Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
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Anonymous
| I did as a young preteen/teenager/young adult. I grew up without a home alarm system and we had a lot of violent crime - shootings, fights where people we’re slashed, stabbed, and would run bleeding on our doorstep, etc. men would leave teenage me weird presents on the porch (I lived next to the neighborhood soup kitchen). I slept with the bat. |
Anonymous
| No, of course not. |
Anonymous
| I don’t. Honestly, if someone is enough of a physical threat that you want a bat, they can probably take it from you pretty easily. |
Anonymous
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No. We live at the very end of a very quiet street in a very quiet town. The only way someone would break into our home is if they were intent on doing some form of harm. Once our dog alerted us to someone breaking in, our immediate reaction would be to get to DS and get him out of the house. He has a fire ladder in his room (our bedrooms are on the 3rd floor) that we can throw out the window and climb down.
And like PP said, if DH or I couldn't physically fight the intruder, then the intruder is big enough to take the bat from us. |
Anonymous
| This is funny- DH keeps a bat besides his bed. I think its crazy - he is not violent at all, we have an alarm system (which we use) and he thinks the bat will help. I think it has a layer of dust but he keeps it there regardless. |
Anonymous
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The responses that say a baseball bat is useless don't make any sense: I'm an average sized/strength man. If I tried to fight an intruder, I'd probably lose, but with a baseball bat I'd easily win.
But it never occurred to me to keep a bat near my bed. I'm in a DC neighborhood with a reasonable amount of crime, including car break ins and muggings, but even here it's incredibly rare for someone to break into a house at night, and most burglars would run away if they found out the house was occupied. Therefore, the odds of a bat being useful is not absolutely zero, but it's pretty close. |
Anonymous
| Golf club but same idea |
Anonymous
| I slept with a switchblade under my pillow. |
Anonymous
| When I was a young woman living alone I had a gun in my bedside table. Mostly upon my father’s insistence (yes, I was trained on how to use it and taken to the range to practice). Now I have an alarm system, a big dog, and a husband. |
Anonymous
| No. I don’t live in the hood. |
Anonymous
| We have one in my DH’s closet. And we don’t live in “the hood.” |
Anonymous
| We don’t live in “the hood” either. We keep a loaded gun in a safe in our bedroom. |
Anonymous
| Ghetto |
Anonymous
Umm, yeah you clearly do. |
Anonymous
K. |