Intestinal Fortitude
Have Faith
usually south of the border types scavenging any and all metal to take to recycle and get $$
Just wait! More are on the way!!
CRIME Someone stole gas from us
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Just wait! More are on the way!!
Intestinal Fortitude
Have Faith
or some lovely Bougainvillea (also a GREAT place for snakes to hide) and it's colorfulDo you have Pyracantha in the US, also known as firethorn.
Think of it as natures barbed wire smeared in Carolina Reaper sauce,
Intestinal Fortitude
Have Faith
tree stand? lol
lonestar09
Veteran Member
Just checking, didn’t know.
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
No, this was a "good ol boy". Even had the nerve to ask what our friend was doing there. Said the fence had been there 3 years, so it was ok. He left quickly after that.
Mary Contrary
Inactive
I wonder if people will start stealing batteries now as they are expensive - if they can open the hood. My house looks so shabby that hopefully thieves will go to nicer houses around me. Two near me are worth more than $200,000. They would have to climb over the stockade fence too. My house looks very poor from the outside. Two old cars in the yard and an old broken pool.....(just needs liner, but no one to help install cuz need a few people.) So it looks like I don't have any money to repair things - which I don't.
Redcat
Veteran Member
We have thick hedges of Ragusa Roses inside our wire fence. They are miserable if you even brush them (think of a hundred splinters). They surround the entrance, side and part of the back fence. One time, maybe 20 years ago, we were going into the back yard and found a pile of id, credit cards etc. Someone had stolen stuff and was running the yards, and jumped over the fence in the dark into the roses. They must have been hopping in the dark in pain and just left everything. We called the cops and they came and gathered up the items the thief left behind.
My neighbors on both sides have pit bulls, they're barking machines, even when we go outside and they know us. When they all get going it's hard to tell where the barking is coming from. We leave lights on in the driveway and the porch.
Normally one of us is home 95% of the time. It's rare that we are both gone. And even if we are there is always one of the vehicles in the drive (we have 3).
If that doesn't deter a thief, there is always lead
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My neighbors on both sides have pit bulls, they're barking machines, even when we go outside and they know us. When they all get going it's hard to tell where the barking is coming from. We leave lights on in the driveway and the porch.
Normally one of us is home 95% of the time. It's rare that we are both gone. And even if we are there is always one of the vehicles in the drive (we have 3).
If that doesn't deter a thief, there is always lead
.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
We’ve been lulled in to a false sense of security, probably because we didn’t want to face reality. We didn’t even lock the front door until a few years back. When it was just me here I kept everything locked and my keys stayed in my pocket.
when dh came on the scene I felt secure with him being here, so I relaxed on keeping things locked up. Tonight I locked both vehicles and took the key out of the tractor. It’s a beginning
brassmonkey110
Member
I’ve got 4 gallons of old 2 cycle that I wish I could get someone to steal so I don’t have to burn it in the fire pit this summer. As much as I’d love a dozen acres I am fortunate to live near my neighbors where we can keep an eye on each other. If you’d like to borrow a 100 lb demon of a dog let me know, though he can be bribed with cheese…
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I had really good guard dogs and they killed two goats, it broke my heart about the goats and also that I decided to get the dogs put down, my cousin come over and did it for us. The dogs were jealous of DH and the goats, but frankly I needed DH more than I needed the dogs, I hated to make that choice, but it is what it is.
We do have a dog, but she hides from strangers. Besides being a sweetheart she keeps the varments away from the chickens and the goats. She loves the goats and sleeps with them. DH has said something about getting a puppy from a friend. Its on him and he will have to help buy the food.
DH needs to start locking up his workshop and I need to find the keys to my she shed.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I love bougainvillea and so would the goats, I think it gets too cold here for that lovely plant
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
It would be a bad deal if someone got a bunch of DEF in their fuel.
It's corrosive and leaves all kind of nasty deposits in the fuel system.
It's corrosive and leaves all kind of nasty deposits in the fuel system.
The problem with leaving a bait can is you have to remember that it is a bait can and not accidentally fill your own vehicle or equipment. Or worse someone else not knowing grabs it. Your friend is over helping out and you say go grab the gas can down by the mill. You mean one he grabs the other and unknowingly fills the tractor.
Label it "Do Not Use".
Crackhead thieves aren't going to read or believe it.
Put orange ribbon on it to remind you to listen to the warning.
lanningro
Veteran Member
Properly posting your land is very important should you encounter someone trespassing. Once posted it becomes criminal trespassing. That gives you more rights/leeway as a landowner to protect what is yours. Not only do I have "purple paint" at the proscribed intervals I also have 6x6 posts with hiway sized reflective metal signs. "Private Property" "No Trespassing" and the Arkansas statute printed on them. What that does is shift the burden of proof from me to the trespasser should things go south.