Do you have any sort of personal home protection/security?

[Heyo]

Such as a firearm, an alarm system, a knife by your bed, a machete?

Or even just a burglar alarm?

The car is usually open but I take the keys inside. The front door snaps in and can't be opened without key but the back door is always open. I've got some swords but they are for practice not for serious use and so are the bows and arrows.

 

[Aupmanyav]

We have a community alarm system, but it has never been used. Reasonably safe around our place. CCTV in the lanes.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Such as a firearm, an alarm system, a knife by your bed, a machete?

Or even just a burglar alarm?

Nope, none of these. Never have done, never felt the need. And I live in a city of around 9 million people.

 

[Mock Turtle]

By gad, one must be a jolly bad sort to own any lethal weapon to harm some poor chap trying to make his way in life by stealing a little from those who have a lot. Best to make your property look like the owner has nothing worth stealing - as I do - seems to work well. Plus of course, we don't go in for those nasty things like guns here in old Blighty.

PS A note mentioning that any cryptocurrency is buried deep in the garden might help.

 

[exchemist]

Such as a firearm, an alarm system, a knife by your bed, a machete?

Or even just a burglar alarm?

A burglar alarm, which I set when the house is unoccupied. I don't feel the need for anything while I am in the house.

But then, you see, people don't have GUNS where I live.

 

[Secret Chief]

Such as a firearm, an alarm system, a knife by your bed, a machete?

Or even just a burglar alarm?

Reading some of these posts it all sounds a bit scary. If I felt the need for that stuff I'd be wanting to relocate. We got a house alarm after an attempted burglary (yeah horse and bolted) but then everyone had them and with so many false alarms (hehe) they just got ignored. So now almost no-one has them round here and ours is long since removed. CCTV cameras seem to be the thing now but we don't have one.
We have quite a lot of knives (in the cutlery drawer) and two alarm cats (like the electronic predessor they seem to go off a lot).

 

[ChristineM]

In France we have a fire alarm an nosey neighbors.

In the uk we had the full monty, passive, active, fire, smoke and water sensors, cctv, 24 hours monitoring.

I don't miss it

 

[SalixIncendium]

Such as a firearm, an alarm system, a knife by your bed, a machete?

Or even just a burglar alarm?

Not right now, but I'm planning on digging a moat and installing a drawbridge before the snow flies.

 

[Secret Chief]

In France we have a fire alarm an nosey neighbors.

In the uk we had the full monty, passive, active, fire, smoke and water sensors, cctv, 24 hours monitoring.

I don't miss it

You can't beat a nosey neighbour.

 

[ChristineM]

You can't beat a nosey neighbour.

Best alarm system you can't buy

 

[Secret Chief]

Best alarm system you can't buy

Talking of neighbours...
There's a woman who lives at the top of the street (with her young son and elderley mother). She's not big built or anything imposing looking, but you just get the idea you wouldn't want to upset her (lovely person, but you get my drift). Anyway, she heard a noise downstairs in the middle of the night. She got out of bed and went downstairs to investigate only to find a man had broken in from the back of the house. Not sure what I'd have done at this point but she snapped at him "What the **** do you think you're doing in my house?". Realising he'd made a terrible mistake he turned tail and scarpered.

 

[Revoltingest]

You can't beat a nosey neighbour.

Years ago, our neighbor's house was being robbed.
We called the sheriff. He promptly arrived...the next day.

Nosy neighbors who'd personally intervene are best but rare.

 

[pearl]

No burglar alarm, other than of our dog who is quick to bark but will befriend anyone with a cookie. A fire alarm which I think is haunted. It sounded because of smoke in the kitchen, then there's the 'voice' repeating 'evacuate', then it announces 'smoke in the hallway', how does it know it is located in the hallway?

 

[The Sum of Awe]

A burglar alarm, which I set when the house is unoccupied. I don't feel the need for anything while I am in the house.

Hmm, I've always been especially worried about when I am home, because for example if I heard my front door bust open at night I'd be worried. If someone has burglary intentions, they might just as well be willing to murder as well.

 

[exchemist]

Hmm, I've always been especially worried about when I am home, because for example if I heard my front door bust open at night I'd be worried. If someone has burglary intentions, they might just as well be willing to murder as well.

A burglar is more likely to pick a time when he thinks you are not at home, either during the daytime or in the evening if there is no sign of activity. Most burglars in the UK are not looking for a violent confrontation with the owner, since they don't have GUNS.

Also, a burglar will choose the line of least resistance. If you have good door and window locks, and he can see there is an alarm on the house, and maybe a motion sensor exterior light (which I have at the front) he will generally try somewhere easier.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

We have an alarm system, and we’re in a very nice part of town (low crime rate, and several police cars show up fast if an alarm goes off).
The alarm is on when we’re away, or asleep. Beyond that, I’m a large man, who can take down most people (unless they have a gun).
But @exchemist is right. Burglars are on the path of least resistance. Motion sensor lights and some cameras will turn away the vast majority. That said, our cameras have never picked up so much as anyone even “casing” our house.

 

[idea]

2 dogs, neighborhood watch (retired neighbors who are always home), ring doorbell and cameras, motion detection lights.... and nothing inside really worth taking haha

 

[JustGeorge]

Talking of neighbours...
There's a woman who lives at the top of the street (with her young son and elderley mother). She's not big built or anything imposing looking, but you just get the idea you wouldn't want to upset her (lovely person, but you get my drift). Anyway, she heard a noise downstairs in the middle of the night. She got out of bed and went downstairs to investigate only to find a man had broken in from the back of the house. Not sure what I'd have done at this point but she snapped at him "What the **** do you think you're doing in my house?". Realising he'd made a terrible mistake he turned tail and scarpered.

Yup. That'd be what'd happen here... My friend agreed at this point I'd go into Mom mode and automatically spit out "Excuse me, kind sir, is this how you treat your Mom-Mom!?!?" (That's an equivalent of 'the look' in our house.) I might ask if I need to come over there and poop on their head.

When I had a sword on the wall, I forgot about it, and I grabbed a guitar(and clunked the turd over the head with it). For another man, I grabbed a dog as soon as I could get to it, and held it snarling(fortunately, and unexpectedly, when he came up behind me, I just so happened to be washing a knife, which allowed me to hold him off until I could get the dog).

I was sleeping when the jerks tried to rob us a few weeks back, but my husband beat one till he vomited on the steps, and chased the other two down the street, yelling he was going to eat them. They got a blow or two on him, but I think they had he worst end of the deal.

I find it hard to say for sure what would happen when the adrenaline kicks in, but I've been there enough times to know it will.

I've got three dogs. The scary looking one(lab/mastiff) wouldn't hurt a fly. I imagine the other two would take care of things if anyone actually gained entry. We have a security system that will make noise, but we won't pay the money to hook it up so it actually alerts anybody(they want 40 bucks a month for that service).

 

[Secret Chief]

Yup. That'd be what'd happen here... My friend agreed at this point I'd go into Mom mode and automatically spit out "Excuse me, kind sir, is this how you treat your Mom-Mom!?!?" (That's an equivalent of 'the look' in our house.) I might ask if I need to come over there and poop on their head.

When I had a sword on the wall, I forgot about it, and I grabbed a guitar(and clunked the turd over the head with it). For another man, I grabbed a dog as soon as I could get to it, and held it snarling(fortunately, and unexpectedly, when he came up behind me, I just so happened to be washing a knife, which allowed me to hold him off until I could get the dog).

I was sleeping when the jerks tried to rob us a few weeks back, but my husband beat one till he vomited on the steps, and chased the other two down the street, yelling he was going to eat them. They got a blow or two on him, but I think they had he worst end of the deal.

I find it hard to say for sure what would happen when the adrenaline kicks in, but I've been there enough times to know it will.

I've got three dogs. The scary looking one(lab/mastiff) wouldn't hurt a fly. I imagine the other two would take care of things if anyone actually gained entry. We have a security system that will make noise, but we won't pay the money to hook it up so it actually alerts anybody(they want 40 bucks a month for that service).

Crumbs.

 

[JustGeorge]

Crumbs.

Hopefully of the cake variety...