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Staying Safe Around The Home
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Rex Lee Reynolds

If we look at the statistics from insurance companies we would find that many serious accidents happen near or at our homes.

When we take a close look at why this happens it can be found that much of the cause is due to both the use of Alcohol and the factor of over-confidence. As we all know the use of Alcohol anywhere increases the chances of an injury to ourselves and others, but it's actually more likely near or at home because we're more relaxed and more confident. We feel more relaxed, safer and confident when we're at home. Of course if we are going to enjoy Alcohol it's better to drink it at home, or somewhere where we are not on a highway driving at high speeds, or driving at all. Nevertheless, even if we are supposedly safe at home, the Alcohol does increase the chances of accidents and reduces our safety.

Even if we don't use Alcohol or any judgment impairing substances at all we still need to use caution no matter where we are, and the home is no exception. It's all to easy to climb up to change that burnt-out light-bulb using a rickety old chair, rather than a good ladder, and end up on our head as a result. You're only going to drive a couple of blocks to a friend's house and you think it's okay to neglect putting on that seatbelt, when some fool runs that stop sign.

We all know that one of the most dangerous things there is to do is riding motorcycles. But some of us don't always think about what is even more dangerous than riding motorcycles, which is riding bicycles on the streets. If you're on a bike path you're fine in many cases, but when you go onto a street or road with motorized vehicles your days can easily be numbered.

I rode a motorcycle for several years and people told me I was nuts, and I probably was but the advantage with a motorcycle with a fairly large engine is that you can move real quick if you need to get out of the way fast. You can't do that on a bicycle. I can recall the names of several people I knew who I noticed I hadn't seen for a while, and asked, "what happened to so and so?" "Oh, he's dead," someone told me, "got ran over by a truck while riding a bicycle." Another guy who was in perfect shape spent the rest of his days as a vegetable in a wheelchair after getting hit riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is great exercise, but if you ride use a helmet and ride on bike paths only. With all the texting while driving that goes on these days, and the fact that many drivers are not looking out for you, it is way too dangerous to ride a bicycle on the roads. Most drivers really do look out for the bike riders, but many really do not.

The list goes on. The fact is we do feel safer when we are at or near our home, whether we really are or not. Stuff can and does happen anywhere, and it's always good to keep that in mind.

One of my major reasons for mentioning all of this is my own stumblebum kind of life that I've lived, with a number of accidents with injuries away from home as well as when I've been at home.

One of the stupidest things I've experienced not once but twice is landing flat on my back when going down a flight of stairs at home, while wearing old flipflops that didn't have the slightest bit of tread on them. I was lucky I didn't kill myself the first or second time, as I seem to have a guardian angel or two looking out for me and the clumsy life I live. And after the second fall in exactly the same place, with the same worn out pair of flipflops, I finally wised up and made a firm rule to never go down the stairs unless I was wearing something on my feet that has a good thick tread on the bottom.

And of course our safety checklist for the home wouldn't be complete without mentioning that dreaded subject of firearm safety. Of course, we don't have guns, or at least we're not supposed to have them, according to some. And maybe some are correct since so many of us die or are seriously injured from the use of guns. But the constitution says we do have the right to have them, at least the last time I checked.

I don't know about you, but I've been around firearms all my life. I was raised with them, was trained to use them in the military, and they have just always been around. I don't particularly like them, or even the subject of them, but that's the way it's been and probably will be for quite some time.

In fact, believe it or not, I learned to use firearms when I was three years old. No, that's not a typo, three years old, as in two plus one. It seemed that my uncle and my dad took me with them one day when they were hunting rabbits with a small caliber rifle. When we got home my dad took the rifle apart, put it in my bedroom closet and put the ammunition in the kitchen cupboard, thinking that stupid three-year old me would not be able to figure out how to put that rifle together and get the ammo from the kitchen cupboard.

Early the next morning, much too my delight, when I climbed up and into the kitchen cupboard, got the ammo and put the rifle together, it actually worked.

I had a stuffed rabbit that I propped up on my bed and proceeded to do some rabbit hunting. I managed to hit him a few times, and also had fun putting a few slugs in the hardwood floor. Even though the small caliber rifle didn't make any noise, it was great fun, but unfortunately my younger brother of a year and a half was sleeping on the bed. But as good luck and my guardian angels would have it nobody got hurt.

I did get a very good whipping by my mom when she got up and saw the bullet holes in the floor, and I think it taught my parents a lesson they would never forget, being don't under estimate what the kids can do, and keep firearms and ammo completely out of their reach and firmly secured.

And we have to love those complete strangers, don't we? Well, maybe not all of them, at least the ones who hang around our house when we're not home and try to get in. And we're not too keen either when they try to get in while we are home. Gone are the good old days when people didn't even bother to lock their doors.

A peephole is nice, but a little old-fashioned, don't you think? Isn't this a little more like it? A good security camera can be worth its weight in gold. And the F18918W Foscam model shown on the link is one of the best around that I've seen. For the price it can't be beat. I loved the one I had that only showed who was standing in front of my door. It was wireless but was old-fashioned and had to be run through your VCR.

The Foscam is also wireless but works on your PC, has a 300 degree pan and 60 degree tilt, with sound and it's easy to record onto your PC whether you or home or not. I'm not being paid to endorse it. I just like it after having personally used it for many months now. The camera goes for between $80 & $100, and the software interface will support up to nine cameras, incase you have a large home and want a lot of cameras. It's really nice to not only see who's at your door, but under, over and on all sides of your door. And when your not looking your PC can be recording what's going on.

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