Advice on avoding burglaries
This is mostly sensible stuff. But the last one:If you can hear them [burglars] in another part of the house, break the window of the room you are in: the noise will terrify them as they'll know they've been spotted.
This strikes me as daft. One of the annoying things about being a victim of crime is the sheer amount of time it takes to put things right. When my car window was broken I had to spend two hours when I was meant to be on a train to the airport trying to find an emergency glazer (I failed and had to leave it for three days with a cardboard window on Kensington Park Road). On my return I had to take an afternoon of work to drive it across West London to the windscreen repair place to get a temporary plastic window fitted. I then three weeks later had to drive it back there to get the real one fitted - another half day of work. So breaking your own window, apart from the danger and potential cost in doing so, is ludicrous. It guarantees to turn a situation that might be resolved with reasonably little damage into one that is guaranteed to be a disaster. Shout, or throw something heavy if you want to make a noise.
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posted by Matthew @ 4/15/2007 04:05:00 PM
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