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MzMia -> RE: shoring up- you and your stuff (3/15/2008 7:58:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
Ok- blame it on anything you want. My thoughts are that violent crime is up. We are up against summer- where crime typically increases.
1. have you taken extra precautions. [ as compared to say 3 years ago]
2. if so, what specifically are you doing to secure your home, your person, you valueables. ?
3. if you are doing nothing- why or why not.
My mother should have written a book on this subject.
lol
One thing I will say is this, LIGHT can be a BIG security measure.
IF you own your own home, I would install flood lights all around the perimeter.
Those automatic lights that come on, when someone walks within 20 feet of your
door are a must have!
There are many inexpensive home alarm systems.
Even if you don't have one, you can put up a sign saying you do.
You can also put up a sign saying, BEWARE of dog. {again even if you don't have one}
Gates are always great!
I am a big believer in always securing the perimeter!
It is YOUR property and you have the right to set up booby traps if necessary.
Those gates with the barbed wire at the top, are nice also.
My mother had the basement windows bricked in, which is legal as long as no-one sleeps down there
{I think}.
Of course, bars on all the windows, etc.
Also, all entrance doors should have a gated door installed in front of the regular doors.
All the regular doors should be made of steel.
Good locks on all your doors!
An inexpensive club on the car, of course.
Well these were my 3 minute tips off my head!
Can you tell I live minutes from D.C.?
Laugh if you want, but our house was never burglarized and we lived there over 35 years, within walking distance of S.E. Washington, D.C. {when D.C. used to have one
of the largest crime rates in America.}
Several of our neighbors, had break ins, but our house was fortified and not worth all the effort
it would take to get in it!
My mother even had an old barbed wire gate in front of the basement steps, lol
She had a few more things also, I just can't list them all.
On top of all this crap, she also had a gun.
Damn if I know where she got it from, she never used it.
By the way, my mother was a little school teacher! [:D]
Ahead of her time I always say!
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