Teach your children well

[Flying10uk]

I do know someone who keeps a metal fire poker under his bed in order to try to defend himself should he get burgled during the night. I'm not sure that even doing this is a good idea and I did suggest that perhaps it may be better to swap it for a large metal bodied torch. The reason I said this is because a fire poker could do a fair amount of damage to either a burglar or to himself if the burglar was to snatch it from him and use it against him. Also it could possibly be argued that having a fire poker under the bed indicated an element of premeditation to do harm to any intruder but the simple excuse of a power cut could be used for having a torch under ones bed.