If you think your home is safe because the door is locked, think again !

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A neighbor locksmith down the street -

Has a sign on his driveway gate: "Beware of Rudy, don't worry about the dog "

Kick

I have been informed by cops that most home invaders kick down doors to gain entry. They don't like breaking glass because they don't want to get hurt. And picking locks requires skill and time - two things they don't have in a residential break in situation.

But lock picking is cerrtainly a risk at remote locations where the thief has time and privacy.

Secure?

Deadbolt doorknob + regular deadbolt + .357.

Pat

BOHICA!!

Pat

BOHICA!!

This is not easy to do

Lock bumping is incredibly difficult and takes a whole lot of practice. Even with a perfectly made bump key, an average person couldn't do it.

There are much easier ways of breaking and entering than bumping locks.

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lock bumping == hype

If you have a window, the glass can likely be broken.
If you have an older garage door opener, the wireless codes can be picked off.

Lock bumping, while possible, is not the highest concern.

just an after thought but I wonder if it was the corporate board

at Shlage locks that asked for this news to run ? If they keep running these news bulletins I'm gonna have to invest in that company.

especially now with all people starving and desperate, It seems like a good investment.

~Mikael / Peace, love, Light and unity ~

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This is very disturbing.

This is very disturbing. The more kids know about this, I suspect more houses will be broken into. Unfortunately, the tendency is to dismiss this and act like a hotshot. How many of you tough guys could comfortably live with the knowledge that you killed some idiot kid who broke into your house on a lark? I'd rather change the locks than risk being put in a position that could lead to a regrettable death. Kids are dumb, but needless death is dumber.
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"The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic..." —Alan Moore

Redneck alarm system

Go to a second-hand store and buy a pair of men's used work boots, a really big pair. Put them outside your front door. Leave a copy of Guns and Ammo magazine near by. Put a dog dish beside it, a really big dish.

Leave a note on your front door that says something like "Bubba, Big Mike and I have gone to get more ammunition - back in 1/2 an hr. Don't disturb the pitbulls. They've just been wormed and they are a little edgy."

When I used to leave my car in airport parking

I taped an apology note in the drivers' side window:

"Steve,
Thanks for use of car. Sorry about the smell. Nancy got carsick and threw up in the back seat. Didn't have time to clean up very well. I owe you, man!

New Hampshire and Ecuador

Funny

I have a colleague that works in a rough neighborhood. His security system is a pickup truck with raised wheels, a dixie flag in the back window, a "redneck" sign in the windshield, and a NRA sticker on his bumper.

I gotta think that's a pretty effective way of making any would be carjacker think...I'll probably just try the next car.

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I'll keep that in mind!

very funny

R3VOLution

Haha!

Bump on the off-chance that someone else reads that comment. :-)

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That is a great one!

That is a great one!

He may not look like much -

But, “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” ~ Mark Twain

My watch dog (he can hear a pin drop) ---> http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s143/10thzodiac/Nitro1008...

Poodles

are great dogs but damn they can be mean.

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Watch it you little pip

Watch it you little pip squeak!

There are

really large poodles too. I'm a pet sitter and used to sit for 2 of them. They were much taller than a lab. They weren't sissys either.

I knew that would get your attention..

LOL.

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I read a book

written by a mafia guy. He was talking about an apartment where some of them went for a while during one of their mafia wars. He said they had a pet poodle rather than a big mean dog.. They preferred little dogs who barked a lot because the dog warned them if somebody was hanging around. And the little dogs didn't draw attention to themselves like a big mean dog would.

You got that right !

I'm 6'2" and #225 and he's not afraid of me and has bitten the wife and me on more than one occasion when he gets pissed. I keep him because I feel sorry for him, someone else may not want to work around his evolutionary behavior and put him down. He is 10 pounds and a toy poodle.

He hates complete strangers to pieces, and I mean to pieces. He's like a windmill of fang and nails if a stranger tries to touch him. Interestingly he has no molar teeth, they are all canine all the way to the back. He keeps them razor sharp and highly polished chewing constantly on rawhide bones.

He is very pack orientated and refuses to go anywhere unless both I and the wife both go. He won't even eat or potty until both of us are home.

His groomer loves him and is trying to get us to have him neutered. He marks her whole house and goes after her 6 small dogs and her leg like there is no tomorrow. Oh, he has bitten her too (deep) !

Why I have a dog , he hears everything.

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Why don't you tell everyone

that it's a chiwawa

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He's a lab and doesn't have a mean bone in his body ,

But calling him a chihuahua will give him a complex :( He's really loud though so noone knows he's not mean.

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That's the only dog we have left too

and let me tell you, NO ONE, NOTHING, gets by a chihuahua. Better alarm than ADT. Best watchdogs in the world. {I had to put "Boy" our big guy, down last week. Bummed me out. : ( }

Hi mike, The biggest dog

Is a chihuahua, ours died in July. I called him 5 pounds of fury, he was banned from 2 vet clinics because of his aggressive nature. Of course we thought he was sweet. (when we weren't bleeding from the wounds he inflicted) And about this lock bumping, counter it by" bump firing" a semi auto. And I swear by the Medeco locks, I been using them for 20+ years and they are tough for locksmiths to crack open.

Sorry to hear about your dog too Barry

Chihuahua's are not what most people think of them as. I used to hate them and make fun of them until we got one. Now he's my best little buddy and the wife makes fun of me for it - "I thought you hated Chihuahuas?" she says all the time.

bigmikedude

sorry to hear about your loss of "Boy" it can be like losing a family member.

Thank you henri,

I had one, he was 18 yrs old, Golden and Collie mix. Put him down last year. Boy was 12 yrs. old Newfoundland and Burnese Mountain Dog mix. Put him down last week.

It is always tough, but having the vet come to the house, put them both down in the same living room they always slept in, while I sat beside them and said goodbye, but in a happy tone, (as hard as that was) that they only understood as normal everyday affection, is far better afterwards than watching them get put down on a stainless steel table in a strange place with strange people. The last thing they remembered is me petting them and having company over petting them too, in their loving home. If you can handle it, I recommend it to all.

bigmikedude, that is a wonderful idea

I have a goofy German Shepard going on 9 years old and between her and my cat I think about how I'm going to handle it when they have to be put to sleep. I like the idea of a vet coming to the house, if I can find one when the time comes. I think that would be easier to handle then the other scenerio, been through that before.

chinkadaro

It does help ease

the pain of wondering what their last moments were like to them after it's all done. The hardest part is enjoying the last day and hours with them, while you know the vet is on the way, and trying to make it seem only like one of the better normal days, and not over babying them so that they know something isn't right. (believe me, they know when things are strangely different and they suspect too) So that they slip away comfortably, just as things always were, but in their mind as it happens, it is just one of the better days with mommy or daddy. I held both, talked to them, and petted them as I always did as they died. I never let them hear so much as one waver in my voice, making it sound as happy and playful as any other day. The last thing they felt and heard was the daddy taking care of them as he always did. And then as closure, I carried their bodies out to the vet's vehicle by myself, because I was always their care taker. No veternarians carrying them out on a stretcher for me. That was my job as the daddy.

Damn, It's harder to share the story than it is to actually go through it though.