Do you have something in place in case you are burgled

dollyk · 28-01-2016 05:48PM #1

Listening to some of my friends, I have realised that if I was woken
from my sleep by intruders, I would have no clue what to do.:eek:
And Im wondering do people have a plan, or some way of defending themselves
should it ever happen ?
Thanks.

edit does anyone think its a good idea to lock yourself or kids in the bedrooms ?
Personally I keep all the bedroom doors open so i can hear the kids if they wake .

kfallon · 28-01-2016 05:50PM

I had a hurley in the gaff not sure where it is now tho but I'm pretty sure I could annoy them into submission, I'm good at annoying people

28-01-2016 05:50PM

Chainsaw. And it's electric, Thunderdome really opened my eyes

.45auto · 28-01-2016 05:51PM

Ye i have an alarm system wired to 20 pounds of c4 explosive all connected to the load bearing beams of my 2 bed council cottage so if someone breaks in i may die if im in the house but so will they.

Lisha · 28-01-2016 05:52PM

Before I'd have said I'd hide under the duvet. But now I've two children id just run to their rooms and protect them. Everything else can be replaced.

Sam Kade · 28-01-2016 05:53PM

kfallon wrote: »

I had a hurley in the gaff not sure where it is now tho but I'm pretty sure I could annoy them into submission, I'm good at annoying people

Useless, get a baseball bat instead, remember how Michael Douglas dealt with the two Mexicans when he wandered onto their pissing ground?

dollyk · 28-01-2016 05:53PM

.45auto wrote: »

Ye i have an alarm system wired to 20 pounds of c4 explosive all connected to the load bearing beams of my 2 bed council cottage so if someone breaks in i may die if im in the house but so will they.

I have an alarm too lol, but one of my friends put cctv around her house, she is obsessed checking the cameras though.

brevity · 28-01-2016 05:54PM

Baseball bat and an axe.

One eyed Jack · 28-01-2016 05:54PM

Mobile phone, call the Gardaí, hide under the bed. There's nothing in my house worth risking my life for!

mrDerek · 28-01-2016 05:55PM

I have an ornamental Katana though that would be a very bad idea i reckon

LDN_Irish · 28-01-2016 05:56PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Mobile phone, call the Gardaí, hide under the bed. There's nothing in my house worth risking my life for!

Ffs Jack! You're supposed to say "there's nothing in my house worth taking 3 men's lives with my bare hands over." I would've thought you've been online long enough to know that.

c_man · 28-01-2016 05:57PM

Have a hurl beside the bed.

.45auto · 28-01-2016 05:57PM

dollyk wrote: »

I have an alarm too lol, but one of my friends put cctv around her house, she is obsessed checking the cameras though.

Ye ive a few too we are with eircom for security but I have an AK bayonet. I dont have the luxuryoif living in a big house. So if my house did get broken into there really would be no way of me not bumping into the offending party

dollyk · 28-01-2016 05:58PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Mobile phone, call the Gardaí, hide under the bed. There's nothing in my house worth risking my life for!

Thats a great answer. Ill put the local Garda station in my mobile now.

Never thought of that. Just 911.

Sam Kade · 28-01-2016 05:58PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Mobile phone, call the Gardaí, hide under the bed. There's nothing in my house worth risking my life for!

Great, where do you live I want to have a look around

alchemist33 · 28-01-2016 05:59PM

I have a bokken ( the wooden version of a katana), cctv, and an alarm with a remote panic button. I also have a fullsize bow in the garage and a narky pet rabbit

Duckworth_Luas · 28-01-2016 05:59PM

Padraig Nally in the hotpress

The Backwards Man · 28-01-2016 05:59PM

Don't need anything. They'll have to start carrying in before they start carrying out.

my3cents · 28-01-2016 06:00PM

I have a comprehensive first aid kit because if the dogs get hold of any burglar they are going to need patching up.

dollyk · 28-01-2016 06:01PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Don't need anything. They'll have to start carrying in before they start carrying out.

Im a bit like that here too lol.
It would be more of a case of not being able to defend myself
or my kids that would worry me.

my3cents · 28-01-2016 06:02PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

I have a bokken ( the wooden version of a katana), cctv, and an alarm with a remote panic button. I also have a fullsize bow in the garage and a narky pet rabbit

Does the rabbit have BIG teeth

Whyohwhy? · 28-01-2016 06:03PM

Keep an old broken hurl(top of the bas came off, would open some scrotes head up good) beside the bed along with handle off an old Arabic sword I was given as a kid as a knuckle duster. Various other implements are about the gaff too, but not immediately visible to an intruder.
Not paranoid as such but the gaff was broken into before (nothing taken, there's sweet fa of value) but it's a fcukin horrible feeling of violation to know some little thieving cnut was in me gaff.

Sam Kade · 28-01-2016 06:03PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Don't need anything. They'll have to start carrying in before they start carrying out.

I thought you'd back away slowly.

Rhea Rose · 28-01-2016 06:07PM

A place I was renting got broken into a few years ago and I was the only one in the place. Some drunk guy broke in the window on the back door to get in and wandered about a bit before falling asleep on the couch. Turned out he thought it was his own house. I knew none of this at the time though, and I was upstairs sh1tting absolute bricks. I called 112 on my mobile (never thought I'd have to do that) and jammed my wardrobe up against the door of my room as I had no key. He wandered upstairs and went into the room beside mine at one point and I was literally shaking behind my door. It wasn't a great area, so I was sitting there thinking it could have been someone off their head on drugs or anything.

The guards landed about 10/15 min later and made a massive scene about busting into the house - only to find yer man lying conked out on the sofa!!

They gave him a warning and sent him on his way, but it was still scary as fcuk at the time.

breffni bogballer · 28-01-2016 06:08PM

I"d meet them on the landing fully naked and erect and shout "come to daddy" then grab the baseball bat

uch · 28-01-2016 06:10PM

Got an old Mannequin out of a skip and stuck a crash helmet on him, when you come into the Hall you just see the silhouette of him, still frightens the shíte out of me when I've had a few gargles and come in late.

.45auto · 28-01-2016 06:11PM

breffni bogballer wrote: »

I"d meet them on the landing fully naked and erect and shout "come to daddy" then grab the baseball bat

No you meet them naked with a knife and say "no need to turn this assault/rape into a rape/murder" works 100% of the time

Frynge · 28-01-2016 06:13PM

We lock all doors leading to the core of the house i.e. hall and landing, unless actually using that room and leave the key in the door. Guests in the house find it strange that we lock the bathroom doors after using it but it means if someone breaks into the house they cant get from one room to another. Also have panic buttons in each bedroom and core of house. 2 ton sliding gate with notification on my phone each time someone uses it. And 8ft surrounding wall.

Have been the victim of crime on a number of times and it isnt fun but it has never happened in our home.

One of our businesses in a regional town was the scene of a seriouse asault about 2 years ago and when i heard of a murder there yesterday i though to myself 'i wonder was it that particular low life. Ah if only we could be that lucky'. Turns out the scumbag got what he deserved.

MarkR · 28-01-2016 06:15PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Mobile phone, call the Gardaí, hide under the bed. There's nothing in my house worth risking my life for!

What about your other eye?

diomed · 28-01-2016 06:16PM

I worked with a guy "have a golf club beside the bed, if anyone breaks in they will get a hiding"
Then a friend of his brandishing a golf club chased on intruder.
All went well until the young intruder took the golf club and started laying into the old guy.
I didn't hear the "golf club beside the bed" story again.

alchemist33 · 28-01-2016 06:20PM

my3cents wrote: »

Does the rabbit have BIG teeth

And he reeeeally hates knights...

Do you have something in place in case you are burgled

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