I Hate To Bring This Topic Up But I Just Have Too!

Nothing to worry about Liverslab as I roll my booby traps out like Kevin in Home alone....

"Gangster 'Johnny': [hears knock at door] Who is it?
Gangster 'Snakes': [Snakes comes in] It's me, Snakes. I got the stuff.
Gangster 'Johnny': Leave it on the doorstep and get the heck outta here.
Gangster 'Snakes': All right, Johnny, but what about my money?
Gangster 'Johnny': What money?
Gangster 'Snakes': Acey said you had some dough for me.
Gangster 'Johnny': That a fact? How much do I owe ya?
Gangster 'Snakes': Acey said 10%.
Gangster 'Johnny': [smirks] Too bad Acey ain't in charge no more.
Gangster 'Snakes': What do ya mean?
Gangster 'Johnny': He's upstairs takin' a bath. He'll call you when he gets out.
[pause]
Gangster 'Johnny': Hey, I tell ya what I'm gonna give *you*, Snakes.
[pulls out machine gun]
Gangster 'Johnny': I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister off my property,
[shouts]
Gangster 'Johnny': before I pump your guts full of lead!
Gangster 'Snakes': [wide eyed and calm] All right, Johnny, I'm sorry. I'm goin'!
Gangster 'Johnny': 1... 2... 10!
[starts unloading bullets into Snakes while laughing maniacally]
Gangster 'Johnny': Keep the change, ya filthy animal!"

Well said, yup! Couldn't have said it better myself.

This is the post-Y2K era. We're not in the 1950's any more. Intimidating appearances and personalities, guns and all that "then"
stuff may well have provided adequate security and protection then, but that's the point here -- that was then and this is now.
If you live with a loaded gun in your hand (literally) at all times--including while in the shower--you might have a chance. Barring that,
it's easy for somebody to scope your routine out and get the advantage over you when you're not expecting it. When that happens,
you're toast, and all that "we got guns" stuff, the "we know how to handle ourselves" stuff and the "I'm tough and everybody knows
enough to stay away from me" stuff will instantly become useless. When your hands are empty and you're looking at the muzzle of
a 10mm, none of that stuff means anything and after you take a hollow-point through a knee, you'll be rushing to open up your 3,000
pound safe rather than take another one in the other knee.

I honestly have trouble believing the way the delusional, macho self-images of invulnerability and immortality persist. I know those
attitudes don't persist among those of us who've seen comrades get fatally shot and die right next to us and I do hope those who
continue to harbor the delusions of invulnerability and immortality won't have to learn the hard way. But -- whatever. To each his own.

As Doris Day used to sing back in the 1950's, "Que sera, sera..." Best of luck to everybody.

Totally agree with Brian as you are all way to PARANOID and watch to much case files lol....

"I mean, really---counterfeiting a $50 piece? How much of a profit margin can there be in that? Answer = evidently enough, and the bad dogs are HUNGRY and highly motivated."

I as well often wonder why the thieves waste their time FF with smallz. If your gonna be a crook why not go big and do 100 bars lol....

I think the cons encounter the same issues legit sellers deal with in smallz sell way faster and way more commonly then big buys. Why, more affordable and many like me who gamble on bay and buy 1 oz. here and another there feel they are o.k. with this practice. Meaning if one or two out of hundred turns out to be fake little damage done to wallet and main hoard....

Mind-numbing statements like this are really counterproductive to the discussion if you ask me. Obviously no one is going to advertise that they have precious metals in their homes. Just because they aren't worried doesn't mean they are ignorant or reckless.

I'm not worried someone is going to steal my car, but that doesn't mean I leave the doors unlocked with the keys in the ignition with a sign on the windshield that says "Take me for a spin!"

I'm sure there are plenty of people around the forum who don't think it's a great idea to post pictures of their stash online. A lot of those people probably don't post at all and simply ready the discussion.

I could write a thesis on criminology and crime theories on here, in fact I've done it before.

Anything can happen so I won't ever say can't or won't happen, but the simple fact is its relatively low risk. Common criminals don't put in that kind of effort when they can just mug old ladies or women who are out to late alone. As far as house break ins they'll just hit easy targets and be looking more for jewlery and electronics, things that are easy to flip. They don't want 100 pounds of silver where they may or may not even know what it is.

Pro teams will want bigger scores. The group that robbed the bellagio vault won't be interested in coming away with 20k of silver. Hackers that are that good would just steal your credit card or bank info and keep their risks down.

Obviously if you flaunt it around in public someone will take a run at it. But the odds are overwhelming against someone just randomly tracking people here till they find one close. They like easy targets the simple mentioning of being armed will be enough for most criminals to move on.

Even if we say that's the method of tracking they were going to use they would be more likely to target a jewelry forum or someone who pasts a pic of a 20k coin they just bought or high value album. Weight and bulk slows them down, is harder to hide/move and harder to unload. You can find buyers for tvs and jewelry all day long finding someone who wants 30k in silver bars not so much. Most stolen cars get ditched to get rid of the evidence and from being hard to sell a lot of the same principls apply here.

Again just be smart about it. If you were to get robbed for your stash its much more likely to be from someone you thought was a friend or a dengenerate family member.

Most here are pretty conscious about how they post. I havent noticed anything with dead give aways. Most probably dont share anything with people off the forum because thats when you are raising your chances of being robbed. FB is far more likely to cause you to get hit when you post about a vacation or something along those lines.

The risk of being tracked through here is about the same as a random robbery, things are just simply going to happen and you cant control everything. Its a lot like mass shootings, we always say what can be done to stop them and the simple truth is nothing can be done if someone wants to do it theyre going to do it. All you can do is hope someone is there with the ability to stop them.

If your so worried just take pictures away from your house with the geo tagging on so they get the wrong location if they do lol

This thread is deteriorating down to a pretty immature, petty level of name calling. This is uncalled for. Give it a rest, guys...