I may have crossed a line today. I staged mock booby-traps on all my windows. It seemed a clever deterrent, letting burglars think I'm may be nuts enough to have rigged the place up(I feel confident no potential burglars are reading this blog), but it seems a bit nuts now.Wednesday, June 3, 2009
When pretend crazy becomes real crazy
I may have crossed a line today. I staged mock booby-traps on all my windows. It seemed a clever deterrent, letting burglars think I'm may be nuts enough to have rigged the place up(I feel confident no potential burglars are reading this blog), but it seems a bit nuts now.
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4 comments:
Love the booby trap modern look.
Fang turned out to be a natural at guard dog duty. I have one of those funny signs with a pic of a german shepherd that says, "I can make it to the fence in 2.8 seconds, can you?"
I was broken into several times in Chicago. Maybe I'll blog about it one day, but to cut to the chase, I told the cops I was thinking about getting a dog. Their reply was that in my neighborhood, forget the dog, I should get a gun. (I lived in some highly questionable neighborhoods in order to get cheap loft space.)
I do have a gun, and cat alarms.
Careful now, I can imagine some burglar having the nerve to mock sue you for injuries ;)
I'll pay their mock suit with powder-coated bills, on which I write "feeling lucky?".
I will protect myself with ever-evolving layers of mind games.
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