“.Few or no neighbors, few witnesses, few or no prying eyes or cameras...People leave their doors unlocked, everyone is trusting, etc...All the things criminals like.”
Not sure which ‘rural area’ he’s talking about.
Here in Hillbilly Heaven, everybody knows everybody else and also knows who everybody else knows so ‘suspicious strangers’ don’t slip through often.
The doors may or may not be unlocked but you have to run a gauntlet of ‘yard and porch dogs’ to find out.
As far as ‘no witnesses’, well, hell, we just consider that a bonafide plus...;D
The few times I *have* seen strangers wandering around the neighbors’ property, I “just happened to be going out right then” with a 30.30 slung over my shoulder and stopped to chat with them, real neighborly-like.
They all took off and never came back.
None of the neighbors knew the people based on the description I gave, later.
Don’t know what those folks were ‘up to’ but they didn’t succeed at it.
We take “neighborhood watch” to a whole new level.
Since Gov. O’Malice gave us a great castle doctrine we don’t see ‘strangers’ at all, any more.
The funniest incident was when a bunch of granola punks thought they’d ignore all the no trespassing signs on dad’s mountain and “go hiking” up there.
When they tried to get back out, hubby had pulled the Yukon across the lane, blocking their exit and was waiting with a shotgun for them.
My dad came down and went ballistic on them about the “possible consequences of trespassing” and by the time he was done they were crying and begging to go home.
That was pretty funny.
I live out west but it’s a parallel with where you live in many ways. What I do worry about at dusk is cougars, though.
:-)