What security measures do you have in your home?
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Anonymous
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I will start.
1) Monitored home security system 2) CO detectors, Smoke detectors, Fire extinguishers We do not have CCTV, nanny cams, guns, dog, home safe |
Anonymous
| Um, the doorknob lock and the regular lock, that were here when I moved in. |
Anonymous
| We have all the normal stuff, same as you, OP. We also happen to have a big dog but he's certainly not a guard dog in any way. |
Anonymous
| Are you sure its a good idea to post which security measures you have/don't have here? Get a hacker to match your IP address with a list of houses with few security measures and.......well, you get the point. |
Anonymous
| Deadbolt, regular locks, smoke alarm, extinguisher, two home safes, smith & wesson. |
Anonymous
| Two dogs. If anyone messes with us, the tetchy chow mix will start something and the less suspicious but muscular pit mix will finish it. |
Anonymous
having the cheapest house in the neighborhood works for us. 
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Anonymous
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we live abroad right now and our house is basically a fortress. For whatever reason, it is just the way houses are designed here even though we live in an incredibly safe neighborhood. DH shut the front door the other day and didn't have his keys with him. Door wasn't locked (you have to do it from the outside with the keys) but he couldn't get back inside. Mechanism slides into place when you shut the door that prevents it from being opened unless you have the keys.
Back door had 4 different doors you have to go through to get inside or out, each requiring a different type of key. All windows are incredibly thick and have horizontal wooden pieces that are too narrow for someone to fit through. We have an alarm but don't use it Have a smoke detector and CO detector and bought a small home safe to store jewelry and passports in. |
Anonymous
| Locks on doors/windows, alarm system, smoke & CO detectors, fire extinguisher, very large Lab who has a bark like Clifford and would _REQUIRE_ an intruder to play with him. |
Anonymous
Where is this? |
Anonymous
| A dog. Had family member die in a home invasion, a dog is what would have saved him according to the police on the case. |
Anonymous
NOT the PP, but I was an exchange student in Venezuela in th 80s. My middle-class host family had a modest house. It was surounded by a tall cinderblock wall topped by both pieces of broken bottle and barbed wire. Behind that were 2 large dogs - one of which was hostile towards me the entire time I lived there. This was one of the safer neighborhoods - again, in the 1980s (crime exploded in Venezuala thereafter). Personally, I think a large dog inside the home is the BEST property protection (its there 24/7) and dogs have been known to wake families if there is a fire or attempted brake in. We are between dogs at the moment (plus we travel a lot). We keep a safely-secured (read: locked in a safe) quick-access Colt for times we may be at home. |
Anonymous
Home invasion robberies/kidnappings happen and seem to be on the increase over the past few. |
Anonymous
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We have smoke detectors and a CO detector. Normal door and window locks. 100 pound German Shepherd with a mean bark. True guard dog that protects our house and yard and is suspicious of strangers unless you meet him with us and he gets the cue from us that you are friendly.
No alarm system needed. |
Anonymous
Is his name Rusty? That sounds like a good name. |