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I saw a great sign on the back door of a house in the Houston Museum District. It was a masterful piece of misdirection. It said words to the effect "Dr. Johnson's Biochemical Lab only takes delivery of poisonous reptiles between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM". Not a place the average thief will want to break into and wander around - especially in the dark. It was much more convincing that a simple "Danger - Snakes" sign would have been.

We had a epidemic of burglaries in my neighborhood a while back - mostly back doors kicked in while people were out. I had an old PsyOps sign that my boss had given me (he had been a 1st Lieutenant with the Tropic Lightning Division), that they used to post in villages in Vietnam. I put a copy on my back door. It had a stylized Asian looking skull and crossbones on it, and warned "Hiem Ngheo! Can-Binh Cong San Se Chet Noi Day!" in characters formed from bones, and below in small type, "Danger - Communist soldiers will be killed here!" I figured, no one would want to risk breaking in on a homeowner who was still watching out for Communist soldiers. Can't say for sure it helped - but no one ever tried to break into my place.