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Watch This Before You Leave on Vacation: Burglars Share Tips on Preventing Burglary

Affluent areas like Chicago’s North Shore can be magnets for burglars, especially in August when so many people are away on vacation.

So before you head out on your vacation, take a few minutes to watch this video from The Today Show, where Janice Lieberman shares tips from ex-cons on how to foil burglary attempts.

Some of the tips are obvious; some not so much, like these:

1. Don’t hide your valuables in the sock drawer. That’s the first place the crooks will look. Instead, hide them somewhere in your kids rooms.
2. Have a neighbor remove fliers from your mailbox. Burglars will leave fliers to see if they are picked up. If not, it means no one is home.
3. Don’t announce your vacation on Facebook and other social networking sites. And wait til you’re home again to post pictures of your vacation. Believe it or not, burglars are on Facebook too.

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