We left our Mid Georgia home early last Friday morning headed for Franklin, NC for four nights. I always worry when we are gone that long. We don’t have a security system, and our home is just about 50-60 feet off a fairly busy paved country road. Of course everyone in the county knows that I have a fairly good gun collection. I have two small safes, one a pretty good Treadlock, and the other a cheap Chinese Browning. They will keep the amateur kick the door down and grab what you can in 10 minutes thieves out, but are pretty useless defense against a determined guy with a pry bar. The safes are in two different buildings.
Anyhow, I gathered up a few “loose” guns and packed both the safes as full as possible. I always arrange to have some work to do around the farm buildings and lots so I can pay one of my helpers to spend a few hours on the premises so the place won’t look deserted, and I also let the guy leasing my pasture know, so he could help keep an eye out. My brother also helped by spending some time there Sunday afternoon. No one was there at night.
I worried some, of course, but I talked with my brother and the hired guy a couple of times, and they assured me no one had kicked the door down. We got home mid-afternoon Tuesday, and all appeared fine.
About an hour ago, I opened the closet where the house safe is, and guess what? THE SAFE DOOR WAS STANDING WIDE OPEN! Nothing missing, but there it was, just waiting for some doped-up miscreant to help himself. I guess I was intending to put something else in the safe, got busy and forgot, and just never opened the closet door again before we left. I have close to $5K in cash, maybe $2500 in silver coins, and other odds and ends in there, besides the guns, a fee of which are worth $1K+.
What a dummy I am.
Anyhow, I gathered up a few “loose” guns and packed both the safes as full as possible. I always arrange to have some work to do around the farm buildings and lots so I can pay one of my helpers to spend a few hours on the premises so the place won’t look deserted, and I also let the guy leasing my pasture know, so he could help keep an eye out. My brother also helped by spending some time there Sunday afternoon. No one was there at night.
I worried some, of course, but I talked with my brother and the hired guy a couple of times, and they assured me no one had kicked the door down. We got home mid-afternoon Tuesday, and all appeared fine.
About an hour ago, I opened the closet where the house safe is, and guess what? THE SAFE DOOR WAS STANDING WIDE OPEN! Nothing missing, but there it was, just waiting for some doped-up miscreant to help himself. I guess I was intending to put something else in the safe, got busy and forgot, and just never opened the closet door again before we left. I have close to $5K in cash, maybe $2500 in silver coins, and other odds and ends in there, besides the guns, a fee of which are worth $1K+.
What a dummy I am.
