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From: zeleznik@CS.UTAH.EDU (Mike Zeleznik)
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Subject: Re: Burglar resistance
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Date: 21 Oct 90 17:44:35 GMT
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I lived in Manhattan (NYC) for back in the late 70's, and had some pretty
heavy duty bars on my apartment windows that had fire escape access (they
had an internal lock that was pretty easy to open form inside, but would be
a bit tuff from outside).

HOWEVER, the burglars simply pried them right out of the brick they were
anchored in.  Perhaps they could have been anchored better, but as they
were, they offered little resistance.  BUT, the noise of the crowbar and
such caused my neighbor to look outside, and on seeing them he yelled, and
they fled.  So the bars DID work! 

Mike

  Michael Zeleznik              Computer Science Dept.
                                University of Utah
  zeleznik@cs.utah.edu          Salt Lake City, UT  84112
                                (801) 581-5617