fence protection

Put up a sign is several local dialects: "Izzies Snake Farm, Visitors Welcome".

Luhan

The U.S. Army has a strong interest in developing stuff like this. They don't seem to have come up with anything useful yet.

The only practical solution is to organise your own crew of armed non-thugs. For this you will need an ideology, a bunch of people dumb enough to fall for the ideology, and smart enough to spread it, and enough seed money to pay for arms for them and their first generation of converts.

There are a number of off-the-shelf ideologies available.

Cuban Communism works better than most, and the Cubans seem to be able to find lots of well-educated and healthy volunteers to help their ideological pals

Drug-pushing hedonism does seem to make more money, but falls short on the armed non-thugs - the high cash-flow seems to bring out the thug in every gun-carrier.

Religious fanaticism has had its advocates for a very long time, but the Taliban and Franco have given this approach a bad name - choosing an irrational ideology does leave you vulnerable to religious maniacs, and it can make a horrilbe mess of any education system you may want to set up.

Anarcho-syndicalism did work pretty well in Catalonia - for about six months in 1936 - but this was based on more than thirty years of education and organisation, which you may not find practical.

------------------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

A detection fence combined with a fire direction control system could also work. Do you smell troll here?

Hello boys, girls, ladies and gentlemen. I live in a developing country and my property has been invaded by armed thugs.They also tried killing me. So I have a choice of either sleeping with a Kalashnikov or hiring an armed thug. But I don't like getting people in trouble so I'd like to develop electric fence. Is anybody here smart enough to understand how to do it? I will chain up dog at night so no danger ... I keep my goat tied also and my hen normally sleep. Please send good answers based on REAL Electronics and not things like its too dangerous, get cattle protection or you can get shut up for life.

"Go easy on the whisky"

theJackal

or sleeping with an armed thug. Don't knock it til you've tried it!

I once read about a plant called pain and terror. Grow a hedge of it around your property. They say it is better than barbed wire.

--Mac

Nah.

You need a *laser* fence ! The wires are a dead giveaway with electric fences.

Graham

I remember a movie where Burl Ives played a badass in the Everglades. They tied a guy to a Manchineel tree to torture him to death. http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:8sSh26bZokEJ:

Thanks to all the gentlemen for their answers. In my opinion signs around the home would just tickle their feet and may even provoke an attack on my place. I already thought about the thorny plants in the hedge but these people once climbed over my metal gate. So the protection would also have to cover that. A laser fence is as good as having several watchdogs as its an intruder detection system . I always know they are coming as the dogs bark but the last time they shot the dogs. An electrical system that could shock / immobilize them, maybe the word would spread and their friends would look for an easier target hoping they don't decide to come back with heavy artillery.

"Go easy on the whisky"

theJackal

Yes something similar ... Power bill? we still have those mechanical electrical counters so guess why I love the idea.

Geez, where did all *that* come from?

John

By the way I forgot to mention that my hedge is steel wired. Should not be difficult getting a high voltage onto it.

"Go easy on the whisky"

theJackal

If you are stuck in the middle of a lawless community, you've got very few good options.

If you can't comand the force to enforce law in your immediate community, your best option is to get out, but the more constructive option is to convert your neighbourhood into a law-abiding community, which entails setting up a political organisation.

Western-style representative democracy may be where you want to end up, but it isn't a good starting point. Other ideologies seem to offer better chances of surviving those difficult early eyars.

------------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Do it if you think it is not difficult. I think you could be a troll or have been watching too many movies.

If you are serious, perimeter detection makes more sense. After an intruder is detected, then one must have the next step in place and it would be presumptuous on my part to go there.

Hmmm... "Emperor Sloman" does have a nice ring about it.

John

Not my thing at all. Like any well-trained professional, with what ought to be a saleable skill, I'd make myself scarce at the first sign of lawless thuggery. Quite a few Germans had the good sense to do that in the early 1930's. Do you have any plans to emigrate? Or are you waitng until the Bush clan declare themselves to be the presidental family? That might be leaving it too late.

--------------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

No, I really like it here. The worst lawlessness I've seen lately is Volvos bearing Kerry/Edwards stickers running stop signs.

John

Ghastly. I doubt it will get far from 60F here all day today.

John

Methinks "theJackal" yanks your chain. The header says ".it" and the news server is in Holland.

...Jim Thompson