to apologize.

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"That's when you see people, when they go for a walk, they're being pulled by their dog, or when they open the door, just to answer the doorbell, the dog gets to the door first, " he explained.

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For me, the quintessential L.A. experience occurred a number of years ago when I was crashing at Paul's apartment in West Hollywood and the doorbell rang.

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