LOL, a retired cop up the road from me told me to line the top of the fence with razor blades 😛Oh yeah. There are no Legal booby traps that you can put out (although i have some opinions about illegal ones!)
It's not just theft/shoplifting - had a minivan smash into the back corner of the truck 6-7 years ago. Went to the accident reporting centre per instructions. I asked what the other driver would be charged with. Right from the horses mouth they said it was a waste of time to charge them, the courts would likely throw it out anyway. Begs the question then why bother reporting itBut around here the police won't act on it
Personally, I find the whole theft and shop lifting apathy disgusting.
A common suggestion has been for me to buy Ryobi instead of MilwaukeeHow about disguise for the truck - have large posters adhesive on the sides that for the night say "Temu tools dealer"?
This is the kind of thing that makes me think that knowing a guy with a baseball bat, who is willing to put it use for a couple hundred bucks, is always a good investment!A couple weeks ago a creep walking down the lane behind my shop keyed a friends one year old Corvette. My security camera got a great video of him. A person down the lane caught him on their cell phone. My friend found this asshole wandering down a lane and while videotaping him confronted this jerk, he wasn’t phased, challenged my friend to hit him so he could press charges.
All the evidence was given to Edmonton Police, they shrugged, suggested my friend call his insurance company, his deductible is $2000 and he isn’t going to make a claim.
there are no consequences for so called ‘minor’ crimes.
No wonder people turn to illegal means of retribution.
LOL! Knew a couple guys that wrapped bacon strips, and taped them in place, around bear spray cans to convince the bears that there were better pickings elsewhere.Compressed air or C02 canister powered "bear spray" nozzles with wide angle tips mounted on all four sides with independent motion detector initiation for each side?
So as I'm wandering over, the owner of the house directly in front of my car flags me down and tells me she witnessed the theft as it was happening, she called the police but they never showed up. Handed me a piece of paper with a description of the van, licence plate and description of the two guys.
realistically there is nothing we can do, what you have provided is just hear say.
It seems when you live in a high crime neighbourhood, the cops have bigger fish to fry. I was amazed at the apathy.An eye witness account is NOT hearsay.
Makes you wonder - is it really a high crime neighborhood because that's where the criminals are located(crimes of convenience), or high crime because they know that neighborhood is free game (targeted by criminals) as far as the police goes - i.e. if you pay more taxes and have better political connections you get better policing?It seems when you live in a high crime neighbourhood, the cops have bigger fish to fry. I was amazed at the apathy.
It seems when you live in a high crime neighbourhood, the cops have bigger fish to fry. I was amazed at the apathy.
On any given day, what percent of a police department is breaking the rules of the road themselves?On any given day, what percent of a police department is out on speeding traps?
I was on a UN Tour in Honduras, back around 1989, and the locals went pretty hard on home security. Usually broken bits of glass set in mortar on the 'visible' side of the compound's walls, they usually used a lot of razor wire on the backs and sides. We got to calling the glass, "Hondo Barb Wire". It was an interesting trip. The States had not yet been littering the area with exported Gang-Bangers, the situation in the built up areas was actually really polite and civil, with Guards on blocks of residential areas essentially signalling (usually by whistling) as they passed you along from one to the next, as you walked through the neighborhoods on your way home. Heard from guys that knew, that it was really bad there for a long while after the Yanks started exporting their problem children, back to supposed countries of origin (a lot of MS-13, and other gangs).LOL, a retired cop up the road from me told me to line the top of the fence with razor blades 😛