I find it kind of funny how people adjust their lives around their fear of criminals. I go to banks in creepy parts of the city with a lot of money on me. I go where I please,when I please, without worry . The bad guys can worry about me.
i'm not sure where everyone is from but i lived and work in Phila. i work in the worst neighborhoods you can imagine. i am in these neighborhoods all day everyday. so far i have been lucky and in 25 yrs i only had a gun to my head once and was shot at twice.lucked out all three times. i too carry with a permit and am a damn good shot. however it only takes one time.i would be concerned about having an armored car come to my house. there has been a big increase in home invasions lately around here . people are tortured, raped, and killed just because the thieves "thought" there were large sums of cash around. they find a store owner and follow him home,(usually to an affluent suburb) wait until he shuts the alarm off and goes to his car where they ambush him and bring him inside.its usually a horror story after that. a burglary when noone is home is usually done by pros who know how to get around alarm systems and if i was to be robbed i would prefer it be this way.a home invasion is the worst way as these types of criminals are desperate and have no regard for life.i personally would not have an armoured car come to my house on the off chance that one day i may be sitting tied to a chair being beaten while watching them rape and torture my wife and or kids only to kill us after they get what they want. even if i had a better chance of hitting the lottery than being home invaded, i would not take that chance. its one thing for us "tough guys" to not be afraid for ourselves but it is another to endanger our loved ones.just for the convenience of not having to drive to banks and pick up and dump is definitely not worth putting everything at risk. it only takes one person to talk about the guy who has an armoured car coming to his house to put you in danger. we just had one here where the guys nephew set him up to be robbed because he knew his uncle had a large amount of money from his business in a safe in his house.what he didn't know was that it was only a fraction of what he thought was there and the guys who robbed him beat him to death and also beat and raped his aunt.
sorry if this bursts your balloon, after all it is our dream to have the convenience of home pick up and delivery. i personally would not want to read that something horrible has happened to you.just lookin out for you buddy.
oh yeah and as far as criminals not being the masterminds we see on t.v.......don't bet on it. i personally know of groups of guys that were and still are active today. these guys are smart and have all the equipment to part you with your hard earned valuables. it is what they do for a living and are so good they could case your home and within a matter of a day or two, know when you are home, how long you are gone,where the cops are at any given time during the day, and possibly even have a pass code for your alarm. private security for your "gated" community is nothing to them. they will blackmail or bribe someone to turn thier back. they go in and out in a matter of minutes .and because they have no ties to the person they are burglarizing, and they leave no clues,they are seldom caught.
like i said these guys are still active today!
and as far as alarm systems.......i know an installer and he said all they have to do is cut the phone wire that calls the company ,break in and disarm the audible alarm, head for the goods and be gone in minutes.the alarm does not protect your home, it protects you,....it is only there to alert you if you are home. even if the alarm company is alerted that the line has been cut, by the time they call the cops and they are dispatched,these guys are already gone.
I think banks have that kinda stuff as well ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
.. You obviously have no real sense of how dangerous it is to be anywhere near one of those delivery trucks. You do not want that thing in your driveway every Thursday at 10:30 A.M.
