| Protection in the home 10:25 - Jul 25 with 1704 views | Zx1988 |
As I've mentioned before, I'm a surveyor, so I spend most of my days in other people's homes.
I'm constantly surprised by the number of baseball bats, iron bars, and other implements I see propped up beside people's beds. It's never occurred to me that I might want something heavy and swingable close to hand should something go bump in the night.
Is this a thing? Or do I just come across a greater than average number of wrong-uns? |  |
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| Protection in the home on 10:27 - Jul 25 with 1398 views | Swansea_Blue |
Sounds like extreme paranoia to me |  |
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| Protection in the home on 10:29 - Jul 25 with 1367 views | jontysnut |
Perhaps they're all into S&M |  | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:33 - Jul 25 with 1356 views | blueasfook |
If you use one of those on a burglar and cause them injury, you'll be the one going to court. Crazy world we live in when you can't even protect your own property. |  |
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| Protection in the home on 10:33 - Jul 25 with 1338 views | Simonds92 |
Well.... i always assumed houses were pretty secure until I saw how easily they broke in to my house. Ultimately if someone wants to get in to your house they can do, if you're unlucky enough to be there at the same time, some form of protection is better than having nothing to defend yourself with. | | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:36 - Jul 25 with 1298 views | DarkBrandon |
| Protection in the home on 10:33 - Jul 25 by blueasfook |
If you use one of those on a burglar and cause them injury, you'll be the one going to court. Crazy world we live in when you can't even protect your own property. |
This isn’t true of course |  | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:36 - Jul 25 with 1297 views | Trequartista |
Do they know you're coming round in advance? |  |
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| Protection in the home on 10:36 - Jul 25 with 1292 views | blueasfook |
| Protection in the home on 10:33 - Jul 25 by Simonds92 |
Well.... i always assumed houses were pretty secure until I saw how easily they broke in to my house. Ultimately if someone wants to get in to your house they can do, if you're unlucky enough to be there at the same time, some form of protection is better than having nothing to defend yourself with. |
I have an attack cat. God help anyone who breaks into my house. Bella will tear them a new one. | |
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| Protection in the home on 10:37 - Jul 25 with 1283 views | blueasfook |
| Protection in the home on 10:36 - Jul 25 by DarkBrandon |
This isn’t true of course |
Ok, you smack a burglar round the head with a baseball bat and see what happens. | |
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| Protection in the home on 10:40 - Jul 25 with 1229 views | leitrimblue |
| Protection in the home on 10:33 - Jul 25 by blueasfook |
If you use one of those on a burglar and cause them injury, you'll be the one going to court. Crazy world we live in when you can't even protect your own property. |
I had a 3-4 minute fight with a burglar in my house about 15 years ago. When I eventually got him out the door he was screaming that he was going straight to the police.
He either had a wise change of mind on his way to the station or they laughed him outta the place. I like to think it was the 2nd one. |  | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:41 - Jul 25 with 1211 views | leitrimblue |
| Protection in the home on 10:33 - Jul 25 by Simonds92 |
Well.... i always assumed houses were pretty secure until I saw how easily they broke in to my house. Ultimately if someone wants to get in to your house they can do, if you're unlucky enough to be there at the same time, some form of protection is better than having nothing to defend yourself with. |
A big feck off dog? | | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:41 - Jul 25 with 1216 views | Jon_456 |
| Protection in the home on 10:37 - Jul 25 by blueasfook |
Ok, you smack a burglar round the head with a baseball bat and see what happens. |
A huge difference between hitting them if they’re coming at you and hitting them when they’re running away from you. | | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:41 - Jul 25 with 1209 views | DarkBrandon |
| Protection in the home on 10:37 - Jul 25 by blueasfook |
Ok, you smack a burglar round the head with a baseball bat and see what happens. |
I imagine the bat will strike the ceiling, showering me with plaster and dust. The burglar will hit me in the stomach, and then when I fall kick me in the ribs. Then he’ll take what he wants.
My original plan was to cower in a corner, crying and saying he could take what he wants. Which would save me a couple of broken ribs and trying to find a plasterer | | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:42 - Jul 25 with 1207 views | glasso |
Nah, I've got a big dog. Luckily, burglars don't know that the one time I lost my keys and had to climb in through an upstairs window, the idiot was waiting at the bottom of the stairs with a ball to play with... | | | |
| Protection in the home on 10:42 - Jul 25 with 1192 views | BrianTablet |
| Protection in the home on 10:41 - Jul 25 by Jon_456 |
A huge difference between hitting them if they’re coming at you and hitting them when they’re running away from you. |
Is that the definition of a home run? |  |
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| Protection in the home on 11:16 - Jul 25 with 1028 views | blueasfook |
| Protection in the home on 10:41 - Jul 25 by Jon_456 |
A huge difference between hitting them if they’re coming at you and hitting them when they’re running away from you. |
Cops will say you used excessive force in hitting them with a bat - Unless they were coming at you with a knife or something. Force used has to be proportional to the level of threat. You can't just clobber a burglar if you come across them rifling through your stuff. | |
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| Protection in the home on 11:17 - Jul 25 with 1015 views | Ryorry |
| Protection in the home on 10:42 - Jul 25 by glasso |
Nah, I've got a big dog. Luckily, burglars don't know that the one time I lost my keys and had to climb in through an upstairs window, the idiot was waiting at the bottom of the stairs with a ball to play with... |
Made me laugh, my Labrador boy’s the same, would ask for treats and then lick the intruder in gratitude, despite the comic card on the mantelpiece declaring that he’d enjoy any burglar’s organ donations without anaesthetic. |  |
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| Protection in the home on 11:37 - Jul 25 with 939 views | StokieBlue |
| Protection in the home on 11:16 - Jul 25 by blueasfook |
Cops will say you used excessive force in hitting them with a bat - Unless they were coming at you with a knife or something. Force used has to be proportional to the level of threat. You can't just clobber a burglar if you come across them rifling through your stuff. |
Duncan Ferguson put a burglar in hospital for 3 days and wasn't charged with anything.
Ancedotal maybe but I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.
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| Protection in the home on 11:39 - Jul 25 with 928 views | bsw72 |
No longer needed here, had the snip. |  | | |
| Protection in the home on 11:41 - Jul 25 with 920 views | catch74 |
| Protection in the home on 10:41 - Jul 25 by Jon_456 |
A huge difference between hitting them if they’re coming at you and hitting them when they’re running away from you. |
It’s a really different sound isn’t it. |  |
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| Protection in the home on 11:44 - Jul 25 with 897 views | Bluish |
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| Protection in the home on 11:53 - Jul 25 with 864 views | DarkBrandon |
| Protection in the home on 11:41 - Jul 25 by catch74 |
It’s a really different sound isn’t it. |
Proper lols | | | |
| Protection in the home on 11:56 - Jul 25 with 843 views | Churchman |
I keep a razor sharp axe and a hammer by the bed. Weapons of very last resort. Baseball bat? You are better off with a cricket bat if you really want to give a burglar a headache; break a bone or two.
A buddy of mine keeps a couple of crossbows ready and one or two more devastating weapons, but then he is a little crazy as well as being a martial arts dude.
For the sane, if someone comes in with a knife you are in a whole world of trouble. Give them what they want and run like hell if you get the chance. |  | | |
| Protection in the home on 16:04 - Jul 25 with 565 views | TheBlueGnu |
I keep a copy of the book "How to be a great Minnie Caldwell", written by Margot Bryant, by my bed. It' s a very large heavy book and acts as a great deterent against burglars and other not very nice folk. | |
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| Protection in the home on 16:09 - Jul 25 with 551 views | DanTheMan |
My wife has a machete she got when she was in Borneo.
I almost had it used on me once when I went for a piss in the middle of the night and, for some reason, she thought I was a burglar or something. Full scream, and she went to reach for it before I asked her wtf she was screaming about. |  |
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| Protection in the home on 16:17 - Jul 25 with 506 views | bartyg |
Why do some of you think you're rambo? Everything I own is replaceable (and insured, for the most part). If someone breaks in they can have whatever they want, why would I risk trying to fight them? |  | | |
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