Man installs bullet proof glass on house to protect from BG

[philip964]

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Here in Houston, Delano City Place. First nothing "bullet proof", bullet resistant.

Second, door doesn't look that strong. Seems they would just kick it in. Robbing the homes in broad daylight.

Ooh tid bit further into the story. Someone was breaking into a car at night. Homeowner knew Texas law and shot the BG from his third story window.

[Ameer]

Ooh tid bit further into the story. Someone was breaking into a car at night. Homeowner knew Texas law and shot the BG from his third story window.

It's a sad story. I bet you and me are paying for the criminal's medical bills with our tax dollars.

[RPB]

The criminals have been smashing through the glass of front doors and slipping into homes.

Glass front doors ...
Everyone there has glass front doors? They should probably leave the doors unlocked when they go to work so the glass doesn't get broken then.

I don't understand people designing, building nor buying those and not replacing the front door. I drilled window sills for pins and locked windows in apartments I rented when I was young. Glass front doors, sheesh. Must be some Liberal College Admin/Professors thinking everything will be safe since the people live in groups.... safety in numbers ...

[Excaliber]

Glass can be protected much more economically with window safety films designed for this purpose. Here's a video of one such product. (The introduction is pretty long. The material tests start about halfway through the video.)

Note the narrator's mention of the special attachment systems used during these tests. Putting the film on the glass without anchoring the system to the frame is much less effective.

Another option is polycarbonate material like Lexan (NOT plexiglass) a least 1/4" thick on he inside fastened to the frame around the glass area. The stuff is very difficult to break and much less expensive than ballistically rated glass (though still not cheap by any means).

IMHO, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to install ballistic glass in a non ballistically rated door.

[barstoolguru]

sounds like they need something and not just the glass

[LeonCarr]

It's a sad story. I bet you and me are paying for the criminal's medical bills with our tax dollars.

Can somebody show me a statute that says it is against the law to shoot somebody who is breaking into your car at night from a third story window?

I did not see the third story part in this statute:

Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

By the time you run down the stairs, he has made off with your vehicle or property inside the vehicle, and in most cases the tools used to break into a vehicle can be used to inflict Serious Bodily Injury or Death.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

[JJVP]

It's a sad story. I bet you and me are paying for the criminal's medical bills with our tax dollars.

Can somebody show me a statute that says it is against the law to shoot somebody who is breaking into your car at night from a third story window?

Who said anything about being against the law?

[RPB]

I think the taxpayers paying medical bills was a reference to situations like this:

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Weber County Pays Big Hospital Bills for Inmate Matthew Stewart

Weber County is paying intensive care unit bills at the rate of $1,000 a day for the past two weeks to care for shooting suspect, Matthew Stewart. Two security guards 24/7 will add $15,000 of county employee overtime.

Stewart was hospitalized for nearly the whole month of January following a shootout

Once inmates are jailed, the county is typically liable for their medical costs, according to county officials.

News in Killeen/Temple recently had some guy jailed on a small charge and then he came down with something, his medical probably exceeds his fine, so the County and Judge are trying to figure out how to get rid of him or something as he needs weekly dialysis or something and the Veterans Administration was paying, but won't pay for Inmates, so it's all on the County bill now.

[LeonCarr]

I guess I was looking at it from a good guy being liable standpoint instead of a tax payer getting to pay for a criminal's medical care standpoint.

I was guarding a federal inmate at a hospital once upon a time who needed a pacemaker. One phone call later, he was approved. 20,000 bucks, courtesy of you and me.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr