• Also @tash. Grab yourself one of those rape alarm things, and set it up so if the window is opened it pulls the pin.
    I put one on my bike store and it scared of a couple of scumbags a few months back. Alternativly hook it up to your bike.

    You can get them free - just hang about in Abney Park and wait until the Hackney LGBT squad show up. They approached me and my girlfriend last autumn (we were, incidentally, holding hands), asked us if we were planning on engaging in al-fresco same-sex relations that day (at about midday on a Saturday), and explained that if that was our intention then were were likely to be targetted by muggers who do over gays because they're less likely to report it if they're out cottaging. They then gave us both rape alarms, one of which my girlfriend takes jogging, the other of which I used to scare off a strange cat that had decided to explore our bedroom.

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