So, I came home from work yesterday… COPS EVERYWHERE!! Cop in front of my house, neighbor’s house. Something like 8 cop cars. Next door neighbor’s front door was open, and three cops were walking in. I thought a shooting had just occurred, or something similarly horrible.
I didn’t pull into my driveway right away, because I wasn’t sure that I could. So I did a double-U turn and made it into my driveway the 2nd time.
Apparantly my next-door neighbor Tim (who was an extra in The Silence Of The Lambs — I verified this) was robbed.
His house is worth wayyyyyyyyyyyy more than our house, and his yard is immaculate, and he hires people to work on it. He has diamond jewelry, lots of cash an antiques — his family is all lawyers.
I suppose my purposeful-keeping-of-a-messy-yard as a burglar deterrent has, in a sense, worked. Or has it? The house 2 down got robbed a week ago, and then the house 1 down got robbed yesterday. Is my house next? I hope not.
So I go and talk with Tim & the police for awhile, and one of them says, “Oh, that was your house? I was just creeping around in your backyard with my gun. I thought i saw something, but knowing my luck it was probably just a dog.”
That wasn’t word-for-word what he said. He mentioned that he stumbled over the “silt fence”, which I guess is what the orange construction fence we have in our backyard is called.
I found the idea of a cop stumbling around in my completely unlit backyard with a gun both hilarious and disturbing at the same time.
I think I want more protection now…. I want the sticker that has a picture of a gun and says “nothing in this house is worth your life”. I want fake cameras mounted. I want an mp3 of dogs barking that I can loop while I am at work. I want outdoor motion lights that send chimes to my X-10 remote chime units (I bought them years ago but lack the know-how to install them). I want ADT signs. Anyone got some?
December 29, 2006 at 11:29 AM
There is a crapload of ADT and related signs for sale on ebay:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=adt+sign&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search
December 29, 2006 at 12:20 PM
It is quite fortunate that no one broke in your house!! Glad no one was hurt. That is so unsettling…fake cameras is a brilliant idea, actually!
December 29, 2006 at 12:22 PM
I think I might buy some of those ADT signs Dave posted an Ebay link too…..
I definitely want the gun one, but it’s not common, I’ve only *heard* about it. But I just love “Nothing in this house is worth your life”. It states it so clearly.
I think it would have to be in spanish too.
January 9, 2007 at 9:17 AM
Nada en esta casa vale tu vida!
January 10, 2007 at 4:29 PM
Clint, you should get this too:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/10/record_album_to_dete.html
January 10, 2007 at 6:33 PM
Sweet, the whole mp3 to download!
February 21, 2007 at 2:22 PM
I live in Mexico in a lower midle class,midle class neighborhood that my family has been leving here for about 40+yrs… We have never been robed and in the 80´s some one stole my dad stereo from hes car and thats about it!..BUT a few months ago i have been seen a neighboors kid maybe 18 with a bunch other kids wich they look like taggers and all of a sudden one day i saw my neighboors wall had all kinds of graffity on it! i dont whant the same for my walls i thought, and a week later my mail box was missing!..so i went online looking for the supposed dummy cameras and ADT sings (YES we have ADT here in Mexico 2) but then i realized it was good, but not as good as my New German Shepard!..nice and very loud alarm system that you can play with, SO MY SUGESTION IS BUY A DOG.
February 21, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Good suggestion, Marco.
But I’d rather be robbed, than own a dog.
I think I’d rather be (lightly) stabbed.
February 21, 2007 at 4:11 PM
“Lightly stabbed?” Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
BOI-OI-OI-OI-OING!
*light stab*
February 21, 2007 at 4:43 PM
lol
July 1, 2008 at 8:28 PM
If you’re still in the market for Adt signs, they are still available on ebay really cheap.
November 9, 2008 at 9:36 PM
A Dog is great, but it won’t stop intruders into your home. My home was broken into in broad daylight a few days ago (when everyone NORMAL is working) The Dog unfortunately got to see and hear how they broke in, the shoved him in the laundry room and threw a bag of hot dog buns in there too. Good boy did not eat the buns. Thankfully they did not hurt my Dog, but he has trama over this ordeal as my family does too.