Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:40 pm
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Yeah, so our village (just a tad south of Brussels) has at least 2 teams of full time burglars on the go just now, have been for several months. One team got caught, been quickly replaced.
We have a "village" FaceBook page, folks are posting when they've been broken into - or the attempted break-ins. My neighbour 2 doors up and across the road got burgled a few nights back, the gits were disturbed - but their get-away route included running through/over 3 of my neighbours. Within about a 200m radius, there have been about a dozen confirmed break-ins, and those are only the ones we know about.
Last night it was 2 scrotes, caught perfectly on rear-house camera (which is rare for here - public facing cameras are illegal). They were clad top to toe, gloves, hats/scarves military boots, backpacks, hardly an inch of skin showing.
I'd never fancied getting "nasty" with boundary protection, but I'm going to install 1.8m high fencing with razor tape on top where our (2m+) hedges have suffered die-off.
Been talking to the missus about what additional security we can put in place.
Let's just say we have different ideas...
Simple rules don't change - first is physical security. It's easy to go overboard...and the missus has already gotten worried about some of my suggestions (wtf is wrong with "bird scarers"?)
Second rule is - we have a dog. I've advertised the fact.
Scrotes don't need to know it's 15kg of uselessly cuddly French Bulldog, do they?
Third rule is alarm - which we have to accept nowadays is nothing more than a minor annoyance to burglars.
Ours is centrally monitored - the main advantage being we also have the fire detection also linked up, so in the event we have a house fire when we're out; they'll call the fire brigade. We know that either if we are in (and upstairs at night), or out - burglars will have wrecked the place in the 5-10 mins before the cavalry arrive.
Even though I could easily get myself a legal firearm here (shot for years in the UK, handgun and longbore), I'd never go down that route. One day yes, my kids will go to a gun club and learn firearm safety - but the (gawd awful) home firearm stats from most countries speak for themselves. I am considering an "alarm" blank firer, the missus doesn't agree...meh...
Would be curious to hear others experience with "holding the fort".
We have a "village" FaceBook page, folks are posting when they've been broken into - or the attempted break-ins. My neighbour 2 doors up and across the road got burgled a few nights back, the gits were disturbed - but their get-away route included running through/over 3 of my neighbours. Within about a 200m radius, there have been about a dozen confirmed break-ins, and those are only the ones we know about.
Last night it was 2 scrotes, caught perfectly on rear-house camera (which is rare for here - public facing cameras are illegal). They were clad top to toe, gloves, hats/scarves military boots, backpacks, hardly an inch of skin showing.
I'd never fancied getting "nasty" with boundary protection, but I'm going to install 1.8m high fencing with razor tape on top where our (2m+) hedges have suffered die-off.
Been talking to the missus about what additional security we can put in place.
Let's just say we have different ideas...
Simple rules don't change - first is physical security. It's easy to go overboard...and the missus has already gotten worried about some of my suggestions (wtf is wrong with "bird scarers"?)
Second rule is - we have a dog. I've advertised the fact.
Scrotes don't need to know it's 15kg of uselessly cuddly French Bulldog, do they?
Third rule is alarm - which we have to accept nowadays is nothing more than a minor annoyance to burglars.
Ours is centrally monitored - the main advantage being we also have the fire detection also linked up, so in the event we have a house fire when we're out; they'll call the fire brigade. We know that either if we are in (and upstairs at night), or out - burglars will have wrecked the place in the 5-10 mins before the cavalry arrive.
Even though I could easily get myself a legal firearm here (shot for years in the UK, handgun and longbore), I'd never go down that route. One day yes, my kids will go to a gun club and learn firearm safety - but the (gawd awful) home firearm stats from most countries speak for themselves. I am considering an "alarm" blank firer, the missus doesn't agree...meh...
Would be curious to hear others experience with "holding the fort".