Anyone sleep with a weapon?

[d_brennen]

A huge knife, also removed everything that can be used as one.

6 lads with guns. Bam all doors lock, lights out - smoke. PHONE signal jams. Looking like Tom Clancy I knife em all with heatseeker googles. Picked up gun and wasn't a normal shot.


I aim at the wall *bang*. Followed bny a dropping body, then another through floor boards.

Got banned for using hacks.

LOL 10/10, Tony, nice work

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

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.

Which of those occasions required a weapon again?

 

[The IPB]

I have a dog next to the bed, that and I'm a trained fighting machine of death and destruction

 

[Gogl]

Which of those occasions required a weapon again?

All of them.

 

[Cosimo]

Just a keyboard under the pillow.

Judging by some of the replies there must also be quite a few on top of the pillow as well.

 

[arc@css]

I have a resident bee that visits me most mornings, so beware if you're thinking of invading my sanctuary then.

 

[PlatinumLiam]

Don't have a weapon in my bed or under it but I do have a couple of Gerber knifes and a multitool in my drawers. Don't keep them to defend my self but I still could use them

 

[sanaxe1]

My house has boobie traps everywhere , home alone style.

 

[Maccapacca]

My sister in law just had her front door kicked in whilst they were asleep, two babies one two weeks old, stole keys to their porsche laptop ipad phone etc only thing to stop them coming upstairs was a child gate they couldn't get open.

All happened in a flash by the time they woke up and come too they were gone. Luckily keys were just by the the door so they got what they wanted and left.

No weapon would have made a difference the child gate was their greatest protection.

Car is back as it had a tracker and the rest is insurance.

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

All of them.

How so? There was no confrontation in any of them and the same is true of the overwhelming number of burglaries.

 

[wnb]

No weapons other than whats available in the kitchen. We dont lock the back door unless we go out. The neighbours never lock there house even when they go on holiday.

 

[Freefaller]

at the ready

I think that's what most people probably have.

Anybody would think we live in some war torn, poor, desolate desperate part of the world.

 

[Freefaller]

No weapons other than whats available in the kitchen. We dont lock the back door unless we go out. The neighbours never lock there house even when they go on holiday.

It was the same in Cyprus 20+ years ago. We'd leave the keys of the car in the car too sometimes, so neighbours/people could move the cars if they were in the way.

IT was a different time and a different attitude. Ah well. I generally believe there is good in people, and that generally people don't mean you any harm, and are just desperate (hence why they break into homes) rather than do it out of hatred. I'm not excusing it, but if I did confront someone, I'd hope to be lucid enough to either get a good description of the person, or startle him/her enough to make them scarper - if there was a mexican stand off situation, i'd re-iterate that I don't mean them any harm, and that they should leave. If they attack me, well, it's a fait accompli and I would have to defend myself - but I truly believe most people wouldn't.

Hmm, problem is the time it would take me to put some clothes on would sort of remove any pre-emptive strike!

 

[atpbx]

Where do you live? Do you have valuables?

I think the main point is you grow out of things like this.

A 36 year old man having to have a weapon of some kind in the house to feel safe is a bit limp if you ask me.

 

[Gogl]

How so? There was no confrontation in any of them and the same is true of the overwhelming number of burglaries.

I meant it in the sense that carrying a spare tyre is a requirement, most journeys will be completed successfully without their implementation also. So I suppose requirement is a little excessive, prudent might be a better word.

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

I meant it in the sense that carrying a spare tyre is a requirement, most journeys will be completed successfully without their implementation also. So I suppose requirement is a little excessive, prudent might be a better word.

Carrying a spare tyre doesn't make road debris get sharper and nor can road debris use your spare tyre against you. Oh and you can't be prosecuted for changing your tyre in an overly aggressive fashion.

Is one of these things where people completely fail to assess the risk correctly and mitigate disproportionately.

 

[King Damager]

Nope, but there's a good few large objects that I could get to in a couple of steps if needs be...

kd

 

[Tony Williams]

When I was working at the graveyards, I knew a big Serbian lad. Had big muscles, liked his Coke too. Would be in and NO ONE could rob him. Even 3 sqad cars raided him.

"n what they gunna do?"

Police boot his door in for 9mins enter and are quickly removed, then the taser hits and he turns into a big bull runs out on 3 grams of coke and launches a car over the road and Street FIghter style took apart a the other cars.

Heads into town, looking for a fight.4-7 bouncers it's all a ROIT but hes loving it. I just calm him

 

[£15]

I have a 6D-cell Maglite next to my bed.

'It's just a torch, Your Honour. In case there's a power cut and I need to get up in the middle of the night.'

Having a baseball bat to hand might be harder to jusitfy. That's my thinking, anyway.

 

[JaWalks]

Also @JaWalks you of course realise that if you are pulled over and the police find tha they WILL throw the book at you and if you use it to beat anybody off that is trying to carjack you are breaking the law right? hell you are breaking the law by simply carrying in the cabin of the car let alone by your seat

I know what you're saying but I'm not the sort of person who gets pulled over and has his car searched.