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to think that keeping a weapon under one's bed is futile?

118 replies

Barkybarkynutnut · 25/09/2017 22:15

Just want to get others perspective on this. I have been surprised that quite a few of my friends have a weapon under their beds of some description of another! I never have even considered it. Am I foolish not to have something to hand to hit an intruder with? The thoughts of having to keep a baseball bat or something under the bed terrifies me!

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Bohemond · 26/09/2017 05:11

We have an axe under our bed and an airgun under the spare. We are much more likely to need the axe for smashing the window or chopping doors in case of fire (very old house) and we haven't worked out where else to put the gun Grin

TopBitchoftheWitches · 26/09/2017 05:30

I have a German shepherd downstairs and a Harley Quinn baseball bat next to my bed.

I was recently assaulted by my now ex partner and the bat gives me a little bit of security should anything else happen.

waitingforlifetostart · 26/09/2017 05:39

Is it just me who would just pretend to be asleep?

blueberrypie0112 · 26/09/2017 05:46

Accidental shootings scares me too. But I don’t keep any weapons under my bed. I keep my dog

Beeziekn33ze · 26/09/2017 05:51

Doesn't it count to have party poppers in my bedside drawer?

DinnaeKnowShitFromClay · 26/09/2017 05:56

You can actually get a baseball bat shaped torch. For the purposes of the courts it's a torch anyways Grin
I have a whopping Maglite torch and I know I would go into a frenzy if anyone came into the house. I would definitely act first and wouldn't consider if I was using excessive force. I think America has it right in this respect. If someone trespasses they better expect to die. You should be able to beat the living bejeezus out of an intruder in my opinion.

CaptWentworth · 26/09/2017 06:11

It would never happen. Anyone coming into my house in the middle of the night would think someone had got there first and bugger off

LynetteScavo · 26/09/2017 07:51

I would be able to use a weapon as I'd be too busy phoning the police and hiding

Crispsheets · 26/09/2017 07:52

My dad had a first world war bayonet under his bed.

Zoll · 26/09/2017 07:57

I have a weapon and know how to use it. I lived smack in the middle of a gang war for half my life and looking a bit likely has saved my neck a few times.

I don't live there any more but I don't know that I'd like to have nothing at all to hand. I think most people have dogs, though, really.

Fantasticmissfoxy · 26/09/2017 08:03

I've got a mini pepper spray that a friend brought me from the states and a 'letter opener' in my bedside drawer. The plan would be to mace the bugger then clout him with my very heavy bedside light

Ninjakittysmells · 26/09/2017 08:03

When ds was really little and I was super sleep reprieved (single parent and Ds woke every 90 minutes without fail for 2 years) I was convinced I heard someone downstairs. Ds had just gone to sleep, so I decided that they would probably just grab the car keys and laptop in the kitchen and were unlikely to come upstairs, so I went back to sleep. I was SO desperate for sleep, I mentally allowed myself to be burgled rather than call the police Blush

reetgood · 26/09/2017 08:08

Most burglars want stuff, they aren't a threat to me or family. I'd rather let them have stuff than force a confrontation that has a high likelihood of me coming off worse. Bringing a weapon is likely going to escalate things. I'd probably turn the light on and expect that to disturb them.

Next door got burgled for car keys and we didn't even wake up though, soooo might even sleep through. The car got driven from the drive next to us!

I keep bed linen underneath my bed, we have a divan type.

Mulberry72 · 26/09/2017 08:09

I have a baseball bat at my side of the bed and DH a pickaxe handle, I also have pepper spray in my bedside cabinet and would not be afraid to use them. DH works away quite a bit so DS and I are on our own, I’ve also had a lock put on my bedroom door so that I can lock it from the inside and DS sleeps with me when DH is away so we lock ourselves in.

Makes me feel more secure.

Eolian · 26/09/2017 08:10

It wouldn't ever occur to me to keep a weapon under my bed tbh. It never did while I was living in London, and I now live in a very safe area. And in any case, I have a big dog with a very loud bark. I don't think he would bite an intruder, but he'd do a damn good job of sounding like he would.

problembottom · 26/09/2017 08:54

This thread is an eye opener! I live in a city where there's a fair whack of crime and we've never had a weapon. I really wouldn't like to sleep with a rolling pin under my pillow or baseball bat by my bed. I'd hate having it in the sanctity of my bedroom. DP was burgled, they kicked the door down and threatened him with a machete, before I moved in. He handed them his car keys without a fight. I wouldn't have wanted him to brandish a weapon as he could have been killed.

BartholinsSister · 26/09/2017 09:10

Does a Hitachi Wand count?

JustAnotherPoster00 · 26/09/2017 09:22

Dh is tall, well built, hairy and covered in tattoos! If anyone saw him naked and angry with his weapon they'd shit themselves!

oo'er missus Grin

Chattymummyhere · 26/09/2017 09:55

We have things dotted around in random hidden places. Guns/bats/hammers/archery equipment and three German shepherds as well as a house alarm with built in panic alarm and wireless cctv.

Biker47 · 26/09/2017 10:06

I've got a mini pepper spray that a friend brought me from the states

You do realise pepper spray is a section 5 firearm don't you? Assuming you live in the UK.

Twofurrycats · 26/09/2017 10:13

I have a metal bar by the bed and a wrecking bar hung just inside a cupboard on the landing. The wrecking bar is for breaking a window in a fire, which I'm a lot more concerned about than an intruder tbh.

SaucyJack · 26/09/2017 10:20

DP has various knives dotted around the flat and car. He's a tree surgeon, and handles them on a daily basis for work so it's unlikely that some smackhead teen who'd never done a hard day's work in their life would be able to take it off of him and use it against us.

Also, pepper spray is illegal in this country, but it's perfectly legal to buy 1,000,000+ scoville capsaicin extract for culinary purposes- and as far as I know there's nothing to stop you from decanting it into a spray bottle.

UnbornMortificado · 26/09/2017 10:22

I had a cricket bat when I was by myself, I now have a DH instead.

I was burgled at my old house and I did go downstairs with it ex-p was too scared fully intending to give it a good go but whoever it was scarpered.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 26/09/2017 10:23

Baseball bat over dh's side of the bed and a very scratchy cat on mine Grin

iggleypiggly · 26/09/2017 10:32

I have a Can of hairspray to spray in their eyes!