Shame on me - Let my guard down

Damn RH I'm sorry to hear that...it's always the little things that get us.

On the other hand, I sure wouldn't want to be them if they come back and you're home.

 

That sucks, sorry to hear that RH

 

What T said RH....Man....that is just the pits...I'm so sorry that happened...


It happened to me once..and I was home...asleep , upstairs..

It won't happen again...without someone getting hurt..and it isn't going to be me......

Anything we can do?

 

Don't blame you RH, don't blame you one bit.

 

That sucks, sorry to hear it. I had my first place in a real bad neighborhood (projects were about 2 blocks one way and another set 3 or 4 blocks the other way) and my place was hit a dozen or so times. One thing you can do for the windows is I think you can buy keyed locks that keep them where ever you put them but other than that get the bolt type lock that has a rod that slides to the side then turns down to secure in place and attach it to the top of the window then drill holes in the sill where it slides so you can open it that 3 inches then lock it in place so it cant be opened the rest of the way. I mean theres nothing legal you can do to stop anyone whos determined but thats one thing to make it so they at least have to actualy break in and not be able to walk in. Personaly I still like the sill guns I have seen that attach to the sill and are triggered by anyone trying to come in the window solveing the problem but they now figure its wrong to hurt the poor thieves.
One thing I did do that seemed to work for a while and you might be able to do. It wont stop anyone who actualy knows much but the average thief will think twice. I took a few road flares (the plain red ones with no spike on then that are shorter) and used electric tape to tape them together and to tape some collored wires to them and to a dead battery then put some wires across the class going one way and inside from there verticly and a wire on the top of the bottom window and another sticking out above it. All of this was CLEARLY visible from the outside and to the average idiot looked like the window was rigged with explosives to blow if tampered with. If you can make it look convinceing it will make thievs tend to look elsewhere.
Another thing I saw at a gun show that would be awsome if it could be used but even empty or disabled may make a good deterant was a machine gun with a motion sensor and motors on it that when it detected motion (could be set for narrow area to cover on up to 360) it would aim at the motion and if it moved again it would fire, well the one I saw just had a flashing light in it but if you could set one up with blanks would be cool, and it had a remote like for a car alarm to shut it off.

 

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LOOKOUT, HE HAS A SCREW IN HIS BELT!!!!

Actually, that does look like Melbo............

 

lol I was mentioning things along thiese lines and as soon as I start looking on Frugal squirls I find this sentry gun http://cs-people.bu.edu/aaron/turret/turret.htm Pretty cool deal and shows how he made it and stuff.

 

RH? Just checking in today to see how you are...and if you made it home yet...

If they saw all that stuff..they will most likely try to get in again...I was so angry and felt so violated...They got my TV and stereo equipment and my Baretta out of the kitchen .....

It never happened again..and I too, had left a window open...What galls me is I was home! Upstairs...asleep and so was my 3 yr old son!

The police told me they couldn't help unless maybe the gun showed up down the road ; used in a crime..It never did...Oh well......

Hope you are ok today....? Let us know....say the word and we're on our way....


Roadtrip Y'all!!!

 

That's too bad, I've had it happen and the cops told me these guys normally are gone in about 30 seconds and that's why they leave alot of stuff. With me they got a camera and a shotgun - what was right out where they could grab it.

 

I don't care who you are...that's funny!

 

When I had a gun stolen, and the time I was robbed, I found much to my suprise that the cops were not in the least bit interested in finding who did it. No investigation of ANY kind much less fingerprints. When the gun was stolen they didn't bother to send an officer - took the report over the phone. That kind of concern is sure touching.