how many CT people have had break-ins?

We are talking about people who store their coins at home and the very real threat of burglary and theft, not moisture or dust.

And your attic/basement are the safest places to hide your coins from being stolen in a burglary in your home.

Your closets and drawers are the worst places to store your coins from the danger of theft.

 

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Store your coins in these places and the collection is soon to become 'not worth stealing'..........

Of course these crack heads could know not what is collectible. They spend the collection for 'face'......

 

Two very barky terriers, infrared trail cams, AD'T security post-it's, door alarms, night motion lighting inside and out, .44 w/ccp and a Sentry safe. My physical address available upon request for interested perps. My ammo is getting stale and I need to see if the dang rounds are still viable.

 

I hate to say it, but I think the biggest threat to coin collections is theft by family members.

I was a counselor at a Boy Scout camp in Connecticut in the early '70's and I volunteered for extra shifts at the camp store just to buy rare coins out of the till.

 

Dang! We don't need a fence. We just need to build you a house on the southern boarder.

 

Years ago I was known as a frightening man, was into kick boxing, weight training, (easily curl 175, press 225, bench 325). Never was knocked out, the only fights I lost was when 3 or more ganged up. So back then everyone stayed away from my house. I used to -- late at night pump off a few 12 gauge rounds, and I would carry weapons in public. Had a half German shepard pit bull, trained to attack in Greek. Nowadays, I live where no one knows me. In a very safe quiet neighborhood. But security is still big in my mind. I use an automatic timer to turn things on and off when gone, motion detectors, and I inform my neighbors if going out of "town". My nearest neighbor is a 4 star Marine General. I have two very alert dogs, and I am often up until the sun comes up. If a car enters the hood, I know it. So....I feel somewhat secure, on top of that I have a nice safe. But nothing valuable. Seriously, just a bit of Ag. Sorry to hear of the break-ins. But there are many many security items available!! I like mats which electrocute anything which steps on them!! You can work with insurance companies, etc.

 

The governor of Maine just signed the no permit concealed carry law, which will become effective after ninety days. Where we live there is not much crime, second lowest in the country they say. There have, however, been several house burglaries in the past couple of years. They say criminals are not terribly smart and the two guys caught recently proved it when they pawned some jewelry that the owner had wisely taken pictures of. A deputy told me that many people with summer homes now have video surveillance that has helped them get many bad guys off the street. We have a home security system with a wireless connection to the monitoring company. If there is an intrusion their first call goes to our next door neighbor and then the sherif. Most of my valuable coins are in a safety deposit box and the two safes in the house are packed with lead, to make things interesting should someone succeed in bypassing the security system.

 

If you set a potentially lethal booby trap, you're effectively counting on the collapse of civilization -- because if someone trips it, and the legal system still exists, you're the one who will be seeing jail or prison time. Law enforcement frowns heavily on booby traps.

 

Great advice. BTW, where do you safely store the coins you do have at home and where do you and your wife store your jewelry at home.

 

You forgot to ask for the address, silly!

 

All of us here are anonymous, silly!

 

There are limits to how much I'll rely on that. I've made over 5000 posts here, and in a few of them I've leaked bits of personal information. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if someone figured out exactly who and where I am based on my postings here.

That doesn't stop me from posting, but it does mean I'm reluctant to divulge some personal details. For example, I'll say that my most valuable items are in an SDB, but I won't say how often I visit it to add or remove things. Or I'll say that a burglar would need a week and a dumpster to pick my few home valuables out of all the clutter, but I won't say exactly how I "hide those items in plain sight".

 

Maine is a pretty big state with more land area than the other New England states combined, so I'm not really concerned about my anonymity being compromised. The coins that are not stored in a safety deposit box are concealed behind a hidden wall in the attic. The door has hinges like those used on some cabinets so are unseen. The two safes I mentioned in my last post are used for decoys. But we live on a dead end road, meaning one way in, one way out. There are only a handful of people here, mostly retired, and we all know one another and our vehicles. Extra attention is given to vehicles people do not recognize, with one woman copying down license plate numbers of those she does not know. My setup for storing coins would probably not be a choice for people concerned with fires. When we head south for the cold months, a brother who lives in town checks the place frequently, as is the case with several of the neighbors.

 

But-but-but privacy!

Seriously, it sounds like Paradise to me, except perhaps a bit too far north for my tastes...

 

Never have had a break-in, never keep valuable coins or much cash in the house, all are in a SDB, in a bank where I know all the personnel - they all know that I will never go to the box with another person, if I do, they know to call the police. Valuables in a safe in your house will get you shot in the head.

 

Very true. Sunday I went to visit an old friend of mine, we went to his safe as he was going to show me some of the Pandas he had bought last week. Only he and his wife live in the home and have the combination and he noticed off the bat things were out of order and coins were missing. Turns out his wife opened the safe and stole from his collection so she could buy drugs, she has been clean supposedly for years and this is how he found out she is now using again. Really sad.

 

To each his own. We like the town and the people. The winters can be brutal which is why we head to Florida for the winter.

Another poster mentioned family as the number one threat to valuables. So true. A neighbor's son forged his signature on checks he had stolen. He is now in rehab. Sad.

 

I certainly meant NOT lethal. Shocking, yes. Might kill a rat! And civilization will collapse, according to the Scriptures. (someday).

 

A distant relative of mine was a doctor in Los Angeles in the 1970's.
One night office was burglarized - by the Nixon / Watergate gang.

He "dined out" on that story for years.

 

Ah.

"Electrocute" means "kill (execute) with electricity", at least in the US. (Apparently the Brits don't care about its etymology, and use it to refer to non-fatal shocks as well.) Like you said in your reply, the word is "shock".

I love the idea of a burglar being shocked out of his shoes, but you'd have a really hard time coming up with a system that would reliably shock without killing no matter what shoes the perp is wearing. (Thick soles, and they wouldn't feel a thing; wet shoes, and they'd die.)

Now, wiring your drawer-pulls and doorknobs -- that has some potential (if you'll pardon the expression).