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PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT
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Posted on 01/08/2013 9:54:43 AM PST by flyover

PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your sisters, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds, all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime. Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone. PLS. PASS THIS ON EVEN IF YOU'VE READ IT BEFORE.IT'S A REMINDER. PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT

Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your sisters, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night.

If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies.

This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage.

If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds, all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone.

PLS. PASS THIS ON EVEN IF YOU'VE READ IT BEFORE. IT'S A REMINDER.


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: bed; carkeys; homeinvasion; homesecurity; keys; panicbutton; security; securityalarm; vanity
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To: llevrok
if you sleep walk, now you can sleep drive !! :-)
i do that every night, to the tune of Ride of the Valkyries...
crossing the Bridge (approaches :) @ I-75 / Kentucky River 75mph...


Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGBDWER-wUI

41 posted on 01/08/2013 10:35:43 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: flyover

Alarms aren’t a bad thing, but I wouldn’t be overly reliant on it. First, people are accustomed to car alarms going off and aren’t going to come running.

If the intruder intends to do you harm, they understand that you likely tripped the car alarm and they also know how to turn it off with the same key fob.

I had a 100 lb dog that hated strangers and had tremendously powerful jaws(I really miss him). I considered him to be my 10 second warning. He might have scared an intruder or worse, but I assumed that a serious intruder would kill him, but that I would have gotten my 10 seconds to react.

In reading reports on home invasions, women are most likely to be the victims of what I would call armed and motivated attackers who may not even care about getting caught, but relish the idea of the woman feeling totally defenseless and frightened... like the look in her eyes when he picks up the key fob and turns off the alarm.

So yea, great idea, as long as you also have an active means of defense.


42 posted on 01/08/2013 10:36:28 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: MarDav

“Magnum slug, you say....”

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43 posted on 01/08/2013 10:37:55 AM PST by MeganC (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: SnakeDoctor

I consider it my moral duty to kill any piece of trash who would break into my house. It saves the next victims from becoming victims at all.


44 posted on 01/08/2013 10:38:32 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: llevrok; All
ever better....
Conan, the Barbarian theme

Carl orff -Carmina Burana /Koninklijke Chorale Cæcilia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjy55Y6hWU


45 posted on 01/08/2013 10:39:59 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
That a rack my 870
I just have to know what that was supposed to mean.

Running the slide on a 870 model Remington shotgun back and closed to make that distinctive sound that says "I'm loaded and ready for war". It makes most people stop and think about what they are going to do next.

Regards,
GtG

46 posted on 01/08/2013 10:42:00 AM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: flyover

My keys are in my pants pocket. My gun is beside the bed. The 5 D cell Mag light is at the bottom of the stairs - dogs everywhere.

I don’t think I need the panic button.


47 posted on 01/08/2013 10:45:51 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: flyover

I’d rather grab my Number Tac II with 230 grain JHP by Hornady and move to cover.


48 posted on 01/08/2013 10:46:02 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: flyover

I’d rather grab my Number Tac II with 230 grain JHP by Hornady and move to cover.

While covered take my 1,000 lumen flashlight and aim it toward the door with one hand and gun in the other.

They will die blind and shocked.


49 posted on 01/08/2013 10:47:37 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Gaffer

Ditto. I keep cars in two locations. My van at the South side of the house & barn and my pickup in the north end carport. I keep both fob’s on my night stand along with my SR 40 Ruger. Each location has a dusk to dawn light, motion sensor lights, (the south motion sensor light by the barn shoots light right into my bedroom when it is triggered, I have pinged the car alarms more than once. Occasionally when the motion sensor light gets activated, usually by a four legged critter, once by a Barred Owl. We’ve had two break-ins, none since I started using the car alarms in this fashion.


50 posted on 01/08/2013 10:52:15 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: flyover

I predict a lot of PO’d neighbors the result of the many false alarms created from nocturnal animals, tree branches etc.


51 posted on 01/08/2013 10:52:37 AM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT; al baby

It means he will rack his Mossberg shotgun.

Makes aloud noise. scary


52 posted on 01/08/2013 10:55:16 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: MarDav; MeganC
MeganC ~ It has (in order of use) two rounds of #9 birdshot, two rounds of 00 buckshot, and one magnum slug. I figure if I get down to using the fifth round then someone has it coming to them.

MarDav ~ I’ve got 00 buckshot all up and down in mine. I figure if someone’s entered my locked house at night, then someone has it coming to them.

It's called a Dutch load. Mine's #6 goose, 00 buck, rifled slugs.

The idea is that the first few shots have many pellets to maximize the odds of connecting, and as your opponent returns fire and seeks concealment, you go to larger pellets to punch through, and if he makes it to cover, the slugs are more apt to achieve penetration even there.

It supposedly enhances your chances.

53 posted on 01/08/2013 10:59:55 AM PST by null and void (The world is full of Maple Streets.)
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To: MeganC

Great. Now you have to remember what’s where in the tube, how many rounds you’ve fired, the varying effects of each, and how long it’s gonna take you to reach the “has it coming” round when you realize this $#!^ IS real and you want that round FIRST.


54 posted on 01/08/2013 11:05:35 AM PST by ctdonath2 (End of debate. Your move.)
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To: guardian_of_liberty

Man, I envy those with Dobes that can “run the perimeter”. Mine would jauntily run off down the street exploring.

He is excellent in the house when I set him to “look”, but he’s never been allowed off leash outdoors due to his reluctance to obey a recall command. He’s a rescue that was kept in a cellar the first year of his life, tormented by the family children periodically.

We’ve had him years now, but I know I could not trust him to be off leash. Our Palli, now she was a different story. I remember once she was in the yard with me and she saw my sons legs sticking out of his car (working on something) she went into that catlike crouch, all tension and focus, and went to check him out. It’s beautiful to see them work like that.

Of course when she realized it was her boy she turned into a bouncing puppy in a split second. Sure do miss her.


55 posted on 01/08/2013 11:15:27 AM PST by Ladysforest
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“a” was meant to be “and”


56 posted on 01/08/2013 11:24:08 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ctdonath2

yeah, that’s the best, but having your keys and your cell phone and your wallet right by you are good for 1)pushing the alert button on the key fob; 2)calling 911 as they try to break in; 3)have your stuff easily at hand if you have to bolt out the other doors or windows in your home if there are just too darn many of the bad guys to hold ‘em off and keep yourself, your spouse, your kids safe.

Also, having dogs that bark and won’t back down from strangers until they are commanded is good.

My grandmother didn’t have all this stuff—she just slept with a small black iron skillet under her bed. She said she could maybe wallop someone and give ‘em a big goose egg on their head! :)


57 posted on 01/08/2013 11:26:14 AM PST by sassy steel magnolia
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To: flyover; a fool in paradise

What to do if you have a keyless entry vehicle?


58 posted on 01/08/2013 11:28:06 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: guardian_of_liberty

Mine died in my arms a year ago. Miss that girl so much. We rescued her at 1 year. She was my 3rd Dobe and my wife’s very first dog. Those two were like BFF. No better dog than a Dobie for your personal and family protection. They were bred for just that purpose. Smart as a whip and athletic to the max. She was with us for 11 years. What a blessing.


59 posted on 01/08/2013 11:39:33 AM PST by halfright (FAST & FURIOUS! DON'T ALLOW THEM TO DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION.)
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To: flyover

I have an 1993 Silverado. I’ll have to find other ways...


60 posted on 01/08/2013 11:41:15 AM PST by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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