CRIME Fed-Up Families Turn To Barbed Wire, Shotguns To Police Neighborhood

[Fisher]

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Fed-Up Families Turn To Barbed Wire, Shotguns To Police Neighborhood
Homeowners: 'Someone Is Going To Get Hurt'

POSTED: 8:17 am EDT July 1, 2008
UPDATED: 9:16 am EDT July 1, 2008

SANFORD, Fla. -- Families in a crime-ridden Central Florida neighborhood are arming themselves with shotguns and talking about adding electric barbed wire to stop thieves targeting their homes.

"Somebody is going to end up getting hurt," resident Andrea Fine said. "The homeowners are tense. We are all on edge. For the first time in my life I'm really scared to live in my home."

Homeowners living near and on Sanford Avenue in Sanford said crime is so bad that some of them have been robbed three times.

"We were told they would come back and they came back," homeowner Pat Doughty said.

She is one of several residents who have armed themselves and plan to go to extremes to protect their property.

"My next thing is to put electric and probably some barbed wire or something," Doughty said. "I'm shooting the next person who comes in. Don't come on my property anymore."

Doughty said she is moving because of the crime.

"My kids call every day to make sure we are safe," Doughty said. "They want us to move and we are going to move because we can't put up with the crime."

Families said they want more police patrolling. But plans to add 10 more Sanford police officers could be in jeopardy because of budget cuts, Local 6's Erik von Ancken reported.

The city's police chief said he is working on a solution.

 

[canis-major]

When seconds count, police are minutes away.

A few dead criminals will send the right message.

 

[DustMusher]

Does Florida have Castle Doctrine/Make my day laws?

DM

 

[Dozdoats]

They forgot to mention the dogs. BIG dogs. Big dogs, barbed wire and shotguns.

Should cut down on the lowlifes...

dd

 

[fairbanksb]

Does Florida have Castle Doctrine/Make my day laws?

DM

We sure do. Since Oct. 2005.

 

[SouthernGal]

The city's police chief said he is working on a solution.

That's comforting. In the meantime, I'm sure they'll arrest anyone who dares to protect their own property.

In reading this, along with the Joe Horn story, methinks people in this country are fed up. I think these people have already found the solution!

Meanwhile, keep twiddling your thumbs there, chief.

 

[Worrier King]

They will end up being sued by the burglars for injuries and the homeowners will then discover a very efficient justice system protecting trespassers.

 

[Double_A]

They forgot to mention the dogs. BIG dogs. Big dogs, barbed wire and shotguns.

Should cut down on the lowlifes...

dd

Dogs are good.

Good dogs can be 1) an alarm 2) a deterrent 3) physical protection

 

[shane]

"We were told they would come back and they came back,"

I used to be a partner in a burglar alarm company in Memphis in late 80's and was intrigued to find that even in nice suburban areas without history of problems about half of burglarized homes were promptly hit again, often within a week.

Apparently burglars would see some stuff they could not get in the first haul and were embolden both by the fact that they easily got away with it already and figured homeowners would never expect a quick return 'visit'.

For some first-time burglarized homeowners that don't beef up security they rationalize that after living unmolested 20 years, kinda like some 100 year flood victims do, they figure they are not due another visit for many, many years and most certainly not next weekend.

- Shane

 

[Double_A]

After a home is burglarized and homeowners insurance has paid out to replace lost property, the location is a prime target to be hit again to scoop up all those new items just purchased!

Burglars know this.

 

[dragonslayer2001]

yes

I think this country is passing a threshold:


"In reading this, along with the Joe Horn story, methinks people in this country are fed up. I think these people have already found the solution!
"


Unfortunately there is such a huge criminal class now that it might end up being almost open warfare, which of course the crime stats being what they are, will then almost certainly become a kind of race warfare.


Too bad, because the "ultra-liberal" mind set of several decades ago has led to this, the logical conclusion. You could see it, the seeds of it, long long ago when "criminal" rights were being defended in prisons, and when 2, sometime 3 time murderers were being released to kill again, and sometimes again after that rather than having their necks stretched as a just reward. I read something a long time ago, I don't really know how accurate it is, but the article claimed that something like 10,000 convicted and then released murderers were walking around the streets of NYC at any given time. The number seemed mind boggling but was given by a criminologist so who knows.


It has always been a great comfort to me knowing that the judges consider the life of an average tax paying American worth an average of 5 years incarceration time for the average murderer. Something like that. That was years ago before "third strike" and harsher manditory laws so it may be different now.


One can almost taste the touch of the NWO, were the criminal class is released, as was in Nazi Germany, very purposely, so the middle and upper classes would agree to the most draconian laws to "preserve law and order".

It is game time, in almost every way now. TEOTWAWKI may be just around the corner.


These cyclical "moods" of the general public often run in cycles of approximately 20-30 years or so - generational or so they seem. Don't be surprised to see a massive groundswell for the death penalty coming back, and in a big way.