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Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by tristor »

mberning wrote: post #16

I can not stand thievery. And the brazen nature of it is so irksome. The fact that people need a fleet of security cameras and a fake dog to protect their home is ridiculous. These people should be caught and sent off to labor camps for a very, very long time.

One of the challenges of our modern society is that we've eliminated so much self-respect, after all look at social media. Without self-respect, you cannot build respect for others and their property. It is no surprise then that these types of incidents have become more brazen and more common. Any self-respecting person, then must determine how best to deal with this, because you cannot rely on others whether that be the police, the government, your community, or the would-be thieves themselves.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

mallomarmeasle wrote: post #13

"The dog has a lot of false positives" Wow, just like my real dog!

Better false positives than a burglary I guess. Plus it's probably off when you're home... unless it's on at night as well.

Anyway, improvements can be made, I'm fairly sure there's off-the-shelf "is this a person" detectors out there.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by dymk »

Xylakant wrote: post #10
CoffeeOnWrite wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For sure. I’d bring a gun, personally.

A dog is an audible warning before the fact and may scare off thieves/robbers before an attempt. A gun is in the best of all cases helpful once the thief or robber has already decided to act.

That's why I have a solenoid triggered rifle in my backyard that shoots off a round every two minutes. It used to be full auto 24/7, but ammo got expensive :(

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by willcipriano »

mellavora wrote: post #20
CoffeeOnWrite wrote: post #2

I met an older Australian woman that sailed around the world solo, and swore by the fake dog for scaring off opportunistic pirates. She didn’t carry a gun or other weapon. Just a cassette tape on repeat when anchored.

Generally speaking weapons are a problem on boats. Many countries will require you to have a permit for it, which can be problematic to obtain. At the very least you have to declare it, which probably also means handing it over to the harbor authorities. Which means you don't have it when you would be most at risk and most need it. Second, say you solve the above and decide to deploy the gun. You don't have a lot of…

> say you solve the above and decide to deploy the gun.

We're talking about a handgun not a artillery peice, "deployment" is taking it out of a biometric gun safe, 5 seconds max. Also you wouldn't open fire on someone just beacuse they are near your boat.

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by jlturner »

I can attest to having a barking dog being an excellent deterrent. One night about a year ago, somebody was snooping around our backyard (we saw them on the security camera), one sharp bark (from the little dog no less, our bigger dog isn’t much of a barker) sent the snooper running.

I’ve long thought that this could / should be a simple home security system. Glad to see somebody did it and that it worked for them!

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

registeredcorn wrote: post #19
the_only_law wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would pirates be scared of a dog though? They could just shoot it.

I would imagine a burglar would see two issues: 1) If there is a dog on the boat, maybe there's people too. 2) Plenty of other boats, why bother killing a dog and make lots of noise?

Yeah that's exactly it; it only takes a little uncertainty for burglars to be like "yeah nah".

Re: Fake Dog for Home Security

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Post by dymk »

tristor wrote: post #21
mberning wrote: post #16

I can not stand thievery. And the brazen nature of it is so irksome. The fact that people need a fleet of security cameras and a fake dog to protect their home is ridiculous. These people should be caught and sent off to labor camps for a very, very long time.

One of the challenges of our modern society is that we've eliminated so much self-respect, after all look at social media. Without self-respect, you cannot build respect for others and their property. It is no surprise then that these types of incidents have become more brazen and more common. Any self-respecting person, then must determine how best to deal with this, because you cannot rely on others whether that be…

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 me remind you that recent years have not been typical, nor easy on our generally monotonically-improving social safety nets. Compare burglary rates in America from 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010. Lower, lower lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...

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