Try breaking into this house again and your head will be blown off!’
The sign, with the image of a handgun, was put up in the front yard of 71-year-old Claudia Holland’s home in Hudson, East Texas.
Her son Steve had it made after intruders kicked in her front door late at night, but fled after hearing her three dogs barking.
He told KTRE9: ‘ I just wanted to put out a big enough message not just to whoever broke-in, but the rest of the community.