I travel a good deal, leaving my wife at home alone. Although our home is built from concrete and steel and has hidden doorways and passages,
the one big danger—especially when I am away—would be that my wife would
unbolt and open the front door if someone knocked. That actually happened to a family we know of — the husband was on a trip when his wife opened the door to a stranger. She was raped and then killed.
We live at the end of a dead-end road on the side of a small mountain. If anyone approaches our home, a hidden sensor is triggered and a bell rings in our kitchen. We then glance out through a narrow one-way mirror to see who it is.
If we do not recognize the person, we do not answer the knock. (It will never be a postal carrier, a pizza delivery person, or anyone from a courier service because we never, and I mean NEVER, give out our location to anyone other than to a few close friends.)
Although we don’t currently have a sign out, we used to have one that said “
Knock all you want. We never answer the door.” If you plan to put out a sign yourself, you might consider something a bit more gentle, such as “
Day sleeper—do not ring bell.”
Why not have a chat with your family this evening? Explain that from this day forward, no one is to answer when strangers knock.
For additional information, see my e-book
Dirty Tricks for Savvy Chicks, especially Chapter Two: How to Avoid Danger from a Stranger at the Door.
Labels: how to avoid, how to protect, how to secure, why never to answer
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 12:01 AM
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