OH and KEYS! Some people have left KEYS to their house and job in their UNLOCKED CAR over night. Who does that? Seriously?
Personal Rant - Soft Neighbors Are KILLING Me!
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I am so glad I live in a rural setting. I hope you have extra security and a way to barricade yourself. Remember the Alamo
Love my neighborhood! Even love my neighbors, well, most of them, well ok like a few. Alright! SIX I love SIX of my neighbors.
But seriously, it is the sheeple / ostrich cross breeding mentality that probably 25% of them have that really gets me. I think if they just hung their head in shame and quietly licked their wounds I'd be fine but they are almost bragging and pandering for sympathy about it - oh woe is me, my house that I leave unlocked while I go jogging was robbed! The nerve of some people. Oh I guess I'm just a hopeless victim now. This wouldn't happen if there was no crime in the neighborhood and no one told me it was a bad idea to leave the house unlocked; jogging with the extra weight of a key is just so much.
Not outlining my Security SOP but I have the things you'd probably EXPECT. Locks, lights, security doors, cameras, alarm system, safes, off site storage. Are we impenetrable? By all means no. But I am probably in the top 10% of homes in my neighborhood and I haven't done anything extreme. All just common sense stuff that everyone should do.I am so glad I live in a rural setting. I hope you have extra security and a way to barricade yourself. Remember the Alamo
I'm lucky that where I'm at, it's a "decent" street. Dead end, dirt road, unlit. A week or so ago, in the new neighborhood behind me, 2 guys were breaking in in the middle of the day. I could throw a rock and hit the house that got broken into. Luckily there was a 12yo home that called the cops.
In MY neighborhood, it's fairly good. There was a home invasion down the street a few years back, but we think he owed his connect some money for drugs. So it was a targeted incident.
No strange vehicles come up here. I know what all the neighbors vehicles sound like, down to how it sounds on the gravel portion in front of my house.
My neighbors are not too soft. The end house is a rental. He has a flood light on a pole he keeps on during the night that lights up the street down to my house. Annoying? A bit but it's his light bill, not mine haha.
My mom and gramma seem soft but aren't. My mom used to have a substance abuse problem. When she got arrested, she fought the officer pretty good. She isn't weak hehe. She's clean now, but still a badass if need be
My house gets locked up TIGHT. I have a friend staying with me, but he is moving out. One thing we disagreed on was that he kept his outside bedroom door unlocked when he left. I would lock his inside bedroom door from inside the house, and he didn't like it. Yeah I live in a busted trailer, in a street of busted trailers. But thieves don't care. Luckily, it's been quiet. Right now, I have tools in the back of the 4x4, and I know they'll be there in the morning. That doesn't mean I'll leave the keys in the ignition.
My other neighbor is a single mom of 2 college kids. The times that stuff has gone down on this street, she has thanked me for intervening.
As far as the rest of the neighbors, they all have adult males in the house to protect them if need be. But since we all watch each other's backs, there has been no need.
Oh and as far as being "soft", the last time someone lived on this street that we didn't like, there house got burned down. Wether it was because of the meth they were cooking, or an outside source, I will never know.
In MY neighborhood, it's fairly good. There was a home invasion down the street a few years back, but we think he owed his connect some money for drugs. So it was a targeted incident.
No strange vehicles come up here. I know what all the neighbors vehicles sound like, down to how it sounds on the gravel portion in front of my house.
My neighbors are not too soft. The end house is a rental. He has a flood light on a pole he keeps on during the night that lights up the street down to my house. Annoying? A bit but it's his light bill, not mine haha.
My mom and gramma seem soft but aren't. My mom used to have a substance abuse problem. When she got arrested, she fought the officer pretty good. She isn't weak hehe. She's clean now, but still a badass if need be
My house gets locked up TIGHT. I have a friend staying with me, but he is moving out. One thing we disagreed on was that he kept his outside bedroom door unlocked when he left. I would lock his inside bedroom door from inside the house, and he didn't like it. Yeah I live in a busted trailer, in a street of busted trailers. But thieves don't care. Luckily, it's been quiet. Right now, I have tools in the back of the 4x4, and I know they'll be there in the morning. That doesn't mean I'll leave the keys in the ignition.
My other neighbor is a single mom of 2 college kids. The times that stuff has gone down on this street, she has thanked me for intervening.
As far as the rest of the neighbors, they all have adult males in the house to protect them if need be. But since we all watch each other's backs, there has been no need.
Oh and as far as being "soft", the last time someone lived on this street that we didn't like, there house got burned down. Wether it was because of the meth they were cooking, or an outside source, I will never know.
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