Reply to: How Safe is your House?

[bobspud]

Thought this was quite funny the day that po-faced cow introduces £1.8m to make it harder for the criminals.

My local B&Q have got a complete set of wrecking bars on sale for £9.98

[BoredBloke]

Any customers of ADT here?

How much do ADT charge? Does anybody use them? Could you class them (or a proportion) as a business expense?

[bogeyman]

You see where you've gone wrong?

You cannot see Pondlife's message because he is on your ignore list.

[Cyberman]

Sound's like a line from the League of Gentlemen.

I'll bet if they know you are at the end of it

Anyway:

You can see Cyberman's message because he is not on your ignore list.

Even if they do, there is nothing worth nicking. If they do get close to me I will D E L E T E T H E M !!!

[Pondlife]

You can see Cyberman's message because he is not on your ignore list.

You see where you've gone wrong?

[bogeyman]

I realised this morning that I had left my patio doors ajar last night after going out to feed the birds. Fortunately, I am at the end of a cul-de-sac where strangers seldom come.

In the surrounding area at night though there has been a spate of organised car stealing where valuable cars are taken and shipped to Ghana !!

Sound's like a line from the League of Gentlemen.

I'll bet they don't if they know you are at the end of that cul-de-sac

Anyway:

You can see Cyberman's message because he is not on your ignore list.

[Cyberman]

I realised this morning that I had left my patio doors ajar last night after going out to feed the birds. Fortunately, I am at the end of a cul-de-sac where strangers seldom come.

In the surrounding area at night though there has been a spate of organised car stealing where valuable cars are taken and shipped to Ghana !!

[bogeyman]

My house got done in broad daylight in December. I thought is was pretty safe actually but made me realise that no matter what security measure you put in place if you have a sufficiently determined intruder they will get in if they really want to.

True. That's what really worries me.

My home is in a small village. Always been low crime area, but a nearby town has expanded hugely in the last 5 years or so and now we get roaming chavs and crims.

I would gladly drop them if they entered my property, by whatever means, and face the consequences in court. The safety of my family comes first.

However, when I'm not there (which is about half the time) I worry terribly.

Chap up the road got done in broad daylight. There are a lot of chaps wandering around knocking doors selling household goods etc. I have seen one of these jump over a neighbour's wall and I challenged him but he legged it.

What lawless times we live in.

[Gordon Brown]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/back...b/labman6.html

HTH

[d000hg]

I always take laptops and cameras upstairs at night so if people are looking in the windows they don't see a target.

I prefer to close the curtains.

[oracleslave]

My house got done in broad daylight in December. I thought is was pretty safe actually but made me realise that no matter what security measure you put in place if you have a sufficiently determined intruder they will get in if they really want to.

[bogeyman]

Make sure you don't forget the gallstones or any non disolving sutures...

I posses a sieve.

[bogeyman]

But they're wonderful for getting rid of the bodies of miscreants that you've blown away with the slightly dodgy AK...

Shades of Mr Wu in Deadwood.... "****suckers"...

No, I use the acid bath for that.

[bogeyman]

I keep pigs, free range, no worries.

What sort of pigs?

My Dad's uncle was pig farmer. Spent many summer school holidays on his farm.

Not sure I'd recommend them as a defence measure though! At night they tend to sleep very soundly and won't get up for anything.

[threaded]

I keep pigs, free range, no worries.