Too busy for burglaries

[oneofsix]

so if you tell them a pair of knickers were stolen they will sent a patrol car. Kinky

[imdying]

The best personal security is a vicious dog and a shotgun.

Alternatively you could try:
- Join your local community watch group
- Ask your local community constable to visit and talk security
- Talk to your neighbours, get to know them
- Lock your cars when they're in the driveway
- Don't leave your garage door open
- Don't leave valuables visible through your windows if possible
- Lock your house when you're at home and not in the immediate vicinity of the external door
- Fit latches to your windows
- Fit deadbolts to your doors
- Consider fitting a burglar alarm system
- Get off your fat lazy arse and actually go and look when your hear an alarm going
- Arm yourself with the free info provided

Most people in New Zealand are either "she'll be right", or just plain lazy. Don't be that person, don't let them prey on you. The police aren't even half of the puzzle here.

[oneofsix]

- Arm yourself with the free info provided

doesn't look heavy enough to do any damage. Can't I just use an iron bar instead, preferable a hollow iron bar with a wooden stock?

[mashman]

so if you tell them a pair of knickers were stolen they will sent a patrol car. Kinky

or make it illegal for women to dry their knickers outside...

[Usarka]

Maglite - a legitimate object for you to have by your bed and carry around the house.

I heard a noise the other night at 4am, you know how sometimes you hear something and wonder if it was in the house or not or if it was just a creak or groan and its usually nothing?..... well this was definitely no-mistaking in the house.

I jumped out of bed in me boxers, grabbed my 3xD-Cell Maglite and headed for the garage from where the noise seemed to originate. I had time to notice that the little bit of fear I felt was pushed aside by the adrenaline as i pulled the door open to blind the fucker with the bright light and smash him with said torch (remarkable good for that sort of thing they are).

Couldn't see anyone obvious, door was closed, windows in one piece. Fucking place smelt like a brewery though. Oh...... a bottle of home brew had exploded.....took a while to pull the bits of glass out of my foot....

[Smifffy]

I thought Joke Key and the Nat frats campaigned on reducing property crime?

One of the reasons I voted for em actually. One of the biggest reasons why I don't think i'll bother voting for em again.

[oneofsix]

Oh...... a bottle of home brew had exploded.....took a while to pull the bits of glass out of my foot....

Sorry for your loss. : You would have had to down another to get over it

[SMOKEU]

Alternatively you could try:
- Join your local community watch group
- Ask your local community constable to visit and talk security
- Talk to your neighbours, get to know them
- Lock your cars when they're in the driveway
- Don't leave your garage door open
- Don't leave valuables visible through your windows if possible
- Lock your house when you're at home and not in the immediate vicinity of the external door
- Fit latches to your windows
- Fit deadbolts to your doors
- Consider fitting a burglar alarm system
- Get off your fat lazy arse and actually go and look when your hear an alarm going
- Arm yourself with the free info provided

Most people in New Zealand are either "she'll be right", or just plain lazy. Don't be that person, don't let them prey on you. The police aren't even half of the puzzle here.

That's all very well said - but what pisses me off is that the repeat offenders who turn burgling houses into a career only really spend 6 months in jail, then they are released onto the streets making up for lost time by repeating their crimes.

I'm not saying that first time offenders should be locked up for a very long time, but if people are caught doing the same things over and over again then it's about time the justice system sends them to jail for a very long time without parole.

I know this all costs money, but I'm happy spending another $10 a week in taxes if it means that repeat offenders will experience significantly longer periods of time imprisoned.

Oh...... a bottle of home brew had exploded.....took a while to pull the bits of glass out of my foot....

Did you add too much priming sugar or bottle your brew before it had finished fermenting properly?

[imdying]

Maglites and iron bars are a waste of time. I'll just sit near your house, note when you go to work, and roll your home when you're not there. Unless it's too dificult, then I'll do the neighbours instead.

[Usarka]

Sorry for your loss. : You would have had to down another to get over it

Thanks bro. Got the brother around to help drink as much as possible in case any more were going to go. Like handling hand grenades that could go off any second!

Did you add too much priming sugar or bottle your brew before it had finished fermenting properly?

Awesome a beer thread I suspect it was a bug due to improper cleaning/sanitising. I always clean the bottles straight after pour, but I suspect some of my friends were'nt quite so thorough. Still got 5 bottles left, so far no bang but they are in cardboard box inside black rubbish sack.

[mashman]

Awesome a beer thread I suspect it was a bug due to improper cleaning/sanitising. I always clean the bottles straight after pour, but I suspect some of my friends were'nt quite so thorough. Still got 5 bottles left, so far no bang but they are in cardboard box inside black rubbish sack.

above a sieve? divn't waste it like...

[Usarka]

Thats why the plastic bag is there so I can pour it out. I'd probably use a shirt to filter it as bits of glass would still get through my sieve...... Unfortunately the bottle that did explode was on the floor, and a floor suck was out of the question at 4am. Kind of.

[SMOKEU]

Dead bolts are a waste of money when the thief can easily bash the door down, or break a window. What you really need are burglar bars like these.



They're a standard fitment on middle and upper class homes in South Africa.

[imdying]

Apparently we have two main types of burglars; school children and career criminals. Neither of those two groups have any interest in making any more noise than they can get away with, so deadbolts are still going to be effective. Note that many of the suggestions the police have regarding reducing the incidence of burglarly starts at a community level. Neither of those two groups have any interest in breaking your door down whilst Mabel next door is peering through her window at them.

[JimO]

what you need is a big fuckoff dog, i did a job a few years ago for a south african builder who had 2 of the biggest german shepards i have ever seen and they were kept in the house, he had trained them not to bark he said the first thing the burglars would know would be the dogs giving them a good chew. i got the feeling he wouldnt be calling the cops either, once the dogs had done their work the remains would dissapear down the offal pit