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FEAR is a disease which makes it easy for politicians to manipulate you and companies to sell you things you don't need.Every area is until it isn't.
FEAR is a disease which makes it easy for politicians to manipulate you and companies to sell you things you don't need.Every area is until it isn't.
You won't find any security lighting around my current home and there wasn't any around my last home that I lived in for thirty years. During the course of those thirty years that house was broken into twice. I lived in a safe area until I didn't. When the police came to investigate, each time I learned that there was a rash of home burglaries going on throughout the rural township I lived in.FEAR is a disease which makes it easy for politicians to manipulate you and companies to sell you things you don't need.
I rarely lock my house when I leave and NEVER when actually at home, and I NEVER lock my car in my driveway and mostly -- like 90% of the time, don't lock it elsewhere, either.You won't find any security lighting around my current home and there wasn't any around my last home that I lived in for thirty years. During the course of those thirty years that house was broken into twice. I lived in a safe area until I didn't. When the police came to investigate, each time I learned that there was a rash of home burglaries going on throughout the rural township I lived in.
Your lecture is noted but is of little value to me. But please, do let us know when you stop locking your home when you leave and your car when you're not driving it.
Sorry, but land mines are illegal. However remotely triggered claymore mines using a RING type system for good security are the ticket.
/S if not obvious enough.
Glad to see that white privilege is working out well for you. :thumbsup:I rarely lock my house when I leave and NEVER when actually at home, and I NEVER lock my car in my driveway and mostly -- like 90% of the time, don't lock it elsewhere, either.
Looks like your fear-based assumption about me . . . boomeranged.![]()
Every area is until it isn't.
But please, do let us know when you stop locking your home when you leave and your car when you're not driving it.
You should do whatever makes you comfortable. I'm totally OK with it. Open doors, unlocked doors, moats, drawbridges, armed security, electric fence, whatever floats your boat. If you interpreted my post as some type of argument, then you misinterpreted it.Oh well in that case we should all put bars on our windows and build panic rooms for our houses
What's important is to remember that they broke into your car because they decided they needed your stuff more than you did. It's hard to fault a person for trying to get ahead in life, you know?I regularly leave my car unlocked, parked outside my house. Not that a locked door stopped someone from breaking into my car twice and stealing it once when I lived in...less desirable areas of SE MI
White privilege my fucking ass. A couple of years ago, thieves boosted my big screen and my laptop while I was at church. I was talking with the police chief and we agreed, he does the same, which is to not lock his house because the fuckers will just break something to get in anyway.Glad to see that white privilege is working out well for you. :thumbsup:
I'd be more concerned with nicer neighborhoods and big lots than poorer more urban settings. Thieves don't steal from people that don't have anything, and big lots create a sound/visual barrier to anyone seeing them. Hasn't happened in awhile, but there was a few daytime forced entries around here, and there's the occasional burglary. I don't worry much about it. If someone wants in, they'll get in. If I'm home, they'll likely regret it.
Thanks for the compelling story. Have you noticed that you're very angry and that it started over just six words I said? Carrying around all that anger just can't be good for you. Why not lean back in the rocking chair with a smile on your face, reminiscing about the glory days of walking through those neighborhoods where the black predators live (did I paraphrase that correctly) like a boss?White privilege my fucking ass. A couple of years ago, thieves boosted my big screen and my laptop while I was at church. I was talking with the police chief and we agreed, he does the same, which is to not lock his house because the fuckers will just break something to get in anyway.
My guess is you will STILL not be embarrassed at how serially WRONG your asshole assumptions about me and my life have been in this thread. So much "winning" for you, eh?
So, listen up, asshole. You're talking to a guy who was a P.I. for years and refused to carry a personal piece, despite strenuous advice from all sides to do so . . . because if you carry a gun you had better be prepared to end someone's life, and I had had enough of that to last me a lifetime. Got that, Sparky? I often found myself the only white guy for blocks and blocks around in the very worst parts of North Philly at 3 am, alone. I survived because I didn't radiate fear (predators can literally smell that on you -- also body language), and because I naturally treated everyone I met with respect. Plus . . . a lone white guy in those circumstances? They didn't know who the hell I was.
And, Mr. Shithead Assumption Bleater, you're also talking to the guy who kicked Sylvia Seegrist out of his house a few months before she shot 9 people at the Springfield Mall and killed 3 of them, including a 3 year old boy.
I don't live in fear. Never have. You? You're just another twerp on the net talking smack from behind the safety and anonymity of your keyboard.
If you can't spot the sketchy guy in your neighborhood, you might be the sketchy guy in your neighborhood.If they're doing it for security they have a screw loose. This area is incredibly safe
gang stalkers and such?Many of us have a lot of enemies and don't want to give them easy places to hide if they're planning something.
What I do is keep my yard well-luminated except for one obvious copse of shrubs with a light that *appears* to be out. That's where I put the land mines.
If you can't spot the sketchy guy in your neighborhood, you might be the sketchy guy in your neighborhood.
See what you did, @Exterous . And we were all getting along so well.
White privilege my fucking ass. A couple of years ago, thieves boosted my big screen and my laptop while I was at church. I was talking with the police chief and we agreed, he does the same, which is to not lock his house because the fuckers will just break something to get in anyway.
My guess is you will STILL not be embarrassed at how serially WRONG your asshole assumptions about me and my life have been in this thread. So much "winning" for you, eh?
So, listen up, asshole. You're talking to a guy who was a P.I. for years and refused to carry a personal piece, despite strenuous advice from all sides to do so . . . because if you carry a gun you had better be prepared to end someone's life, and I had had enough of that to last me a lifetime. Got that, Sparky? I often found myself the only white guy for blocks and blocks around in the very worst parts of North Philly at 3 am, alone. I survived because I didn't radiate fear (predators can literally smell that on you -- also body language), and because I naturally treated everyone I met with respect. Plus . . . a lone white guy in those circumstances? They didn't know who the hell I was.
And, Mr. Shithead Assumption Bleater, you're also talking to the guy who kicked Sylvia Seegrist out of his house a few months before she shot 9 people at the Springfield Mall and killed 3 of them, including a 3 year old boy.
I don't live in fear. Never have. You? You're just another twerp on the net talking smack from behind the safety and anonymity of your keyboard.
"All exterior doors should be secured with a deadbolt lock that has a minimum one-inch throw."
I don't worry to much about bank grade locks when there's a window 2' to right and left, and behind the bushes, and in the cellarway, and, and...
I think I'd rather go through a window, since it isn't right out front where everyone can see. If you're afraid of a little glass, housebreaking probably isn't the right career for you ;^)Breaking a window makes noise and is a risk for cutting yourself. If you have a house that is unlocked vs a house that requires you to break a window, which do you think will get hit?
The point, however, was that saying you can leave your door unlocked and it wont matter is absurd.
I think I'd rather go through a window, since it isn't right out front where everyone can see. If you're afraid of a little glass, housebreaking probably isn't the right career for you ;^)
You mentioned a minimum 1" throw on a deadbolt. Lock the fucking knob, and be done with it. That'll keep the "honest" people out, and everyone else knows better.
