Anyone sleep with a weapon?
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Bruce Pistorius?
Your brother sounds paranoid unless he has a good reason. I personally don't have anything by the bed but I have done in the past. I have my work tools down stairs though which comprise of a hatchet, top handle chainsaw and a normal one amongst other things necessary for my work.
Wow what an ignorant retarded thing to say, it must be nice and cosy in your bubble of bull ****.
I'll run to your place in the case of an apocalypse. Okay? We can have a chainsaw each...
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After reading some of the posts above - I'm pretty annoyed.
If you are naive enough to think it wont happen to you and you wont ever be in a situation that requires some form of protection well - then you really have no excuse when your wife / kids wonder why you couldn't defend them - or why they couldn't do anything.
Statistically every one of us will be burgled - with over 1 million each year - so if your wife is alone with your kids (if you work shifts) - a weapon is a must.
To say that someone that has a weapon is paranoid - or a lunatic - well
Here's 3 things that have happened to me over the last 25 years (i'm 40)
1.) When I was 21 - I went on holiday with my GF and my dad went on a Football coaching course away from home. My parents live in a chalet bungalow in a very nice part of town. My mum was awoken during the night by a guy climbing on their roof - trying to get in the skylight windows (while my Dad and I) were away. She phoned the cops who arrived about 20 minutes after the guy had ran off.
2.) I now live in a very quiet / nice part of my City - At age 30 - I was awoken by a guy trying to prise open our French Doors - I scared him off - only to find the next day - that 6 houses close by were broken into.
3.) I came home from a night shift to find none of the lights working when I opened the front door - my wife and sons were home alone that night. When I got up that afternoon - my wife said the electrics were all out in the house. I sat down in our sunroom and saw my security lights in the back garden swingin in the wind. I went out and found that all the cables to them had been cut - and that some of the Double glazed windows had been cracked by someone trying to pull out the surrounds.
Now - as I say - me and my parents live in probably the nicest areas in our city. But what you would suggest we do if confronted with some scrote walking around our house.
If you are naive enough to think it wont happen to you and you wont ever be in a situation that requires some form of protection well - then you really have no excuse when your wife / kids wonder why you couldn't defend them - or why they couldn't do anything.
Statistically every one of us will be burgled - with over 1 million each year - so if your wife is alone with your kids (if you work shifts) - a weapon is a must.
To say that someone that has a weapon is paranoid - or a lunatic - well
Here's 3 things that have happened to me over the last 25 years (i'm 40)
1.) When I was 21 - I went on holiday with my GF and my dad went on a Football coaching course away from home. My parents live in a chalet bungalow in a very nice part of town. My mum was awoken during the night by a guy climbing on their roof - trying to get in the skylight windows (while my Dad and I) were away. She phoned the cops who arrived about 20 minutes after the guy had ran off.
2.) I now live in a very quiet / nice part of my City - At age 30 - I was awoken by a guy trying to prise open our French Doors - I scared him off - only to find the next day - that 6 houses close by were broken into.
3.) I came home from a night shift to find none of the lights working when I opened the front door - my wife and sons were home alone that night. When I got up that afternoon - my wife said the electrics were all out in the house. I sat down in our sunroom and saw my security lights in the back garden swingin in the wind. I went out and found that all the cables to them had been cut - and that some of the Double glazed windows had been cracked by someone trying to pull out the surrounds.
Now - as I say - me and my parents live in probably the nicest areas in our city. But what you would suggest we do if confronted with some scrote walking around our house.
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Not according to StriderX you don't, you live in a **** hole and its your own fault lol.
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And to think that burglaries just happen in ****holes.
Obviously that http://www.police.uk website must be placing the burglary pins in all the wrong spots
Obviously that http://www.police.uk website must be placing the burglary pins in all the wrong spots
I've been burgled twice and never woke up at all.
Once at home they forced the front door, took the car keys and buggered off. The other time we were on holiday and they climbed up the hotel wall and on to our 1st floor balcony, coming straight into the bed room. Nicked my watch off the bedside table, and my bag from under the bed when me and the missus were asleep in it. Never woke up either time, so I don't see the point sleeping with anything next to my bed as they'll have picked it up and hit me with it before I wake up!
Once at home they forced the front door, took the car keys and buggered off. The other time we were on holiday and they climbed up the hotel wall and on to our 1st floor balcony, coming straight into the bed room. Nicked my watch off the bedside table, and my bag from under the bed when me and the missus were asleep in it. Never woke up either time, so I don't see the point sleeping with anything next to my bed as they'll have picked it up and hit me with it before I wake up!
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Offer him tea and biscuits and see if you both can come to a reasonable solution?
Maybe over a game of chess? He wins, he can take what he wants. You win, he has to leave quietly.
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I don't sleep with any weapons by the bed, but there are enough items around I could use to defend myself if I needed to. Hopefully it'll never come to that though.
You did sort of prove the point though, in all 3 cases no weapon was needed.
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I live in a relatively safe area too, but somebody has nicked my green recycling bin this week! Well annoyed!
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Used to live in a crap set of flats and kept a baseball bat, well actually it was pickaxe handle about the same size and weight. Mainly because of the fact that
a) there was no lock on the main doors, someone climbed up into the loft space via an access hatch during the night, they could have easily have dropped through the ceiling into my flat
b) later this paranoid, nutjob moved into the flat downstairs, tried to kick someones door door once and used to yell things at me through the floorboards. Knifed my car tyres too, at least I'm pretty sure it was him. Someone called the police on him on one occasion.
I don't live in a crap area anymore so I don't sleep with it anymore.
a) there was no lock on the main doors, someone climbed up into the loft space via an access hatch during the night, they could have easily have dropped through the ceiling into my flat
b) later this paranoid, nutjob moved into the flat downstairs, tried to kick someones door door once and used to yell things at me through the floorboards. Knifed my car tyres too, at least I'm pretty sure it was him. Someone called the police on him on one occasion.
I don't live in a crap area anymore so I don't sleep with it anymore.
NO!