Crime - 12:58, Thursday 19 June 2008 |
At least we don't have to worry much about crime around here; back where I lived in Surrey there was a lot of petty crime, we'd sometimes get people breaking into the office where I worked and the local chavs would set parked cars on fire in nearby residential streets for a bit of a laugh. Saskatchewan theoretically has a higher crime rate than Surrey, but around here the only crimes we've had are people stealing building supplies -- which the builders leave lying around in the open all night -- and once case of kids spraying graffiti on a sign a few months back.
Most of the houses in our area have remotely-monitored security systems which 'phone home' if there's a burglary, fire, flood, etc (or, at least, most have signs outside the front door saying they do). In our case it costs about $30 a month for monitoring, but there's a discount of about $20 a month on the house insurance for having it, so after the installation it's practically free... and ours came with the house, so we didn't even need to pay for it to be installed. |
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