Safe Luxury - Any good tips other than the usual in keeping your home safe from intruders?

Any good tips other than the usual in keeping your home safe from intruders?

we had some drunken idiots try to get into our home this weekend. They thought it was their friends house. Is their any way to deter that without the use of weapons? Could we booby trap the backyard in any way? Any tips, advice? We cant get a dog bc we both work and wouldnt have the time to properly care for it and give it the attention it needs. We do keep some of the lights on as well. radical sady: "lock the doors" - duh! who doesnt?

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Eat a bunch of battery acid.
lock the doors
I personally use motion detection lights they turn on when someone is in range so it seems like you saw them and turned on the light/
get a big dog and a gun
keep a t.v or radio on that helps
Put up a no trespassing sign.
Deadbolts. If its just stupid drunks, that will stop them. Sadly if its a robber, who really wants in, they will find a way. I would just make sure everyhting is locked.
Get one of those motion sensors that turn the lights automatically. Also, get a surveillance camera (they sell fake ones at Urban Outfitters).
get a gun. lock the doors if your that worried get bars on your windo or on your doors
You can get an alarm system and ask your neighbors to watch your house
Put photos of mutated babies and car crash victims on the outside of your house
To avoid mixups like that - put unique items or decor on your front door or porch. Put a child gate or other type of fencing around your front porch. Also, you can always put up beware of dog signs even if you do not have a dog.
you could purchase an alarm system for your home. Go to link below hope it helps.
Where you have sliding windows, put a stick in the slider of the closed side so that the window cant be opened even if they jimmy open the latch. Sensor lights of course. Maybe a sensor with a dog bark? Or if you have a front gate, put another latch at the bottom for night times.
get a doberman...get your mom to come over and take care of it
Good neighbors are worth their weight in gold, porch lights on, good locks on your doors and windows, a security system, a car in the driveway.
Yeah there are some easy ones. Put large signs on the door with a notice saying that the home is guarded by a new advanced experimental robotic system. It is not human, and thus it can murder intruders without any problem or legal consequences to the home owner. Or one you put lots of spikes and saws on the floor. The other cheap method would be to have a really spooky house.
Get some really good locks and consider a handgun. You said that you don't want weapons, but I must tell you that they are some of the best deterrents available. It's better to get a gun before those drunken idiots do get in and go on top of you.
dig a moat, barbed/razor wire fencing, don't take loans from the mob? On a serious note just add some extra locks on your door, make your house look a bit more distinct than similar looking houses in your neighborhood (add a garden, repaint your door/mailbox/house numbers, if your house has pillars repaint them a fitting colour)
Booby traps can get you sued, it's nice that you're thoughtful about whether you could give a dog the care that it needs. You probably need to shop for a professionally installed and monitored security system.
If this was a one time thing, try not to over react. If your neighbourhood is really prone to b&e then a security system is a good idea. I know you said you didn't want the usual ideas, but motes with hungry alligators could lead to law suits when the kiddies fall in and get eaten on Halloween.
yeah get a robot with a bazooka
Cactus plants are easy to maintain, fairly inexpensive and very easy to propagate. Cacti are a very good deterrent. Nobody likes those spines. You can also get some Yucca plants though they're more expensive. They're also very easy to maintain. Aside from that I would go with the other suggestions given. Automatic lights Fake Security Cameras No Trespassing signs Beware of Dog signs
Well, nothing much will deter a drunk, for one thing, but there are fake dogs you can use - basically, it makes wild barking doberman noises when you are out of the house and someone rings the doorbell or it detects movement outside - things like that. You can also urinate on your front door - that makes it unappealing for anyone to stand there for a long period. LOL Booby traps usually get you jail time, because they are a nuisance to fire fighters and gas meter readers, etc. You cannot create a punitive protection, basically. OK, we worked on a prairie where snowmobilers were cutting the fence over and over to get in and destroy the prairie by riding on it - so they dug a trench and there just happened to be some logs left in it - once the snow had covered it, the weight and force of the snowmobile crossing it pierced their undercarriages and so destroyed the snowmobile. They could not complain, because they had passed a "no snowmobiling" sign and cut a fence to get in and except for snowmobiles, the trench and logs were not a risk to others anymore than a trench is anywhere else - it was the speed and weight that ruined the machines on it. So we came back and one snowmobile had been dragged out, but the other had the plate removed and was abandoned, so we took it to the dump, lit it on fire and danced around it. LOL (Those were the 1980's, though.) Anyway, you can make something that ruins a vehicle making illegal acccess, but does it passively. But you cannot make a snare or other device that catches a human or harms them. That being said, the slope behind out house is an old midden, overgrown with poison ivy and loaded with sweet greenbriar, old rustedbarbed wire and broken glass from the farm that used to be on the property. So anyone trying to get at our house up that slope will be in for a world of hurt - that is a "natural" deterrent, basically. I guess then that I would recommend you fill the sides of the fence on your side with raspberry bushes, blueberry bushes or wild roses, which make a pretty nasty barrier over time. Yucca plants are also like a fence of knives to pass through - they look harmless, but have needle-sharp points that will stab through jeans and gloves in a heartbeat. Firefighters know what they look like or will avoid them without harming themselves seriously once they put their first foot into the brush - they arrive on site stone cold sober, though.