BS: Rob Me Now!

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: open mike
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 03:29 AM

i stand corrected, thanks...

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 10:20 PM

Wired into a security service, and two noisy dogs when we are at home.

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 09:40 PM

Dan is right. Dogs cost a lot more than a burglar alarm system, but they are great company and they keep an eye on the place. Mine are in the yard, but if someone approaches the house from anything but the front, they know about it and raise a ruckus. One night I heard them lunge at the gate with a bark like I've never heard, and I stuck my head out the back door just in time to see a head-and-shoulders shadow cast on the garage door (the garage is set behind and beside the house). The next night I went out to reproduce where that person had been standing, and found that shadow cast when someone stands at the kitchen window. Good girls!

Maybe I should up the ante by posting a photo of the cleanup crew out front. :)

The insurance company wanted to meet the dogs, to be sure they're socialized well, and they passed the test with flying colors. Their job is to bark. If someone comes to the gate, they stay back from it and bark. The meter changer walked up the drive without waiting for me a few weeks ago, and it set them off. I went out the back, let myself through the gate, and told him we'd give them a couple of minutes to calm down. And they did. Never any teeth gnashing or growling or anything like that. They just set off an alarm. Again, good girls! (When I go out of town, they're still out there, and they have a couple of devoted friends who come feed them and keep them company).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 10:55 AM

No offence, open mike, but I think that line was from a song about Pretty Boy Floyd written by Woody Guthrie.

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: I don't know
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 10:51 AM

Tell the police. No way, several years ago an aunt who lived just outside the city of London was warned about a lot of burglaries, so on advise from the police (although her street had never had any problems) she gave them her absent from home dates as did several of her neighbours. All were burgled. When the criminal was arrested he was not a policeman but a relation of one who without thinking had mentioned he had got to patrol certain areas because the people were away. The policeman also lost his job. Soon after the burglary rate in that area dropped to nearly nothing.
We now use neighbourhood watch along with visits from friends & family who water plants, cut grass, feed animals, collect post etc, whenever required. So far after 33 years in the same place we have only had 1 burglary.

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 06:15 PM

Cybercasing the Joint: On the Privacy Implications of Geotagging

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: Midchuck
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:29 PM

I don't worry about that issue much.

We have very nice neighbors, just across the driveway, who watch the place and take care of the cats while we're gone, and we do the same for them.

He has a lot of guns. A lot. And he gets bored waiting from one deer season to the next to shoot something.

Anyone who breaks into our house while we're gone would be missed, because he would not be missed.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: Amergin
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:00 PM

Actually, open Mike, that line is from Woody Guthrie's Pretty Boy Floyd.

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: olddude
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 03:57 PM

Exactly why I put a security system in .. for a few bucks more a month it is a good investment. But this small town everyone knows everyone and they do a good job of keeping an eye out on your place. Still having motion detectors and such with someone monitoring 24/7 is a good piece of mind. That and a Glock 23

while you are home the best security system is a small noisy dog. No kidding nothing escapes those ears and noses ... we haven't invented a system better than a nervous little dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: open mike
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 03:29 PM

in detective shows they always locate the person by triangulating the cell towers their messages bounce off off...and some phones have GPS
built in...

i remember a luddite quote (well i don't remember it well enough to quote--but to paraphrase) that explained the reason it was dangerous to use a fountain pen---it compared it to electro magnetic forces and other harmful things....there are dangers everywhere

not the same as:

Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen. ...

(the line from a song about Jessie James)

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: open mike
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 03:21 PM

decades ago my dad used to express concern about even having an answering machine for fear it would provide info that you were not home. i hear that thieves often read obit columns to find out when
funerals are since they know the house will be vacant at that time.
In the words of the witch from Wizard of Oz what a world, what a world!

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 11:30 AM

If we had our lawn mown people would think we were nuts and gone for sure! They are too used to us letting it grow and go to seed.:-)

I agree about the warnings, though. I told my daughter the other day, for every photos she sends me via her cellphone, her location is easily obtained. NOT something most people think about or know about and it is important to know how to block it. For that, one can go to I Can Stalk You dot com.

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 11:00 AM

Not a bad idea to notify the cops if you're going to be gone for a while. Also, stop the newspaper and have the mail held. Arrange to have the lawn mown if you're going to be gone long enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 10:51 AM

I took a trip recently and we were talking about it here, but I was careful to be vague so the departure was only "sometime soon," and then didn't discuss it clearly until I was back home.

I agree, this is something important for people pay attention to.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: Naemanson
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 07:33 AM

I'm at home!

Sitting in the dark!

With a 12 gauge shotgun!

Subject: BS: Rob Me Now!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 07:02 AM

You need to be careful what you say on line ...

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