Civic service reminder: Lock your doors and windows

[Tobra]

Got home today, and noticed the screen was halfway removed. Aluminum frame window with one of those things with a couple of wing bolts that clamp to frame and secure it.

I go inside and tell the wife someone tried to break in today, she doesn't believe it. She comes out, looks it over, and says someone rang the doorbell about 10:00, She does not generally answer the door during the day, unless someone calls or she is expecting visitors. The dogs were both outside playing in the back yard. They were barking up a storm at the time the doorbell rings. They settled down and she did not give it another thought until I got home. Day before yesterday she was telling me about home invasion type robberies in the area, yet she is surprised, because that was at some apartments, not a house. I suppose they would not have gotten as far as they did with the screen if the dogs were inside at the time. Couple of hundred pounds of dogs would cure me of wanting to open that window. I am a non-crackhead though, perhaps a different thought process than the miscreants in question. I left them a note in window, in case they come back.

Glad she did not have to defend herself.

[Jims5543]

I knock on doors all day long. I show up to many homes and the folks in there have no idea I am coming.

One day years ago I came across a Ring doorbell. I pressed the button, noticed the camera on it, it made a funny jingle then some dude came on over the speaker.

"Can I help you?"

I explain who I am, why I am there and I will only be in the yard

"Go, ahead and do your thing"

I have no idea if he is in the house on the toilet, in his office across town or in an airport half way across the world, all I know is he just spoke to me.

I wrote down the name and ordered one the next day.

Then I purchased a second, motion activated camera for the back of my house.

We have zero crime here, I purchased the back yard one more for hurricanes, if and when I evacuate.

I just like the tech and think it is a fantastic deterrent to crime.

My doorbell also has a motion sensor, which I mentioned in the Fedex thread. If anyone even walks up to my front door I get a notification on my phone and the event is stored on a cloud for 30 days.

[vash]

yea..i need that doorbell thing.

Tobra..i am so thrilled it worked out. summer time, we leave the house open like a sieve. i'm counting on my dog for the early warning.

[Tobra]

There is a bell you can hear from outer space that rings if you open anything and the alarm is monitored



She is a country girl from Texas, the dogs would be saving them from her. The dog that goes about a buck thirty now is like a giant, stripey police dog, alerts on everything.

[GH85Carrera]

We have two dachshunds that are the definition of a wiener. The will bark at the door or someone in the area, but they would run away from any danger. We keep the doors locked.

The dogs started barking like a pack of wolves of maybe a herd of elephants were outside the door when some dude shows up with a clipboard at the front door. I ignored him and off he went. I do have a 4 camera security system with a DVR with all the camera outside. My monitored system has just two different cameras, and it covers all the outside doors and windows.

Since I work from home I am here most of the time.

[Zeke]

Locked up like Ft Knox here. Even the front porch has gates so no one even gets to the doorbell.

Get off my (porch).

[David]

I have a ring on the door and a ring light on the garage looking down the driveway. Not as good as a good surveillance camera system but it does the job. My neighbors all around me have cameras. With Nextdoor we all know quickly if something happens so why people still think they can break into cars and houses is beyond me. I guess it goes back to the saying, “they don’t call it dope for nothing”

[Tobra]

Turns out I had it a little twisted.

Dogs start to make a lot of noise in the back yard, at the gate on the front door side. A lot is maybe selling them short on the noise deal, probably closer to the astonishing end of the scale. I will have to take a look and see if they could see the window from the fence, camellia bushes might block it. I think the tall one could clear the fence at pretty much any spot along the perimeter, if he was feeling motivated. He sounds like he weighs 160, a mere slip of a thing at 130.

The doorbell rings. She lets the dogs in, so they won't disturb the neighbors. They charge to the front of the house, with the volume turned up to 11. Promptly quit barking, and she goes back to whatever she has snared in her DVR net to watch, probably something about ghosts or true crime. Brown one comes back and lays at her feet, other one stays by the front door, the end.