Posted: 3/11/2009 6:11:38 AM EDT
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Yesterday someone posted a thread on the use of "defensive shrubbery": using thorny/prickly vegetation around windows and yard access points to deter burglars, trespassers, loiterers, and other assorted social vermin.
I can't find the thread but using the search terms "shrubbery deter burglars" I came up with this link: "security gardening: deter burglars with thorny landscape" |
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I think I just found it, titled "How do you harden a house...??" Look about halfway down page 1, it's a mention by SplintNicket: http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=842829&page=1 |
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Yesterday someone posted a thread on the use of "defensive shrubbery": using thorny/prickly vegetation around windows and yard access points to deter burglars, trespassers, loiterers, and other assorted social vermin. I can't find the thread but using the search terms "shrubbery deter burglars" I came up with this link: "security gardening: deter burglars with thorny landscape" That was my thread, here it is: http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=842951 |
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Bougainvillea plants are fucking brutal!!!
I had such respect for them after messing with the ones in front of my mom's house that I got a few to put in front of my front window. I pity any poor bastard who gets in a fight with one. |
| While working a wild fire once I and several other firefighters were detailed to remove the scrubs and other vegetation from around all the homes in a attempt to get rid of ladder fuels and so possibly save the house. One of the houses had shit like that growing under every window and both sides of every door. That was a freaking nightmare. My arms were bleeding afterwards from reaching in to cut the stem near the ground with a chainsaw. If you are in a area where wildfires can be a problem take that into consideration. |
My grandma has yucca plants all along her west fence. The fence isnt really neccesary but I would feel bad for anyone running through her yard and jumping the fence not knowing whats on the other side
They are the shorter yuccas and they have a pain intensifying toxin on the tips (i think)cause if you barely get poked with one it feels like a wasp just stung you 
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Cat Claw. I get torn up almost every day running through this stuff.
Truly evil and lovely at the same time (smells good when it blooms, too) http://www.delange.org/CatclawMimosa/CatclawMimosa.htm |
Here's my first line of defense.  ETA: I've fallen into a cholla before. It SUCKS! My friends were so dumb, that I had to free myself, free my limbs myself, comb it out myself, and then pull out the hundreds of thorns ALL BY MYSELF. I was only 12 at the time. That was a valuable life lesson.  |
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Ah, yes, cholla. Good friend spent nine hours in the emergency room for the Elmers Glue and duct tape treatment after falling out of a helicopter into a cholla patch (and rolling downhill through more)
Was still pulling thorns out of his body in the shower periodically over a year after the incident. |
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Hmmm...I like black raspberries for perimeter security as there is no way you're going through them without a suit of armor AND you can eat that delicious fruit. There are some varieties of blackberries that have some mean ass thorns. Also...what is your favorite color? And..wanting to use this for ages...  |