Hello everyone, This is Barry Carey here. I’m the owner of Protection Direct, an online store that offers self defense products including pepper spray, stun guns, and home security products as well.
For today’s post I want to talk about something that happened to me that blew me away. I recently moved into a new house in totally different neighbor hood. It was a nice location so I figured the risk of crime would be low.
Stupid me
The house hadn’t been lived in for about a year so it was pretty musty on the inside. I had all the windows in the house opened up while i was home. We had just finished moving all of our stuff in so I hadn’t had the chance to hook up our security system or cameras. I figured there wouldn’t be a huge rush because it seemed like a pretty good neighborhood.
So after puttering around for awhile I found there was several things I need to pick up at the hardware store…New doorknobs, deadbolts and a few other things. So we closed most of the windows but we decided to leave the upstairs windows open.
That wasn’t too bright
We take off and we were gone for maybe an hour then we came back and our front door was wide open. I would imagine you can understand my shock. After going inside I noticed there was a bunch of stuff missing. Including a couple really big boxed full of some of my self defense products and one that was entirely full of pepper spray, along with my high end stereo system and TV.
I was completely blow away, we had been going for an hour and this had happened. It was a serious laps of judgment on my part.
I made the false assumption that this neighborhood was good and there would be a really low risk of any crimes. That was the wrong thing to think, and don’t get me wrong I know better than to ever think like that. But being swept up in the excitement of moving into a new home clouded my judgment a bit.
That is one mistake I will never make again, not only was it violating but a pretty big chip in my ego, I sell self defense and home security products for a living and I failed to keep myself safe.
The point I want to make to everyone is, no matter how comfortable you are in the area you live never under estimate the audacity of the common criminal. When you least expect it they strike and the result is usually never good.
So when you leave home make sure all of your windows are locked and the doors are locked as well. All it takes is one person to think you house looks pretty good, then they case it out and find that one window that is unlocked and then BAM you lose a bunch of stuff.
Thats gonna do it for today, I just wanted to share this story with everyone because it goes to show that even the experts can have a lapse in judgment from time to time and it’s all the more reason to stay on top of your home security.
