You Are Not Protected By Your Zip Code

Crime is not something that happens to "other kinds of people" in "other kinds of places." It can happen to you. Late-night break-in 'scary' for Ramara residents inside home - Orillia News

Even in rural Canada, you can have a break in. Of course in rural Canada, you cannot protect yourself.

On Sunday night at about 11:30 p.m., Kitchener Warren was lying in bed in his isolated Ramara Township home, watching television with his girlfriend, when he heard a noise come from the top level of his home.

Turns out there were a couple of people rumaging through stuff looking for valuables. They ran. The cops were called, including a K-9 unit, but the cops didn't catch anyone.

“I went outside this morning with my neighbour and not even two minutes into our search we found footprints that matched the ones in our house, so I don’t know ... what the hell is happening. There has to be more to the story; there is a big grey area there.”

But the reaction is the part that is telling.

The incident is even more disturbing and strange because of the isolated area in which the home is located.

“My second closest neighbour is a couple of kilometres down the road. It’s just swamp and bush around here. Things like this never happen here,” Warren said.

"Never?" It seems that things "like this" do indeed happen in your area. You do not live in a magical, crime-free zone, you do live in The Real World™ where crime can and does happen. And if you are reading this, you too can be impacted by crime. You should plan accordingly.

Of course since this incident happened in Canada, there is damn little these folks can do. Defend yourself? You have to rely on the police. You know, that group who wasn't there when the crime occured and couldn't manage to find and catch the bad guys. (Read the whole article; it seems they did find someone.)