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I walk the line
Dogbreath - If you're not home, all it would take is for someone to break in and kill the dogs. Then, your dogs are dead, your equipment is stolen, and so are all of your guns.
granted but the fact is that professional burglars say that they bypass houses with alarms.About the dogs vs. alarm thing, I get what you guys are saying, but what I meant was this....
If a dude hears/sees multiple dogs barking in a building and goes and kills them and steals everything, then there is a great chance as well that said dude will also not give two sh*ts about some 3rd-party alarm that will probably take at least 10 mins to get the police to the house.
you made the same rookie mistake I made which is to underestimate the power of his breath.Dogbreath - If you're not home, all it would take is for someone to break in and kill the dogs. Then, your dogs are dead, your equipment is stolen, and so are all of your guns.
We had our house burgled awhile back. They took all the CD's, but not my 1973 Standard Les Paul ...
One day, after all the arguing with the insurance company was over with and we'd had a damned home security system installed, I realized that they had stolen a plastic baggy filled with my cat's catnip that was hanging in the front hall cupboard, up high where the cat couldn't get it. They kiddies must have thought they'd found the mother lode of stashes.
I hope they got a big farking headache when they smoked it.
you made the same rookie mistake I made which is to underestimate the power of his breath.
I never think about it myself (until now!).
We leave the house unlocked most of the time and if someone wanted my stuff bad enough to actually steal it from me, they probably need it more than I do.
I am a big fan of trying not to own anything that I can't afford to have stolen. It's very liberating.
i think as long as you don't make friends with strangers you will be ok..
i think as long as you don't make friends with strangers you will be ok..
Who else can you make friends with?
I was burgled, the chaps kicked in the double deadlocked front door & they took my fav guitar as well as several grand of various other items. "They" were disturtbed by a neighbours dog & took off with the easier to carry stuff leaving basses, cello etc were lined up in the hall waiting to be loaded.
We were & remain insured. That's good but dealing with replacement is a BIG hassle - stat decs about ownership, recipts, photos etc.
Not to mention that it took me a few years to locate the same make & model guitar.
We live in a quiet area but the house isn't visible from the road so I discovered seclusion brings its own problems.
We have good locks & security on every way in & out, including windows, which is a drag but necessary.
The funny thing is that for 40 years I lived & then also worked in the kind of suburb that is demonized as a nest of thieves and antisocial people yet was not bothered, hindered or robbed once. I moved to a lovely area to work/live & we were knocked over within the 1st 24 months.
I did discover that it was good the wife & I weren't home when it happened as the chaps were on a spree and had previously, as well as subsequently, bashed and tied up folk who were home.
I had a great big two level cake tin 2/3rds full with 100's of band & music badges that they took & apparently spilled ot of their car as they drove down the highway. Bummer!
I discovered through the process that copies of your policy, photographs, receipts, specifically listed items of value, lists with make model & condition are all necessary & need to be stored securely to beat the insurance companies who have as their standard 1st response "You're not covered for that".
Oh, during the process I also discovered that, in my state at least, "collections" such as LPs, CD, DVD, BOOKS etc need to be itemized & copies sent to the insurer or they will only give a partial coverage to them & def. NO consideration for rarity etc. I had a big brawl with the company over this matter & in the end sent them, via fax, a complete catalogue of CDs & LPs (about 3 1/2 thou including artist, name, cat#, label & X ref.) via fax in large font from my computer so it annoyed the hell out of them and cost them a bundle of paper. Small satisfactions are at least some revenge eh?