How to Survive a Violent Home Invasion

How to Survive a Violent Home Invasion

Home invasions and home robberies are taking place more and more in the suburbs. Home invasions can end in death, hostage taking, beatings, and sometimes rape. Here are several tips for making it out alive.

Home invasions and robberies are taking place more and more in the suburbs. At the current rate, it’s a safe bet that crimes like home invasions are only going to increase; many will end in violence.

Here are Several Tips for Surviving a Home Invasion Robbery

1) Establish a “safe room” in your home, where your family will flee to at the first sign of forced entry, or that a home invasion is about to take place. Outfit the door with a dead bolt lock, that can be easily locked as you enter.

2) Security experts recommend having a code word that when said (or shouted) tells one another to run for the safe room. It can be a simple word such as “ESCAPE” or a simple phrase, “GET TO SAFETY”.

3) Days in advance, place a heavy piece of furniture in your safe room, that can be slid in front of the door. Have one or two 4×4 lengths of lumber inside your safe room as well, that can be used to provide leverage against the heavy piece of furniture in front of the door, and also the far wall. That way, if the door is kicked, it doesn’t budge easily. Be aware that a good kick could force these 4x4s through the drywall, on the far wall. With that in mind, have a piece of 3/4 inch plywood also in your safe room. Leverage the ends of the 4x4s against the plywood, so that the force from any kicks to the door is diffused over a wide area, and doesn’t result in the drywall caving, that the plywood rests against.

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Fortifying the door so it’s not easily kicked down will buy you time, should home invaders discover the room you’re hiding in with your family.

4) Have a telephone in the room that you can use to call the police.

Warning: Many home phones operate off television or dish services nowadays; wires to these can be easily cut outside your home, which means your home phone won’t work (should home invaders cut the line), and you won’t be able to call police. So, have a secondary cell phone plugged in and charged in your safe room, as your go-to phone in a home invasion. Make sure that young children have your home address memorized, as they will have to provide it when calling 9-1-1 from a cell phone.

5) Have a small hidden safe or lock-box inside your safe room, where you can keep a handgun, that you can get to quickly. Practice running to the room, and unlocking the safe, and retrieving the gun, and being ready to fire through the door, should the home invaders make their way into the room. Have a spare key hidden in the room to this lock box, or a combination lock that is easily entered.

Be sure not to fire at police, who may show up in the next 5 – 15 minutes, after 9-1-1 has been called.

6) Consider having a “pump” shot-gun as back up or even your go-to firearm. It’s said that the well-familiar sound of a pump shotgun being “pumped” (loaded), can put fear into intruders. Go to the back window, open it, and fire two shots into the air. This may be enough to scare off intruders.

7) Whether you have a shot gun or not, stay in your safe room until police arrive. Unless they’ve heard gun shots or know you’re inside the home, invaders may not realize that you’re in your safe room while they go through the rest of your home, collecting valuables.

What If Your Cell Phone Doesn’t Work During a Home Invasion?

1) Eventually the home invaders are likely to find the door to the room where you and your family are hiding.

2) Yes, you may have the legal right to shoot — but what if you can scare the robbers away without having to shoot anyone? What if these are just some teenage burglars, who have no idea that you are inside with children? Again, you may have the legal right to shoot, if you feel your life is threatened, but why not try to scare them away first?

3) Here’s another item to keep in your safe room, for this purpose: A bull-horn. Bull-horns are sometimes used on boats to communicate with people on land, because of how loud they magnify a person’s voice. They’ve also been used by police in situations like crowd control and at sporting events to announce scores or race results to people in the stands.

With your bull-horn, you can speak through the door, shouting, “I have a gun and I’ll shoot. Leave the house immediately. This is your final warning. The police have been called. My neighbors are being notified.” … Continue to repeat these words.

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What If You Don’t Have Neighbors Nearby?

The main reason that home invaders may flee, at the sound of a bull horn, is the idea that the neighbors are going to hear also. Many will also flee at the realization that the home owner has a gun.

But what about the more violent, brazen robbers, who have broken into your home, armed with their own firearms, confident that they can take the life of any resistance they encounter?

Though there are a fewer number of truly violent, fearless home invaders, they are out there; they are dangerous.

Be Prepared for a Gun Fight

When one of these violent home invaders encounters your safe room, they may try to break down the door, even if they know you’re inside.

If you want to be prepared for this kind of home invasion, a specialized dead bolt and fortified door frame, and a heavy-duty door, are going to put up a lot more resistance to kicks, than a typical bedroom door might. As stated above, have a heavy piece of furniture that can be slid in front of the door also, and lumber that can be used to leverage the furniture against the far wall, so it doesn’t slide, preventing the door from being forced open.

If you’re sure it’s not the police coming to your rescue, shoot through the door. Previous to this, wave your family out of sight of the door, just in case these home invaders shoot their own weapons through the door, at you. Move your family to the least likely area of the room for bullets to strike.

Use a Siren to Scare Away Home Invaders

Many bull-horns have a “siren” feature that can be turned on. Now your bull-horn becomes a loud “police-like” siren; once turned on, this could fool home invaders into thinking they had triggered a home security system, causing the home invaders to flee. You can use the siren now, as a last resort, or consider using it at the first sign that a home invasion is taking place.

Alternative Strategy: Flee Through a Back Window

At the first sign of a home invasion, shout your family’s code word or phrase and run for your family’s safe room. Once there, and the door secure, you can consider going out your back window, as long as you have a way to easily get to the ground.

1) First quiet your family and listen, to be sure that home invaders have entered your home and they’re not still outside looking for a place to enter. (Caution: They may suspect you’re inside the home, and moving silenty, looking for you).

2) Open your back window and scan the property, looking for anyone who might be hiding out. If you don’t see anyone, you can take your chances and make your escape.

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3) Your wife can go out the window first, and you can hand a child out to her, and then finally flee also. Have a planned escape path in mind, that leads through the rear of the property. You may have to force aside a couple boards on the back fence; so have 3 – 4 boards that are not nailed at the bottom; they only look nailed from the outside. Put these boards back in place, behind you, so that home invaders (who may be searching for you), don’t see the escape path you’ve taken.

Home Invaders May Be After YOU — Not Your Belongings

1) Don’t run to the next door neighbor’s home… the invaders might not be after your belongings, they may actually be after you, especially if these are people who have been watching you, and are seeking something of specific importance, or are there to take you as hostage. So keep running… flee to a neighbor’s home a few houses down, if you can. Put as much space between you and the home invaders as possible, so that you’re not heard as you seek help from a neighbor.

Using Decoys to Scare Off Home Invaders

I came across a tip shared by a former CIA guy and featured in a report on Fox News. His suggestion pertained to scaring off burglars, but can work equally well for scaring off home invaders (those that haven’t been collecting good intel on you, that is, which is likely most would-be home invaders). His tip:

Put a large dog bowl on your back porch. Would be burglars would likely choose a better house, one that didn’t have the dog bowl. Can that work on your front port also? Maybe hanging a really large dog collar and leash along with a sign that says “My Best Friend is a Rottweiler” (here are several Rottweiler security signs to choose from) will be enough to drastically reduce your chances of a home invasion or even just a burglary taking place. (If you’re a fan of pit bulls or another security dog, you can probably find security signs for these other canines as well).

Many crooks who show up to case your house will simply look for an easier house elsewhere.

To increase the effectiveness of this actually working, the more you can make your home look like you have a canine living there (even if you don’t), the more likely potential home invaders are to be scared off. If the only dog bowl you have is on the back porch, and they simply show up at your front door and come through that way, your decoy won’t work in this case. They’ll never see it.

Additional Canine Security Decoys

Consider putting multiple “canine” decoys around your property to scare off home invaders and burglars, and also within easy eye sight inside your home should someone look through a window or glass door. That could include a large dog bed, large bag of dog food that’s torn open at the top and halfway empty, and a few large rubber bone chew toys.

If you want to go the extra mile, you can place a few old chew toys you’ve collected around your property and in your home (call a local dog breeder and ask if you can buy some old chew toys their adult canines might have around; you can probably score a few with a few phone calls).

Those that have been clearly chewed on or just have a bit of dirt around the edges and some scuff marks will look even more life-like to would be home invaders. Though a few Kong rubber bones at the link above could do the trick as well. Get them dirty, scuff them up, etc.

Whatever you go with, having a few around your property in just the right places probably would only help. Like anything though, just don’t overdo it.

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