The authority for the above statement comes from Jack MacLean, an electronics genius with an IQ of 167 and the author of
Secrets of a Superthief (Berkeley Books, 1983). Before he went to prison, he was responsible for hundreds of burglaries that netted him 133 million dollars worth of jewels.
MacLean interviewed 300 other burglars during his years in prison and included their answers in his amazing book. He asked them such questions as how they chose which homes to burgle, how they broke in, whether or not they cut the phone lines in advance, and what might scare them into calling off the job. Here is one of the questions in the book:
“If you had cut the phone lines of a resident you were burglarizing and at some point heard from inside that same residence, coming from the window, an extremely loud horn, what would you do?”
“Ready for this?” asks MacLean. “One hundred percent said they’d be gone in a second.” (The actual answers were cruder but the author preferred not to print them.)
To obtain an “extremely loud horn,” pick up a portable air horn at any marine supply store or order it on Amazon.com. Be sure to get one that sells for about 20 dollars, because the $10 ones are not as loud (Other deterrents to burglars are outlined in my e-book
Invisible Money but for the budget-minded, a portable air horn should do the job.)
Labels: air horn, burglar, burglar alarm, home security, superthief
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 6:25 AM
