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Weapon for protection?

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    #32
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Surprised at the amount of people who'd leg it tbh. Rightly or wrongly, my gut instinct would be fight over flight.


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    #33
    dsaint1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭dsaint1


    Noveight wrote: »
    Surprised at the amount of people who'd leg it tbh. Rightly or wrongly, my gut instinct would be fight over flight.

    I'm guessing Nullzero would be running.....I pity his family tbh


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    #34
    Yester
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭Yester


    I would shout out that I had nothing worth taking and then if they were agreeable I would offer to take a lie detector test. Then we would sit down and I would be hooked up to the machine and they could ask about the whereabouts of the valuables and all that, to which I would answer truthfully. Then they would apologise for wasting everyones time and leave. Then I would probably call the guards.


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    #35
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,135 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Back in my house sharing days I lived in Naas with two good pals. Great times. Anyway, one Sunday night 3 lads from near Tallaght, out of their mind on something, took a spin down in a stolen motor as far as the first house on our cul-de-sac and ram raided the muthafooka.

    Unsubtle of course as it woke the whole neighbourhood who came out in numbers and tackled the lads and tied them down until the fuzz arrived. But the damage was done, the poor family were traumatised, including a granny sleeping downstairs after one of the kids communions. Great memories eh?

    So, one of my lads was an industrial plumber and within a couple of days arrived home with a length of thick steel boiler pipe, cut into 3 baton lengths, perfectly balanced for handling and impact. He also etched Tom, Dick and Harry onto the 3, in honour of the Great Escape! They promptly found homes in each of our bedrooms. To this day with have them in our own homes for the same purpose and they remind us of those good times, strangely.

    I guess my point is, i wouldnt go in for huge swords or diving knives, but i dont care about offensive weapons, if you cross my threshold uninvited, youre gonna get a headache.


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    Noveight wrote: »
    Surprised at the amount of people who'd leg it tbh. Rightly or wrongly, my gut instinct would be fight over flight.

    I would be the opposite. Fear would have me running. I'd let them have what they want and leg it.


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    #37
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    I escorted an intruder out of my room and made a couple of others run off before actually seeing them by making lots of noise. Two of the above were in the same apartment with the same dumbass flat mate who wouldn’t lock the door. Another time I shouted at someone in my garden who turned out to be a guard. He was trying to catch what he thought was a burglar next door, but the report had actually been about me climbing through my own window when I had no key.

    Not fight or flight, just “Get away from my house”. Never had enough there to attract the sort of burglar that would actually fight you rather than just run off if faced with an aggressive man.

    No weapons. Pointless for the reason I just mentioned. Do now have a dog that would bite an intruder/attacker, which definitely is a good deterrent. She ran at an ESB man who read our meter the other day, when I opened the door to confront the unidentified guy moving my bins. Came back when I called her.

    Think I’d want to kill an intruder nowadays, as I have a baby. All the more reason not to keep a weapon.

    Dogs, lights, cameras, alarms, phones - all more practical home security than weapons in most cases.


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    #38
    Irish Guitarist
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    I leave a pile of dirty clothes on the floor at all times so any potential burglar will trip over them.


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    #39
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    I’d love to own a gun so that I could pistol whip any fcuk who broke into my house.


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    #40
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    We're in a 3rd floor flat with one exit so no where to run to. I've got part of a table leg which is basically a short baseball bat size and shape.


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    #41
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    I hear half a garden shears is the go to implement for home defense these days.


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    #42
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,594 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    I have a tin of pepper spray, and a balsamic vinegar spray.

    In case the intruder has a bag of mixed leaves.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #43
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    I feel left out, the worst I would have would be 3 ejjits of dogs and a cat hepped up on catnip


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    #44
    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    Grayson wrote: »
    At a push get a dog (as someone mentioned already) but don't think you could take a burglar.

    A burglar is just a person. Why couldn’t you take them ?

    I own licensed firearms but they stay locked well away from both myself and any would be intruder for obvious reasons.

    I do keep a short bar near the bed and wouldn’t hesitate to use it.

    I caught 2 travellers about to break in one day and my response surprised me to be honest. As a result, I now know how I’d react and it wouldn’t be flight. I also have a family and 2 useless guard dogs to protect.


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    #45
    [Deleted User]
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    You can never be too safe in your own home. Mel Bernstein over in America has the balance just about right in his, God bless him:

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    #46
    Auguste Comte
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    I keep a tennis ball beside the bed. It's not really for protection more to distract the dogs when the Guards or the coroner turn up to reassemble the ex burglar.


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    #47
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #48
    Avatar MIA
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    Larbre34 wrote: »

    I dont care about offensive weapons, if you cross my threshold uninvited, youre gonna meet Dick.

    FYP

    That'll scare 'em!


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    #49
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    If anyone broke in here I would be astonished ... must have swum? Mind you after one referendum the Garda who came over to take in the ballot box got fed
    after being weather-stranded for three days here and waded across at low tide..

    everyone here knows ( a ) I have nothing worth stealing and (b ) a ferocious and loud dog.
    Who obeys only me..


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