Burglars Mark Houses Like This — Japanese Police Say Erase It Tonight

If there's a mark on your meter or your curb you can't explain: www.thesafehousebook.com The Safe House walks the outside of your house the way a stranger would, with the myth register that sorts the posts from what police have actually documented. 482 pages, 86 chapters, every claim in the source ledger. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund. I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan. Everyone has seen the chalk chart. Police checked it against real streets and found utility paint, a curb repair and no burglaries. The marks worth knowing about are smaller, and in Japan the police photograph them. I go through the viral codes one at a time, the stranger with the clipboard, what Japanese police actually publish, and the one step the Facebook post leaves out. At the end, why a mark rarely lasts until lunch on my mother's street. One point goes to America, and I mean it: the paint on your curb is a public colour code with a printed key, which is more than any hidden mark can say. If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me what colour the paint on your curb turned out to be, and if somebody in your family once forwarded you that chalk chart, tell me who. Chapters 0:00 The mark on your gas meter tonight 0:49 The chalk chart nobody ever caught 1:34 Zip ties, glowing stones and the coin in the door 2:26 What's tucked in your front door right now 3:27 The friendly man with the clipboard 4:33 What Japanese police actually photograph 6:06 The one point America wins 7:06 The step the post never mentions 8:03 The chore I hated at nine 9:17 One walk tonight Sources Snopes; South Worcestershire Police (West Mercia Police); San Angelo Police Department; PolitiFact; Naperville Police Department; Cleveland Police; Manchester City Council; National Police Agency of Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Community Safety Bureau; Ibaraki Prefectural Police; Fukui Prefectural Police (via Fukui Shimbun); American Public Works Association, Uniform Color Code; 811 / Common Ground Alliance; Urban Crime Prevention Research Center (via Gunma Prefecture); Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. #HomeSecurity #BurglaryPrevention #JapanVsAmerica #JapaneseCulture #CrimePrevention