On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 21:34 -0230, Joy Hecht wrote:

> Bernie said that his blue light, security signs, etc. had "worked for him" -
> same for the person with the snake signs.  But maybe in fact none of that
> made any difference, and the probability of break-in is simply low.

The "it keeps the elephants away" method?

An old joke....

        A man boards a train, and finds himself sitting in a seat across
        from another passenger who is reading a newspaper. Every time
        the other finishes a page, he tears it from the paper, rolls it
        into a ball and throws it from the train. Puzzled, the man asks
        what he is doing.

        "Ah," says the man with the newspaper. "A trick I learned in
        Africa. Keeps the

        "But there aren't any elephants around here!"

        "Yes. Works well, doesn't it!"

IN OTHER NEWS,

A recent TV news story about car breakins in a neighborhood nearby
reported that about a dozen cars had been broken into on one night.
"Some of the cars had been left unlocked," said the announcer,
meaningfully.

The others had broken windows.

--
Rocky J Squirrel