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Post by 240P_Climate »

swayvil wrote: post #68

Here's a nasty story. Small college town. Nice, lots of bookstores. Retired professors. Food co-op etc Once excellent school, now on the skids. Student population in decline. Local student-housing management companies, slumlords, etc, are alarmed. They're losing money. Solution. State-subsidized housing of low income families and ex-prisoners. Nice college town now has riots and shootings every night. Burglaries of n…

Soon all of America will be like this and we cant wait. No more white privilege for you ;)

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Post by boomboomsubban »

dvtrn wrote: post #302
andrewflnr wrote: post #300

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Oh, I'm sure a squirrel outside is plenty to cause a problem. My dogs have historically not needed anything at all to actually be moving outside to trigger an endless barking spree.

The barking sure (though I set up my office in the basement because FAMILY LOUD and so when they go off, it's pretty well muffled and people on zoom calls don't even hear it), it was the "bringing a squirrel inside and then setting it loose in the house" part that I was wondering about, ha.

I think you're confusing some awkward phrasing from the poster. They were taking the meeting with the CEO in their home office, and the squirrel was running around presumably outside causing the dog to bark.

But I can see how you read it as thet were having a meeting and the dog brought a squirrel into the home office and ran around.

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Post by worthless-trash »

goindeep wrote: post #310
dvtrn wrote: post #235

> The dog has a lot of false positives from the cameras being triggered by car headlights or small animals. My real dog has the same feature, so you’re at least doing a good job mimicking nature, heh.

Haha came here to say the same thing. My stupid dog barks at everything. The wind, the sun, the rain, ants, if he thinks im home, if he thinks im leaving, if he sees me, if he doesnt see me, he even barks in his friggin sleep. Does he bark when he needs to take a piss or a shit and needs to go outside? Nope. Prick.

Train your dog to piss or shit. If your dog likes food it should be very possible.

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Post by midoridensha »

lovemenot wrote: post #308
kube-system wrote: post #185

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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.

In Japan many people use flimsy locks on bikes. It is not to deter a determined thief, but to mitigate the possibility of an opportunistic "borrowing".

Just about all the bike locks I've seen here are flimsy, and most only used to lock the wheel to the frame so it can't be ridden away. Most bike thefts are from drunk salarymen "borrowing" a bike to ride home (riding while drunk is illegal BTW, just like driving drunk).

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Post by worthless-trash »

ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #287
tharkun__ wrote: post #267

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Opposite anecdote: car was broken into to steal the stereo (yes its been a while ;)). The door lock was damaged and wouldn't close any longer. A day later the car was broken into again. While the lock was still broken and no stereo in the car. Someone smashed in the side window and left the door ajar too. Nothing got stolenthat time around.

Worst part about it was that it was probably the same person breaking in both times.

Yep, they saw something last time they wanted and didnt get it.

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Post by askvictor »

djhworld wrote: post #184
chadash wrote: post #156

To add credence to this post, I once heard an interview with an incarcerated burglar who claimed that dogs where the one deterrent that scared him off. He said that an alarm as only as good as the response times of the police and he's usually in and out of there in five minutes anyway. But who wants to risk it with a dog? Better to just move on to the next house. A few more tips: - Best place to hide valuables is in…

I remember watching a thing from another ex-burglar who said dogs are a good deterrent but you can overcome them if you distract them with food, e.g. dropping a big bag of dog food all over the floor. He said it was a risky strategy though and probably not worth the effort.

A trained guard dog will only eat when given a command. Even my (non-guard dog) will attack a perceived intruder before going for food; adrenaline/perceived threat trumps food.

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Post by midoridensha »

brippalcharrid wrote: post #218
pg_bot wrote: post #187

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I wonder if a more effective deterrent would be communicating that you are an abusive and neglectful dog owner. 'Beware of dog' signs communicate to me that a person is responsible and they don't want to be sued in case of an accident. If there was a sign outside that was just a silhouette of a pit bull with the words 'dog fighter' underneath, I would not want to rob that house.

"Oh no, it looks like that dog is being abused, we need to get Police and Animal Services to arrest and charge the owner and take the animal to a shelter [where it can be euthanized]" is what would likely happen in a municipality where guard dogs are put down when they bite thieves on private property with all of the mitigating factors for the dog (the dog was chained up, and could not escape, and it was in the middl…

This shouldn't be a problem if there's no actual dog present, only a robotic dog.

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Post by technothrasher »

dvtrn wrote: post #282
smsm42 wrote: post #271

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The dog also doesn't come with an off switch in case you have an important meeting with your CEO, taking it in your home office and there's a squirrel running around...

Oh dear. Can’t say I’ve had that problem...really ever. How many squirrels have you had to chase/escort out so far?

I don't know about during a meeting, but my count of squirrels I've had to chase/escort out of my house currently stands at two. Although only one escort was successful. The other one I thought had left, but I found its desiccated body under the ashes in my fireplace about a week later.
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