WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:07.759 I'm going Boston. Thank you, Dan. Final hour of Night 2 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:13.640 Side has arrived. It's been a busy night and I've 3 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.480 still got get up and go enough to do one 4 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:20.719 more hour of show. And I'm on tomorrow night as well, 5 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:24.440 my last night Side of the week. Tofa Ellis will 6 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:26.519 be here with me tomorrow at eight o'clock. We'll be 7 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:33.880 talking about our favorite breakfast cereals, and Matt Hannah, local musician, 8 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.399 will be with me after we deal with Tofa and Breakfast, 9 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:41.119 and Jack Hart will be here for two hours giving 10 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.799 us a tour around Boston. So now that I've told 11 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.359 you that this gentleman, I am proud to say is 12 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.799 a friend. He used to be in charge of the 13 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:56.719 City of Newton. As far as being a policeman, he 14 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.359 was a lieutenant, and as I mentioned before, I took 15 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:04.920 the break. Once you have achieved a rank a title 16 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:09.000 that is yours for the rest of your life. He 17 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:13.680 is retired from the City of Newton Police Department, but 18 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:19.239 he is still a lieutenant in my eyes. Lieutenant Bruce Apothecar, 19 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:20.519 welcome back. 20 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.400 To BZ Well Morgan, thank you for having me as always, 21 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.719 and I want to say, hey, do your listeners and 22 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:30.040 to all the officers are anybody in uniform tonight. I 23 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.840 wish you were safe and a healthy night, and make 24 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:33.879 sure you get home safe. 25 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.439 And I want to tell you something, my son. I'm 26 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.040 not going to say the community. He moved down to 27 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:46.560 the Carolinas. That'll keep it generic enough, but he's working 28 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:51.560 as a spokesperson for one of the police departments down there. 29 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.280 Really. Yes, I always enjoyed my interactions with him, always 30 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.519 a true professional, and I was sorry to see him 31 00:01:59.560 --> 00:01:59.959 leave the area. 32 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:02.640 Yeah, well that's where he is now. And I told 33 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:10.120 him if ever he needed guidance with a question dealing 34 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.240 with the relations between the police department and the community, 35 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.800 he should call you. And he said, Dad, you. 36 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.159 That's say quite an honor coming from you. 37 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:29.400 And I have written down five different areas where we 38 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:35.039 can take our conversation for people to pay attention, to 39 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:40.240 be careful out there, to quote Hill Street Blues, because 40 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.840 there are a lot of dastardly people and all they 41 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:47.800 want to do is take what is yours, and you 42 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.199 don't want them to take what's yours because you've worked 43 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.439 hard for everything that you have. And I'm going to 44 00:02:54.520 --> 00:03:00.840 start off with funerals, and there are of a roads 45 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:07.240 dealing with funerals. When it's announced in the obituaries of 46 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:13.840 a newspaper that Joe Smith died and the services are 47 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:18.360 going to be on Friday at wherever, there are people 48 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:22.000 that scan the papers and that gives them an indication 49 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:31.319 of maybe a house that will be unoccupied, or they 50 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.759 want to go to a certain cemetery. And you know 51 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:43.000 of these dastardly people that prey on the vehicles that 52 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:47.319 are there at a cemetery. Tell people about some of 53 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:53.240 the the scams that happen when you are saying goodbye 54 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:58.759 to a loved one and your car is now unguarded, 55 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.159 unwatched for a period of time. 56 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:06.639 Well, as we always say, for a crime to happen, 57 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:10.039 two things need to be You need motive, an opportunity. 58 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.560 And like you said, when there's a obituary posted and 59 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.279 that someone passed away, a loved one and he gives 60 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:21.519 out the information on the family, people would take advantage 61 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.839 of that and maybe breaking someone's home, or like you said, 62 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.519 they can go into a vehicle. You know, this is 63 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.040 an old type of scheme that's been happening. I know, 64 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.439 I remember the old Dragnet shows. I remember watching it 65 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.399 that it was occurring on a dragnet show from the sixties. 66 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.360 So it's something that's been out there, and I've actually 67 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:43.639 worked a couple of details. I was hired by people 68 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:48.279 over the years to watch their homes when they either 69 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.480 went to awake or they were going to a funeral 70 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:54.000 of a loved one. But it's something again that you 71 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.360 want to just you know, it's the same thing when 72 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:00.199 people go on vacation and they post on social media 73 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.920 and they got their pictures that they're, you know, somewhere 74 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:10.800 someplace tropical skiing for the weekend, and now they've just 75 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:16.839 told everybody that they're not hold And this would make 76 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.680 something that the opportunity would be there for someone who 77 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:20.600 wanted to bring into. 78 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:28.319 A house and from the activity at a cemetery ladies, 79 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.360 and this works for everybody, but I'm specifically addressing women. 80 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:38.360 You leave your pocket book in the car, but you 81 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:42.800 leave the car unlocked, or you think you're protecting the 82 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.680 pocketbook and you put it in the trunk out of sight, 83 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:52.720 out of mind, but the car is unlocked, and there's 84 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.120 a little switch either by the seat or in the 85 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:02.360 glove compartment that releases the lock on the truck. And 86 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.720 the bad guys know this, and the bad guys take 87 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:12.639 advantage of it, and more often than not, you only 88 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:16.959 attend a funeral a handful of times in your life. 89 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:22.079 Be aware. Lock the car. If you want to leave 90 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:26.040 belongings in the car, fine, but lock the car and 91 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.360 take your keys with you. That way, they can't get 92 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:34.079 into the car, flip the latch to open the trunk. 93 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:36.759 Am I right, Bruce? 94 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.959 Absolutely? And you know this not only goes with you know, 95 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.639 if someone loved one pass away, if you're attending a funeral, 96 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:49.959 but it also, you know, is dependent upon you doing 97 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.160 this every night when you get home. You know, for 98 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:55.600 many years, when I used to do all the media, 99 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:58.040 I can't say how many times a year we would 100 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.920 put out something either in the news, who's on social 101 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.079 media and reminding people to lock the doors of their 102 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:10.240 vehicles and remove all valuables, you know, because like you said, 103 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.639 you know, nowadays, with these new vehicles, you push a button, 104 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:17.160 the trunk's gonna open, so it's really removing your valuables 105 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.759 out of your vehicle. And I can, if I remember correctly, 106 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:23.680 I think it was somewhere around ninety seven percent of 107 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.720 all car breakings we had years ago. Was all because 108 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.639 of an unlocked door. Yeah, and if the only time 109 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.959 that they probably would break a window if the door 110 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:36.439 was locked is if they saw something of value in 111 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.439 that vehicle. So, no matter what you do, every time 112 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.639 you make it happen of it. You take all your vehicle, 113 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:47.120 your valuables, you'll remove them for your vehicle. And if 114 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.839 you lock your door, what's gonna happen? If they're gonna 115 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.199 move on down they see your car, there's nothing near 116 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.240 the doors are locked, and they'll move on to your 117 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:54.959 neighbor's cards. 118 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.519 And I'm gonna say this. You drive through Dunkin Donuts, 119 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.319 you buy your coffee, you give them a five dollar bill, 120 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:05.800 you get back, you know, a couple of bills and change, 121 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.600 and you leave it there in the coin cup space 122 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.680 in the car, and you forget about it. That's now 123 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.120 visible and you're thinking, Oh, who is going to break 124 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:22.360 into my car to take a dollar in change? Twelve thirteen, fourteen, 125 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:28.000 fifteen year old kids, that's who. And they know that 126 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.319 they can go from vehicle to vehicle to vehicle look 127 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:36.840 in and see that, and they know that if they 128 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:42.080 break into enough vehicles, they've got the money that they need. 129 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:47.519 For what have you, whether it's drugs or the ability 130 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:51.440 to go to a movie, you are giving them temptation. 131 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.000 Remove the temptation. I've got to take my break. When 132 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.480 we come back, I've got three or four more areas 133 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.840 to cover with Lieutenant Bruce of Pothaka, formerly of the 134 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.879 City of Newton. You noticed how I emphasized that Bruce 135 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:11.279 the city. I hear them, So if you want to 136 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:15.879 call in add to the conversation six one, seven, two, five, four, 137 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.679 ten thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty. 138 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.919 This is night Side. Dan is off. He'll be back 139 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.240 on Monday. I'm here tonight and I'll be here tomorrow. Me. 140 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:31.679 I'm Morgan White, Junior. Time and temperature eleven sixteen sixty 141 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:33.000 four degrees. 142 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.240 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 143 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.480 night Side Studios on w b Z News Radio. 144 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.720 Morgan, I'm here with my buddy, Lieutenant Bruce Apothecer. We're 145 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:50.840 talking about, especially during the summer, things from which you 146 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:56.279 should be aware, and I'm going to talk about crowds. 147 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.679 There was a football game today, Patriots one. From what 148 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:03.399 I hear, seventeen to three. And if you're in a 149 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:09.399 crowd waiting to get in and thousands of people around you. 150 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:21.960 Femway Park, Foxborough at the beach. That is ripe pickings 151 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:30.399 for you to be pickpocketed. These pickpockets either work alone 152 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.759 or in teams. And that casual little bump as somebody's 153 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:39.960 trying to squeeze by you, that impact of their body 154 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.879 coming into contact with you. They've learned the time that 155 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:49.960 bump so well that their hand goes for your wallet 156 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.279 and you don't even know that they've lifted your wallet. 157 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:57.759 And Lieutenant Bruce, you want to speak to that police. 158 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.120 Yeah, so you raise a good issue here more and 159 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:04.039 same time, you're in sort of a crowded situation, whether 160 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.879 you're in a you know, a stadium, at a subway, 161 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:15.080 you're walking through downtown somewhere, and you know the people 162 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.600 are getting close to here. You know what you want 163 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:20.200 to do is you know they have these different the 164 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.360 old fanny packs. They know some people would keep them 165 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.159 in front of them. They keep their arm over it. 166 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.240 You could have a front pocket. You keep your hands 167 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.080 on your money inside your pockets, but you know it's 168 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.320 probably not a good idea. Sometimes when you're around a 169 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.639 lot of people, you have some sort of wallet or 170 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.639 something in your back pocket because these people are professionals 171 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.200 and they can lift that wallet right out of your 172 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.559 pocket without you even knowing it. So you always want 173 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.480 to have control over something, whether it's in your front pockets, 174 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:49.559 with your hands in your pockets, to just hold on 175 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:52.679 to that I have some sort of money belt that 176 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.559 they have. You know, these are things that we're having 177 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.879 these conversations tonight to tell people that it's common sense. 178 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:04.120 We know, you know these things exist, that's happened in 179 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:08.559 the past, and so you're just being aware of, you know, 180 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:10.799 these type of things. When you leave the house, you 181 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:12.799 know where you're going. You're gonna go to the grocery store. 182 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.360 I can't tell you how many times we used to 183 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:18.120 take reports at one of the grocery stores in Newton 184 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:23.039 that people would get to the register and the wallet 185 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.840 wanted to be in the poker book. And then you know, 186 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:28.480 as they uh go over the story with us with 187 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.919 taking the reports, you know, we find out that they 188 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.720 left their Parker books and the carriage right and then 189 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.480 you know they went over to uh look at the 190 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.480 fruit or they're you know, looking at the apples, they're 191 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:44.600 putting something in a bag, and that's when somebody's opening 192 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:48.159 up that pocket book and removing that wallet. So always 193 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.000 have eyes on your money, and you know, never leave 194 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:54.519 anything in a carriage, especially if you're not going to 195 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:56.759 have your eyes on it all the time. And you know, 196 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.039 one thing, just you know you mentioned Duncan Donuts before 197 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.960 with the change and things like that. I can't tell 198 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.759 you how many times over the years, you know, somebody will, 199 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:08.840 especially now with the mobile orders. It's a hot day, 200 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:10.840 it's a cold day, they run in, they keep the 201 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:15.440 car running, and you know these it's right for someone 202 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.639 you know, getting into your vehicle stealing things right out 203 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:19.480 of your vehicle as you're inside. Those who are actually 204 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:25.879 stealing your vehicle yep. And so again, first of all, 205 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:31.559 if it's someone fracting to your motor vehicle running, you know, 206 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:33.919 we do not in the vehicle, so you could, you know, 207 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:36.559 you're subject to getting a ticket. And you know if 208 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.759 your kai gets solen, you know that's something that your 209 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.080 insurance company actually might say, well listen, you know you 210 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:43.559 didn't have the car secured. You actually kept it running, 211 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:50.120 and so it's just something that common sense always prevails. 212 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.919 You know, we're still in August, so hot weather, you know, 213 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.039 Thank god. I haven't seen any reports of any children, 214 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.000 you know, recently being listening of vehicle. I saw was 215 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.279 a port the other day about two dogs up and 216 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:06.000 at them that had been left out on the heat. 217 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:10.600 But you know what, you gotta make sure your parent, 218 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:16.000 your grandparents, if you're dropping some kids off for someone 219 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:18.159 you know, you leave that vehicle on a hot day, 220 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:22.320 you got to always look make sure that you know 221 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:25.159 those children are not left on the vehicle alone, because 222 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:30.080 as we know, within seconds on a hot day that 223 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:32.519 God tempers you can go over one hundred and twenty 224 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:33.279 very easily. 225 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.519 And that goes for pets. I had a person on 226 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:43.919 last night talking about just that, how quickly a seventy 227 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.639 degree day becomes one hundred and ten to twenty. In 228 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.759 the car if the windows wound up, there's no way 229 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:55.519 of conditioning. And whether you're talking about your collie or 230 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:59.080 your four or five six year old son daughter. 231 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:00.679 Yep, do that. 232 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:05.480 Home or take them with you, or if you have 233 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.759 to leave a kid in the car, leave the windows 234 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:14.559 down as a last resort. That's better than winding up 235 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.639 the windows and leaving the kid in for the quick 236 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.480 ten minutes that you're running into the store. 237 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:23.919 Yeah, and like you said, two of the pets. You know, 238 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:27.440 we've seen it over the years. We've had many officers 239 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.360 responsor to those type of calls over the years where 240 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:34.240 a person left the pad inside the vehicle. Again, we're 241 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.519 talking about these things, and I'm glad you know we 242 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:41.039 are that simple things that sometimes people forget about, but 243 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:44.600 these are the things that make the headlines when someone's 244 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:49.720 not thinking and something tragically happens. 245 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:55.639 All right, let's switch to vacations. And there are so 246 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:00.679 many different specifics that I'm going to have Ruth speak 247 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:05.519 to on the subject of taking vacation. You're going away 248 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:13.519 for a week, your mail, your newspaper, the delivery from 249 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:17.000 the milkman, if you are lucky enough to still have 250 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.399 that luxury. A lot of people don't do that anymore, 251 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:24.039 but Bruce speak to that issue and tell people how 252 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:28.799 they should be careful around those issues. Yeah. 253 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:31.320 Absolutely, Yeah, we've talked about this in the past where 254 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:34.200 you know, you mentioned a few things or anything that 255 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:36.399 you should do. If you haven't trust the neighbor, you 256 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.080 want them to watch your house. You always want to 257 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.399 make it look like your house has lived in And 258 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.039 I know you over the years have talked about. You know, 259 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.279 maybe you have some toys or something. You know, your 260 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.080 kids may be a little bit older, but you have 261 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:53.200 some toys outside that you don't mind. The you know, uh, 262 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:54.639 the right if you don't mind, have a couple of 263 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:59.600 those gets stolen our you know, the weather blows it 264 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.639 away as them. But you know, you want to make 265 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.119 you want people to believe that you're inside that house 266 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:08.799 and that there's activity going in there. I always recommend 267 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:14.799 you can get yourself a radio, a battery operated radio, 268 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.160 and you want to maybe put that radio on at 269 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:23.400 a sound that if somebody comes to your back door 270 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:25.559 somewhere near your house, they can hear this. You don't 271 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.960 want to make it too loud because if too loud, 272 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:32.839 you know, someone might right. Not only that, but someone 273 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:34.839 might say, hey, listen, this is just a ruse to 274 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:39.839 h you know, for to believe that someone's actually staying 275 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:43.519 in there. So you want to make it believable and 276 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.200 plausible enough that if somebody comes to your door, rings 277 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.359 the belt to see if someone's home, or they just 278 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:51.759 walk up to that back door, they hear something and 279 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.000 then they assume that someone's inside the house. There's always 280 00:17:55.039 --> 00:18:00.039 the motion detective lights inside the houses where actually on 281 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.319 the outside of the houses, but they have the timers 282 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.480 on the inside where you can have certain lights turn 283 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:08.279 on at a certain time. Again, why are you doing that? 284 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:12.119 You want to make sure that someone's coming to your 285 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:15.200 house believes that someone's in there. And if they're there 286 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.400 to break into your house, they're not going to because 287 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.160 they're assuming that someone is inside that house and they 288 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:23.440 move on to the next house. 289 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:32.039 What I'm about to say may sound inconsiderate, but you've 290 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.720 got four houses in a row. House one, house two, 291 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.279 House three, House four. There are bad guys out there 292 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:46.319 looking to pill for yep. If house number one looks unhospitable, 293 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:49.359 the bad guys are going to go to house number two, 294 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.400 which is what you want. If your house number one, 295 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:54.720 you want the bad guys to look at your house 296 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.359 and say, no, something's fishy. I don't think I can 297 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:01.839 get away with what I've planned. Let me look at 298 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:05.400 your house number two. You want the bad guys to 299 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:10.359 move away from your property and look towards the next property. 300 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:15.079 You're not wishing bad luck happen to your next door neighbor, 301 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.640 but you're wishing that bad luck doesn't happen to you 302 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:21.839 right exactly. 303 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.759 And you know the other thing is and going on 304 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.680 that piggybacking on that you want to get to know 305 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.839 your neighbors. You want to have that comfortable relationship with 306 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:35.759 them that if you're going to leave your house and 307 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.279 you do have trust in them, and you know, you 308 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:41.720 can tell them to watch your house if there's anything there. 309 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.319 Like packages. Nowadays we you know, every Amazon comes to 310 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:51.759 everybody's house, fad X ups the mail. Everybody's getting these 311 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.640 packages dropped off. Not so many people are ordering things online. 312 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:58.440 And you'll have people that will come up and they 313 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:01.240 see a bunch of packages right there. They know that 314 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:06.480 probably nobody's home, you know, starting to pile up outside 315 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:10.240 your door. Only will they steal those packages, but now 316 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:13.039 they know there's nobody at home. So again you might 317 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:18.440 want to what the whether it's Amazon or one of 318 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.119 those companies, you might want to let them know maybe 319 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.480 to deliver it come or else, maybe to one of 320 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:26.680 your neighbor's homes. You would tell them that this way 321 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.720 it wouldn't actually you won't have to bother them by 322 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:32.759 having them come over your house and take all the packages. 323 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.160 And you know, these are things I think of also 324 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:38.359 if you're going to be away from intended period of time, 325 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:40.960 you could have the items that delivered to a family 326 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:42.799 member's house doesn't have to come to your house. 327 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:47.079 Yeah, you work to five, but your uncle, your aunt, 328 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:51.640 your grandpa is home during the day. Have it to 329 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.960 say over the grandpa's house. Now, I've got a news 330 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:59.319 hit to take. Lieutenant Bruster Poster and I have a 331 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:02.000 few other points we're going to cover, and we're telling 332 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:06.079 you these things hopefully so you will not become a statistic. 333 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:09.920 We don't want you to have to fill out an 334 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:12.960 insurance report. We don't want you to get bopped over 335 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:17.000 the head because somebody wants to steal your wallet. We're 336 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:19.839 trying to help you to be aware of some of 337 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:25.680 these things that are commonly happening to everybody, and we 338 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:29.039 don't want it to be you. Now, I'm about to 339 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:31.200 take my news hit. If you want to call in 340 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:35.240 six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight, eight, eight, 341 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:37.839 nine to nine, ten thirty. We've got a half hour 342 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:40.839 show to go here on night Side Time and Temperature 343 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.400 eleven thirty sixty four degrees. 344 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:53.160 Night Side Thought with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio. 345 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:56.279 Lieutenant proofs of Parthecer formerly of the City of Newton 346 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:01.920 Police Department and I Morgan White Junior having a primer primer, 347 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:05.839 depending on how you want to pronounce that word. We're 348 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:10.720 trying to teach you awareness things that you can do 349 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.759 to protect you and your family from being a statistic. 350 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.880 You go to a funeral, you need to know there 351 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.640 are people who are watching the vehicles that are parked 352 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.319 to pay respects to a loved one who's passed on, 353 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:31.359 and they know your car is unlocked. Maybe you've left 354 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:35.920 a pocketbook in the trunk. Easy to pop the trunk 355 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:38.400 if the car's unlocked, to get inside the car and 356 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:41.240 do it. And they do it in such a way 357 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:46.440 it's a smoothest silk operation. It's done in fifteen to 358 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:51.680 thirty seconds. Done. They've got your wallet, they've got your 359 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:59.119 credit cards or in crowds, how to protect it, especially 360 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:02.400 ladies with a part pocket book. You'd be amazed how 361 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:06.279 easy it is for some of these people to unsnap 362 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:12.119 your purse, put the hand in there, feel for the 363 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:17.079 wallet or cash or what have you, and it's over 364 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:20.599 and done in ten seconds and you weren't even aware 365 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.559 of it. We Lieutenant Bruce and I are trying to 366 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:30.119 help you. Now we lift off on vacation issues. Did 367 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:31.720 you cover everything you wanted to say? 368 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:35.359 I think so Again, I you know, you want to 369 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.240 maybe notify your local police department that you're going to 370 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.799 have a closed house, and you know officers would ride by. 371 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:46.200 Nobody's gonna go up and check your doors, but they'll 372 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:48.680 go to go by and they'll you know, check on 373 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.480 the house to see if it works good, if there's 374 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:54.680 any and you want to tell them what type of 375 00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:56.240 vehicles that you have, they'll. 376 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:56.799 Be in the driveway. 377 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:02.680 Again, trust the name a family member. Somebody could go 378 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:05.000 buy your house and check on if you're going to 379 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:08.160 be away for an extended period of time. And again, 380 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:09.440 I think one of the big things is that we 381 00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:12.680 talked about it is what are you posting on social 382 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:14.839 media to letting everybody know that you're not at home. 383 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:20.279 So maybe you could wait until you come back before 384 00:24:20.359 --> 00:24:24.960 you post those nice vacation photos. But you're back in 385 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.000 your home, You're living there, as opposed to being thousands 386 00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:31.359 of miles away, one hundreds of miles away, and everybody 387 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:35.759 knows that your home is you know, nobody's there. It's 388 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:37.720 unsecured in the sense. 389 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:41.319 I went to San Francisco for the fourth of July. 390 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:44.039 Here are the photos. We're now in the second week 391 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:47.640 of August. That's the smarter way of doing it. 392 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:50.680 Again. It's common sense. 393 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:51.400 You know. 394 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:54.160 Years ago, I remember I was at a training and 395 00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:57.119 someone said, it really is no more common sense anymore, 396 00:24:57.160 --> 00:24:59.279 because what's common to you might not be common for me. 397 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:04.559 And you know, there's so many things that we talk 398 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:07.880 about for safety, and I think one thing is very 399 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:12.400 important and that we never really talk about it is 400 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:17.559 the Internet safety. And you know, so if parents are listening, 401 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.400