Avotius
Some guy
A sad day it is when a community cannot feel safe and feel they have to resort to taking maters into their own hands. In the last week there have been a series of break in to houses in my neighborhood, last night the building next to mine had three homes robbed and many attempted break ins. To add injury to insult the building robbed last night was next door to the local police station. It's no surprise to people around here that this has happened and the authorities have yet to get any results so people are taking things into their own hands. Many have begun arming themselfs with knives and other weapons in their homes and fear is high here. I myself have even taken measures in the event that I encounter someone in my home they will have one hell of a fight on their hands. Add to these feelings of insecurity a people known for hot tempers and usually doing without thinking and you have a potentially disasterous situation brewing.
I don't know what to think in a time like this, makes one reflect on a situation where they really feel like they are on their own. The house I live in is on the fourth floor and the previous resident said it had been broken into before by someone coming in through the bathroom window. My girlfriend and I do have feelings of aprehesition towards possible break in and lay a little uneasy in our bed now.
I don't know what to think in a time like this, makes one reflect on a situation where they really feel like they are on their own. The house I live in is on the fourth floor and the previous resident said it had been broken into before by someone coming in through the bathroom window. My girlfriend and I do have feelings of aprehesition towards possible break in and lay a little uneasy in our bed now.
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jky
Well-known
Very sad to hear...
A friend of mine is currently back home in the Philippines attending her brother's funeral. What happened?... somebody had broken in into their home and he was fatally stabbed (there's an assumption that he fought back). For what? ... furniture, decorations and the like... anything the intruder found valuable in the house. Now her family lives in a no-so-affluent neighborhood, but those with high cement walls, guard dogs and such are not immune to this - my cousin, who lives in a guard patrolled complex, had a group of people steal her valuables by entering through the air conditioning unit of her house. Life in a poverty stricken country produces plenty of very desperate people.
Hope that you and your partner stay safe. I don't know what other precautions you can take down there, but I'm sure you're doing all you can.
Take care & regards.
A friend of mine is currently back home in the Philippines attending her brother's funeral. What happened?... somebody had broken in into their home and he was fatally stabbed (there's an assumption that he fought back). For what? ... furniture, decorations and the like... anything the intruder found valuable in the house. Now her family lives in a no-so-affluent neighborhood, but those with high cement walls, guard dogs and such are not immune to this - my cousin, who lives in a guard patrolled complex, had a group of people steal her valuables by entering through the air conditioning unit of her house. Life in a poverty stricken country produces plenty of very desperate people.
Hope that you and your partner stay safe. I don't know what other precautions you can take down there, but I'm sure you're doing all you can.
Take care & regards.
gb hill
Veteran
Here is part of my security force around here.
Olsen
Well-known
"Life in a poverty stricken country produces plenty of very desperate people..."
This is very true. We had a wave of burgleries back in the 80' here in Oslo. All performed by a small group of drug addicts. Helping out the addicts with different social programs, methadone did away with the problem.
Then what....
Now they say it is increasing drastically again. But now it is particularly poor Poles, Lituanians and Latvians who are the performers. They come from poor conditions with small chances of getting work. And from countries with inexperienced political leaders that makes these coountries into perfect facist states with no social programs. So the poor have to prey on the rich Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Very much like the Mexico - USA relation. Crime has increased some 25% in just a few years here in Oslo due to 'guests' from neighboring east European countries. The budget of the Oslo Police is more than one billion NOK, for a population about half a million people.
So, who have to pay the real cost of these new-facist regimes of ex. communist states? The socialist wellfare states of Northern Europe. further; just quess how much desperation & crime this economical crisis that is coming up is going to create....
This is very true. We had a wave of burgleries back in the 80' here in Oslo. All performed by a small group of drug addicts. Helping out the addicts with different social programs, methadone did away with the problem.
Then what....
Now they say it is increasing drastically again. But now it is particularly poor Poles, Lituanians and Latvians who are the performers. They come from poor conditions with small chances of getting work. And from countries with inexperienced political leaders that makes these coountries into perfect facist states with no social programs. So the poor have to prey on the rich Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Very much like the Mexico - USA relation. Crime has increased some 25% in just a few years here in Oslo due to 'guests' from neighboring east European countries. The budget of the Oslo Police is more than one billion NOK, for a population about half a million people.
So, who have to pay the real cost of these new-facist regimes of ex. communist states? The socialist wellfare states of Northern Europe. further; just quess how much desperation & crime this economical crisis that is coming up is going to create....
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