Baseball bat, old wooden truncheon. Someone mentioned a priest, had a topper I made myself. piece of stainless steel pipe with lead one end. The police confiscated it, said it was too big for fishing and I already had a smaller one with my fishing gear. The police did tell me if I'm keeping the baseball bat near the front door to place a ball near it. Also an innocuous little pile of half bricks near the back door, mentioned this before on here, used one to great effect on an attempted intruder and I hit him middle middle of the back as he was climbing over the back fence. Hope the ****er stuck in him.! Which is quite possible the screech he let out when it hit.
One of the worst things I have, again confiscated on a door search, is what we call 'the lungbuster'. It's a six inch bladed stiletto lock-knife with a very narrow blade. There are two 'flanges' where the forefinger and thumb naturally fall which means it can be thrust in with the maximum force. It would be useless for any purpose other than stabbing a person ..... a truly horrible thing I can barely look at.
With the list of people and the weapons mentioned i am so happy to reside where i do and not in a location i would feel the need to have this in my house.
Indeed .......... http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/n...ail_for_vicious_attack_in_lowestoft_1_1979998 "Leslie Colvin and Alan Harwood forced their way into a house in Lowestoft in the early hours of Monday, August 27 and attacked the two women. One of the men was wearing a black balaclava and the other had a white pillowcase over his face ......... they broke the door down and repeatedly hit their terrified victims." As burglars have access to vehicles, and can move around, I'd rather be safe than sorry. As I've mentioned, I've only used one of my 'friends' once in 35 years ....... I came 1st As with many others, on this thread, coming 2nd just isn't an option.
Lol, I don't know anything about flowers pal. I actually bought it for when I went walking/climbing but I never got into either of those activities long term.
You're from Norfolk aren't ya? I've got family down there, each time I've been out with my brother I've been set upon by Norwich 'hard men'. It's only been twice, but it's still 100% of the time. Fortunately for me and my brother, none of these hard boy, vest wearers have had anything about them that cause us any bother whatsoever. I wear the same face each time I go out in Manchester by the way and guess what...
Funny thread, I have a baseball bat and a metal mag light next to the bed incase I fancy playing a bit of baseball in the dark.
Only been burgled once came home to find our chocolate Labrador cowering in the corner looking guilty. He probably let the buggers in. Didn't catch the twat unfortunately. I've got a bayonet from an SLR and the most fearsome blade known to man a Ghurka Kukri. If they fail I've got a combined 25 years aikido jujitsu muay thai and mma experience to fall back on and an effective headbutt.
Even the difference from norwich to where i am is huge ,norwich is a city i live in a town on the coast ,stats must show however the crime rate is less in norfolk than most parts of the country i would have thought, vest wearers ha..ha..i do like snappy dressers
Probably Stu, but anybody can manipulate a stat. There's more dickheads per capita in Norwich than anywhere else I've visited in the country, and I've been to Liverpool. Some nice parts down there as well though I'll give you that, I was gonna book a trip on the Broads for the family as a surprise a couple of years back but some fella had just been murdered. I'll leave it a few years, but I defo wanna go, I read MR's story the other day about his trip and it had me thinking about booking it again.
How nice, or nasty, an area may be isn't relevant when you're talking about burglaries and neither are 'stats'. If you're the one & only victim of aggravated burglary, in a 100 radius, it wouldn't make you feel one bit better. The only burglary I've ever suffered was when I was looking after a £2 million villa in the best part of Cannes. They dressed up as gardeners and were equipped with 'gardening tools' so no one suspected a thing. When I found them exiting the back of the house I fired a pump action at them. I always kept it loaded with the first round of sand, the second round with rubber and the third with shot. The first round made them hesitate, the horrible sound of the breech and the second up their arses made them stop in their tracks. I'm not ex-forces or owt so I was actually shaking and didn't dare speak because my voice box had seized up. I signalled for them to lie down and called the gendarmes ...... 2 ****ing hours it took for the bastards to show up!!!! Took me days to get over it.
Exactly, there's no way I'd take my chances, Prestbury is a hotbed for burglaries yet it's deemed one of the nicest places in the country to own a house. I wouldn't wait to find out if somebody is dangerous if they're inside my home, I'll take that as given and think about the consequences of my own actions afterwards.
What a coincidence, the villa was owned by a fella who lived at Alderley Edge. He supplies relica shirts & other merchandise to clubs including Man Utd. He failed to pay me so I sent all his furniture to Mougins auctions when he was in the UK
It's nice there mate, went to a car boot sale there about 6 years ago and picked up an engagement ring for £25 when I got it valued it was worth 2 grand, had the stone put in a necklace for the other half. I know a fella who lives in Alderley Edge, Turkish bloke into property and he's got a panic room and a **** load of 'protection' after his house was burgled by armed robbers. That type of person ain't ever gonna burgle my gaff, they go after the rich and famous but I still like to make sure I'm not left high and dry.
