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SmokingGunn · 11-28-2012, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by iaefebs

I haven't owned a gun in 40 years. What good is it if you are sleeping and don't hear someone open the car door? Oh I guess I could have laid awake and shot the neighbor kid when he was out f****'ing around. I'm sure the parents would have understood. My advice to the OP is remove the snickers and the loose change from the car.

Get a dog so you can sleep at night.

Second - consider this scenario. House A and House B are identical, except that house A is occupied by a gun owning shooting enthusiast. If you're a thief and you know this, which one are you going to target? The path of least resistance... though, the same holds true for dog owners as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_hardening

**jmendez29** · 11-28-2012, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Homercidal

You can find lots of faceplate son ebay from people who stole them from cars. Oh, and you can also find plenty of radios to match the faceplates, because people who have had their faceplates stolen often no longer have a use for the radio!

Yeah. Again, this was years ago. Can't remember if eBay was around then, but if it was, it was still very young and by any rate we didn't have computers so it wouldn't have helped. Pretty sure we didn't have credit cards either. Kinda hard to imagine any more.

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Originally Posted by SmokingGunn

I used to lock my faceplate in the glove box. I only had one CD loaded down with MP3 files, so nothing to steal there. I was more concerned about someone stealing the spare tire.

The funniest part to me was that NOTHING else was stolen. Not the tapes, the stereo, the spare tire or anything else. Just the faceplate. Like the guy was doing for the sole reason of being a d!ck. but again, we were young and immature and thought stuff like that was funny. Today, it would really p!ss me off even if it was someone else's vehicle.

**iaefebs** · 12-01-2012, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SmokingGunn

Get a dog so you can sleep at night.

Second - consider this scenario. House A and House B are identical, except that house A is occupied by a gun owning shooting enthusiast. If you're a thief and you know this, which one are you going to target? The path of least resistance... though, the same holds true for dog owners as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_hardening

I guess I'd break into house A and steal the guns.

**VegasJ** · 12-01-2012, 04:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Chamuco

Probably an a-hole like this guy who I caught on video. Our car was left unlocked in our driveway and.....

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfJ60cXRFC8

damn. am I the only one who hoped to see Chamuco come swing a bat into the camera view & drop that low life ****er?!

I have guns, I have cameras up that record and upload to the web upon motion, my truck has a nice alarm, and my doors have jimmie jammers I installed... oh, & we have 4 dogs.

I work hard for my stuff, I refuse to allow someone who doesn't wish to work for theirs to take mine.

**Chamuco** · 12-01-2012, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by VegasJ

damn. am I the only one who hoped to see Chamuco come swing a bat into the camera view & drop that low life ****er?!

I have guns, I have cameras up that record and upload to the web upon motion, my truck has a nice alarm, and my doors have jimmie jammers I installed... oh, & we have 4 dogs.

I work hard for my stuff, I refuse to allow someone who doesn't wish to work for theirs to take mine.

Thanks VegasJ. There is not much worse than a f'er that would rather creep around the neighborhood checking door handles than get a job. Sweet revenge would be waiting in the back seat with a tire iron. This guy ended-up getting into 6 cars that night and is likely to meet a beat-stick the next time he returns to this neighborhood. I have since put a motion alarm on the camera.

Billy-Klubb · 12-01-2012, 07:47 PM

when I lived in Vegas, everyone I knew/worked with told me not to lock my car. if they want in, they'll get in. that said, I catch anyone breaking into my house/car, they'll be staring down my 30-30 until the authorities arrive.