I believe a better discouragement would be for HIM to come home to HIS house to find his wife/girlfriend duct-taped and gagged in the bathroom, alive, of course.

I've got little patience with threats or thieves.

SSS

Take the next few days off. Leave at same time usually do. Come back a different way and sneak in the back. What's that Boy Scout motto? Oh, yeah. Be prepared.

Yeah unfortunately these days that could mean always keep lube in your manpurse

I hate when people come up my driveway. They are generally met by me holding a shotgun unless ithe purpose is obvious. Be careful.

8X12 foot gate, lights, and camera...no one drives up my driveway without prior permission. Best move I ever made.

Yep I had an incident similar to this not long ago at all.
The guy noticed my garage door was up and wheeled into my drive which is pretty long.
He didn't notice my driveway alarm but was up to my house before I could get outside and was in my garage when I came out.
He was completely surprised and asked if I any work he could do that he needed to get $16.20 to pay a bill...total BS.
I told him I didn't have work or money and that I was retired and at home all the time.
Took pics of his vehicle as he drove off

Thief/ drug addict. They are one in the same. I hope you're home too if he comes back! Bury some tanerite by your driveway and pop it with a .22 next time he starts to pull in

keep all your lights outside on at night. Protect yourself.

Just as a tip for the future... If the police know who it is always try and get the weasel's name from them. They'll be easy to find by word of mouth on the street if he's a petty thief. This isn't a pro acting like that he'll be well known.

I'll say this... doesn't matter how much money you've got in your pocket or how white bread your neighborhood is... always good to have a couple shady acquaintances for this line of work.

X2

I used to think this about the lights till my boat was stolen from underneath my carport with flood lights on. I think it made it easier for them to see what they were doing.
While we were in the bed.

I like the lights off, no one knows my turf like I do, in the dark I am at an advantage imo.

I guess you checked to see what he was up to?


God Bless,
David B.

My neighbors hear shooting often coming from my land, my driveway is 200 yards long, I have motion lights all around, and I have a fairly large dog lurking around the shadows of my yard that sets off those lights a few times every night. I also have a trail camera high in a tree along my drive way that points toward the drivers seat of vehicles coming up toward my home.

So far the trail camera has caught nothing suspicious. I think that has something to do with the commonplace gunshots, the long drive, motion lights, dogs, and a couple of my neighbors may or may not think I'm a little crazy to start with.

Me too.

Not trying to sound too "tinfoil hat" here, but a decent FLIR doesn't have to cost you your inheritance anymore. So I got one. You can quickly scan your property in secret for anything warm blooded, and an 870 with a light mounted to it makes a good companion.

I caught the neighbor's kid letting the air out of one of my tires one night, just being a kid. I never pulled on him, I just walked up right behind him and spoke. He was more than happy to go home and get his dad's portable air tank to fix me back up. He's actually a good kid and we speak and wave when we see each other.

I'll bet his britches stunk when he went to get the tank.

Y'know, I never did tell his dad. I think that might have gone a long way with him.

I want a FLIR... bad. I think I could entertain myself for hours.

Said he thought I had leftover cornbread. The blinding tactical light on the end of the Mossberg 590 from 20 feet away and me telling him he was a lying nogoodmethheadsonofabitch sent him pretty quick to where he parked 500 yards down the road. He was on the county road when this took place. If I'd caught him like this in my driveway it would have been different. I wish, now, that I had walked the 500 yards down there and shook him up for real.