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Brightlights wrote:Yeah, leathal overdose of lead poisoning is a hard thing to explain to authorities...

Good sign for your container jake. If that doesn't get the point across they probably need to be removed from the gene pool anyway.

Assuming they can read . . .

Might have the sign printed in Spanish & Arabic too.

Aw hell jake, just put a big poster of the Remington up. Only the blind won't know what that means, and the chances of them breaking in are pretty small.

Maybe a big sign, Don't Open, Zombies Locked Inside.

If you have the time make lock vaults on false doors. The lock should be in a sturdy (1/4 steel?) box you can only get your key into and the locks out. On the slow them down and cause disturbance weld another set of lockable steel bars whatever that would take them LONG minutes to cut thru with a cutting torch. Somebody was using the lock for target practice over at the kids place. The bullets just splashed off that box.

Not really too worried about security. The container is sitting only a couple feet away from a security light on our power pole, and less than 50' from our back door. My dog barks at the slightest noise outside. I'm in the boonies where it's so quiet that you can hear any vehicles coming up our road. My shotgun is always loaded & handy. And I'm retired & seldom leave the property for more than half an hour at a time.

So how do you plan to keep from being locked in?

I got locked in the coop one day when the wind blew the door shut and the hasp lock blew over the lever you turn to secure it. The lever didn't turn, but the metal fits over it very snugly, so pushing on it just pulled it tighter, making it even harder to get past the lever. Ever since that happened I've kept the lever in the upright position so the plate can't slip over it again and I don't have to crawl out thru the little duck size door that opens out into the runs to get out. It's a darn good thing I'm a tiny person or I could have expired in there before Steve would have ever thought to look for me.

Oh he would have gotten hungry..

LOL Pink, not worried about getting locked in this thing. On these shipping containers there's a hook near the bottom on each sidewall. With the doors fully opened there's a rope loop at the bottom of each door that hooks over & keeps them open. That & it takes a lot of pressure to close the latches on these things.

Ropes are prone to rotting, so after spring thaw I'll replace them with galvanized chain.