garage security

[Gregishome]

After reading the garage gun thread here, it brought to memory a bulletin the neighborhood association sent us last week.....

There is a theft ring working our city now that has a person driving around and taking pics of the inside of garages whenever the owner leaves the overhead door(s) open. ...

Then, another crew is scanning through the pics and going back and robbing the garages with the most valuables in them...

No limits to amount of creativity that scumbags use, so they dont have to go out and work for a honest days pay....

 

[rquackenbush]

That reminds me - I need to put up my security system sign - a target with a bunch of holes in the 10 ring.

 

[Romanova]

If I'm not in the garage, the door is closed. Hell, even if I am mowing in the backyard I close it. Way too much $$ ******* in stuff in the garage to be advertising like that.

 

[Stuart in MN]

If I'm not in the garage, the door is closed. Hell, even if I am mowing in the backyard I close it. Way too much $$ ******* in stuff in the garage to be advertising like that.

I'm always surprised at the number of people who leave their garage doors open all the time.

 

[DYNA BILL]

I have Marshall Dillo on the job.

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[quick86]

Best garage security ever.

 

[Gregishome]

Pretty dog you have there Quick, looks young....

I hope he/she never gets put in the situation of going against these scumbags that are out here today. They are killing and maiming innocent old people in my city for pills or crack money. They would just shoot the dog or machete it, whenever the door gets opened.

 

[Shadowdog500]

After reading the garage gun thread here, it brought to memory a bulletin the neighborhood association sent us last week.....

There is a theft ring working our city now that has a person driving around and taking pics of the inside of garages whenever the owner leaves the overhead door(s) open. ...

Then, another crew is scanning through the pics and going back and robbing the garages with the most valuables in them...

No limits to amount of creativity that scumbags use, so they dont have to go out and work for a honest days pay....

Pretty dog you have there Quick, looks young....

I hope he/she never gets put in the situation of going against these scumbags that are out here today. They are killing and maiming innocent old people in my city for pills or crack money. They would just shoot the dog or machete it, whenever the door gets opened.

Sounds like it is time to move from your city or declare open season on criminals.

Chris

 

[canuckian]

Unless a vehicle is pulling in or out, my overhead doors are closed. Hell, I even take a look around before I open the man doors. All 3 bays are hooked into the monitored system and theres a couple of dogs waiting inside if someone gets that far. I guess I'm a little jaded after working in the prison system for the past 13 years. Lol.

 

[crewchief888]

it never ceases to amaze me the number of people that leave thier garage doors open.
they're usually the 1st ones to wonder why somebody took all thier stuff.

or the guy that parks his new harley in the front yard to show it off, and wonders why it's gone.....

my door stays closed unless i'm in the garage working, my dog dont like strangers, and lets me know if anyone is walking down the street. if anyone stops or slows in front of my house, i make a beeline for the street, and greet them.

 

[61falcon]

my garage is closed unless im outside where i can keep an eye on things. fortunately my garage is sort of behind my house, if i park my truck in the right spot it makes it very difficult to see into my garage when the door is open.

 

[Gregishome]

Sounds like it is time to move from your city or declare open season on criminals.

Chris

Thirty years ago the majority of the crime was on the "other" side of our city which is the polar opposite of where we live now. No part of our city now is free from crime just because of the stature of the 'neighborhood". ...

The bad guys are hitting the homes that look like would have the most valuables inside, and a lot of homes of seniors just to get their pills. This scenario is spreading across our nation at an alarming pace. A lot these non -violent crimes are being committed by men just trying to feed their kids, sad to say, a sign of the times.

 

[quick86]

Which is why I moved to where I did when my wife and I bought our first home. LOW crime suburban area with a very .....nosy..... police department that likes to keep their eyes open and observant neighbors in a well populated neighborhood. Every house on my block has at least 1 large dog, so sneaking around here is not possible either. And we're all on a first name basis with one another.

 

[Deltarat]

I seldom leave my door open, even when I am working in there. I do have heat and air though. My neighbor raises his door early every morning and leaves it open all day, whether he is working in there or not. I have a security system too.

 

[rwreuter]

I guess i have had the fortune of always living in a low crime area. i have always left my overhead door open. but i live in a rural area in a "closed" housing development with 7 houses. if you come here and don't live here you are noticed.

in fact as a kid most of the people in my neighborhood did, in fact my neighbors always left their keys in their cars and their front doors unlocked when they left. times have changed i guess (back in the 70's).

 

[imperialman67]

I always keep the Garage door closed.
As a previous poster said ,even when mowing the lawn.

I do have a question though.
I believe that if my garage would be broken into, they are probably going in through the service door.
My neighbor who has basically the same garage , has no light above his service door ,while I have one of those Menards jelly jar type sodium lights that is dusk to dawn.
Looking over at his place at night its darker than a mine shaft , vs my service door being pretty well lit.
Opinions on which would be more of a deterrent to break ins at night?
Or maybe it would make no difference?

 

[Air_Cooled_Nut]

Light is a deterrent so you win. Just make sure your light is high enough to where someone tall can't reach up and unscrew it a little bit. Bad guys will do this so the bulb looks like it's installed but come nightfall the bulb won't illuminate because it's not making contact. If you need a ladder to service an outside security light then you've done the install correctly. Also, dusk-to-dawn is smarter than motion detecting as motion detecting can be bypassed (the sensors detect heat motion, not true motion).

 

[Shalikp]

Also, dusk-to-dawn is smarter than motion detecting as motion detecting can be bypassed (the sensors detect heat motion, not true motion).

Are you sure about this? I'm pretty sure mine detects motion, not heat.

 

[Air_Cooled_Nut]

I was speaking to the vast majority of off-the-shelf units are heat sensing. If a sensor uses sound (sonar, basically) then, of course, that would be true-motion sensing. What can you tell us about your sensor?

 

[Gixerfixer]

I had a domestic burglar alarm with a huge battery back up system in my last homes garage (superbike home) at the end of the garden with an internal sound bomb/sounder (well hidden) if the system was activated you could not stay in there your ears itched like mad probably the equivalent of standing next to a formula one engine on full chat I imagine, fortunately it never got activated in my ownership, way I see it if they want to get in they will but that noisy atmosphere is uninviting and off putting to say the least, and regular civilians cant own guns in England

 

[Boyd Who]

My garage sits about 20' from a major east-west highway. I have both doors facing south so nobody driving past the house can see in the shop if I happen to have to door open. I rarely leave the overhead door open anyway, and only if I'm inside the shop working.

I have a pair of 13W CFLs on the shop and another one on the smaller garage that burn 24/7/365 day of the year. They're not so bright they annoy the neighbours, but they're bright enough to illuminate the entire back yard.

 

[quick86]

Light is a deterrent so you win. Just make sure your light is high enough to where someone tall can't reach up and unscrew it a little bit. Bad guys will do this so the bulb looks like it's installed but come nightfall the bulb won't illuminate because it's not making contact. If you need a ladder to service an outside security light then you've done the install correctly. Also, dusk-to-dawn is smarter than motion detecting as motion detecting can be bypassed (the sensors detect heat motion, not true motion).

Not just any light either. Mine illuminates my entire driveway + entire front yard. Call it overkill all you want, but you cannot step in my yard at night without being seen.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I rarely open my overhead doors, just to keep prying eyes out. There are times when I see lowlifes drive by slowly and they're looking around. I just stop and stare at them.

 

[quick86]

@NuttsGT ---- this solution might work great for you if they ever decide to stop out front...............

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[ptschram]

My two dogs are so noisy and bark at EVERYTHING I often tell my wife that if someone were to break in, I'd have no chance of knowing, or knowing where they were because of the incessant barking.

My bite is worse than their bark though.

 

[NUTTSGT]

@NuttsGT ---- this solution might work great for you if they ever decide to stop out front...............

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Great movie, one of his best. . . . . Clint Eastwood meets Archie Bunker.


I have went out to the driveway before, armed.

A few years back some young dumbasses stole a political "vote for" out of our yard. I had heard somebody pull up but they shut their lights off when they stole it. By the time I saw them, they were headed around the corner, but I did see that it was a light color import. I grabbed the phone to tell the wife about it. She was at work, dispatcher for the Sheriff's Office.

As I'm standing on the front porch talking to the wife, I hear a fart can muffler. I told the wife, "they're coming back and see a car pull up on the side road just into view. At this time I'm on the front porch, porch light out, no shoes, just socks and talking to my wife. I put the phone to my side, not wanting to yell into my wifes ear, as the passenger comes walking across my drive way.

Then I had a USMC flashback (ever see Full Metal Jacket) and yell at the kid "HEY!!!". He just froze and I yelled for him to come here. The wife heard me and got a Deputy in route. He walked over and I questioned him about the sign, he went back and got it, I asked for his name and repeated it for the wife to hear. I had him tell the driver to come and park his car and questioned him also. By this time, the Deputy was on scene and started talking to them. They gave me wrong names and they emptied all the other signs and driveway markers out of their car that they had stolen. Both of them had charges pressed on them by the county and hopefully learned a lesson.

To this day, I wished I would have had my 12 guage and shoes on. I would fired a shot into the air, racked another round. I truly think the kid would have pissed his pants.

Sorry for the ramble and hi-jack, but that link just brought back that memory and thought I'd share and hopefully give a few laughs.

 

[quick86]

Yeah. The gal across the street, her dead-beat "baby daddy" was hot rodding his 07 Silverado. One night I was outside in my side yard after moving my truck over there and he didn't see me. Got in his truck and floored it around the corner without stopping at the stop sign. I yelled at him and he slammed on the brakes. Told him to slow his ************* down. Oddly enough, he has only come back twice since then, and takes the back road to her house instead of the main road in front of my house.