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Do you keep a weapon by your bed?

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  • #122
    WAW
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭WAW


    Those salt lamps would made great weapons. Have one in the bedroom as a bona fide lamp. The weight of it and it's slightly jagged. Fell on my bare foot, definitely hurts!
    I'd an uncle used to keep a meat cleaver in his bedroom


  • #123
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    ablelocks wrote: »
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    Yea I like to break out the eh, barbed truncheon, once in a while. In case any zombies come crawlin


  • #124
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Part of my training I had to pick weapons. I go with knives and staff because I figure of all the things lying around the world - these were the most likely to find lying around or quick substitutes lying around.

    I've been learning to use guns through a friend with my 9 year old daughter recently but don't think I will ever want to own one. Going to use and train with them off site is fun - but ownership not for me.

    The one time someone came into my house in the night he was cornered by the house canine and I found him sitting quietly in the corner - too terrified to try and leave - when I happened to come down for something from the kitchen. We had a surprisingly amicable wait for the guards to arrive.

    Asking for a friend :D

    How far into one's training does one need to be before they 'get to pick weapons'? Does one have to be certified a black belt/expert in that discipline before they graduate to 'master'/ 'grandmaster' (or whatever the terminology is)? What I mean is, is there a waiting time in that martial arts field before a person can acquire the aforementioned "accoutrements", or can beginners get access to and or bring them home?

    Going by some of your posts you wouldn't need much :)

    Not much good for regular folk if there's a waiting period :pac:


  • #125
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    yep, baseball bat


  • #126
    vikings2012
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭vikings2012


    I have two hammers one on either side of my bed. I also have a chair beside my door to ensure I hear anyone entering my room as I tend to be a deep sleeper. It’s a bit excessive but I had a terrifying experience when I was 16

    Our house was broken into when my parents were away at a friend’s wedding. I was home in our house with my grand mother.

    Back then I would go to sleep with the door open or could fall asleep with the corridor light switched on.

    I woke to the noise of football rolling on the floor of my bedroom. When I looked up all I could see a man with a black hat and purple scarf covering his face. He was Beside my wardrobe reaching for a tin box on top of the wardrobe. He looked me dead straight in my eyes. I completely froze. I couldn’t even scream or shout. Thankfully he legged it!

    This encountered affected me for months after. Especially when I would awake at night. When I went way for college I would lock the door. Even in hotels, I would leave a chair in front of the door.

    I do feel that this experience has mentally prepared me for my next encounter. This time I will be ready and will make sure to face it down whenever it will happen.


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  • #127
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Anyone got any ideas on what one could use; say an object that could reasonably expected to be in one's bedroom that would satisfy for the purpose of defending oneself. It would have to be effective and not considered a weapon lest one gets fvcked on a 'voluntary manslaughter' rap.

    There's loads of things........ that hammer you used to hang that picture in your bedroom and you just weren't arsed putting it back in the shed before bed.
    The screwdriver you used to tighten up the curtain pole, the golf club you took off your kids because it was too dangerous for them to be playing with etc.
    Don't worry, the Guards will help you you with your Statement, they're fairly sympathetic in these cases ......... been there myself.


  • #128
    Yester
    Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭Yester


    I have a pencil.


  • #129
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What I mean is, is there a waiting time in that martial arts field before a person can acquire the aforementioned "accoutrements", or can beginners get access to and or bring them home?

    Depends what you want to learn I guess and where you live. There are people selling Bo Staffs on adverts.ie and amazon if you want one :) Call into whatever schools are in your area(s) and just talk to them about what is in your area. Bōjutsu is easier to find around Dublin I think. There is even a club in Dublin a friend of mine had some affiliation with that focuses on Longsword and also on Sword & Buckler :) It's all out there if you look around.

    I guess the reason I like Bo so much is that I can pick up the handle off a mop and practice with it. At the end of the day it's just a stick. And I always loved that scene from "Coming to America" with Samuel L Jackson fighting Eddie Murphy :)


  • #130
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Yester wrote: »
    I have a pencil.

    Hope the burglar doesn’t bring his own eraser.


  • #131
    pawdee
    Registered Users Posts: 548 ✭✭✭pawdee


    Just a Gatling gun.


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  • #132
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,764 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Yester wrote: »
    I have a pencil.

    Ahhh you want to take down their particulars ¡


  • #133
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    king_of_mayo wrote: »
    Home security is a big topic. I wonder how many people have something by their bed in case they hear a noise in the night? If not, what's your plan?

    I have a hurl by the bed. But the wife makes me clean it after pucking around, and even then it has to rest on a few sheets of kitchen paper. A friend of mine keeps a screwdriver in his bedside locker. I think my brother has half a snooker que as his. I don't know of any women which have something ready, which is concerning.

    They seem very odd choices. Why a screwdriver and half cue? Cue would do **** all really and stabbing with a screwdriver is a it savage thing to do.

    May as well just have a solid baseball bat and a knife


  • #134
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Depends what you want to learn I guess and where you live. There are people selling Bo Staffs on adverts.ie and amazon if you want one :) Call into whatever schools are in your area(s) and just talk to them about what is in your area. Bōjutsu is easier to find around Dublin I think. There is even a club in Dublin a friend of mine had some affiliation with that focuses on Longsword and also on Sword & Buckler :) It's all out there if you look around.

    I guess the reason I like Bo so much is that I can pick up the handle off a mop and practice with it. At the end of the day it's just a stick. And I always loved that scene from "Coming to America" with Samuel L Jackson fighting Eddie Murphy :)

    Thanks, I saw "Coming to America" once - years ago. I don't remember Samuel L Jackson in it - must have been before he was famous :pac:
    Earliest film I remember him from is "Loaded Weapon" with Emilio Estevez - probably made about 5 or so yrs after the Eddie Murphy flick.


  • #135
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    TheChizler wrote: »
    I'm convinced that the type of person capable of burgling a house would be much more adept at using a weapon than the average groggy person with eyes not adjusted to the light.

    Lads on here can't even speak with their neighbor, yet are fit to bust some moves when it comes to it:pac:

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #136
    4Ad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭4Ad


    6 iron under the bed..


  • #137
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Sortof.

    It was a clarification. The courts had already ruled on the standard of defense, in DPP v Barnes. It is easy reading, and makes a lot of sense. The Oireachtas then put it into law for those who don't read court cases.

    https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5da044464653d077725a0b6f

    To answer the question, I've a SIG P2340 in 357SIG with hollow-points in a finger-print release lockbox by the bed. But I live in the US, where that sort of thing is normal.

    It's that all? Like an Irishman threatening to stab someone with a thumb tak :)


  • #138
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    I used to have a hatchet under my bed. I was using it for something and just put it there.


  • #139
    bb12
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭bb12


    Rodin wrote: »
    German Shepherd in back hall and front hall.

    I'm happy with that level of protection

    yup i've got 3 rottie mixes...nobody's even getting near a door or window handle.


  • #140
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    No. Not really. There is a shotgun in the house and a ceremonial sword upstairs.


  • #141
    Heckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Heckler


    Hammer to break windows in case of fire.

    Have a couple of firearms locked away in a gun safe but as was mentioned the intruder would have to sit down and watch a bit of netflix while I got them ready for use.


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  • #142
    bassy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,542 ✭✭✭bassy


    my c*ck


  • #143
    Neames
    Registered Users Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Neames


    unhappys10 wrote: »
    Got a baseball bat in America on a childhood holiday
    Keep it in the corner of the room.
    God help the cnut that comes into the house, or God help me if they get it off me!

    Here's a tip...put a sock around the end of the bat that way if the assailant tries to grab the bat ...they'll end up with just the sock...and then you go full Joe Pesci on them!


  • #144
    Neames
    Registered Users Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Neames


    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    I used to have a hatchet under my bed. I was using it for something and just put it there.

    Ominous


  • #145
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,194 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    It's that all? Like an Irishman threatening to stab someone with a thumb tak :)

    I've two children under 12. They don't appear to make affordable suitable locking devices for keeping a rifle to hand for the purpose, so I have to settle for the pistol.


  • #146
    CBear1993
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭CBear1993


    Tried buying one of those telescopic / extendable steel baton things online but apparently they’re illegal here. My friend used to drive about with one in the door pocket of his car. He was a shady character though


  • #147
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,329 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    My wife sleeps next the door. Not many would go near her so I'm safe


  • #148
    Heckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Heckler


    Neames wrote: »
    Here's a tip...put a sock around the end of the bat that way if the assailant tries to grab the bat ...they'll end up with just the sock...and then you go full Joe Pesci on them!

    Thats a good tip !


  • #149
    Heckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Heckler


    I have a savagely bright led torch. I tried it out on myself. If someone is creeping around in the dark in your house and gets it in the eyes, 10 to 15 secs pretty much blindness on their part.


  • #150
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Chinese whospers wrote: »
    Can't fit the road to Dublin in the back of a pick up.
    Actually .. https://i.imgur.com/z40kw7T.jpeg


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  • #151
    gogo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    /Gogo goes to bed early because she’s tired and her husband is working nights
    /Gogo reads quick post on boards before turning out the lights and calling it a night
    /Gogo now has the fricken heebie jeebies, knows the next theee hours are going to be spent jumping at every sound and departs to the kitchen to find a make shift weapon :(


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