play the list game {infiltration detection: home invaders}

[yy]

Did anyone else see Nip/Tuck's season finale?

A home-invader attempts to infiltrate your home then hide until you sleep.

Which part of your defense plan will 1) detect and 2) neutralize the invader before you go to bed?



I was thinking

1) multiple pets, door sensors, and locking up most weapons not immediately in my hands.

2) make a ritual of patrolling every room (like a cat patrolling territory daily) before going to bed.

3)Some other thread mentioned playing an adult version of hide and seek to practice house clearing and uncovering blind spots.

 

[SkyDaver]

Well, we have an alarm system that chimes whenever a door is opened, so that would help alert us if someone came in during the day.

If the crime rate started going up, I'd keep the doors locked even when we're home.

There might be a dog in the future, perhaps after we move (allergy issues, so we're limited in what breed we get ... I think standard poodle would work out)

The firearms are either locked up or on me.

The house is small enough that a check of every room would work ... I wonder if X-10 stuff has heat/motion sensors of any sort that I could set up in each room. That way, I could just check the computer for more than two bodies ;-)

 

[444]

Boulderdash

The cute little Rottweiler.
He would take care of both missions, leaving me to get my much needed rest.

 

[YammyMonkey]

I think standard poodle would work out

A Standard would work very well. Very protective and lots of energy. If you can't exercise it every day or at least have a large yard though you could run into problems.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Nip/Tuck? Isn't that show about plastic surgery?

 

[griz]

Never have seen the show. Why would somebody hide until you are asleep? Assuming that they broke in while you were out, their best bet would be to attack you when you came back home. That way you would have the least chance of finding the break in.

At any rate, any dog in the world, even most cats, would defeat this method of attack. If you don't have a pet, just fire a few rounds into the closets and under the bed before turning in. Wear hearing protection.

(just kidding )

 

[G21dude]

Nip/Tuck

Yes, Nip/Tuck is a show about plastic surgeons and their sordid little lives. There's a plotline involving a serial rapist who defaces his/her victims, hence the plastic surgery tie-in. The M.O. is to inject the victim with a paralysis drug, then basically psychologically abuse the poor helpless person, culminating in a rape and facial disfigurement.

The perp hid in the house of one of our interpid surgeons, snuck out once he was in bed, injected him, and started all the standard the nastiness recently on the season finale cliffhanger.

OK, back on topic. Any basic alarm would do the trick -- even run-of-the-mill Ademco units report a prior fault. Anyone who routinely comes home and "checks their house" with a weapon drawn needs to change something about their life.

Also, even if a dog didn't stop the perp outright, the strange behavior or altogether absence of the animal ought to be a serious clue that something's up.

If I came home and my alarm had been tripped, and my dog didn't greet me at the door, I would draw my carry weapon and retreat to a safe place, call the Sheriff's Office, and spend some of my hard earned tax money.

 

[Kevmo327]

Riley the wonder dog barks his fool head off if anyone even come up our walkway and I am thoroughly convinced that if someone got in he would make their lives fairly miserable or at least hold them at bay until I could do the same

 

[reagansquad]

I was watching that with my fiance the other day, as well as the episode before that. When he got the first doctor (assuming my dogs didn't exist), the #1 thing that was different between his and my situation was that the minute I thought I heard something I would have grabbed my shotgun and looked around a bit. #2 is that when in the bathroom I keep my folding blade on the sink... Now, he had a fair amount of time to grab that thing when he saw the masked baddie in the mirror. I noticed that this guy still has a .38 special that some criminal drug dealer gave him last season. After his encounter he is using this as an HD weapon. While this is a good choice in weapons, this weapon was not legally obtained and may be either stolen or associated with use in a crime. Using this in an HD situation could result in charges when/if the gun was traced. In addition this man should take a training course.

In the season finale, the other Doctor was attacked. You'd think that if your partner was attacked for helping this rogue's victims, and you repaired his latest victim (doc #1), that you may also be a target. This gentleman made a massive mistake by not taking any security measures. Had I been in that situation, my dogs would have alerted me that someone had entered the house (or that someone who was previously in the house but hiding was on the move). Barring this, he still had time to engage in a struggle. That masked bandit would have gotten a few rounds of 00 to the COM.

 

[Andrew Rothman]

If the crime rate started going up, I'd keep the doors locked even when we're home.

Wow, really? Why would you possibly wait until more people were assaulted before undertaking the single most effective deterrent to crime, which also happens to cost exactly zero?

North of Minneapolis/St. Paul is a sleepy little town called Ramsey. It's rural, friendly, and has a very low crime rate.

Well, one of the local boys, Joshua Allen Krueth, 20, had a bit of a drug and sanity problem. He walked into the unlocked house last month and murdered hospital nurse Suzanne Fischer while her husband slept beside her.

Two weeks earlier, Krueth shot and killed Lawrence Plessel, a retired man of 60, who was in his kitchen fixing a midnight snack.

Here's the link: http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/breaking_news/9715870.htm

I'll bet a lot more Ramsey residents are locking their doors than did a month and a half ago. This is called "locking the barn door after the horses have escaped."

I am baffled and bewildered by people who carry guns and neglect simple, effective, passive crime control.

Do yourself a favor. Lock the doors now.

 

[Series 70]

Do yourself a favor. Lock the doors now.

I'm with you on this. My dad grew up on a farm and farmed until he was in his 30's. I don't know what he did before he moved to the city, but I don't remember dad ever leaving a door unlocked.

I learned from him and keep the doors to my house locked and deadbolted. My family teases me about it, but they've gotten into the same habit.

From time to time, as we watch the local news, there will be a story about a home invasion where the residents are killed or badly injured. At those times I say, "That is why I always lock the doors. And why I have my pistol with me in the house."

The dogs prove their worth regularly with alerts. It's usually nothing to worry about, but I'd rather false alarms than no alarms.