Anyone sleep with a weapon?

Ive got a bat in the wardrobe but keeping it in the bed is a bit much, i have slept with a knife under the pillow when staying it some ****hole hotel where you could rent the rooms by the hour.
 
I don't think most have us have done it intentionally. I live with my parents...where else would I keep my air rifle, asp etc. It's just where my stuff lives. I doubt i'd confront a burglar, although sometimes I've heard stuff and wandered around with my fists up hah!
 
I find the idea of keeping a weapon in one's room absolutely hilarious! As has already been said; a burglar wants your valuables and it is most unlikely that he will want to rape your wife and eat your children - best to let him have them. In the unfortunate event that someone has entered your home with a view to doing serious harm to yourself or your family then that hammer you're brandishing menacingly is unlikely to be of much use I'm afraid!
 
Don't have weapons intended for defence around the apartment for the same reason I don't carry weapons out on the streets: in the unfortunate event that I may need them, there is a higher chance they will be used against me.
 
weapon... no need, if they make it into my extremely messy room, any Bulgar would probably trip over some random thing and crack their head open on some random piece of furniture
 
What really ****es me off are these Muslamic parables which try to "educate" you to react in a polite way when faced with an intruder.

Like this one (short version)

- intruder breaks in Muslim's house; demands money from homeowner who is praying.
- home owner finishes his prayers and turns to intruder and says what if I can give you something better than money?
- intruder says what is it?
- homeowner says I'll give you my house if you join me in prayers.
- intruder prays and then is suddenly overcome with guilt, remorse
- intruder asks homeowner if he can pray and fast for longer and is then miraculously reformed and becomes a changed man

These stories really rattle my chain. Because they are nothing but fabricated stories from the Brillo pad sect. :mad:

like that's going to happen in real life. :rolleyes:
 
I have a large Maglite in the top draw next to me and a Tibetan terrier as the guard dog, she hears things and goes mad barking...

Girlfriend sleeps like the dead so is no use to me :)
 
After playing baseball for many years and I have two 33" baseball bats in most houses in the UK they are useless its not like you could swing most of the bats inside anyway unless you have a massive house then fair enough. Shorter softball bats maybe but I still doubt they would be effective to be really used just the scare factor.

I dont require mine as I have a dog which would bark the second someone got ten foot onto my drive way or back garden. And god help them if they got into to the house.... the dog would lick them to death and force them to stroke her until they pasted out from exhaustion. It would take a special type of person to get past this dog :p
 
[DOD]Asprilla;24539922 said:
My point was that in 99.999% (figure plucked from air) of burglaries or attempted burglaries there is no confrontation and burglars don't want one. If disturbed they will leg it.

However, if someone is expecting a confrontation they will come armed and if you are similarly armed then it makes a fight more likely. They are most likely more prepared for it than you. This puts your family at risk. Intruders don't want you or your family, they want your stuff. If they are that determined then let them have it.
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Absolutely, you are never likely to need a weapon, There's no denying that. My thinking is just that would carrying a weapon really make things worse for the exceptional cases? Because rare though they maybe they will happen to someone. A lot of risk assessments and regulations that govern our lives are there to protect us from the exceptional circumstance rather than the expected. It's something I'm curious about, whether everyone who has used force has done so unnecessarily or have they saved themselves or someone else from getting badly assaulted, it would require more research then I'm prepared to do on the subject so I can't say any more on it.

I was watching something like CrimeWatch some time ago, and having been tied up the wife pleaded with the burglars to leave some candlesticks (I think), saying that they weren't worth much but had great sentimental value, one of the burglars got her to clarify what she was asking for and placed them down before they left with the rest of the valuables. This is the type of serious burglar you are referring to and absolutely, if you are in a house worth breaking into and you are in a similar situation then the right thing to do would be to let them get on with it. But at the other end there are people who break in, tie up the vulnerable and beat them half to death, so I wonder would you really want to submit as your default response to an intruder who reaction wasn't to flee?

For me I think I'll continue to pick up something to be used as a weapon, I'll make more of an effort to make it known anyone who might be there that someone is up an about to avoid necessary confrontation, but should that confrontation occur I would rather have the option of engaging them with a weapon if a confrontation turns out to be inevitable. I can always hope for professional burglars with a heart but with my luck I'll get rabid junkie nutters. Though my best hope is that it remains idle chat from behind a keyboard.
 
I've an assortment of weaponry close at hand in my room:

1. Crowbar under the bed - Mr Crowley is the last resort say the intruder is already in my room when I wake up.

2. Pool Cue opposite the bed next to the bookcase - Only to be used when appropriate random music is playing.

3. Razor Sharp Hunting Knife in desk drawer - in case I don't fall asleep in bed but at the Keyboard nobody messes with me while I'm using the PC God Damnit!
 
Wooden baseball bad which is split in two... by my wife. Neighbours were being noisy late at night to she went nuts and smacked the tar out of the floor with this bat which subsequently broke.

She has won every argument since then.
 
majnu said:
What really ****es me off are these Muslamic parables which try to "educate" you to react in a polite way when faced with an intruder.

Like this one (short version)

- intruder breaks in Muslim's house; demands money from homeowner who is praying.
- home owner finishes his prayers and turns to intruder and says what if I can give you something better than money?
- intruder says what is it?
- homeowner says I'll give you my house if you join me in prayers.
- intruder prays and then is suddenly overcome with guilt, remorse
- intruder asks homeowner if he can pray and fast for longer and is then miraculously reformed and becomes a changed man

These stories really rattle my chain. Because they are nothing but fabricated stories from the Brillo pad sect. :mad:

like that's going to happen in real life. :rolleyes:
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I have to ask, are you a little bit mental? Because i think you lost your mind
 
Sleep with a weapon? Crazy.

Just quickly stand in the corner facing the wall, smear poo on yourself then laugh hysterically.

If they don't run off dropping logs then hats off to them.
 
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