zogger
Tree Freak
What does the law have to say?
They have yet to either prevent, nor recover anything stolen from the farm here, or the boss's shop in town. Complete waste of time. If you can catch them in the act or if you find your stuff and can prove it, they will act.
Live and learn, I am handling my own security now. At least one aspect of my previous security worked, not storing everything in the same place. They didn't get everything.
I am going to dig up the loot somehow and put in my own hidden surveillance system around where I am. Some extra gear is going to be sold or swapped off, the remainder will be disbursed properly and securely. I can't protect everyplace here, it is just too large, but I can some, and have the nerd skills, just lack the gear, but I will scrounge it up somehow, used if I have to. I mean, made it 8 years here so far without a successful hit.
Crime is bad, starting to be all over. Too many out of work, too many meth heads and crackheads, etc. Desperate and or insane people ..do desparate and insane things.
It doesn't matter, every generation has had security issues, especially out in the sticks, you win some you lose some. Imagine going out with a stick in one hand and a rock in the other to go get food, and have to dodge like giant cave bears/wolves/sabre toothed tigers, etc. Every day.
We still have it easy. I am still well past annoyed over it, but..I move on, learn from my mistakes.
I got robbed once years ago when I lived real rural and remote, first good snow of the season. snowmobile tracks right up to the fro9nt door, they got my saw/axe/gas stove/ etc. Everything I actually needed to live in a no utilities rough living old cabin. I raised most of my food, well over 90%, heated with wood exclusively, used a lantern, for lights and a small gas stove only on real rainy days in the summer. all that and my hand tools stolen.
I was REAL annoyed then and to this day I can't stand snowmobiles or ATVS very much...
That's besides the point. They didn't get my big crosscut, that was hidden, or my little token of civilization, a transistor radio.. next big snowfall, the day before, I cut down the largest biggest honkiest tree there was on the trail that went towards my cabin.
Opps, they couldnt' drive through. Next storm the snow was too deep, even without the tree, they couldn't get through. That worked. No one cut the tree either, and I let it be known around the area I was gonna..well..use your imagination there..if it happened again. Go medieval. I was a known mountain man wildguy around there...hahahah!
I replaced my tools, started making jar candles for light instead of using a lantern and buying kerosene or laoil, and cooked on the woodstove rain or shine. Hid my tools well whenever I left the immediate cabin area.
No more thefts after that until I moved some years later. Live and learn.
There is no perfect security, but you can layer in what you can do and afford.