Are you prepared for a break-in?

Apart from alarms, locks and all that... are you or your parents prepared for a potential break-in in your house? My mates Dad he told me years ago has a metal baseball bat under his bed if there's ever a break in, and I think that is really sensible myself. We haven't got anything like that in our house even though I have suggested it so we'd be defenceless if there was a break in, so after university when I am home I have been thinking about storing my to-be spare butchers knife under my bed incase the situation ever arises that I hear noises downstairs and find some 5ft+ rats lurking about.

So how about you? Do you or your family have any plans for such an event?

To be honest we're not really prepared but we don't need to be. My dog has such a bark on her she would probably scare them away. When we order takeaways they normally back away from the door and stand at the end of my front garden lmao. Also in my house you can't hug or hit another without her going crazy and protecting you. I used to play fight with my dad, we'd punch each other lol but nope not now.

Yeah, there's nothing worth robbing hahaha


Na, we aren't tbh and around here we get a lot of break ins but i sleep with a hammer by my bed, if worst came to worst, I'd grab it and man up.

I don't have any security system, bar a lock on a front door. That's in both my house and my parents. At home my father could just belly flop on them as his weapon.
Are you trying to scope out potential houses to rob or something?

we have dogs
if they enter
dogs will bark
i also have a rather violent stepdad
and in my room just walking on my floor is some sort of booby trap

Just have my dogs really and they'd go mental with barking which would probably scare them off.

No, I have nothing in my parents house apart from a house alarm so rip.

We aren't really prepared. Our house is quite old and the windows don't have very strong frames. We have closed the garage so people can't just walk round. No alarm system or anything though.

omfg thts a horrible thought preparedness is like 0?

but anyway if a burglar decides to come-a-knocking i live on the 9th floor of a flat with windows that has no grills

no i'm not hopefully pebbles will protect me :) jk she won't i'll just hide and ring police

No. I'd probably hide and call for help but I would certainly defend myself at any cost if needed--even if it meant having to kill them in self-defense.

Although they'd probably hurt/kill me before I could, assuming they were a lot more dangerous than just a burglar.

Well in the UK if you have a home invasion you just have to yell at them and they'll bolt since they won't have guns and statistically you're in an urban area so they'll get picked up quickly if they stick around.

No not really, I would brick it so much if someone tried breaking in. However, my mum would probably be ready to pounce if anyone dared try it. Fingers crossed it never happens though.

We have locks obviously, a dog, and a burglar alarm that we set for the ground floor each night. I would never attack a burglar, though. Screaming at them should scare them off.

Yes we sure are! My father is military so we have guns here loaded in the safe and lots of ammo for those guns.