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I haven't had much luck recently. The night before last my Father was lying in bed when somebody knocked on his bedroom door, opened it and said "Is this the entrance to the apartment building?". My father went "Of course it's not! How the hell did you get in here?!" The perso then closed the door and my dad heard him leave the apartment. He put a dressing gown on then followed but found nothing. He woke up the next morning thinking it was a dream. Then last night my Dad's apartment was accessed and his Laptops stolen (Which is odd considering they're worth nothing and there's lot more valuable stuff to steal). This got me thinking, does anybody know any good ways to secure a rented property against theft. Walls ca't be drilled into, systems can't be installed. Does anybody have any ideas? - Matt [Update - It turns out my father has no insurance to cover the Laptops and will probably get fired from his job due to all the data lost on the work laptop. Any advice would be appreciated]. |
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The only thing I could tell you to do is to make some sort of CCTV in your house. You don't have to drill into walls, you just need some cameras and a computer. Make sure the computer is safely tucked away somewhere inconspicuous where they won't even think to look. I'd recommend some HD cams and an old desktop you have lying around. Then you just hit record and see if anything happened that day by making it record to an external hard drive. It sounds simple, and I have done it in my room because some of my stuff has gone missing, found out it was my sister, lmao. I used iSpy: http://www.ispyconnect.com/ Ironically enough, my father actually owns a CCTV Security company. But really we were thinking more of ways to stop people getting in! Hah Hmm, I'd do what @Brother said and ask the landlord/lady what they can do. |
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The best thing you can do to secure your home, is to get a gun (the second amendment is there for a reason ) In a life or death situation where seconds count, the police are only minutes away. almost all reports of a home invasion that makes it on the news often go something like this criminal breaks in, finds someone home, doesn't want to be looked at, kills one of the family members, then gets away before the police come. After that, all the police do is have the media list a hotline that you can call if you have any info on who did the crime, then those police go back to sitting around and waiting for someone to go over the speed limit or run a red light. And even when they do catch the criminal, we do not have a restitutive justice system so you wont get the stolen property back or the damage repaired, and the government certainly wont bring back the family member who was killed. Get your self a handgun or a rifle and a security camera. Someone unauthorized tries to break in, the second they step foot into your home, kill them on the spot (it is legal to do in every state) other than that, all you can do is secure your home by getting better locks, hurricane resistant windows (harder to break) Remember if you are not home, there is little you can do to defend the home, so you need to at least have a way of keeping the criminal out for a while. PS security systems such as ADT do not work I live in NY which is a police state and a few years back, 2 houses (next to each other on the block that I live on, got robbed on the same day. (Both had working security systems (ADT) They basically robbed one house, then moved onto the next and robbed it also before the police came. Security systems have a delay when the alarm is set off to give you time to report a false alarm, then there is a chain of bureaucracy that adds additional delay before the police ever get an alert, then you are left with the poor response time (remember the police cant just teleport to your location) Overall, it may not be ideal but you are responsible for securing your home and the only way to do it is to make it harder to break in, and have a way of defending the home. A hand gun is ideal for defense since you can bring it anywhere, but if you have really restrictive laws (even though the second amendment states that congress shall make NO law), then you may have to settle for a rifle which are less regulated. While you can still open carry a rifle, they are not as convenient to walk around with. edit: While this may be slightly exagerated, this should give you an idea of location based protection. The more urban a neighborhood is, the more supercharged the criminals are and thus, you will need better tools to defend your home. Here is a list from rural to urban when it comes to home defense 1 rural: http://i.imgur.com/764f3.jpg 2: http://i.imgur.com/ejLUy.jpg 3: http://i.imgur.com/eG9k9.jpg 4: http://i.imgur.com/moYZ1.jpg 5: http://i.imgur.com/mIui2.jpg 6: http://i.imgur.com/ZTxAX.jpg 7 (if you end up in the "hood" in a urban area), then you are looking at a combination of this gun + all of the ones listed above: http://i.imgur.com/15KXx.jpg 8 (the "hood" in a place like Detroit): hopefully in the near future, an effective defense tool will be created to handle the horrors of a place like that. I am thinking something like this http://i.imgur.com/A1QCF.jpg, plus all of the tools listed above, positioned in strategic locations to at least hold off the onslaught of crime as you retreat to your bunker with walls made of 50 foot thick slabs of Titanium and Tungsten before the crime wave breaks through your defenses. In the UK all guns are illegal (Except for a few semi-automatic rifles that require strict permits and are only for sporting reasons). There's also a law against self defence, if somebody broke in and wasn't violent I wouldn't be allowed to be violent towards him or I can be arrested myself. Most burglars in the UK are pretty much just smash and grab and pretty much all look the same (Skinheads). Fun times! Hah. Breaking into a home is a act of violence and when someone is willing to violate your rights, you wont know to which extent that they are willing to go. (your right to life is just one of many rights that the criminal is choosing to violate by breaking into your home) If you cant get a gun, then get a sword and if you are home and someone breaks in, then make sure they they are not alive while on your property. You can simply say that they proceeded to attack you (which is entirely valid since they broke into your home) But anyway, get better locks and storm windows (the kind that are not made with glass and have a special film in the middle (designed to handle flying objects With those windows, they cant be smashed with a bat or a crow bar, you have to smash the window, then use a really sharp blade with a rough edge to get throw the window. The idea is if you cant get through the door then you break a window, but if the window is just as hard to get through, then your only other option is a lengthly break in that is likely to get the police attention, or going in military style with a steel cone and few pounds of anfo to blast their way through a wall or door. Overall, make it hard to get in, and if you are home, and they are breaking in, then prepare your self with a long knife or a sword and kill them as quickly as possible The UK has bad gun laws which make it hard for people to defend them self, but there are legal ways to give your self a upper hand when a criminal breaks in. (if needed, also consider pepper spray which will make it easier to kill who ever breaks in by first making it hard for them to see and breath) Wanted to add that most landlords will allow you to perform upgrades to a home so if you wanted to invest the money, you could most likely upgrade the windows to storm windows that look abut the same with no problem. (A steel door frame and stronger locks will also often be accepted) Most swords are banned too! We're only allowed to use "Reasonable forse". If we killed somebody we'd be in prison for murder - if they're attacking you then you can attack them back and try to restrain them or knock them out. Killing is barely even a last resort. Hmm, the new locks seem like a good idea. We'll have a look! If you go with new locks, then make sure that the door frame is also strong, The most common mistake people make is getting a new high end lock but leave the same wooden door frame in place, thus the door is just as easy to break in as with the cheap lock. and if any windows are ar risk of being bashed in then get storm windows here is a video of impact resistant glass in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limvx3D-f5o&feature=player_detailpage#t=9s that glass is common in location where you get hurricanes but is also popular for preventing people from breaking in through the window when they cant get in through the door. LMAOO at the Detroit one!
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