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Yeah, let's go "tough on crime", put all the weed smokers in jail, tear down all the unpermitted houses, condem the "illegal" subdivisions and their unpaved roads.
We can pay for it by doubling the GET, and making sure to prosecute anyone who tries to evade paying their "fair share" of the tax burden for all the new prisons, prosecutors, ankle bracelets.
Because the Rules and Laws are for Everyone, right? No price is too high for our guaranteed safety and security.
While we're at it, put the State Department of Health in jail too, they're conspiring to violate Federal laws regarding marijuana production, distribution, and sale. Then we can go after the 17000 "medical" permit holders, use forfetiture to seize all their assets, use that money to build more courthouses for all this prosecution we gotta have.
If we do it right, everyone will be in jail, and the beaches will be so clean and safe that increased tourism will help pay for the prisons we gotta build.
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Originally posted by terracore
They use lithium ion batteries and are bright enough that if you try to look at our yard/house/whatever from the street or elsewhere, you just get blinded by these lights and then you see spots when you look away.
I am sure the pedestrians just love you!
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Very few Night Walkers around here. The few that we have, probably appreciate I'm lighting the road in front of them. Staring into our blinding lights is a choice, not a requirement.
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Originally posted by leilanidude
ericlp - install a simple switch that kills the fuel pump. Hide the switch. The vehicle will start and run for a few hundred yards, maybe more, maybe less. Then it forces the jerks to RUN.
Interesting idea.
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install a simple switch that kills the fuel pump. I know there are MANY ways to do it, but it only takes one time to forget to 'enable' the simple switch and your ride is gone........
I prefer automatic relay......... Never forget to turn it on. Much better in my opinion. Just depends on how convenient you want it.
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Another strategy is to have theft insurance. Generally its just a few dollars more per month than just liability.
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A couple of neighbors and I installed a few solar-powered motion-sensitive lights a couple of years ago. They have made a huge difference; the number of cars driving around at night clearly casing the place has dropped to almost zero. We used to get two or three a night. I highly recommend them, and yes, they're blinding.
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If folks were casing your place, then your place would have been robbed. Have you been robbed? If not, I really disagree with the "solution" of super bright lights. How often are you getting robbed, vs. how often are totally innocent people going to have to deal with your completely unnecessary flood lights at night? Plus, how much money are you losing on the electricity for those things, vs. how much are you losing via theft?
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how often are totally innocent people going to have to deal with your completely unnecessary flood lights at night?
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It's a private subdivision, if the neighbors have issue with my lights, they will tell me.
"how much money are you losing on the electricity for those things"
Nothing. They are solar powered.
"completely unnecessary flood lights"
I don't consider security to be unnecessary, especially considering roughly a half dozen of our neighbors have been robbed this month. We've been robbed before. We took precautions then, we take more precautions now.
