Teach your children well
Here we see an attempted home-invasion robbery by a group of three thugs. The female tried to get the inhabitants to open the door based on a ruse. The 12 year-old wisely refused to open the door and the frustrated robbers attempted to force entry by kicking and eventually shooting the door.
Lessons:
1. Teach your family members never to open the door unless it is a trusted visitor.
2. Make sure the physical structure of your home is sufficient to withstand physical assault.
3. Technology such as surveillance cameras are effective at recognizing a possible threat and recording incidents for investigation.
“The Broward Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in finding a trio of unwelcome guests who tried to force their way into a North Lauderdale home with a gun, and the whole incident was caught on camera.
According to BSO, a woman urgently knocked on the front door of a home in the 900 block of Magnolia Avenue, after midnight on Friday, September 11th.
The knocking woke up a 12-year old boy sleeping inside. The woman outside asked for his mother and claimed to be her cousin. The boy did not recognize the woman’s voice and refused to open the door.
A surveillance camera mounted just over the front door showed what happened next. There were two masked men holding handguns standing with the woman. The woman stepped behind them, and one gunman tried to kick the door open. Then he fired two shots into the door. Wood and debris floated into the camera lens, and when it cleared, the suspects had disappeared.
The bullets went through the front door, but the boy had stepped away from the door, and no one was hit.”
Vigilance
