[dillywho]

Senior Citizen is right...why so quick to call it a legend? If we don't need to lock up, then why does Lt. Wolfe of the Sheriff's Office advise that we do? Is he coming up with legends? Why do they tell you to be vigilant if not to keep you safe? Why does his office offer free safety checks of your home and recommend changes to make your home safer? Is that just to prevent legends? I had them out to my home and then made the recommended changes. Total cost for what they suggested...less than dinner out. Some were $0. Top suggestion: additional locks and use them.

Ask my neighbors who had their homes broken into and items taken about legends. The thieves were looking for cash and jewelry; they by-passed electronics and took cash and jewelry only. One guy that was hit, was leaving town for the coming week and put his trash out on Friday to be picked up on Monday morning, trash day. Please don't do that or you might as well just advertise in all the papers that nobody is going to be there anytime soon...same thing. Ask a neighbor to do it for you the night before pickup. While we're gone or while our neighbor is gone, we put part of our own trash in the other's drive for the other pickup days and they do the same for us. Basically, all this thread is about is being smarter than the bad guys and believing that they really do exist....just not quite as much here, but they do come in here.