NBC Nightly News is reporting economy SO bad that home burglaries are actually DOWN this recession.

[ddeclue]

apparently because so many people are home so much because they don't have jobs that it has become difficult for the burglars to find people NOT at home to rob.

:eyes:

[azurnoir]

1. OMG almost sounds like something from a Chris Rock routine

and would be funny if not so likely to be true

[DebbieCDC]

2. Plus what's left to steal?

People have pawned their jewelry, digital cameras, CD players, computers, big screen TVs -- what's left over for the robbers?

[ddeclue]

4. The copper from the abandoned houses?

:shrug:

[doc03]

3. Why couldn't it be people are arming themselves

therefore discouraging burglaries?

[ddeclue]

7. Because it still comes down to whether you are home or not.

If you aren't home then your gun just becomes one more thing for a BURGLAR to steal.

These aren't ROBBERIES - they are BURGLARIES we are discussing after all.

[doc03]

9. Exactly my point if a criminal knows he may be faced with

with a 12 Ga. Remington 870 he isn't going to take a chance breaking into a home. The cha-ching sound of someone chambering a round in an 870 is a burglar's worst nightmare.

[ddeclue]

12. That's just STUPID - burglars don't break into occupied houses period.

They look for people who are on vacation or at work. Your gun isn't going to fire itself while you aren't home. Sorry but the notion that your gun is going to stop or even "deter" a burglar is stupid on its face. In fact a gun at home without an owner is actually an incentive for the burglar to target a house.

:eyes:

[doc03]

17. "Your gun isn't going to fire itself if you are not home" So

you admit guns don't kill people in this case. So why is that a criminal waits until you are on vacation or at work? If it wasn't for the fear that you may be armed he wouldn't worry if you were home anyway.

[ddeclue]

30. or you might have a golf club or a louisville slugger or a butcher knife

or you might simply call the cops.

The main reason is because they want to be 12 miles away before you know you've even been robbed. They aren't so afraid of you and your penis replacement as they are of getting caught by the cops.

Get over yourself - all your gun is is something else to be stolen.

:crazy:

[CoffeeCat]

13. I'd like a 12 G Remington 870, please...

sounds fun.

I've never fired a gun, or even touched a gun, but your description makes gun owning sound like a good idea.

I've been contemplating this issue. We've got young kids though and I'm concerned about safety.

Maybe someone could invent a device that made the sound of "someone chambering round in an 870" as you described it?

[doc03]

19. That distinctive sound alone can put more fear into criminal

than anything else. It can be any pump shotgun but the Remington is the most popular. Well you could use an empty gun but there is the possibility that he may have one too.

[NNN0LHI]

20. I hope you know a good home remodeler

They are not known for their pinpoint accuracy.

More deadly than a machine gun with the right ammunition.

Don

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

24. Shotguns are the best defense. Scattered shot, just point in general direction and shoot.

[doc03]

25. Have you seen the Taurus Judge? Five shot revolver

shoots either .410 3" magnum shot-shells or .45 long colt. Best concealed carry weapon for a vehicle.
http://www.ammoland.com/2009/02/06/taurus-judge-3-magnum-revolver/

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

26. That was sweet. But as a 114# woman, that might knock me on my butt.

And it's more for close counters. Household defense is for the shotguns, I can handle the shotguns much easier.

I'd like to try one of these Taurus Judges, thou.

[doc03]

33. I haven't shot the Judge either but I'm sure they have a

pretty hefty recoil. The Judge is a shotgun in the form of a revolver. In CCW class they said they are a great CCW for your car. Say you are sitting in your car and some nut job tries to break in, you can't hardly make an aimed shot with a regular pistol, you can load your Judge up with buckshot and you throw out a pattern of any number projectiles. It happens, last October there was a road-rage case in the Pittsburgh area. This guy cuts a women off the road and comes over to her car and punches the women in the face, she happened to have a CCW and she shot him in the belly. The guy did live through it and she was not prosecuted.

on edit: I found the story: http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17757419/detail.html

[CoffeeCat]

29. So, one shot equals more than one bullet?

Pardon my ignorance, but when you shoot a shotgun--it shoots multiple bullets?

I happened to catch about 5 minutes of a movie today where a guy was shot with
a shotgun, and he had about 6 holes in him. That struck me as odd, but I wouldn't
have thought twice about it, until I saw your post.

[doc03]

32. A shot-shell can hold one projectile or any number of them

starting from 000 buck shot up to #9 bird shot. A standard 12 ga. "000" (triple ought) 2 3/4" shot-shell holds 6 .36 inch balls. A standard #9 bird-shot 12 ga. 2 3/4 inch shell holds around 585 .08 diameter balls. Did you see the women on Oprah that had the face transplant I think she was shot at close range with #6 shot?

[Tippy]

10. The number of armed home invasions is going up around here..

I am a good shot but I know shooting at another person is a lot different than hunting or target shooting....

[Xipe Totec]

5. Every silver lining has a dark cloud

or something like that...

[spanone]

6. the reverse trickle down effect?

i guess there's an upside to every downside

[Sanity Claws]

8. I wonder if the foreclsoures are to blame too

Many homes are now totally empty because the bank took them.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

11. That is a lie. Crime is up in my region.

Druggies are breaking into houses and stealing alot here. My own parents house was robbed of meds, by my nephew! A local woman on anti anxiety meds had druggies break in and rob her, whilst beating her into unconsciousness.

The talking heads Lie, as usual.

[SoCalDem]

28. Maybe they were not talking about "your" area, but in a macro sense..statistically

Unless every single person has a reporter assigned to their family, reports will always "vary".:)

[Last Stand]

14. Cyber criminals and white collar crooks don't need to rob houses--they get rich quicker.

The Mob knows it and the gangs do, too.

They get caught less and sentenced more lightly.

[WilliamPitt]

15. Didn't stop Katt Williams

...too soon...?

;)

[JVS]

16. The market for fenced goods is probably suffering as well.

Who has the money to go out and buy stolen TVs

[pipi_k]

21. Somebody with stolen money?

:7

[JVS]

23. Ah yes. Taking stimulus into your own hands!

[NNN0LHI]

18. I think I read somewhere that safe sales were way up too. Here read this

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1864166,robbery-safe-too-heavy-110409.article

850-pound safe apparently too heavy for burglars

November 4, 2009

BY ROSEMARY SOBOL Staff Reporter

Burglars bit off more than they could chew late Tuesday in Lincoln Square as they were forced to abandon an 850-pound safe on the sidewalk outside an office they ransacked.

“I have to give it to them, they moved it about 40 feet,” Lincoln District police Sgt. Patrick Barker said with a laugh. “I had three guys with me and the four of us had a hard time moving it. We only got 10 feet. It’s absolutely the heaviest thing I’ve ever had to move.”

Police found it at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Nearby was a broken 2-wheeled dolly marked “rated 600 pounds.”

[pipi_k]

22. So are the out-of-work burglars filing for unemployment benefits?

Just wondering....


:7

[Art_from_Ark]

27. The problem is, burglars are revealing their TRUE identities

as encyclopedia salesmen!

Man: Burglar! (longish pause while he waits, he rings again) Burglar! (woman appears at other side of door)
Woman: Yes?
Man: Burglar, madam.
Woman: What do you want?
Man: I want to come in and steal a few things, madam.
Woman: Are you an encydopaedia salesman?
Man: No madam, I'm a burglar, I burgle people.
Woman: I think you're an encyclopaedia salesman.
Man: Oh I'm not, open the door, let me in please.
Woman: If I let you in you'll sell me encyclopaedias.
Man: I won't, madam. I just want to come in and ransack the flat. Honestly.
Woman: Promise. No encyclopaedias?
Man: None at all.
Woman: All right. (she opens door) You'd better come in then.
Man enters through door.
Man: Mind you I don't know whether you've really considered the advantages of owning a really fine set of modern encyclopaedias...(he pockets valuable) You know, they can really do you wonders.

[ddeclue]

31. DUZY!

:rofl: