Security for your toys and other things in life
We all can't have a super hero hanging around the house, so we need to watch out for ourselves.
I have been perusing the internet
the past few days, reading lots of Gun forums and
have noticed some things I wanted to talk about.
have noticed some things I wanted to talk about.
It seems like we all love to show off our collections online.
Over
the last couple days I have viewed some incredible collections of
Firearms, High end collectible knives and airsoft guns.
They are all on open forums, hooked to a screen name.
Firearms, High end collectible knives and airsoft guns.
They are all on open forums, hooked to a screen name.
That screen name nine times out of ten has a profile connected to it with the hometown of the poster.
Sometimes even the persons real name is also available.
Now
lets say you post up a collection of Vrosapale pistols, you are very
proud that you have scoured the world to find all models of this unique
piece.
A few weeks later you post
that you are on your way to the Vrosapale collectors convention half way
across the county and you will be off the forums for 5 days.
You revel in your Twitter updates about your most recent find at the show, or what a jerk that last guy you dealt with was.
You revel in your Twitter updates about your most recent find at the show, or what a jerk that last guy you dealt with was.
What have you just done?
Have you just told someone that you have valuable items and you will be gone from .to.?
What do you think?
I know you have a gun safe, but
don't you think in two days time someone can't get into it, most of the
time using tools from your own shop?
What
about the other things showing in the pictures, computer systems, flat
screens and all the cool movie collectibles in your "man room"?
Do you think bad people don't read Glocktalk, AR15.com or ASR?
I bring this up because years
(way too many) ago I was doing the gun show circuit in FL, 51 weekends a
year, driving from one end of the state to another, setting up on on
Fri, break down and home Sun night.
We
had a time when a small group would come to the show on Sunday, tag a
dealer that had a nice display and then wait around till close down and
loadout and follow him home.
Sometimes they hit as soon as the dealer got home or to his shop, sometimes waiting till the next day if it was a collector who worked during the week.
Sometimes they hit as soon as the dealer got home or to his shop, sometimes waiting till the next day if it was a collector who worked during the week.
One dealer got killed and a few got hurt and they didn't stop until they screwed up and got caught.
Now it's 2013, we have Google
maps, Google name search, find anyone for 8 dollars and tons of other
neat ways to locate an address.
Am I too paranoid? (can you be today?)
I
learned to keep every thing collectible or rare at an off-site storage
location. That and insurance keeps it away from myself and loved ones
.
It does suck that we can no longer have the "Trophy" rooms of yesteryear.
(even if you never have posted a picture, how about the bug guy, meter reader, the guy who trims your trees.
Do you think they might have looked in the window and passed on how cool your cave was?)
From AOL article,
So, a month after I post, others catch on, welcome to the party, Pal
From AOL article,
Some insurance companies are catching on. Legal & General Insurance in New England says Facebook and Twitter users could be hit with higher homeowner's insurance premiums. Why? All that blabbing about activities away from home means they face a higher risk of burglary.
The company thinks burglars are actually "shopping" for victims on social media sites, looking not only for an indication you're not at home, but also photos of your home and valuables. That cute picture of your son hugging the dog? A burglar is looking in the background, eyeing your big-screen TV and new stereo system.
And it's not just adults. Teenagers are even more likely to post personal information, so Legal & General has warned that parents who aren't even online themselves could face higher homeowner's insurance premiums if their children are online.
So, a month after I post, others catch on, welcome to the party, Pal
Even though I have a overlapping
video system with my next door neighbors, a alarm system, Two big dogs
and a neighbor on one side who's a Reserve police officer and has a home
office where he works that overlooks my house and on the other side is a
just retired Navy DEVGRP 20 year man who has nothing better to do than
sit on his back porch and shoot guns most of the day (and night, for the
past damn week!)
I still want to keep the good stuff locked up.
I still want to keep the good stuff locked up.
I
hate that when I want to review a gun or get ready to go to a gun match
or a airsoft game that I have to lay in another 40 mins to go by and
pick up what I need, but I would hate to have a shootout at my house or
even worse to come home and find what I had worked 40 years for
ransacked and off at some pawn shop.
My
stuff is pretty safe and yes, I have gone overboard but it gives me
piece of mind that I have done all I can, if I get hit now, that's what
insurance is for.
Just some random thoughts that
came into my head and I wanted to share them, and because I am old and
it's my Blog, I did, Nah nah neey po po
I am losing it
Please share your thoughts on this in the comments.
See you tomorrow
Till then, Check 6
This was originally posted on my airsoft blog a few years ago, I have seen so many pictures on facebook the last few days of gun collections I though it needed to be said again.
