Posted on 01/20/2021 5:52:36 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The flood gates at the Southern Border will be open by the end of the week, I'm sure. Plan accordingly. :(
Also:
A Burglar Reveals 15 Trade Secrets
https://www.thedollarstretcher.com/home/burglar-reveals-trade-secrets/
Go to a pound and buy the first medium or large dog that barks at you like crazy, but then warms up to you after a bit.
We have a rescue mutt, and she will literally chase down and bite anyone that threatens her, and she can sense people walking the street 20 feet away. She’s got another 10 years of life in her, and is an excellent investment for the $100 we paid.
She also loves us.
DIY home security systems are very easy to set up these days and cost-effective. You DO need to pay the monthly fee, though, but you save the installer’s fee. I really like the Honeywell Total Connect system. It has a panel that looks like a large tablet that you can put on a counter somewhere. It is all secure wireless, so you don’t need to run wires throughout the house. It is also a Samsung SmartThings hub, too, so you can control SmartThings devices such as light switches and plug-in sockets as well. It also connects to Honeywell sirens/sounders and to their smoke alarms.
There’s a similar system from a company called “2Gig,” but I liked going with the Honeywell brand (although they DID spin that business off to a new company called Resideo).
Also, 3M makes a film that can harden your windows, so that the Molotov cocktail is more likely to set your porch on fire, rather than your living room.
LOL...that’s good!
Make sure to get lots of mud on the boots before putting them on the porch. Maybe scatter some used big brass around, too.
This isn't fool-proof. My oldest son knew a kid who was as dumb as a box of bricks but he knew how to jumper out alarm systems and never got caught.
Btw, my oldest quit hanging out with him pretty quickly.
Home Alone booby traps for inspiration... : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZj8QT6iLHg
The only difference is, I added a vented barrel shroud and a shell holder on the stock. It makes noise and bites, too.
I was thinking the same thing about the border.
Motion sensor lights may not be all that effective when you consider that more burglaries happen during the day than at night.
The couple next to us have a sign with an AR-15 on it that says, “We don’t call 911”
No, no, no, no!!!!
30 years ago, when lights were expensive to run, this made sense, but now that LED's make lighting up your house cheap, it's just stupid advice.
What you want is: dusk to dawn lights.
You need to make your house to look like a hard target FROM A DISTANCE, so the bad guys decide to pass your house by and go for an easier target.
If you keep your exterior lights on all the time (dusk to dawn), that's exactly what they'll do.
But, if you use motion detector lights, the bad guys will approach your home and the lights won't come on till after they have mentally committed to robbing your house.
The cost to running an outdoor LED floodlight dusk to dawn is less than $5 a year. So, the cost of keeping your house lit up with multiple floodlights is what? $40-$60 a year. Cheap insurance.
Dogs definitely!
Years ago a neighbor of mine was broken into. An officer came to our door and checked on our place is how we found out.
The officer said we probably wasn’t hit because of the dogs they heard going nuts.
Of course, if the dogs didn’t get the intruders my Pop would have certainly had a surprise for anyone who got in.
Bkmk. Thanks!
LOL! Love it! :)
The goal is to make your house look like a more difficult target than your neighbors, so the bad guys will skip your house and go to the neighbors.
Specifically, you want it to look more difficult FROM THE STREET.
Dusk to dawn lights are the best long distance deterrent at night (you can see my opinion on the stupidity of motion detection lights above).
The best daytime deterrents are signs. Security signs posted where they can be read from the road indicating you have a security system AND a camera system.
Again, the goal is to make the burglars decide to pass you by while they are still on the street.
We have a ‘House Beagle’ and twelve outside/kenneled hunting dogs. We also live in a spot that if you don’t KNOW where we live, you don’t KNOW where we live. ;)
When I lived alone on my other farm, I did purchase a number of the ‘fake’ home alarm stickers for lower level windows, and I always had very bright motion sensor lights on the house (front and back) and on the out-buildings as well.
Also, two dogs. No problems. ;)
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