On 6/29/2017 5:57 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 29 Jun 2017 02:43:49p, jmcquown told us...
>
>> On 6/28/2017 6:57 PM, lucretia wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:49:26 -0400, jmcquown
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/28/2017 5:38 PM, lucretia wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:49:43 -0400, jmcquown
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/28/2017 3:45 PM, lucretia wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:22:49 -0400, jmcquown
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You believe they are so dumb they don't see a pattern?
>>>>>
>>>> All I can say is I was never burglarized when I was away from
>>>> home.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> Aren't you in a gated community or something?
>>>
>> Yes, I am now. But I lived in my last apartment for 12 years.
>> When I went away, either on business or a vacation, I just set the
>> timers in different rooms to lamps on and off at the times they
>> normally would if I was home.
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
> You're smarter than most.
>
Thanks for that, Wayne, but I doubt it. It's just common sense. My
car was parked out front, I didn't park at the airport. My parking
space was just a few steps from my frong door. The lights in the living
room were on at times when I would normally have them on. Ditto the
bedroom when I was getting ready to go to bed. Then out for the night.
Unless potential burglars were camped outside for days, watching to
see if I actually came and went, no one had any idea if I was home or not.

I once had a neighbor in the adjoining apartment (the apartments were
more like duplexes in a complex). They subscribed to the daily
newspaper. The paper carrier tossed them on the grass behind our patio
fences. Could have belonged to either of us.

She'd let them pile up. She was home alone with her 3 year old all day
while her husband was at work.

When I asked her to please bring in the newspapers, at first she thought
I was just being a mean, cranky neighbor. Uh, no.

I said look, if you don't read the paper either cancel the subscription
or at least take them inside. I'm at work all day and my apartment is
empty. You're at home alone with a *baby*! It looks like you're not
home, an invitation for someone to break in. What can I say, she was
young. She'd never even thought about it. After that, no more
newspapers piled up.

We became friends and watched out for each other. One day when I was at
work a guy showed up at her door claiming to be my brother. Said he'd
knocked on my door and didn't get an answer, could he use her phone?
She refused to take the chain off the door and didn't let him inside.
GOOD! Because it definitely wasn't my brother.

Jill