[Jim Straz]

Originally Posted by ladydoc

Did you mean a psychologist? His concerns are not paranoid...they are valid concerns. We each react to them in different ways.

Thank you for letting me correct the spelling. I talk with Herv all the time and it's just a bit of humor. Have a nice Holiday.

[rjm1cc]

You might contact the local police departments and see if they subscribe to a service that lets them send out community announcements. Up north my police department does and they post all the crime (and non crime) activity, sometimes with videos from security cameras, so you have an idea of what problems are in your area. The announcements have helped find the bad guys.

[ladydoc]

Originally Posted by Jim Straz

Thank you for letting me correct the spelling. I talk with Herv all the time and it's just a bit of humor. Have a nice Holiday.

Hi Jim--I did not know you were just a funning him. You have a great Holiday as well. Our first in Florida and we could not be more excited!

[CarGuys]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

A lot of us are young and overweight. And Car? You are just kidding about the "treated like a criminal" aren't you? When we were caught entering the unlocked model in our neighborhood, the Villages Watch-er was very polite to us and locked up after us.

Gracie Honest we were almost arrested! If was VERY uncomfortable. It was not neighbor watch those nice people at the gate told us we could go in and take one last peek. We never got out of our cart!

It was a white Sheriff Car and he was not very happy with us. I'm not makeing this up. I had Village Id and a Village Rental Cart and my CYV Rental address and he was thinking we were going to be stealing appliances out of the model homes!

All we were doing was looking at outside doors and the lights. You can call Ruth on this. Her and ole Herv were s----n- bricks. About the second time I hear I'm hear to defend the citizens of this county against criminals I figured Bubba was smelling a Yankee and taking us down.

That said. We have moved on. You have to be in your home locked down doors shut and in Bed by 9.00 oclock or face the wrath of the local sheriff.

He told us " You all get on home now you should not be out this late! " Wow 8:45 curfew- Maybe he was worried about muggers?

Then he followed us until we hit the Car path.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by CarGuys

Gracie Honest we were almost arrested! If was VERY uncomfortable. It was not neighbor watch those nice people at the gate told us we could go in and take one last peek. We never got out of our cart!

It was a white Sheriff Car and he was not very happy with us. I'm not makeing this up. I had Village Id and a Village Rental Cart and my CYV Rental address and he was thinking we were going to be stealing appliances out of the model homes!

All we were doing was looking at outside doors and the lights. You can call Ruth on this. Her and ole Herv were s----n- bricks. About the second time I hear I'm hear to defend the citizens of this county against criminals I figured Bubba was smelling a Yankee and taking us down.

That said. We have moved on. You have to be in your home locked down doors shut and in Bed by 9.00 oclock or face the wrath of the local sheriff.

He told us " You all get on home now you should not be out this late! " Wow 8:45 curfew- Maybe he was worried about muggers?

Then he followed us until we hit the Car path.

Well Car, You can't have it both ways. I think you look a little suspicious. Not Ruthie, but maybe you could shave your moustache.......Just sayin'.

[CarGuys]

Yes Mom! I'll go shave! Gracie he made her cry. A nice day of just buying a lot and felling pretty good was dashed. And that makes any self respecting man come to fighting words.

Now enough of this off topic and back to the topic of Home security.

I'm liking the idea of motion lights. Without the bills of a monitered system.

What does something like that cost? When we were looking at pre-owned I saw many homes that had a security panel in them.

It was sold as a bonus. And yes I did have a old system in a previous life that everything from the wind, flashing light, the kids Canary or that terrorist called Rosa the Schnauzer set off!

Police were not happy with the false calls so we just turned it off, Now what good was that? Maybe new systems people have are of a modern design?

And Jim- I know you Love me Man! But that will get Pturner going on me again!

[Trish Crocker]

Originally Posted by CarGuys

Gracie Honest we were almost arrested! If was VERY uncomfortable. It was not neighbor watch those nice people at the gate told us we could go in and take one last peek. We never got out of our cart!

It was a white Sheriff Car and he was not very happy with us. I'm not makeing this up. I had Village Id and a Village Rental Cart and my CYV Rental address and he was thinking we were going to be stealing appliances out of the model homes!

All we were doing was looking at outside doors and the lights. You can call Ruth on this. Her and ole Herv were s----n- bricks. About the second time I hear I'm hear to defend the citizens of this county against criminals I figured Bubba was smelling a Yankee and taking us down.

That said. We have moved on. You have to be in your home locked down doors shut and in Bed by 9.00 oclock or face the wrath of the local sheriff.

He told us " You all get on home now you should not be out this late! " Wow 8:45 curfew- Maybe he was worried about muggers?

Then he followed us until we hit the Car path.

I'm not sure Herv, but maybe it was the trailer and dolly you were towing with the golf cart...

[CarGuys]

Originally Posted by Trish Crocker

I'm not sure Herv, but maybe it was the trailer and dolly you were towing with the golf cart...

Oh you busted me again Trish! The stolen lawn mower trailer hooked to the cart was a dead give away right?

[RayinPenn]

The older I get the more I appreciate my alarm. We lockup every night and my labradoodle is large. I'm told that dogs are better then alarms. The only problems have been alarm battery needs replacement every few years and if the power is out for an extended period the low power battery alert wakes you up and scares you to death.

It helps if you are friendly with the neighbors they can be an extended set of eyes and ears. If something looks fishy call the police.

[graciegirl]

So far I personally, and my two or three friends haven't seen ANYTHING fishy in either of our neighborhoods, but people walking dogs. In our house in Hadley we backed to the Odell rec center where anyone could park their car in the rec center, break our back windows and make off with any of our second hand furniture or our pretty new furniture or our plants or my costume jewelry or my clothing or Sweeties golf shirts in the time that we were snowbirding up North. HOWEVER our neighbors watched and stopped any breakins about to happen, in fact they didn't see any.

After reading a bunch of stuff on this forum, and all but a couple of instances* turned out to be rumors, we had some wiring in the back for motion activated lights and they came on when the wind blew the trees and were very helpful when we returned from potlucks at the rec center. It cost us a couple of hundred dollars to do that

I have seen canons and canon balls in some of the front yards in the historic part.

* In the very few robberies that have happened, the police have a very good record of catching the culprits.
In fact the cop who caught 'em may be the very chubby, grumpy one that made Car's wife Ruthie cry.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Herv - Were there signs posted re: no traffic allowed, etc. at the entrance to the area? They get pretty picky about that, especially "after hours" in the construction areas.

Bill

[CarGuys]

We learned our lesson the hard way.

I am sorry for the people that lost their property. Terrible at Christmas Time.

Locking the doors behind us is the best advise.

Jim's your Cat should do the trick. It is like 150 lbs right? Don't your think the Zoo will miss it?

I was thinking of a Security Guard Alligator!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by CarGuys

We learned our lesson the hard way.

I am sorry for the people that lost their property. Terrible at Christmas Time.

Locking the doors behind us is the best advise.

Jim's your Cat should do the trick. It is like 150 lbs right? Don't your think the Zoo will miss it?

I was thinking of a Security Guard Alligator!

You'll be o.k. Car. Just don't shave the moustache.

Scary.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by ladydoc

I would not count on them. We see them once or twice a day AT MOST in our neighborhood. That said, I don't think you need an alarm system. First of all, we had one in NM (lived in a very isolated area) and we had more problems with the system going off and breaking down then it was worth. Your best non lethal defense is a dog. A dog who will bark at people coming on the property. My 12 pound mini dauchshund sounds like a 100 pound shephard ( I know...I have had 100 pound shepherds). Thieves will take the course of least resisitance. The houses here are pretty close together and open to view at all times. BTW-was the comment about the sheriff being overweight necessary? Did that have some meaning to you? Just curious....

Wasn't really necessary since most of them are.

[skyguy79]

We had a Time Warner Security system installed in our home for my father before he died and we kept it when we moved in. We never had any problems, but my parents had two breakings going back a number of years ago pre alarm. We found that we rarely activated the alarm while we were home and only did so when leaving the house for an extended period of time... like when we came down to close on our TV home.

My wife just yesterday asked if I think we should get a system (probably with reading this thread) and... well... I'm not gonna tell anyone what we decided! LoL

Also someone mentioned that they see Neighbor Watch only a few times a day. I've seen them go by more frequently than that. Just this morning I saw one go buy and within seconds saw another go buy. That made me feel guilty without doing anything wrong for a minute, but then I figured that it was just Fumar sending them to check and see if we had three dogs!