Best HOME defence item? Telephone!

[Rasputin747]

I'd say a Mosin-Nagant M44. Sure, it will go through the intruder and your house into the neighbor's, but hey, better safe than sorry. Not to mention you can poke the hell out of him with the bayonet.

 

[boerseun]

Haha yeah, it will go through a few houses...I'd like to see the box of truth do that one!
And that Bayo is looooooong

 

[SIRVEYR666]

Just a little tidbit of info...

I keep one of my old cell phones (that no longer has service) by the bed. Even if it is not an active phone, it can still dial 911. I've got quite a pile of old phone lying around , as do most of you, I'm sure. It's kind of a PITA to remember to keep it charged, but I try.

 

[stoky]

Best HOME defence item?

brain, fully engaged
Large caliber pistol or shotgun with the skill and the will to make use of it.
good dog
Phone down the list, for (hard to know how much) later.

 

[theavocado]

Around here cell phone calls to 911 yield a busy signal almost all of the time.

 

[Knotthead]

In this era of cordless and cell phones, the home should have at least one old fashioned corded phone for use during power outages. No battery back ups needed.

 

[Troutman]

Best Home Defence item ? No Way.

The best bet is having a firearm handy.....Period.
Hard-lines can be cut very easily. Just have to clip one wire, on the outside of the house. Apartments are a different story. And power (electrical) as well. The latter is not done as often as the first. That meter can be pulled in no time at all, though. We're talking non-commercial property here. Commercial property is a little trickier. Cell phones (most providers) are not as dependable as hard lines.

For Wireless 9-1-1 Information.... Google....."NENA Wireless 9-1-1 Web Pages".....

Again.....Best bet....Have That Firearm. No firearm avail....Go and buy one.

 

[1911 guy]

Phones are handy evidence.

Phones are good for alerting the authorities that something is going down, but are of no use after that. They will give an audio record of the event, but will not affect the outcome at all, except in a case like Pax mentioned. The actual event was over, but it was handy for getting her out of a very cold freezer.

 

[bogie]

Oh, lemme tell you about a phone...

About 10 years ago, I was doing a rehab with an acquaintance on a 3-story in south-downtown St. Louis...

Iffish neighborhood, but it was a borderline, and improving.

Anywho, the teenager across the street got popped for unlicensed distribution of an unprescribed pharmaceutical substance, and got sprung fairly rapidly. One evening while I was enjoying the dusk out the third story window, a white car pulled up, a gentleman stepped out, and proceeded to send a large quantity of messages at the young man's house, doubtless to remind him of the importance of keeping trade secrets secret...

I had the house cordless in my pocket. I had 911 dialed before the last piece of brass hit the pavement.

So...

Well...

Okay...

About 20 minutes later, STL Five-O shows up... Two guys in a marked car... Cruises slowly up the street. By now I'm sitting on the front stoop, with the Mossy Cruiser inside the door. Hey, it was a nice evening...

I wave the cops, and they stop, and things started going south from there... I pointed out the house, described the car, described the shooter (hey, I was on the third floor), and then they told me that they thought I was making things up... I proceeded to point out brass all over the pavement. They got huffy, and left. Did not even approach the house.

Last time I call 911 with any sort of expectation other than "hey, there's a static but messy situation here - someone's gotta come clean it up."

 

[PzGren]

There are active and passive defensive devices, the phone is a good passive device.
But is it first in line? The first devices should be the ones deterring intruders to make it inside or even choose the home as a possible target.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

A phone is definitely one essential part of a defense system. However, if an intruder gets through your door or window (another part of your system), a phone makes a poor club.

 

[Manedwolf]

With most people now going to cordless phones there is a chance that your phone may be dead when you need it most.

And your cellphone charger isn't on your nightstand because... ?

ONLY place it should be, IMO. I doubt home invaders are going to have a jammer.

 

[XDKingslayer]

Draw your own conclusions.

Don't mind if I do!

One, I spent part of the evening yesterday talking to a woman about a home invasion she experienced a little over a year ago. She was actually on the phone with 911 when the intruder found her and beat her senseless. The whole encounter was captured on the 911 tape, but the attacker did not leave until he heard sirens approaching.

I think this one supports the whole "you've got bigger things to worry about than a phone" mindset that seems to prevail here and I agree with it. While neither one of these situations apply well to us, this one shows you how useless that phone really is.

Two, in today's paper there's an article about a robbery which happened last night at one of the local restaurants. The woman who was closing up shop was accosted in the parking lot, forced to re open the store, and then locked into a walk in freezer before the assailant left the building. She is alive this morning only because she had a cell phone in her pocket, and was able to call for help before she froze to death.

Yep, phone saved her life. The ONLY reason the phone saved her life is because she didn't have any of the things listed here you should worry about BEFORE the phone. Main one being, gun. I don't think anyone here would have ended up in that freezer. The freezer is the 2nd crime scene, the one we're taught to avoid in this type of situation.

Being armed and trained saves lives. All phones do is let other people know you're screwed.

 

[Sniper X]

I have a corder phone as well as cordless in both the master bedroom and the living room. I think call 911 then defend as necessary with deadly force if needed....that is as down and dirty as it gets.

 

[XDKingslayer]

Interesting.

Why would you call 911 prior to defending yourself?

 

[1911Tuner]

911

XD pondered:

>Interesting.
Why would you call 911 prior to defending yourself?<

Probably to establish that you...the frightened sheep...tried to do the right thing by summoning the government entity to send the cavalry to rescue you before acting on your own behalf. It gives evidence that you really had no choice, and will likely be a point in your favor when trying to solve problem 2...the criminal action that you'll very likely find yourself tangled up in.

Given that...it's not a bad idea to dial 911 if you have the chance and can do so without placing yourself in deadly jeopardy.

 

[ZeSpectre]

Probably to establish that you...the frightened sheep...tried to do the right thing by summoning the government entity to send the cavalry to rescue you before acting on your own behalf. It gives evidence that you really had no choice, and will likely be a point in your favor when trying to solve problem 2...the criminal action that you'll very likely find yourself tangled up in.

Hey, you want to win you got to know how to play the game (or at least make it look like you are playing the game).

 

[answerguy]

Two, in today's paper there's an article about a robbery which happened last night at one of the local restaurants. The woman who was closing up shop was accosted in the parking lot, forced to re open the store, and then locked into a walk in freezer before the assailant left the building. She is alive this morning only because she had a cell phone in her pocket, and was able to call for help before she froze to death.

I would think that unless she lived alone her absence returning from work would have resulting in her being discovered prior to freezing to death. But certainly the cell phone expedited her rescue.

 

[Roadwild17]

Game-plan


BG in the house

I grag shotgun and head out the bedroom door into the bathroom (its the room at the end of the bottle neck in the house, 23 ft loooong hall) gf grabs eather of the cells that are charging or the landline (the old corded phone type) to dial 911 wile getting the glock and covering the door.