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Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.

Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.

You seem to lend a lot of tools.

Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from
scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely
they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get
buggered.

Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so
cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or
beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots
more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.

I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one..

You must be popular with your neighbours.

Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of
stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.

Why bother?

Because we have all been burgled at one time or another.

I haven't.

You will be.

Most people never are.

Bull****. Bet you can't find a single
person in here that has never been.

48 houses in my street of 50.

What kind of place do you live in?

Just the same as most people where burglarys do happen.

Only happens regularly in cities here.

Bull****.

No, it's true. We aren't all thieves like you lot. Only cities full
of
pakis have that problem.

In 17 years in my street of 50 houses (in a small town), there have
been
two burglaries, both non-standard.

That's because you're all povs/chavs with nothing work taking.

It's the chavvy areas where they have more thefts. They steal from
each
other.

One was some golf clubs out of the boot of an open car. The other
was
a
living room double glazing unit that had just been put in. Never
known
any house contents to go.

Then why does everyone have alarms that
you want to smash when they false trigger ?

They don't, there are only two alarms at this end of the street.

The house one house away has just recently been burnt to the
ground
by
a
complete ****ing loony, fortunately when the owners were away on
holiday.

Are Aussies all neanderthals or something?

Nope, this one was quite literally barking mad. She was 'living'
up in the roof of what you lot call a council house because she
believed that her place was inhabited by demons. That's why
she torched the place next but one to my place, she believed
it was too.

Was she jailed?

Nar, off to the loony bin. Quite literally barking mad.

I fail to see the point, they can't cure it.

It stops them burning other houses down because
they believe they are infested with demons too.

So would jail.

Sure, but we don't jail loonys for being loonys.

Should do. A loony bin serves the same purpose.

Much cheaper to leave them roaming the streets.

Not if they keep breaking stuff.

We don't put them all in loony bins. We have one
'homeless' fella who is notorious in this town, you
see him walking around talking to himself quite a
bit. He gets a loaf of bread from a supermarket that
I usually visit after the garage sale run and one time
he was quite literally barking at the top of his voice
as he walked away with his loaf of bread in his hand.

Don't you have a police force?

Corse we do, but it isnt possible for cops
to avoid everything like that happening.

From what I've heard they seem to concentrate on the easy ****
like
speeding motorists.

They didn't with this one and caught her quite quickly.

99.99999% of alarms are false.

It isnt as high as that with most of the neighbours.

It is here.

I don't believe that.

I must hear one every couple of weeks. Yet only two burglaries in
17
years.

So it isnt just your cats that are barking
mad, its all your neighbours too.

No, it's the alarms that are ****.

Annoying alarms with no burglar in sight.

Sure, most of ours are too, but nothing like that high a
percentage.

People have motion/vibration sensors, probably picking up a cat
through
the window or a bird hitting the window.

Our are mostly PIRs in the house.

Which will see movement of a cat.

Not with the best of the dual mode ones that
can work out the sized of what they see move.

Pity everyone doesn't use those.

Yeah, they certainly cost more.

Something is causing false alarms and waking me up. And you.

Hardly ever wakes me up, just that one night when it kept going
off right thru the night. Easily fixed, didn't happen again.

Brick through it?

Nope, they fixed it.

Best way to fix a faulty alarm is to remove it.

The house one house away going up in flames certainly woke me up.
Not quite sure what actually woke me up, but I looked out the kitchen
window and noticed a ****ing great column of flames lighting up the sky.

Think there may well have been quite a bang when she lit it
after pouring lots of accelerant around inside the house.

My parents' neighbour's house went up in smoke (well the roof) because of
a loose incoming electric feed. Unbelievably, those wires are not fused.

Ours are. Massive great china fuse holders about 5" square attached to
the barge board with a single huge round cylindrical fuse for each phase.
You pull the ceramic fuse holder out downwards to charge the fuse.

Where is this barge board? I'm talking about the wire hanging between the supply pole and his house. Fuses in his property would not have helped.

It severely damaged the transformer across the street too.

Stupid way to do things.

Agreed.

Also unbelievably, the fire service had no access to turn off the power,

We have massive great switches on the street poles
but they switch the power off for the whole street.

Which is fair enough if there's a bloody fire.

and were too pansy to put it out without switching it off first.

Yeah, too much risk of electrocution.

There are such things as earthed hoses....

Nope. The hoses are made of canvas so they can be rolled up flat.

And even with a conductive element in the hose, the
truck and pump arent earthed, they are on rubber tires.

No, you connect the end of the hose to earth, so the electricity doesn't even think about travelling towards the operator.

Anyway, because of the delay, half the house was destroyed.

Yeah, doesnt take much to cause significant damage.

The insurance company should have sued the electric board and the fire
service for utter incompetence.

Would have been a complete waste of money, the insurance
company wouldnt have had a hope in hell of winning that action.