ButchCappel
1st April 2004, 13:12
Good answers, now if I may I will add a few small items.
Cell phones & 911 are definitely the best answer, but do not remain in the driveway while calling. As soon as you see something in your home suspicious, especially at night,
Leave your lights on and back out of the drive. Park at the curb, on the garage side of the house. If you remain in the drive for the phone call you alert the thief that you are home and they can immediately exit from the back of the house.
From the street, you can see the front and part of the back yard as well as enter the back from the side gate if needed.
No cell phone? One spouse, or older child, goes across the street to a neighbors and asks them to call 911. From across the street you can still view everything that is going on in front of your house.
That is the smart and correct thing to do, but! Let’s say the trip you had been on was a K9PS competition and your dog had just earned his PPDX title. While returning and celebrating you had been sipping “Testosterone Shakes”, your kids had watched Terminator III with the sound turned up all the way home, and your wife had just cried out “Oh no! I’ll never replace the family photographs they steal!” Could you really let that slime just slink away? Of course not! Grabbing your leash and ripping open your shirt revealing the giant “S” that stands for “SUBURBANMAN” you employ proper tactical deployment to maximize safety and help capture the skuzznuts.
Spouse remains in parked car viewing front of house, garage side gate and partial backyard. Spouse with dog deploys to far, “Bedroom side” of house opening the side gate to watch the back yard. The entire house is now being watched for escape.
Spouse in car will honk horn if anyone exits the front yard before the police arrive.
Now if “sticky fingers” exits before the cops appearance you can at least get a description, or maybe, well, you could scream “Halt! Or I will send the dog” This could have 2 possible outcomes. 1. Punk thinks he is caught and surrenders 2. Punk suddenly finds athletic ability he never knew he had and runs faster and is able to leap chain link fences in a single bound. Even scenario 2 would mean that Sleaze would have to drop the loot to clear the fence so the family photo album would have been dropped and you would still be a hero.
There is a 3rd scenario, but that would involve AK 47s’ and you are in a good position of escape, and as a K9PS member probably don’t do the drugs this scenario would usually require.
Listen Well, Bite Hard
Cell phones & 911 are definitely the best answer, but do not remain in the driveway while calling. As soon as you see something in your home suspicious, especially at night,
Leave your lights on and back out of the drive. Park at the curb, on the garage side of the house. If you remain in the drive for the phone call you alert the thief that you are home and they can immediately exit from the back of the house.
From the street, you can see the front and part of the back yard as well as enter the back from the side gate if needed.
No cell phone? One spouse, or older child, goes across the street to a neighbors and asks them to call 911. From across the street you can still view everything that is going on in front of your house.
That is the smart and correct thing to do, but! Let’s say the trip you had been on was a K9PS competition and your dog had just earned his PPDX title. While returning and celebrating you had been sipping “Testosterone Shakes”, your kids had watched Terminator III with the sound turned up all the way home, and your wife had just cried out “Oh no! I’ll never replace the family photographs they steal!” Could you really let that slime just slink away? Of course not! Grabbing your leash and ripping open your shirt revealing the giant “S” that stands for “SUBURBANMAN” you employ proper tactical deployment to maximize safety and help capture the skuzznuts.
Spouse remains in parked car viewing front of house, garage side gate and partial backyard. Spouse with dog deploys to far, “Bedroom side” of house opening the side gate to watch the back yard. The entire house is now being watched for escape.
Spouse in car will honk horn if anyone exits the front yard before the police arrive.
Now if “sticky fingers” exits before the cops appearance you can at least get a description, or maybe, well, you could scream “Halt! Or I will send the dog” This could have 2 possible outcomes. 1. Punk thinks he is caught and surrenders 2. Punk suddenly finds athletic ability he never knew he had and runs faster and is able to leap chain link fences in a single bound. Even scenario 2 would mean that Sleaze would have to drop the loot to clear the fence so the family photo album would have been dropped and you would still be a hero.
There is a 3rd scenario, but that would involve AK 47s’ and you are in a good position of escape, and as a K9PS member probably don’t do the drugs this scenario would usually require.
Listen Well, Bite Hard