On 4/25/05, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralph Shumaker wrote: > > imminent death. *That* is what will motivate him to find some other house. > > I think you may be making an overgenerous estimate of the intelligence > of the average burglar. And misjudging their motives for burglery to > begin with.
It also depends on how credible the threat is. "I'll kill you burglar, and I mean it." is usually not very credible. However, when I lived on 47th and Logan in National City, my roommate, an ex-cop, had one of his old torso-shaped silhouette targets on the front door, with most of the holes being in dead center. That's credible. And if it's not, and the burglar came in, there was a rifle propped up behind the front door. I never asked him why he was an *ex*-cop. Aren't cops usually lifers? -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
