Now that would be a magazine I would like to read!!
Yeah, it was. It was a home reproduced home defence magazine. As a young aspring prepper it was gold dust.
I apreciate the ideas. I can get 'biohazard' tape from work but wondered if that would be overkill. Another idea was a badly handly drawn sign saying something along the lines of 'help us we need food'.
Going back to what I said about homes I look at, I look for shutters on windows, high windows, thorn bushes (ref Su's idea) or open gardens to get to a building.
I like the idea of spread out (selected) rubbish too.
There are going to be plenty of other easier targets for the vast majority to be raiding before they even think about a door to door raiding pattern, and that is what it is likely to need, a systematic pattern of door to door house clearance looking for what they need.
If it has got to that stage it will be a lot more being needed than a few "decorations" to dissuade a determined raider.
I live on the outside of a city of 100,000 people, so working on four people to a property that is going to be something in the region of 25,000 properties to work through, I wonder how many raiders it would take to deal with all those and be lucky enough meet no resistance on every occasion. Maybe a simple Bio-hazard sign or boundary tape will be enough of a deterant maybe even a few boards over the windows to make it difficult to enter is going to be a case of move on to something easier and more accessible, especially on a first pass, the longer they survive the higher the risks they will need to take to get a belly full of food, or they move out to pastures new.
preppingsu wrote:But don't make your house stand out from the rest, you need to blend in otherwise you still become a target.
For sure. Thats why I don't bother with a generator. I can just imagine the scenario - the lights are out, been out for 4 days and people are starting to get hungry. Over on the corner there's my house blazing away in a golden glow, a DVD on the telly and the smell of of barbecue wafting around.
Absolutely guaranteed to get a queue of people at your door, and the hungrier they are, the more dangerous it will be. Even the rumour of food stores will cause a riot.
preppingsu wrote:But don't make your house stand out from the rest, you need to blend in otherwise you still become a target.
For sure. Thats why I don't bother with a generator. I can just imagine the scenario - the lights are out, been out for 4 days and people are starting to get hungry. Over on the corner there's my house blazing away in a golden glow, a DVD on the telly and the smell of of barbecue wafting around.
Absolutely guaranteed to get a queue of people at your door, and the hungrier they are, the more dangerous it will be. Even the rumour of food stores will cause a riot.
Agreed if I ever did get a generator, it would be for anything but the lights....
But I can't imagine my 1 neighbour giving me a hard time for surviving
If you board up your windows this may stand out try bolting the inside of the windows with curtains in front of the boards to hide them so it looks as if you have closed curtains and mayby have the front room trashed without a board over the window and barrcade the door for that so it look ransacked but secure. axel
axelt123 wrote:If you board up your windows this may stand out try bolting the inside of the windows with curtains in front of the boards to hide them so it looks as if you have closed curtains and mayby have the front room trashed without a board over the window and barrcade the door for that so it look ransacked but secure. axel
This is the kind of thing I would be doing - its all about perception and disguise.
I live on the outside of a city of 100,000 people,
thats a helleva lot of people to fight of in the event of TSHTF, and there's me worried about 1300!
I won't be fighting them, WTSHTF they aren't all going to be coming to my door wanting a fight, they are going to be doing a lot of other things, places and whatever, but there won't be masses of people raiding one person.
In fact if I lived in a population of 1300 I would be more concerned
I was out for a walk today with the OH and threw the question out there, about making our house seem uninviting. Mrs 7P's isnt a prepper so it was a completely unbiased answer and actually quite good;
1. tear down half a curtain in the kitchen and open (and empty) all cupboards
2. Tip our bins over and rip open the bags, getting rid of anything eddible (we have a bio bin)
3. Break our hallway window, which is too small to get through but would show unrest
4. Remove all potted plants from view
So, not revolutionary but the view of a non prepper?
