I would like to see a thread where everybody can contribute ideas and tricks they use to foil the burgulars and other skum bags. Anyone have any neat ideas?
yea i with fatflatty damn mean pit bull i had a shop with my uncle in n atlanta people breakin in parts missing got to watch who comes around but i had 2 pit bulls would swap them out at shop 1 at home 1 at shop and that stopped that **** man these dogs will bite your ***hole off!
My rear window is barred (neat lightening bolt pattern so it doesn't look ghetto) and the side (man door) was replaced with a real commercial steel door. External pinned hinges can be made secure by using some "pins" that lock into one half of the hinge plate to the other - knock the pins out and the door is still pinned in place. A baby monitor allows you to listen in on the garage while you're in the house - anyone can foil the various security systems but they're likely to make some noise. The threat of Lead Poisoning can be a deterant as well. My neighbors are REAL nosey - it used to bother me but now I like it!!!
I use c-clamps as a p***ive secondary lock on the garage door. Just clamp the door to the stop plate for swing up doors. As a kid I used to open our garage door by hooking the release cable with a peice of wire and giving it a yank... Too easy to get in, even if everything is locked tight. =-) Alex.
Had an alarm on the garage before the house an old ADT unit with magnets on the front and rear doors just like a house alarm but a 45 second delay where the alarm beeps but doesn't go off you get to the keypad and get the code in you're ok otherwise you'll have pierced eardrums and a Marine with a rifle aimed at your head whole alarm on garage cost 50 bucks and a case of beer.
Steel entry door suicide mounting (opens out). Replace three hinges with full length high grade piano hinge welded on. Weld .375 x 2" flashing strip all around door to cover all gaps or oone pice oversized .125" sheet to whole door. Use two keyed deadbolts and two air cylinders for locks and one spring popper. Makes for no handles, can't be beaten in, harder than hell to pry open. Add one pissed off Rottweiler with no couch to sleep on and you pretty good to go. Put in power cut offs inside house. Some monitors and now the new action movement infrared cameras are preety cool they will call your cell from your computer! And as always being a self described and publically recognized ***hole as well carrying one or two guns helps.
I have a couple motion sensors that set off lights and a big *** alarm bell that the neighbors all know and they would love to shoot anyone coming over the fences. I also have a camera inside and a camera outside so I can see what they looked like before they got their *** shot up. There's more but that's the easy part.
Do a search on here and you will find some really good ideas discussed many times previously. Great idea is to never let anyone in and never discuss what you keep at the house. Hint: get a brick bldg non descript away from home with NO windows and where no one knows anything. Or another is to offer good mechanical services to local and national biker clubs so they have a reliable place to get things done if down on the road. Bikers coming and going at all hours helps to keep little thieving *******s away too. And don't forget the razor wire on the roof, all over the roof! This is the new way to get past most alarms and to go in that way. Person I am familiar with just lost a ****load of stuff that very way! Shoot first ask questions later. Never trust anyone!
I'm with the "light that **** up and notify" crowd. My garage is an extension of my house. I have motion sensor lights and a sensor that activates when the garage door is open. I discussed it on the Garage Journal in this thread. I've since wired this device to a simple alarm clock "alarm" and after about a minute (+/- 10 seconds) a "special" alarm clock next to my bed starts to go off. Gun and dogs by my side will follow shortly after that alarm goes off. (NOTE!!!! Get a different alarm sound if you choose this route. Damn shame to try and run around naked, w/ a gun, and a couple of dogs following you, just to find out you're late for work. Don't ask me how I know.)
I live in the ghetto, heard 8 gunshots this afternoon. I used to live in a house that had a garage on the alley. That got broke into a couple times, but since my new garage is FULLY behind the fence, I've been okay. Add in 4 dogs, multiple 'beware of dog' signs, and a loaded SKS - the gangstas think anything with a banana clip is an AK47 and I don't bother correcting them. Also, the lightswitch is on the opposite side of the garage from the human door, so they'd have to walk through a minefield of whatever I've been messing with lately to get some light. I heard something in the garage one day (turned out to be something falling, doh) and sent the dog in first. After 20 seconds of not hearing someone screaming or running, I checked it with the SKS and all was good. Due to the large number of people who fight dogs in the ghetto, people are afraid of almost all dogs. The gangstas seriously cross the street when I come walking down it with my obvious hound dog. I've even had multiple people ask if he's a pit bull or if he bites. The answers are always 'yes' and 'yes', although neither are true...
Spend a hundred and invite the local biker club to come and pick up their beer a six pack at a time about every 6 months or so. Fridays around 6 PM is usually a good time to shedule for maximum effect.
It is the lowlife meth junkie types that make stuff disapear. Not having any visitors is the best bet. It works well if peoeple do not know what you have, and cannot talk about it to there friends. It is not the people you know, it is the ones you don't know. All of my friends know I am a super nice, giving guy. The people that have pulled into my driveway to see what was going on in the shop think I am the biggest ***hole they have ever seen. A couple of times a year I hear stories about me from friends in the area. I guess I leave an impression on people that "stop by". It is not fair, but I use my judgement to pick the way I respond to people in my driveway. I have given full tours to people I do not know. I have also told guys to get back in there car because they were not welcome. My new shop is on 12.5 acres, with a 1/4mile long driveway. There is a locked gate at the road. If you do not call first and want to walk up the driveway, you will be very suprised at the responce you get. My cellphone is in my sig line, call first. There is always hot food, cold beer, and a place to work/crash for friends.
Years ago, I built a couple of cars in my mom's garage, and she was having a little trouble with two-bit punks in her neighborhood going around breaking into garages and stuff. I kept most of my tools and jacks and parts and stuff there, along with a 71 Camaro and a V8 Gremlin X, so I sure didn't want the little *******s gettin' into the garage once I started working out of there! They were small time jerks, so I knew they'd be easy to discourage. The garage door had thin wooden panels where the windows used to be, and they'd just knock them loose with the palms of their hands. One day, I drove about 30 nails through each wooden panel with the points facing outward, and then put a thin layer of cardboard over them from the outside! The next day when I stopped in to work on my cars for a few hours, I took a peek at the panels from outside and one piece of cardboard was missing. I also saw blood stains all over the wooden panel and the garage door! Ha Ha...never had any trouble with anyone trying to break into that garage again!!
I have a security camera, two dogs, 3 shotguns, an ak, a mini 30 two 30/30's a couple .22's a 1911. a ruger super red hawk .480, a sks, a 30.06 and I also live in my shop, so I usually have no problems. I did have some kids break the windows out of my truck but it was easy to find out who they were.
(NOTE!!!! Get a different alarm sound if you choose this route. Damn shame to try and run around naked, w/ a gun, and a couple of dogs following you, just to find out you're late for work. Don't ask me how I know.)[/quote] But on the other hand, not much would be scarier than a naked pissed off guy that just woke up, with one or more guns AND a couple pissed off dogs. The thief/idiot might just p*** out.
You really want to have some fun, if you have a fenced yard run a couple wires on your side of the fence right about where a person trying to leave would grab. Hook it up to a fence charger BUT, have the fence charger off unless the alarm has been tripped. And if you are really serious, use 110 or 220.
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