Bars Outside Your House's Window- Are You Keeping Them Out Or Keeping You In?

Around 1980, my parents put bars on their ground floor window, and bought a new, steel-reinforced door for the backyard. They're both still there- this is where I am coming from.

If you have steel bars on your house windows, then it's time to move. Where I live, I don't even lock either door to my house at night- I have faith in where I live.

So where do you live?

 

Well some people dont have the money to move. Facts of life.

 

I grew up in the Bronx- where you can still make a living wage. But you need bars on the windows. What's your point?

 

Little pointless for me. Although i've thought about it if things get nasty in the US. My home is all on one floor, windows all over the place. The only good thing is that i'm on a hill and have a great shot and i do mean shot at anything coming up that hill.

 

No bars for me. I try not to live in the ghetto.

 

I've slept all night with doors unlocked and occasionally with the garage open. I don't like it cause you don't know what might come in while you're sleeping. varmints on 4 or 2 legs. We live in a private community. About 27 homes up in here, going up the side of the mountain. Most of us know each other, help each other. I don't worry about them, except for the one or 3 obama cheerleaders. And i don't worry about them as far as home invasion goes. I do worry about them as far as anything they might turn you in for if you make them angry. In those cases its good to know bits of information like who comingled hoa and related monies. and that it was illegal.

 

Locking the door provides sufficient time to lock and load and treat your "guest" with the respect he/she deserves. Keeping bad out/good in are irrelevant distractions.

 

It's called the American 'Fear Industry'.

It's great.

Convince Americans that a rapo-paedo-islmao-phile, is going to come through their door, at any time.

Sell them some v expensive cage to live in.

Done.

 

Be especially careful of the warewolf.

For that you need a silver bullet.

Just to be totally safe.

 

there's nothing wrong with being safe rather than sorry. and besides. If someone really wants in, they'll get in. and if someone is determined that if someone gets in that they're not gonna get out alive, that'll be the case too.

 

Correct.

I for one never cross a road.

It becomes a bit limiting as to the shops I can access, but BETTER THAT than be EATEN BY GOBLINS.

LIKE IN LORD OF THE RINGS.

 

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More burgleries occur in the well-off portions of town---that are the most vulnerable and easy. The really rich homes with the gated entrances, elaborate security systems--aren't hit as much as the houses where people leave the doors unlocked and the windows open. Remember---these places are cased prior to the actual event. If a burgler is out walking the neighborhood and sees your window open---he is writing down the address before taking off.

 

I don't think that most of the bars I see on residences would be that effective. They seem more like feel-good measures.

 

A few years back a family perished in a fire because of the bars on the windows. They couldn't get out.

 

What if you live on a hill, BUT the Zombies arrive in a helicopter?

Or what if you order a pizza, he opens the box, and pulls out an AK47?

What then?

 

Have you been casing houses again?

 

Yeah, well, locks aren't going to stop an RPG or a breeching charge.

 

I once visited a friend in Pretoria who lived in a house with maximum security. She would even turn the alarm on at night, meaning no-one was allowed to roam free in the house. The paranoid "female dog" made me pee in empty bottles.

 

But were you 'safe', lol???

 

There were bars at my window and alarm detectors outside my bedroom door - no private bathroom - let alone the fact that my hosts looked completely freaked out.

No, I didn't feel safe.

 

How about if you hid in a box, as well.

Would that have been safer?

What about if you just went out and shot everyone and everything, in the entire world, leaving just one living person.

Would they be, finally, 'safe' then..

 

Bars do not keep out thieves. However fear of being shot dead in the door way tends to deter such mercenary activity.

 

I thankfully never had to do it in a box. But if I had to, I would have made sure to ask for their approval during breakfast.