Week 21 – Safety tips

Go online and research Lock bumping a new way theives can get into your home!!! You may want to consider purchasing some bump-proof locks.

Locks made by ABLOY, Kaba, Medeco, Schlage, Kwikset[8] and other manufacturers such as BiLock[9] are advertised to be bump proof. ABLOY is said to be the best on the market.

Crime is up due to an increase in drug use and people need to educate themselves. Please visit the National Crime Prevention Task Force website and learn more about protecting yourself. http://ncptforce.com/
According to the FBI, a burglar enters a U.S. home every 14 seconds, and 60% of burglaries occur when a home is unoccupied. Most of the time the burglar enters through the garage so take these precautions.
-Change the code. Check to make sure the code for your garage door has been changed from the factory preset code. Crooks can buy openers on-line that will open doors with factory pre-set codes.
-Never leave your garage remote loose in the car or on the visor. Lock it in the glove box or take it with you. Even with the code changed a thief can get it with YOUR remote
-Cut the pull handle off the end of your rope. The rope is for the manual override to open the door in a power failure (and you'll still have the rope to pull if you need it, but without the handle a thief can't trip it from outside). Slick thieves can use a thin wire to pull the handle from outside and get into your garage and then your home unless you remove the handle.
Hide-a-key is a bad idea. A lot of people hide keys around their houses and they think nobody else will find it. Bad guys know where to look for keys. In jail that's the kind of thing they talk about, all the different places people try to hide keys. If you need to leave a key around, give it to a trusted neighbor, but don't leave it out so somebody can find it.
Forget the gun; buy the Pepper Spray for personal safety!
Pepper spray is a great deterrent and not nearly as dangerous as a gun (too many people get shot by an attacker with their own hand gun).. Buy some for the wife to keep on her key chain (so she will always have it handy). Don’t buy the product made for bears, it is has only 3% OC (Oleoresin Capsicum). The good stuff is 15-18% OC. Remember bears don’t do drugs so they are stopped by the weaker spray. And tell the women folk ‘never give an attacker a warning…just point and shoot!’
However, firearms are great for protecting the home!
The 12-gauge pump shotgun is a popular choice among homeowners because even the ‘little lady’ can just point and shoot. Two great reasons for a shot gun in the bedroom: 1.) Thieves don’t like to hear the sound of a homeowner loading a round; and,
2.) You don’t need to spend a lot of time at the shooting range
Scam alert Tip – If a neighbor has a different alarm company, exchange signs
-If you have an alarm system, never give your alarm code to anyone that calls saying they show it has been triggered. A new scam is to call people who have their alarm system advertised in the front yard (a thief can get your name off your house or mail box) then call you in the middle of the night saying they show your alarm is going off. They will say the police are en route but they can turn the cops around and shut off the alarm if you give them the code. People who are just barely awake fall for this and then get robbed a day or two later. Thanks to Bill Cain of Gang Intelligence