Sentences with phrase «burglars from»

Simply advertising that your home is secured frequently deters potential burglars from ever entering your home.

It would also prevent burglars from taking advantage of dark corners.

This natural barrier is pleasant to look at and helps prevent burglars from scoping out or monitoring your home.

It's not unusual for burglars from South Florida to head north in order to ply their trade in more rural parts of the state, but one man and his accomplices made two big mistakes, a Central Florida sheriff said.

Home security alarms not only help to discourage burglars from breaking into your home, but they also give you an added peace of mind.

Not only do these devices help deter burglars from entering your property, but many insurers will even offer a home policy discount for their customers that have approved burglar alarm systems.

Making use of interior lighting that operates on a series of timers can make it appear as though someone is home and can prevent burglars from sensing a pattern.

Having one may deter burglars from trying to make an attempt on your home.

Not to mention the serious contrivances involved, not only in Kevin being left alone once again (the permutations involved in how this happens breaks even the most liberal disbelief), but also the fact that he would later meet the same two burglars from Chicago in the dense expanse of New York City, and they would both frequent the same toy store on the same days.

After Kevin McCallister's family leaves him behind by accident while they go on Christmas vacation, the 8 - year - old comes up with a brilliant — and hilarious — scheme to prevent burglars from robbing his house.

Southern Investigations has previously been implicated in handling paperwork which was stolen by a professional burglar from the safe of Paddy Ashdown's lawyer, when Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats.

There's no guaranteed way to keep a burglar from entering your home uninvited.

A door made of metal or solid wood will be much more difficult to kick down, which could delay a burglar from breaking in.

Just the presence of a barking dog can deter a burglar from choosing your home to enter — they will seek something less problematic.

Not exact matches

Weeks later, to my surprise, I found that I had hidden the hard - drive so well from any potential burglars - that I too was fooled.

What seems to get lost in most of the conversations that turn into personal protection and what weapons are necessary to defend oneself from perhaps a burglar, is that the burglar the Founding Fathers had in mind was the Federal Government.

«Some of the fans wanted to talk football, but I had a job to do; I sold them groceries from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Three nights I accidentally set off the burglar alarm.

Sure your house may look like it was ransacked by burglars and you might serve your family questionable milk from time to time but if your child is happy then rest assured the rest of the stuff doesn't matter.

Two doors away from Art Attack, the glass block storefront that formerly housed Space Gallery is shuttered, or more accurately, padlocked and barred against burglars.

An eight - year - old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

Parents, beware: That baby monitor on which you rely to watch your little one can also be used by would - be burglars and others to snatch the signal from afar and peer into your newborn's room.

Bloomingdale — Burglars apparently smashed a window at the Glendale Golf Course Pro Shop, 5 N 181 Glen Ellyn Rd., over the weekend and stole an unknown amount of money from a vending machine, police said.

The burglar handcuffed the employee to a kitchen sink and made off with money from the restaurant's safe, using the employee's car to flee, Holmer said.

The burglar stole cash from a vending machine and smashed a window, police said.

On Dec. 12, enterprising burglars broke into his Tex - Gas gas station on U.S. Highway 41 by removing several cinder blocks from one wall of the building.

Burglars stole a fax machine and a copying machine Tuesday from a construction trailer at 1045 S. Arlington Heights Rd.. A door had been forced open, police said.

«They're not little shoplifters or fare beaters, they're gangsters, they're murderers, they're rapists, they're burglars, they're violent thugs and they don't deserve to receive a pass from the New York State Legislature,» Fitzpatrick said.

«The footprints from the burglars led directly to their doorstep,» New York State Police Public Information Officer Jennifer Fleishman.

Burglars stole an «eye watering» # 400,000 worth of designer bags and jewellery from former England captain John Terry's mansion after...

«People that are planning terrorist acts are going to be detected and disrupted using the same tools we use to catch burglars, robbers, and car thieves: information from the public, detection of low - level criminal activity, a smart beat cop that notices something out of place and conducts an investigation.

I wonder when we'll hear from a burglar claiming to have only broken into your house to point out the inadequacy of your locks?

Wells, who has the countenance of a boxer and the mind of a Talmudic scholar, had come with a group of scientists affiliated with the American Psychological Association, along with lawyers from the Innocence Project, for the appeal of a convicted New Hampshire burglar.

Research lead Helen Skudder said: «This research highlights that burglar alarms and CCTV are far more carbon - intensive than door and window locks, and less effective from a security standpoint.

These electronic burglars then send abusive messages which appear to come from the mail - box into which they have broken.

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It involves him in joining a party of dwarves as the team's «burglar» on a mission to regain their ancestral lands and wealth from Smaug, the dragon guarding them beneath the Lonely Mountain.

Through a series of ingenious plays, Pym manages to get his Ant Suit into the hands of resourceful (but jobless) cat burglar Scott Lang (Rudd, They Came Together), recently released from prison for theft on a corporate scale, though he did it to return money the company reportedly bilked form its customers.

This zany bunch of country folk is a far cry from Danny Ocean's good - looking and snazzy dressed band of burglars.

If you haven't yet seen Kevin McCallister defend his home from burglars after he is mistakenly left behind for his family's Christmas vacation, you have really and truly been missing out!

The film pits the tenacious Shaun (Gabrielle Union) against burglars attempting to steal a safe full of cash from her recently deceased father's (Damien Leake) sprawling Malibu ranch house, which is equipped with cameras, automatic locks, a drone, and a high - tech control room.

WITH HER CHILDREN BEING HELD HOSTAGE by four burglars; would Shaun Russell's, played by Gabrielle Union (Deliver Us from Eva, Think Like a Man franchise) primal instinct to protect her children be more than a match for these criminals?

He serves as the primary antagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel, as Thorin Oakenshield assembles the Company of Dwarves and hires the burglar Bilbo Baggins to regain the lost Dwarven kingdom (and its treasures) from Smaug.

Instead the film takes an almost Batman Beyond approach with Hank being retired and recruiting cat burglar Scott Lang to take on the mantle of the Ant - Man to stop a former apprentice from developing the Pym Particles for nefarious purposes.

Unfortunately, the burglars he had foiled before were in New York after being released from jail, and had plans to rob the biggest toyshop in New York on Christmas Eve.

Here, she gets to play an ordinary woman who's forced to do some intelligent, daring, and sometimes violent things in order to save her children from a quartet of burglars.

Frank is gruff and dismissive of the robot at first, but, somewhat unexpectedly, finds old impulses from his career as a cat burglar awakened.

This thriller about a depressed nurse (Melanie Lynskey) and her neighbor (Elijah Wood) tracking down burglars who broke into her house comes from actor turned debuting writer / director Macon Blair.

Erasing his fingerprints from a few surfaces, the burglar panics and starts wiping objects in rooms he hadn't visited and items, such as the fruit at the bottom of a bowl, he could not have handled.

by Walter Chaw There's an old Ray Bradbury story from 1948 called «Touch and Go» (since reprinted as «The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl») that tells the tale of a burglar who surprises the homeowner in his house and accidentally kills him.

The action shifts to Amsterdam, then to Rome, then to Lake Como (where Clooney owns a real - life love nest) once a lucrative deal is struck with French cat burglar Toulour (Vincent Cassel), who gets a laser - beam tango that trumps co-star Catherine Zeta - Jones's own from Entrapment.