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Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by sethammons »

wheybags wrote: post #294
lelanthran wrote: post #286

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> But you could say the same thing about random people in the street that you don't like the look of: it's stupid to wait and see if they're going to murder your kids, so the best thing to do is murder them first. No, you couldn't, because they did not use force to get into the space of your children. > And no, someone who breaks into a house with the intention of burgling is not an attacker, they're a burglar, regar…

Or maybe they didn't know anyone was home? It's not so hard to imagine many scenarios where someone just wanted to rob the place.

Let me introduce you to my mom's former landlord when I was a kid. Former rodeo cowboy who got into drugs. He broke into a house to steal shit to sell and when the homeowner came downstairs to investigate and the former landlord proceeded to smash in the homeowner's face with a ball-pin hammer to the point dental records could not be used to id the body. This guy had no history of violence. I'm sure the victim's wife would have preferred the cowboy being shot dead and keeping her loved one.

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Post by technothrasher »

kube-system wrote: post #185
101008 wrote: post #85

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After living in a dangerous city my whole life, I think living in a place where break ins are consequences of owners being lazy would be awesome.

Crimes of opportunity are also the most common crimes in places with more crime. What’s awesome is living somewhere that crimes of opportunity don’t even happen. There are still places where people don’t lock doors because they don’t need to.

> There are still places where people don’t lock doors because they don’t need to.

Yep. I grew up not ever locking our doors, and I still don't. I even usually leave the keys in my cars in the driveway, especially in the one that the neighbors all know they can borrow if needed. I do have a dog who will bark when anybody unknown approaches the house, though.

When I lived in the city for a few years, I did lock my doors, but I left my car unlocked. I would relatively frequently come out to the car in the morning and it was obvious that somebody had rummaged around in it. But I didn't really care, and it was better than having the windows smashed, which did happen in that neighborhood.

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Post by noisy_boy »

pxc wrote: post #86
sharkweek wrote: post #36

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A sampling of things my lovable labrador has barked at over the last 48 hours: - Birds - Packages being delivered - My neighbor, who he knows well, working in their back yard - Me banging a door closed too hard - A neighborhood cat taunting him on the sidewalk - My kid dropping a toy on our hardwood - ??? (He was barking at a closet door) - Anytime I touch the hook where his leash hangs - etc. Still, love having his…

When it's really, really windy, my dog likes to stare out the window and bark at the trees for moving too much . (It took me a long time to even figure that one out.) At the same time, he likes it when trees drop little pieces of fruit or seeds, like mesquite beans or pine cones. So on windy days sometimes he gets into a loop with a tree where he * stiffens up and barks at a tree for shaking its leaves * cautiously a…

You must show him Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers with the walking trees.

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Post by na4ma4 »

copperx wrote: post #143
bjt1234 wrote: post #135

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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.

> Dont over estimate how dumb they are. Somehow, I can't parse this.

Nice try AI.

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Post by ChadNauseam »

kolanos wrote: post #227
watwut wrote: post #201

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I don't know why this is downvoted. It is true.

I would assume people are tired of seeing this qualifier in every other HN thread? "It might be bad in the U.S., but in the rest of the world...." Especially when it is verifiably false. [0] Of the ten most populous countries in the world, only China (2.114) and Indonesia (1.783) have lower peace indexes than the United States (2.337). Of the next ten, only four have lower indexes. In other words, two thirds of the t…

In my experience, when someone says “the rest of the world” they’re usually referring to scandinavia

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Post by aneeshnl »

kube-system wrote: post #185
101008 wrote: post #85

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After living in a dangerous city my whole life, I think living in a place where break ins are consequences of owners being lazy would be awesome.

Crimes of opportunity are also the most common crimes in places with more crime. What’s awesome is living somewhere that crimes of opportunity don’t even happen. There are still places where people don’t lock doors because they don’t need to.

My childhood home didn't had a lock. We were all surrounded by relatives. Everyone knew everyone else. Sadly, not anymore. (I am from Kerala, India)

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Post by 3-cheese-sundae »

anonred wrote: post #252
mellavora wrote: post #242

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ok. So you are on your boat. Small craft with three people is rapidly approaching on a direct course. You are nervous so you grab the gun (probably more than 5 seconds because you are out on deck and the biometric safe is fixed in the cabin, but I'll give you a pass on that). Where do you aim the gun? At them? At the deck? They see you are holding a gun, get a different look on their face, and one starts to reach und…

I would shoot a warning shot into the air. But maybe at that distance it wouldn’t be clear enough and that’d just escalate the situation..

It would be very bad if it were to come back down onto you, or someone else.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by mxxx »

When I was a kid, we had one of these things and it was triggered by a motion sensor. But we _also_ had a large taxidermied dog sitting in the window. Used to really trip people out.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by anamax »

seoaeu wrote: post #246
exolymph wrote: post #225

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Stop valuing the acquisition of other people's stuff over your own safety and you won't have this problem :)

Stop valuing your stuff over other people’s lives and you won’t have this problem

When someone steals from me, they're saying that they value my stuff more than they value my life.
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