Home Security Doesn't Mean the Family Dog and a Dead Bolt

Home security doesn't mean the family dog and a dead bolt is not good enough security today, in the past that is all that was needed to keep from having a home break-in. According to the statistical data there is a home break-in about every 15 seconds in the United States, making the dead bolt obsolete. Breaking a window will still get this person that wants to steal from a house in and then they just unlock the dead bolt to walk right out the door with the family's possessions. The family pets today are treated like family members and to put a dog against one of the burglars that wants in a residence could be placing them in danger, since this person is ready to deal with the family pet.

Back in the times that locks and dogs worked to keep burglars out, they were only planning on taking certain things, like cash and jewelry, which did not make every house a target. Today it is different, because due to technology every house is a target, since the thief is after things like laptops, cell phones, iPods and other electronics, as well as cash and jewelry. The safest way to protect the house is with a home security system, not only does it help keep burglaries from occurring, but it can help warn the family of other dangers.

Home security systems, the window decals and sign for the yard can help to avoid the person that is looking for a house to break into. Instead of risking being caught they will keep looking for the residence that still depends on the dead bolt for protection from them. Having an alarm system means as soon as the thief tries to get in a window or door the alarm will activate making noise that warns the family and neighbors, plus it warns the monitoring center that will send the police. Either the burglar has to get what they want fast and get out, while this loud alarm is going off in the house or risk being arrested. It is easier for them to just pass this house by and look for a house without protection. This is a way more dependable solution to residential break-ins than the door lock, the family dog and the neighbor that always sees what is going on. This is a way to avoid problems, plus the home security system is able to warn the family if there is smoke, fire or carbon monoxide in the house and signal the monitoring center that will alert the proper authorities. The house and family can never be too safe and the old days of locking the door and knowing there would be no problems is over, criminals are more desperate and everyone has something they want, since technology has made things like laptops that are affordable to everyone, iPods that most teens and children have, digital cameras and other electronics, which are easy for the burglar to steal and easy to sell.

Home Security protection is number one in the eyes of ADT home security and Melissa Carey staying one-step a head of home emergencies. ADT Protection has long been a trusted company by families and businesses for protection against burglaries and other emergencies.

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Missed by a Lightning Bolt - The Day I Went In Search of Usain Bolt's Family Home in Jamaica

My brother and I were feeling nostalgic for that old time Jamaica we knew as youngsters, so we decided to go for a drive in the countryside, up in the hills South of Silver Sands. For such an expedition the best man to enlist would have to be Michael Stewart, one of the more popular drivers in the Mysilversands fleet, as he lives in the "bush" up beyond the Alps in South Trelawny.

Not wanting to wander aimlessly through the lush verdant countryside, we decided to fix a purpose to our country drive. Over many years, I often passed through Sherwood Content and through Coxeath on my way to and from Windsor House, where the single lane road ends and the Cockpit Country truly begins. At that time, I did not know that there was a youth living in Coxeath who would one day break the World record for 100 metres and 200 metres, winning Olympic Gold and becoming one of the most famous people on the planet.

So, not having been there for more than ten years, that Sunday in September 2010, at about 5:00 PM we set out from Silver Sands Jamaica for that tiny sleepy district just South of Sherwood Content hoping to find the house where Usain Bolt spent his childhood days.

After five minutes, we passed through Duncans and headed up into the interior to Clarke's Town. Soon we were ascending corkscrew bumpy roads, enjoying wonderful views of the valley and distant hills. Fifteen minutes later, we took the right turn at Kinloss and ten minutes later we entered Duanvale, only a five minute drive from Sherwood Content.

Sherwood Content, with a matchbox post office at the centre, had not changed much at all and as usual there was hardly anyone around. Just when I was thinking how deserted the roads were and that we had not seen another vehicle for miles, a big white BMW suddenly appeared out of nowhere from the opposite direction, and somehow that narrow road expanded to accommodate it and Michael's bus as it went by.

A few hundred yards further along we decided to stop and ask a group of people walking along the road if they could tell us where we could find Usain Bolt's home. A young man in football kit, said with a surprising tone in Jamaican patois, "Den yuh nuh see him jus pass yuh on de road?" (English translation being, "Didn't you see him just drive past you?")

What a coincidence! And for a brief moment I thought we should turn around to catch up with him, but immediately abandoned that idea as there was no way Michael's bus would catch that BMW. The footballer told us that the house was a few hundred yards further along on the road to Windsor Caves, so we motored on. When we felt we were close to where the house would be, we stopped beside an old farmer with long dreadlocks to ask directions again. He repeated that we had just missed Usain Bolt and gave us further directions.

Sure enough, just a few hundred yards along we came upon the house which the dreadlocked farmer had told us would be easy to find as a high perimeter wall with lights on the columns and a huge iron electric gate was recently constructed. I took some photos so I could prove to my disbelieving friends that I did go to Coxeath to find Usain Bolt's family home.

As we drove back to the coast via the Martha Brae River with the setting sun decorating the sky in continuously changing warm tones, I thought I must be more of an admirer of Usain Bolt than I had realized. I wondered how many people would make this forty-five minute journey from Silver Sands Jamaica to see a fairly ordinary house in a small country village. Would you?

Prem Chadeesingh is an authority on vacation rentals in Jamaica. He writes for Mysilversands, a company dedicated to providing quality accommodation in Jamaica villas, cottages, and apartments by the sea. Prem lived at Silver Sands Jamaica for over seven years. He holds a BASc degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA in International Business from City University of New York.

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