Someone Asked Ex-Burglars To Share Tips On How To Protect Your Home Against Theft, 30 People Delivered

Also gives the Ring program time to get a good picture.

Wait. Did they just steal my doormat?

Elegant in its simplicity. I love the psychological aspect of getting into the guy's head. He's thinking, "This is like that Home Alone movie. What other traps designed to screw with my mind await me inside?"

now this is clever. However, here, for him to get to my front door, he'd have to have gotten past the security boom, the 6ft wall, the electric fence, the dog, and the laser detecto beam things.

That's brilliant. Good psych move.

Very strong advice. I could also add "don't brag about expensive purchases on social media."

if criminals are following your FB posts, you may have some big problems

I am convinced taxi drivers (used to or still) share information with crooks. They pick up some family who are going to the airport. Chit chat about where they're going for 2 weeks. Crooks know they have 2 weeks to rob someone's house.

Or don't do what my brother did. Posts photos of his brand new house he's just moved to along with pictures of the road outside showing there's a bus stop directly opposite his new place all on Facebook. And then posts a day or 2 later "We're all going to Greece next week for 2 weeks!!". Somehow he didn't get burgled.

Yep, a cop told me once never to post that you're on vacation because that was like holding up a sign saying "Come rob me."

ID’s can be forged easily and a lot of people just glance quickly thinking if they’re showing ID they must be legit. Don’t let anyone you don’t know or had an appointment with into your home

Shortly after we moved in, an ADT salesman opened a closed (but not locked) gate - not a small walkway gate, a huge gate spanning our driveway - and left a business card at our door. I called his office, found out who is supervisor was, and read him the trespassing laws. I reported him to the neighborhood watch and got the no soliciting policy enforced and they got fined.

Is he a squirrel?

My grandmother does that too - never had a burglar but still hides her stuff so well we never find it again

is the wife the ex-burglar, or is this another example of an erroneous BP headline?

Hello? Take notes...

There's $500 in a book ... somewhere. (I have over a thousand).

Circa 1981, 2 Christian ladies from church come home to find condo broken into. Before they could call the police, man shows up at door soliciting *** Protection Agency...one of them kept him there while the other called the police. Turns out, they were a ring. they didn't get their stuff back but it was nice seeing the two guys canvasing the neighborhood put in the patrol cars! (Multiple burglaries throughout neighborhood that day by these guys.)

Unfortunately, my neighbors are total aholes

Neighbors can be just as snoopy as strangers, & a whole lot more judgmental.

Good neighbors have your back without being up in your business.

I don't have any neighbors for miles and miles, just the way I like it. My dogs and the cameras take care of everything else.

When I go on a trip I tell my immediate neighbour, mostly because we share the construction so if something happens to my house, his house gets damaged too. Plus, he is one heck of a neighbourhood watch.

I make my big hubby who can hurt you leave his dirty work boots on the porch anyways - so have this naturally installed system already! :-)

I took this one step further. I have a dead body in the work boots. This give the impression that the last burglar didn't make it out of the house. Stops them at the door. I also have a recording of a shotgun being cocked playing on a loop.

This trick is too well known.

Or they'll just steal the work boots. They're not cheap.

A big dog food bowl (empty) and a heavy chain for restraining a big dog (empty collar) gives the impression of a big guard dog -- especially if you add a "Beware of the Dog" sign. A TV or radio that can be heard from outside is good, especially if it's set to a talk channel that sounds like people at home talking to each other. One of my friends lives in a high-crime area. She leaves a broom and dustpan propped up against the porch wall near the door to make it look like she is still in the middle of sweeping up. Sometimes burglars ring the bell to see if anyone answers the door. If so, they just make an excuse and move on. If not, they break in. One of my friends never answers the door when she is home. She called 911 the one time it misled someone into trying to break in. Keep the sidewalks shoveled. Hire a neighboring youngster to shovel on their own initiative. If you must leave during a snow storm, leave footprints going back in the house as well as walking away from home

That's why I keep my fireproof lock box in my son''s closet under toys.

Same thing goes for a baby's room. Years ago we were robbed & they completely left the nursery alone.

My car is a bit of a pigsty... Never been pinchef

My workplace ! Is the better place to hide things

Haha nice one!

That is so disgusting. And heartless.

My boyfriend sat at my cousin's house when my cousin's father died, who was a well-known pastor in the area. Several people walked by that seemed to be scoping out the house but since he was raking leaves they kept going.

During my dad's funeral the neighbor from across the street came to our house.

What, no censoring dies? tsk.. tsk.. tsk.. shame, bored panda, shame...

Can confirm, happened to my mom when my grandmother died. Heartbreaking.

Interesting the robber didn't just carry the third safe away. Seems like it would have had to be relatively small at that point.