Better then a gaurd dog!

Ever since I moved into my apartment building awhile back, I have had to file numerous complaints about things being missing. Since there was no damage to my door or any of the windows - I came to the conclusion that it had to be the maintenance people. My apartment tends to higher some rather shady looking third party people and I notice the stuff tends to be missing after they've come to fix or check things.

Anywho, about a week after I got Kaa, I got home from work several hours early. When I went up stairs I noticed my door was open (I was told people would come to fix my air condition). Right as I entered the apartment, I saw the maintenance man freak out and RUN out of my room into the living room...

It was like he saw a ghost lol. Apparently, he's terrified of little ol' Kaa... even though Kaa is in a pad locked tank.

Ever since, I have had no missing objects. Lol.

Makes me want a giant fully grown Retic loose in my house for when I am not home (just imagine the face of a robber expecting to make an easy steal lol). We've had 7 armed robberies in 6 weeks here. :(
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Police are EVERYWHERE.

get a lion. people might mess with a dog but no one messes with a lion.

Nobody should be going in to fix anything without u or somebody u approve being there. I lived in el paso for four years and that's what I told the managers of my apartment. Good luck, I hope they stop taking ur stuff

I have told them that, but they never listen :(.

@ Dakota - LOOOL. I should get a... LIGER.

better Idea...


MOVE!

I can't afford anyplace else :(.

That really sucks, they should respect your privacy and only work when your home. You shouldn't have to worry about someone that works where you live taking your stuff, bet they wouldn't try that crap with my 125 pound pit around! If I were you I'd be changing my locks, since they don't wanna listen to your requests!!

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That really sucks, they should respect your privacy and only work when your home. You shouldn't have to worry about someone that works where you live taking your stuff, bet they wouldn't try that crap with my 125 pound pit around! If I were you I'd be changing my locks, since they don't wanna listen to your requests!!

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125lb pit???????
spooky

Good grief, what part of Texas are in you? First the mugger and now this.... I've been in Texas all my life and haven't had this kind of issues! If you catch them in your room again snap a pic with your phone and file a police report! Good luck

Put a lock on your bedroom door. Shouldn't be too hard to install one and you have the only key. At least you can put valuables in there and not worry.

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Good grief, what part of Texas are in you? First the mugger and now this.... I've been in Texas all my life and haven't had this kind of issues! If you catch them in your room again snap a pic with your phone and file a police report! Good luck

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I'm in Waco, Texas - came here for school last august. The robbery rate here is ridiculousness. I've never been in a place with so many in such a short amount of time. This is definitely not a college town.

http://www.baylor.edu/baylor_police/index.php?id=640

The above link are some of the reports we are currently dealing with, and these are only ones where students are victims. We still have the non student ones as well. My apartment is dead center of it all.

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This is definitely not a college town.

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I live in a University town (2 Universities, 33,000 in one of them and 17,200 in mine) and most of the crimes that are committed are by University students. I can't even count the # of sexual assaults and rapes that have occurred/I've heard about since I've lived here. Many thefts (mainly occurring at parties though) and other crimes, but there have been break-ins as well.

What I'm trying to say is, University towns can be baad, bad, bad news!

What I'm wondering is, why would these people be directing thefts and robberies at students? I don't know about down there, but most of us live in crappy, unsafe units and we're all broke. The only thing I can think of are some snazzy large-screen TV's that people would want.

Hmm. I second the suggestion of putting a lock on your bedroom door. I have one and although I trust my roommates, I don't trust a lot of the people they bring into the house!

Students often have the latest in electronics. Laptops, cell phones, iPods, music systems, game systems... sometimes brought from home, sometimes traded or brought in by friends. The students are also often in and out so much(moving for a new semester in another school) that there is a never ending supply of victims that don't learn(because the ones robbed last month have since moved on and a new set have moved in).

Students are often also newly on their own and not always familiar with security issues they SHOULD take, enamoured of the idea of being out in the world and thus likely to be more trusting of humanity, leaving doors or windows unlocked. Young women in today's world (unfortunately) seem to think that if someone bad pops up, they will just give up and the bad person will not hurt them. Or that 'someone' will suddenly come and help them and make the bad person go away. Or that the police will psychically know to come check right when something bad happens. Most especially, they seem to feel that there's "nothing I can do" to make themselves safer or less vulnerable.

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I live in a University town (2 Universities, 33,000 in one of them and 17,200 in mine) and most of the crimes that are committed are by University students. I can't even count the # of sexual assaults and rapes that have occurred/I've heard about since I've lived here. Many thefts (mainly occurring at parties though) and other crimes, but there have been break-ins as well.

What I'm trying to say is, University towns can be baad, bad, bad news!

What I'm wondering is, why would these people be directing thefts and robberies at students? I don't know about down there, but most of us live in crappy, unsafe units and we're all broke. The only thing I can think of are some snazzy large-screen TV's that people would want.

Hmm. I second the suggestion of putting a lock on your bedroom door. I have one and although I trust my roommates, I don't trust a lot of the people they bring into the house!

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I want to put a lock on my room, but it's against the apartment rules. I am considering doing it anyways though - I really don't like my privacy invaded.

A large majority of the students who go here, are rather wealthy (It's sickening to see freshmen with Hummers) so to me it makes sense that they are targeting students. I work in the dorms as an Office Assistant and during move out, students just THROW AWAY anything they can't fit in their vehicle. It's how I ended up with a 42" TV and half my furniture. I'm not joking, this is too stupid to make up.

The remaining students are dirt poor and here on scholarship like me, so if somebody robs me - I honestly don't have much to take. The last time somebody broke in, they took my printer. Which, was already broken and had been broken for over a year.

I want to move out to someplace better, but I just don't have the money to do so. Tuition is so expensive and due to cutbacks, what use to be a full ride scholarship became only a half-cover scholarship (why all the working). Luckily this is my last semester and then I will be working full time Paramedic and can hopefully find someplace better and more secure.

Sorry if that was all jumbled. Typing on my phone lol.

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Students often have the latest in electronics. Laptops, cell phones, iPods, music systems, game systems...

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Yeah, but the majority of these things are brought with them when they are not at home.

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Young women in today's world (unfortunately) seem to think that if someone bad pops up, they will just give up and the bad person will not hurt them

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I don't know what kind of young women you live around, but that's definitely not how the young women in my town think. We have a "Foot Patrol" system at our University that escorts people home from late classes/anything else. I see many young girls employing this system.
The majority of the time that young women think they're invisible is when they're drunk, and that's when the majority of rapes/sexual assaults happen. At parties/at nights when there are special bar nights/all weekend.

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A large majority of the students who go here, are rather wealthy (It's sickening to see freshmen with Hummers)

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Ahh!! We have one of those. I call her hummer-(female dog). She drives/walks around acting like she owns everything. It's quite amusing to watch, really.

A new, black hummer just popped up, and I call him the hummer-(female dog)-boyfriend.

Good times.

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I want to move out to someplace better, but I just don't have the money to do so.

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Do you guys get a free public transit pass? (And by free I mean, conveniently paid for in your tuition so it seems like its free:rolleyes:)
Maybe you can move somewhere a little bit farther from the University, and it can still be as nice but with a little price drop, and use your transit pass to get to school.

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Ahh!! We have one of those. I call her hummer-(female dog). She drives/walks around acting like she owns everything. It's quite amusing to watch, really.

A new, black hummer just popped up, and I call him the hummer-(female dog)-boyfriend.

Good times.



Do you guys get a free public transit pass? (And by free I mean, conveniently paid for in your tuition so it seems like its free:rolleyes:)
Maybe you can move somewhere a little bit farther from the University, and it can still be as nice but with a little price drop.

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No we don't, but I have a car - so that's not really an issue. Issue is, parking here is 475$ a semester. Which is also something I can't afford. I don't have family that can help me pay for things. Also, I've looked - and where I am right now is the the cheapest place around. It's fully furnished, all bills paid. I have my last final on the 13th, and then I start working full time as a Medic. I am hoping within a month or two, I'll have enough to go put a deposit down on someplace nicer.

There is a place I really like that allows pets, and is also all bills paid. It's just not furnished and about 100 more a month. I can buy furniture a little at a time, and I really don't mind sleeping on the floor for a bit. I can pretend I am camping! Or I can hit up the thrift stores.

Then I can eventually go back to school. I only have one more year to finish up my Masters but due to cost, I am taking some time off to just work, then go back. :mad:

I see the girls locally, near my work and in the nearby college town of Gainesville. Even though there are a couple small groups with the "walk with a friend" type ideas, most of the young women(teens especailly) seem to have back-slid into the helpless female that I'd thought we left behind a couple decades ago.

I even know some "older"(20s-30s)women who think the best 'defense' against a aggressively threatening male(either harrassing or even trying to grab them) is to tell them that "I have a cop boyfriend!"

I literally facepalmed. Gee, know what that tells the potential attacker? The only defense you have is the absent male figure who may not exist. In other words, you just told him "I'm helpless".

As far as not putting a lock on your bedroom, I'm pretty certain they cannot tell you that you can't lock up your belongings. Locking a room shouldn't be any different. It's not like they can't 'demand' to inspect your room if they feel the need, if access is granted to them in your lease/rental agreement. I'd install the lock and be able to lock the door from the inside too. If people are getting in with keys, what stops them from coming in a night to rob/rape/kill you?

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I see the girls locally, near my work and in the nearby college town of Gainesville. Even though there are a couple small groups with the "walk with a friend" type ideas, most of the young women(teens especailly) seem to have back-slid into the helpless female that I'd thought we left behind a couple decades ago.

I even know some "older"(20s-30s)women who think the best 'defense' against a aggressively threatening male(either harrassing or even trying to grab them) is to tell them that "I have a cop boyfriend!"

I literally facepalmed. Gee, know what that tells the potential attacker? The only defense you have is the absent male figure who may not exist. In other words, you just told him "I'm helpless".

As far as not putting a lock on your bedroom, I'm pretty certain they cannot tell you that you can't lock up your belongings. Locking a room shouldn't be any different. It's not like they can't 'demand' to inspect your room if they feel the need, if access is granted to them in your lease/rental agreement. I'd install the lock and be able to lock the door from the inside too. If people are getting in with keys, what stops them from coming in a night to rob/rape/kill you?

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Your right. I'll be looking at locks as soon as I can. It also wont hurt for me to go put my foot down at the management office again. I'm just annoyed by the fact that nobody gives me the time of day and listens to the fact that I do not want people in my apartment, period.

On the bright side... I don't think there is a docile bone in my body. I made a post awhile back about somebody trying to mug me and I beat the crap out of them with my backpack. Lol. Though, that definitely wasn't very safe of me to do. I blame it on having a really bad Italian temper.

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I see the girls locally, near my work and in the nearby college town of Gainesville. Even though there are a couple small groups with the "walk with a friend" type ideas, most of the young women(teens especailly) seem to have back-slid into the helpless female that I'd thought we left behind a couple decades ago.

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Hehe, maybe us Canadians (women) really are smarter than our good ol' neighbors down south! ;)

Hah, I'm just pulling your leg (or am I)?

There are some clueless females in this world, yes, but lumping them all up into one group is insulting as I fit into the young woman category.

I've taken plenty of random drunk girls home I've seen stumbling around town, just to make sure they'd get home safe. I've even attended random parties with the stubborn ones who refuse to go home.

Sigh.

Also, isn't it illegal for anyone (either landlord or landlord's handymen) to enter your apartment without 24 hours notice?

That's what it's like around here.

You should look into some places in Dallas if you are almost done with school. I'm at UT Dallas, its in Richardson but its like 15 min from North Dallas. I doubt there'll be a shortage of paramedic jobs in the area. North Dallas and Richardson have some pretty cheap apartments too I've looked at a lot of them ;)

Living on the UT Dallas campus wasn't so bad, awful roommates but that's just college, and most of the surrounding area at least sounds better than where you are right now. Just a thought, if you're going back to Waco soon it may not be the best idea to move away but if you're going to take some time off I'd look into it.