When I was little we lived in West Bend. My brother, the neighbor kids, and I would walk almost a half mile to school every day. Today that would be unheard of.
I do remember being told that if something happens, we should go to a house with this sign in the window.
Anyone else remember that? Would anyone advise their kids to do that today?
Do you have a neighborhood watch where you live?
I still see these signs posted in communities and the community I live does not have such program nor any program like this.
I bought these signs as window decals and put them in my windows. I am always aware of my outside surroundings and if someone came and needed help, and if I suspected that they were not on the up and up, I would at least call the police and they could stay on my doorstep where my Ring Doorbell and outdoor video cameras would keep a watchful eye on them in case someone came after them.
@Dawn just half a mile? 
If we missed the bus we were hiking a bit more than 2 miles ⊠and YES, in the snow. and yes, it was uphill BOTH ways
We had some sort of a yellow hand sign in the windows rather than the neighborhood watch signs you posted.
Where we are thereâs no formal neighborhood watch, but our (very rural) neighbors do actually WATCH. a couple years ago right before deer season we heard a BUNCH of shooting maybe an hour after dark - we figured it was someone spot-light poaching on one of our neighborhood farms. My hubby armed up and hopped into the bronco to go check it out and what he found on the road was Every Single One of our farming neighbors out there checking it out too. There was a dust cloud showing where someone had high-tailed it off our dirt roads, but no poacher in sight. Guessing the mass appearance of our neighborhood watch scared them off.
One of the things we actually do around neighborhood watch is check the sex offender database sites periodically. None reported close to us, but thereâs one not too far from my granddaughterâs house (sheâs in the next town over.) We do want to know who to watch for.
My neighborhood has has a block watch for years. And we even have signs up say there is one. but also for years we have not had any meetings. but a few years ago an app came out called âNextdoorâ and it lets you connect with everyone on it to post things about the area and if there are any crimes going on. And it works really well. But we do keep an eye out for each other as well.
Going to have to check that out!
Iâm on Next door - itâs interesting to find out more about whatâs going on. The latest thing that caught my attention is that a neighbor found a tick on their dog already (itâs a little early in WI). Itâs definitely useful!
@Zee - did you have to walk it barefoot? 
Couldnât resist. We didnât have a bus, so it was all walking. I wonder now if I would have let my kids walk that far to school?
We had shoes 
⊠but when I was in Jr. High School we had to walk that snow-storm-ridden 2 miles uphill (both ways) in a skirtâŠ
Because only boys were allowed to wear pants >_<
True story.
Nope no neighborhood watch here where I live, but I do have a warning sticker on my front and back door warning that the owner of the house is armed and breaking into my house isnât worth your life.
Who ever thought weâd ever see the day where boys are allowed to wear skirts?! 
You mean tactikilts?
From 5.11:
https://static.511tactical.com/cms/landing/resources/what-is-tactical-kilt-image.jpg
Good Lord!! Do they sell Tactipurses too?
Of course they do!!
Tactikilts?!? OMGOMGOMGosh be still my Scottish Heart 
You have NO idea how fast Iâm going to get my Scots-heritage hubby one of those! 
Iâm a fan of the UtiliKilts but hadnât seen the tactikilts!
Yâall hang out here Iâll be right back⊠I have to go give them all my money
Oh MAN!! theyâre not currently on the 5.11 site. (>_<)
Ok⊠itâs going to be ok. Found this:
Crisis averted
⊠oh, and check out the video (last of the pictures of the product)⊠yes, they DO recommend using an outdoor extension cord for measuring âyour glorious waistâ 
There is a gentleman in the office that wears his on occasion. Iâll see if I can scrounge up a picture - and his permission - to post it. 
I have Scottish in my heritage BUT, I wouldnât get caught dead, well maybe dead, wearing a kilt of any kind in public!
Sorry, just saying.
Hi Dawn @Dawn I donât exactly remember those symbols because I was raised in a neighborhood where we knew what exactly everyoneâs last name was. Back then we dare not say anything except Mr or Mrs Such and such. I thought I was pretty much knew everything by Sophomore-Junior year high school or so I thought and called a neighbor by first name, well that night my father washed my mouth with a bar of Ivory soap. I got the âThis hurts me more than youâ speech. Well anyway I could name everyoneâs last name for two blocks and same goes if I somehow messed up my mother heard about it before I got home with a phone call and my father knew when he got home from work and if it was deemed to be bad enough the belt would come out of the closet. So neighborhood watch was like Indian smoke signals back in the 1950âs and 1960âs. If a strange car appears, everyone knew that also, that the so and so family had what kind of a car.
Unfortunately the neighborhood I moved into had a couple houses with âkidâ issues. While that should have gone away over time the sense of "individualismâ has remained. Iâm not anti-social but I am not what you might call gregarious either. During snow storms Iâd take my BAT (Big A$$ed Truck) and pull folks out or even take them to work, my wife is a Nurse so invariably she has duty on the morning of a snow storm so Iâm up early hauling her and a couple of her Nurse friends in. So all in all itâs quiet and everyone pretty much keeps to themselves.
There was a fella (retired Navy guy like me) from the other side of the road (I live on a loop you can drive into both ends of my street) that came around asking If we wanted to be apart of the âNeighborhood Watchâ kind of thing but basically it was everybodyâs names and phone #'s. I keep it hung up on my fridge under the calendar.
I grew up in a beach town in NJ where from September to June EVERYBODY knew EVERYBODY and from June to September NOBODY knew ANYBODY. The population went from 3K to 40K in one weekend with 70% of them rotating out week by week. My 9th grade graduating class was 12 kids, 5 guys and 7 girls and they bused us 14 miles to a High School of 400 made up from 5 different towns. A different world back then.
Cheers,
Craig6
Grade school.was only a quarter mile, but the high school was a mile. I went to the same school district K-12. This was in lower Michigan, and in those 13 years we had ONE snow day when 22" fell over night. Took till almost noon for the city to clear the roads. Dad still made my brother and I boot up and walk to school, âjust in caseâ. (No announcement on radio or tv until it was too late. ) We got to turn around and walk home again.
I remember those signs. Lots of houses had them in the front window to indicate a safe place to run to. Had a program about them at school.
Our neighborhood now doesnât have a watch exactly, unless you count how nosy we all are. Nothing can go on that SOMEBODY doesnât see.
When I was a kid I couldnât come home until the street lights came on. Rode my bike everywhere, school was 3 bus transfers away.
