How safe from burglary are you in isaan?

[georgegeorgia]

I remember reading probably a few years ago now a farang who was disabled posting that he had some burglar turn up at night walking around and being disabled and by hmself he was vulnerable 

 

If you live in a rural area or semi rural area do you have a fence around your garden or have you had any problems with tresspassers or people entering your property?

 

I notice a lot of farangs in here ask the cost of a brick fence,is it essential where you live?

 

Ever since i read that eerie encounter it makes me a bit nervous living in remote areas of Thailand knowing the police would probably take all night to arrive.

 

maybe dogs and/ or CCTV ?

 

 

[Puchaiyank]

Every house in my village has walls around property and lockable gates to enter...

 

Most houses have a dog or dogs which alert all the houses around that something is amiss...

 

There is no through traffic...one way in and out...

 

Never heard of a theft here...

[kevc]

One good pointer you're going go get burgled is if the dog suddenly gets poisoned.

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[transam]

Think being aware of opportunists is paramount in LOS. I have some high walls and low ones with railings and locked gates, plus a tough dog that barks if anyone comes near the gate. Also have fancy grills on windows and doors. May sound overkill but the opportunist will probably not bother with my place.

 

Though as of now I have never heard of any farang in my area getting turned over..Back home in London was waaaaay more likely to get hassle.

[NCC1701A]

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

I remember reading probably a few years ago now a farang who was disabled posting that he had some burglar turn up at night walking around and being disabled and by hmself he was vulnerable 

i know that guy, he is a pussy.

[Isaanbiker]

9 minutes ago, transam said:

Think being aware of opportunists is paramount in LOS. I have some high walls and low ones with railings and locked gates, plus a tough dog that barks if anyone comes near the gate. Also have fancy grills on windows and doors. May sound overkill but the opportunist will probably not bother with my place.

 

Though as of now I have never heard of any farang in my area getting turned over..Back home in London was waaaaay more likely to get hassle.

We live in an area where wealthier people live, but I've only heard of theft on the other side of the village. ( so called village in the city but without security guards) 

 

   On the right hand side is a higher cop, on the left hand side a lawyer, plus we've got two dogs who start barking when new people come close to our gate that's always closed.

 

There's a little non- visible door in the gate where we go in and out.

And our neighborhood is great. Would anybody try to get into others' property, we look after each other.

 

  

 

 

 

  

[Isaanbiker]

Just now, NCC1701A said:

i know that guy, he is a pussy.

Oh, you mean that old cranky bugger?-????

[jimmyyy]

Very safe everyone is scared of the Farang's dogs. 

[JaiLai]

I have dogs ( x 5 ) and weapons ( undisclosed ).

 

I live very remote, no neighbours as such.

 

I've often thought if someone tried to break in i'd detain and torture them for a few days for some amusement, TV can get boring.

[NCC1701A]

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

If you live in a rural area or semi rural area do you have a fence around your garden or have you had any problems with tresspassers or people entering your property?

the house i am renting in Hua Hin is covered in bars. There are bars on the INSIDE ceilings anywhere that is not concrete. And over the entrance to the attic crawl way in the bathroom. 

 

all three bedroom doors have heavy duty sliding latches top and bottom. I am thinking the Thais who own this house must have had a very bad experience here as Thais never do anything proactively. I have sliding metal doors that cover the front door.

 

My neighbors across the street have very large shards of broken glass bottles cemented on the the top of their walls around their yard.

 

The rear area of my house is enclosed in chain link fence. 

   

[kokesaat]

We built a home in a small village, but roughly 300m from the road and 200m from the nearest neighbor.  The road to our house, unpaved, ends at our house.   There's no through traffic.  We have no fence around our property, although a Swiss neighbor who recently bought an adjoining piece of property quickly fenced in the yard and installed CCTV.  We have no CCTV and, although we have a dog, it's a house dog and only goes outside to do its business.  Our windows have window guards but our two sliding patio doors don't (I've considered removing the window guards).

We've lived in this house for 22 years, been back to the US a dozen times, mostly for 6 weeks, but once for 6 months.  No incidents during that time.

If we lived in town in a subdivision, there's no doubt we'd have a wall around the yard.

We have no curtains in the house, either!

 

 

[IvorBiggun2]

34 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i know that guy, he is a pussy.

Was it Colin Neil that done that post??? I recall him writing something similar.

[IvorBiggun2]

Put a cattle electric fence around your house, about testicle height. Dogs are not a deterrent to criminals. They'll poison the dogs first for sure. 

[NCC1701A]

i planted bougainvillea which grew very fast into very thick stocks with a lot of thorns. Just about impossible to get through.

 

 

[JaiLai]

5 minutes ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

Put a cattle electric fence around your house, about testicle height. Dogs are not a deterrent to criminals. They'll poison the dogs first for sure. 

Dogs are easily trained only to accept food from their owner(s).

 

None of my dogs will accept food from anyone except myself / my wife / my maid, they will not eat scrap they find on the road.

 

The thought of being burgaled has never concerned me.

[IvorBiggun2]

7 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i planted bougainvillea which grew very fast into very thick stocks with a lot of thorns. Just about impossible to get through.

 

I had a 1.8m wall with glass on the top. They rolled up reed mats and placed them on the glass to clear that obstacle. If someone wants to get inside your house they will. The guys who done us were walking around inside the house before my missus woke up and they fled. Back over the same matting they used to get in. 

 

[IvorBiggun2]

2 minutes ago, JaiLai said:

 

 

The thought of being burgaled has never concerned me.

Never concerned me till it happened.

[phycokiller]

6 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i planted bougainvillea which grew very fast into very thick stocks with a lot of thorns. Just about impossible to get through.

 

 

Im just in an apartment but bougainvillea is perfect to stop people climbing round your balcony, and, some bees have decided to make their nest in it as well so anyone that tries getting thru is going to have a fun time

[Tayaout]

I don't live in Isaan more like western central Thailand. Small village not poor not rich for Thai standards. Nobody lock their door. There is always some women around watching and everyone know everyone. There is many unleashed dogs that barks but don't bite. Not worried at all. 

[NCC1701A]

6 minutes ago, phycokiller said:

Im just in an apartment but bougainvillea is perfect to stop people climbing round your balcony, and, some bees have decided to make their nest in it as well so anyone that tries getting thru is going to have a fun time

that is funny because i also have a huge bee hive now in my bougainvillea so good luck invaders.

 

also my wall has 8" metal spikes that stick straight up and are spaced 6" apart.

[473geo]

No gates, everyone welcome, standard Thai style grills on windows, nothing really worth stealing, usually family sitting outside their homes round and about, off the main drag, and as said previously, home does not resemble a fully loaded farang abode. No point investing in expensive security or fencing around the home cheaper to replace items.

Currently fencing off our grass from 4 legged intruders, now that is important!!!

[NCC1701A]

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[blackcab]

Is the OP referring to @colinneil?

[colinneil]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i know that guy, he is a pussy.

Get yourself round here, then i can kick your backside.????️‍♀️

[NCC1701A]

6 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Get yourself round here, then i can kick your backside.????️‍♀️

i am glad you have a sense of humor. you are joking, right? 

cause i heard you got a shotgun.

[Rimmer]

Troll/baiting post removed

[jvs]

2 hours ago, JaiLai said:

Dogs are easily trained only to accept food from their owner(s).

As a training exercise this is true,in real life it has been shown many times dogs will eat/drink when they get hungry.

Dogs however do a good job deterring break ins,thieves do not like barking dogs.

[Patriot]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

that is funny because i also have a huge bee hive now in my bougainvillea so good luck invaders.

 

also my wall has 8" metal spikes that stick straight up and are spaced 6" apart.

Ooh dear. Hope what happened to us doesn’t happen to you. The gits hppped over the wall, smoked out the bees then half-inched the nest. 

Bees went loco for 24 hours. My wife couldn’t get on the house for a day or so. 

Apparently one of the toe-rags needed hospital treatment for his stings. Such a shame

[DJ54]

Not had any problems yard has block wall and sliding gate at entrance. 4 or 5 dogs around all the time the bark but if someone 

came in they’d be in danger of being licked .....

 

No problems that I’ve heard of..  live on outskirts of village.

[PhilAtUbon]

I lived in a village not far from Reading (Berkshire) for several years.

I had a dog – a big dog. He was a cross between a mutated Labrador, an Alsatian, and I’m sure there were some carthorse genes in there somewhere.

He was HUGE, and as black as Satan’s fantasies.

 

When I’d come home from work, he would bound up to me and put his paws (like dinner plates) on my shoulders (quite often he would actually knock me over!!), and almost lick the skin off my face. I always had to have a shower just after I came home ????

 

But, as big as he was, he had the heart and soul of a little kitten. Any burglar would have to head straight to the bathroom for a shower to wash off all the slobber, because he would be licked into submission ????

At least the dog would entertain any unexpected visitor long enough for us to wake up ????

 

The glory of having him was that anyone who wasn’t one of our friends and didn’t know us, would back off straight away when they saw him, thinking he was the devil incarnate (Even Damien would be jealous).

 

I will definitely get another one like him when I come to live in Ubon. Even if it's only to keep the local meat store in business ????