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Do you guys also have the spikes on the top of walls (e.g. often made cheap with broken bottles like so)? In my (African) country it felt like every house had them.
I was thinking the same thing - and we're poorer than India. I can't recall it being a big problem.
Though the consequences that befall thieves explains it. The one time I saw someone accused of being a smash-and-grab thief everything almost immediately collapsed into mob justice (the woman of the house screaming about a strange man coming in certainly didn't help)
You really don't want to try to explain yourself trespassing in a strange neighborhood.
Yup, the wall spikes are pretty common, and if not broken glass, then iron spikes.
I agree that a willingness to engage in mob justice has some perks, especially when the police usually turn a blind eye as that means their work has been mostly done for them. It's quite similar in India, thieves get regularly lynched depending on the circumstances.
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