home security

**Dave A** · 29-Feb-12, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by murdock

then at 7.30 am in the morning as your wife opens the gate to take the kids to school she is blocked...taken back into the house with all your securtiy...a gun held to one of the kids heads...

Not too far from what happened last Friday to a family business I know.

The business operates from home, fairly well secured premises.

Hubby is out servicing clients. Wife goes to the bank to draw wages. And when she returns home, the gang comes in right behind her.

Gun to head, beaten up blah blah. Forced to open the gun safe which it seems the gang knew was there - even where it was. Handgun and R6k stolen.

The nearest police station is about 300m away, and the cops get there quickly enough. Bit of a circus once they get there apparently, but last night hubby is told the police are ready to make their first arrest in the incident...

Him.

Both he and his wife have a key to the safe. Apparently as he is the licence holder of the stolen gun, only he is allowed to have a key. He's going to get arrested for criminal negligence.

If wife hadn't opened that safe, it seems near certain they would have shot her. As it was one was going to shoot her but another in the gang stopped him, apparently.

Dunno - the world seems a little f*cked up right now.

**Citizen X** · 29-Feb-12, 09:29 PM

Sure does, Lenasia has had some of it's most brutal murders in the past 4 weeks!

**murdock** · 29-Feb-12, 10:15 PM

my sister who has moved to safe enviroment...tells me when they have a breakin...it gets headlines in the newspaper...cannot understand why with all my qualifications and work knowledge...dont move somewhere safer...when i tell her at least its safer than irak...she laughs...because at least you dont get blown up here anymore.

**murdock** · 29-Feb-12, 10:20 PM

may not be greener on the other side ...but anythng is safer than living in a country which has a crime rate compared to war torn countries

**tec0** · 29-Feb-12, 10:21 PM

I don’t know, it seems that what w need is an act of God. Nothing can be done to stop crime. Criminals already crossed the line they are no longer criminals they are terrorists and we are under attack.

For some reason the criminal monster is not recognised as a monster rather some poor dysfunctional soul that had no other choice but to go into someone's home and do horrible evil deeds.

The law must change… We need guns big guns the type the criminals have and we need the right to use them accordingly and with training. We need a criminal system that is accessible to EVERYONE! Not just the Rich and powerful.

We need a lot of things as of late so… In all truth we need a miracle…

**AndyD** · 01-Mar-12, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by tec0

I don’t know, it seems that what w need is an act of God.

Maybe the crime situation we have now is already an act of God....

**Dave A** · 01-Mar-12, 08:53 PM

What we need is cultural change. There are countries where poverty is dire and yet they don't have the crime culture we seem to have.

**JohnSilver** · 02-Mar-12, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Dave A

What we need is cultural change. There are countries where poverty is dire and yet they don't have the crime culture we seem to have.

Yet many of those countries seem to rank high when it comes to cybercrime and spam.

**wynn** · 02-Mar-12, 01:05 PM

I can't stress it enough, join your local CPF, not only do you get last months crime reports so you know what crimes are prevelant in your area but you also get tips about what the crims are up to.

We heard about the garage/gate remote blocking story months before it was reported in the press, also the wiring up of remote gates, so you have to get out of your car to investigate.

Another simple tip was to turn the top hook hinge on your gate upside down so the crims can't lift your gate off the hinges, you will be surprised how many gates fitted with hook and band hinges are fitted with both hooks facing up