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Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by garborg »

hgazx wrote: post #93
duxup wrote: post #53

When I bought a house I picked up a dog dish and put it by my walkout basement sliding door. Also the pond next to my house has old tennis balls show up in it now and then so I put them next to the dish. According to the local cops break ins in my area are mostly just kids going into open garage / garage side doors / back doors that are left open and stuff to steal is out and obvious and so on. I figure just the sens…

What kind of area has a significant amount of kids walking into peoples garages and stealing stuff?!

I grew up in sheltered outer suburbs where it's hard for kids to get around on their own, and older kids turn to some nonproductive amusements -- was surprised to hear a friend tell me he liked (after dusk) freeing trailers to watch them roll into cars.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

tristor wrote: post #49
dymk wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Breaking News: Facebook Causes Increase in Burglaries But in all seriousness, all forms of crime have just about monotonically decreased throughout all of human development. To say that "modern society" has an increasing problem with burglaries due to a "lack of self respect", there's no evidence it's true, and there is evidence to the contrary. Before you point out the bump in some crime types in recent years, let m…

To not put too fine of a point on it, while crime is decreasing in aggregate over time, it's also spreading into areas/communities where it historically has been lower. It's still generally true that if you avoid going into the bad parts of town or engaging in social relationships with known criminals you are unlikely to be a victim of crime generally, however upper class neighborhoods and quiet suburbs are now seein…

>Car-break ins and bike thefts in particular in cities like San Francisco are associated strongly to the refusal of the law enforcement in the area to actually enforce the law.

Police in poor cities have never had enough enforcement resources to do anything other than write a report for petty crime yet you don't see the nearly amount of videos of brazen "petty crime in broad daylight while witnesses film" coming out of Detroit or Trenton like you do the richer cities.

The problem is largely cultural and it largely begins and ends with the demographics who drive things like local police policy.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by blowski »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #88
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #79

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Your dog may behave uncommonly for its breed but dog breeds exist precisely because of common and predictable physical and behavioural traits. Great Danes are famously couch potatoes but mine could not stay still and demanded a ton of exercise - still it was the exception rather than the rule for that breed.

Have owned four litters of labs and some goldens. They behave the way you train them, with one or two personalities being more "out there" than others. Ours were incredibly loving to new people, but barked at anyone that approached our house, attacked people who entered without us. One golden was so well trained we loaned him out as a therapy dog for people who were scared of dogs. He nearly attacked a mailman runnin…

I’d say you’re both right.

A Labrador is more likely to have been trained to be a sociable, a Rottweiler to be aggressive. It’s reasonable to assume the breeds will behave in a particular way because they’ve probably been trained that way. Even when we don’t think we’re training them, our expectations cause them to behave in a certain way.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by marcodiego »

omginternets wrote: post #37

I saw a rather comical sign posted in the first-floor window of a Philadelphia apartment. It had a silhouette of a German shepherd and text beneath, which read: >I can get from the second-story floor to the front door in 1.2 seconds. Can you?

This one became famous in Brazil: https://g1.globo.com/mg/triangulo-mineiro/eu-amo-meu-pet/not...

It means "cute but ordinary".

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by bjt1234 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #84
duxup wrote: post #53

When I bought a house I picked up a dog dish and put it by my walkout basement sliding door. Also the pond next to my house has old tennis balls show up in it now and then so I put them next to the dish. According to the local cops break ins in my area are mostly just kids going into open garage / garage side doors / back doors that are left open and stuff to steal is out and obvious and so on. I figure just the sens…

A "beware of the dog" sign would probably be just as (if not more) effective regardless of whether there's an actual dog.

Dont over estimate how dumb they are.

Installed security cameras, they still came onto the property.

So, next I installed a sign "BEWARE OF THE SECURITY CAMERA", and didn't work, infact one guy broke into my car and simply just covered his face from the canera.

So then I installed a cheap security light next to the sign that would light up when they entered.

That worked.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by ChoGGi »

reaperducer wrote: post #98
Hippocrates wrote: post #65

I get package thefts, people pissing on my entryway, and general creeping late night. Of course I have a doorbell cam but it doesn't help. I've now set up a homekit automation which triggers via the doorbell's motion sensor. It flicks the exterior and interior hall lights on via smart switch, one after the other with a slight random jitter, to create the illusion of someone about to come out the door.

For those looking for a simpler, cheaper solution, you can buy exterior light bulbs with built-in motion sensors for about $15. It scores exactly zero geek cred, but it works if you're renting and don't want to go the full-blown home automation route.

Thanks for that, perfect for my porch light.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by tomschlick »

runjake wrote: post #73
ushakov wrote: post #66

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a Golden Retriever would be happy to show you around and help you pack the loot

I say this tongue-in-cheek, here but I feel like you're being "breedist”, here. I have a That said, this is a feature, not a bug. "Early warning system" was in the top two features I was looking for in a dog.

Can confirm. My 1 year old Golden got extremely protective of my wife when she was pregnant and is now protective of my son to the same degree. Large loud barking, defensive stance until we either greet the person or tell him its ok. Otherwise a normal dopey and chill golden.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by CorrectHorseBat »

cbozeman wrote: post #94
jimt1234 wrote: post #82

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My sister, who has 3 big dogs, always says: "They (the bad guys) might get into my house. But they're not leaving."

I feel this way too. If you're breaking into someone's home, you're asking to die.

I don't like burglars, but a death penalty without trial is a bit much. And what about accidents and misunderstandings?

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by moomoo11 »

omginternets wrote: post #37

I saw a rather comical sign posted in the first-floor window of a Philadelphia apartment. It had a silhouette of a German shepherd and text beneath, which read: >I can get from the second-story floor to the front door in 1.2 seconds. Can you?

Boston Dynamics pupper: I’m behind you

Or it’s already locked in a precision drone strike on your location.

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