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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: flyover
My wife wont let me have the car alarm button for for the car I drive.... what does that mean?
61 posted on 01/08/2013 11:42:30 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Lots of warnings and instructions today it seems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQf1RQA-GjA&sns


62 posted on 01/08/2013 11:47:49 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: flyover

Great idea! I Will try it out to make
sure the remote reaches my car.
Thanks for posting!!


63 posted on 01/08/2013 11:48:36 AM PST by Boxsford (God Is.)
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To: ctdonath2

“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.”

I’ve practiced shooting with this load out a few hundred times (at least) and I am very comfortable with it. Now if I get REALLY PO’d at someone then I’m going to reload with 12ga marine flares (which are short magnesium coated aluminum slugs) and have myself a BBQ.


64 posted on 01/08/2013 11:50:58 AM PST by MeganC (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: cripplecreek

I live in the boonies where we do the same but we had 2 separate incidents of localized property theft last fall.

[copper and anything left in cars]

They totally ignored our house [dogs and signs] so I keep hoping to ‘catch’ the next batch of would-be thieves, myself.

[it’s *really* boring here]

:)


65 posted on 01/08/2013 11:53:28 AM PST by Salamander (Nothing says 'Welcome to my home!' like snakes.)
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To: guardian_of_liberty

Is yours outside all the time?

Mine are indoor dogs.

[too cold out for them in the winter and heartworm skeeters around in the summer...spoiled sofa brats]


66 posted on 01/08/2013 11:56:34 AM PST by Salamander (Nothing says 'Welcome to my home!' like snakes.)
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To: discostu

Jack and prozac?.....I thought you were a patron guy.


67 posted on 01/08/2013 11:56:52 AM PST by Boxsford (God Is.)
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To: flyover
PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT

I expected it to be some kind of bug-out advice. I imagine there are still a few of us that don't have electronic keys or fobs. I'll continue to keep my keys in the chest-of-drawers and wonder why I had to waste my time responding to this. ;^)

68 posted on 01/08/2013 12:00:29 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Boxsford

It’s from a King Crimson song, Prozac Blue. In theory I’m a Scotch guy, though I do loves my tequilas... and beer... bourbon... brandy... yeah pretty much everything but wine, don’t like wine.


69 posted on 01/08/2013 12:03:05 PM PST by discostu (I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac)
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To: manic4organic

String soup cans on a wire around the truck, and run one end up to your bedside. Ya gotta think outside the box on these things!


70 posted on 01/08/2013 1:17:19 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: entropy12
There is no better intruder alarm to give you enough time to grab your weapon, than a good watchdog.

I once worked for a lady who lived way out in the country by herself and had six geese.

Geese are very territorial and very loud.

Nobody was going to sneak up on that house!

71 posted on 01/08/2013 1:59:01 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: flyover

I have five cars and trucks, but none of them have an alarm,
so I guess I’ll just shoot.


72 posted on 01/08/2013 2:31:52 PM PST by Fireone (Impeach and imprison, NOW! Treason and murder are still crimes.)
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To: flyover
PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT

No thanks. I will stick with my AR-15 and my pistol. Wife has the shotgun on her side, so she's good, too.

73 posted on 01/08/2013 2:40:10 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ("Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov officials committing it." -- K. Hoffmann)
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To: flyover

Thx. I like that idea.

I also use my key alarm when I can’t find my car at WalMart. I can’t remember where I park it.


74 posted on 01/08/2013 2:48:11 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: SampleMan

“I considered him to be my 10 second warning.”

Yep - maybe the barking will get someone to not even try, but at least gives you a warning if you are home. Our neighborhood watch folks say if you hear a noise - get up and investigate safely. It probably is the only warning you will get. I learned that too late.

Years ago a prowler hit a bunch of cars right before Christmas on our quiet cul-de-sac. I had just got in bed and almost asleep when our dog let out a slight “woof” and that was it. I thought about getting up, diddn’t, listened for anymore noises and there weren’t any.

Got up the next morning and about eight cars (some unlocked and some older ones with no alarms) had been broken into. They must have come onto the drive to check our cars and that was the “woof”. Our new dog is a bit more aggressive with the barking towards strangers as they enter the yard.


75 posted on 01/08/2013 2:52:56 PM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: Sherman Logan

I have heard that about the geese! Does’nt the military use either those birds or some other animals?


76 posted on 01/08/2013 3:01:33 PM PST by entropy12 (The republic is doomed when people figure out they can get free stuff by voting democrats)
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To: flyover

This is a *good* idea. I’d just as soon run somebody off before I’d have to choot ‘em.

To thackney, Feed ‘em. That way, you can kinda control where they go. We have a courtyard (where the dogs never go) & the backyard (the only critters that go back there are frogs, chipmunks, & squirrels- well, & the birds. *Rarely* have drama with the dogs). We’ve been doing this for years & discovered it by accident.


77 posted on 01/08/2013 4:05:54 PM PST by KGeorge
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To: flyover

If I scare them and they run I’ll have a Hell of a time getting off a good shot!


78 posted on 01/09/2013 1:30:55 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: flyover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afwsJG_dvwc


79 posted on 01/09/2013 2:16:26 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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