DIY Smoke Bomb + Making Your Location Unattractive to Looters
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We asked a group how they plan to avoid property damages in the mist of a riot with looters. There were lots of ideas on how to make your home, BIL, or BOL unattractive to looters.
One of the worries often expressed is arson. A question from a forum member was, what if they thought your home was already on fire?? I am unsure this would be the best idea as it would require a lot of precautions measures prior to attempting this, proper ventilation, fire extinguishers ready and that you set this off in a fire proof container like a cast iron skillet and away from flammables like drapes etc… then set near an open window or door so that the smoke would billow out. But they are correct that very few looters want to enter what they would hopefully think was a burning building.
If this is an option you would want to consider you would definitely want to use a home made smoke “bomb” as the purchased ones tend to be for signaling and are colors like blue and green etc. and those that are smoke colored only last a minute. You would want smoke to last a bit… long enough hopefully to be passed by. Something at least to consider. For information on how to make your own smoke bomb click on the link below.
Other tips from forum members to make your home look ransacked were:
- Dump your trash around the front yard
- Dump your laundry around the yard and house
- Empty cupboards near the doors and windows and leave them open to appear that everything has already been taken
- Break a window at the front of the home
- Use sidewalk chalk or lipsticks to graffiti your own door indicating you have already been hit
- One gent even plans to smear a fake blood substance along his front steps and walk way to make it appear that the home owner has been dragged out bleeding
- Play a tape of a dog barking madly and set it on a loop
- Tip curtain rods so that drapes appear to have been pulled on
- Tip over furniture
Any action you can at the moment think of to send the riot on as if you were not there and had already been looted. But always always keep in mind stuff can be replaced. You can’t. Your personal safety is always #1.
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