Lookit this hair-raising tale!
This charming incident happened just down the road, in Tucson. Holeee shee-ut!
The victim is a famous person — or near famous, connected with the Today show. But y’know…it could be any of us. You or me or…who knows?
It’s a good reason to be sure you secure your exterior doors. And I do mean seriously secure them. Make it damn hard for anyone to push their way inside when you go to answer the doorbell.
One way to do this is to install heavy-duty security screens with similarly heavy-duty deadbolts. This is what I’ve done at the Funny Farm. Mine are of this ilk, easy to get at Home Depot and to hire someone who knows what he’s doing to install them.
There’s a lot of choice out there, though. Look around for one that suits your taste, if you have nothing better to do. For me, the trick was to find something simple and clean-looking, reasonably priced to install, and as close to impregnable as possible.
Perps, I figure, don’t want to spend a lot of energy and effort on breaking in; so, when they see something like this, they’ll move on to the next house.
Annoying as Hell, in my not-so-humble opinion, to have to fortify your doors like they belonged at Fort Knox. But…better that than letting some jerk break his way in.
One of this thing’s benefits, too, is that on a nice day it lets me leave the front door open (with the security screen closed and locked, of course). Fresh air flows in: perps stay out.
I have one on every exterior door to the house, plus one on the side door to the garage. Nothing, of course, is absolutely perfect…but these things do go a long way to make you feel safer and more secure, here in the Big and Ugly City.
