Someone was in my shop Friday night

[JB4310]

I doubt the same crook would come back, after tipping his hand and knowing you know some one's been there.

Was either nothing there worth a quick bag of dope or your dog scared him away, probably the dog, the simplest most reliable and intelligent security system you can have.

I'd give him a big scruffy back scratch, some words of encouragement and a bit of his favorite treat

 

[forgeblast]

one thing you can use is
Anti Burglar System using OC Pepper spray (Revel Technology, Inc.)
I have been thinking about getting a few.

 

[Mike120]

When it's night, I have a simple approach: Trespassers will be shot...Survivors will be shot again.

 

[bdeboer]

On the idea of documenting the license plate number, one my wife and I have done is walk up to the car and take picture of the plate with a cell-phone.

 

[JB4310]

On the idea of documenting the license plate number, one my wife and I have done is walk up to the car and take picture of the plate with a cell-phone.

Provided the vehicle is not occupied by a potential recidivist, otherwise might not be a great idea unless you are prepared for a confrontation.

just learned a new word, recidivist - Definition from Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary

jb

 

[firefighter9208]

My mom called me one night after midnight, dad is disabled and in a wheelchair, someone was beating on her front door. I grabbed my Ruger and flashlight Streamlightｮ LiteBoxｮ Series Lantern<BR>AC/DC w/ Dual Filament - SL068 : Galls . Got into the truck and drove down to mom's house.

There was a car parked on the side of the road in front of her house. I saw a man and woman walking down her neighbors driveway, he works at night (guard at the prison).

I drove past them and turned around. I pulled up and shined the light on the two (Ruger laying on the console ) and asked if there was a problem. They said they ran out of gas. I asked if there was anyone I could call, but they couldn't "get the number right".

I pulled into mom's driveway, got out (put the Ruger in my back pocket) and told mom I was going to get them a can of gas.

When I walked around her house with the 5 gallon can of gas, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. They were gone.

I told mom to never open the door at night. She has an alarm system that she sets every night. She now has a Great Pyrenese that will "wake the dead" when someone comes around.

I'm sure that if she had opened the door there would have been a home invasion.

The flashlight that I linked above is great. I buy them in the flood version and they will light up the whole yard. Bought mom one for Christmas last year. They have a large 6volt battery inside. We use them in the fire department and they are very rugged.

We live in a Rural area. Often takes 20 minutes for a deputy to get here. We're 15 miles from the closest city. Mom sat on her lawnmower in the field beside her house and watched two guys rob the next door neighbor's barn last summer. They beat the lock off with a hammer in broad daylight. She called 911 and they had loaded up and left before the deputy got there. She got their tag # and stopped a ring of thefts that were happening in our county. The police has a description of the van, but mom getting the tag # led them to the culprits.

Chris

 

[MossRoad]

Mount a car horn under the eaves of the shop right over the door and hook it to a car battery inside the shop. Put a magnetic switch inside the door and a latching relay to handle the current. Then put a weatherproof arm/disarm switch in a hidden location on the outside of the garage. Then leave the door unlocked. They open it, the relay latches the car horn on, they poop their pants and they run away. Want more fun? Have it trigger flood lights on a couple second delay at the end of your driveway facing into your property so about the time they get to the road the lights come on in their face. Then they are temporarily blinded and take an alternative route off of your land. That's where barbed wire topped fences come in handy. You can get good DNA from blood soaked clothing scraps.

I had a friend that someone kept smashing his pumpkin display at Halloween and he put a car horn and battery in the corn shocks and a simple metal bar as a switch with a wooden stick on a fishing line tied to the biggest pumpkin as a trigger. It went off once after that and he never a problem again.

But seriously, you want to scare the bajeebers out of them so they find an easier target. Get an alarm system and use it.

 

[WayneB]

Reading incidents like this one really scare the heck out of me. We live about 900 feet off from a back-country road and for the longest time, maybe thirty years we never locked our doors or vehicles at night. Last summer there were about four houses in the same area (about a mile form us) that were broken into. One place they took out copper pipes electrical wire, water pump and also the furnace.

Now we lock the doors and check things every single night. If we are leaving just to go to the mailbox at the end of the road my wife will lock the doors.

There is no doubt that crime is up when unemployment is up. I don't know if I would go as far as saying I would shot to kill, but I am prepared to shot.

I think surveillance cameras are worth looking into and not to expensive. Even if they break into your barn you might have a good enough picture to provide conviction proof to the court system. Unfortunately, they will be back on the street before the pictures are developed.

 

[NSBound]

Mount a car horn under the eaves of the shop right over the door and hook it to a car battery inside the shop. Put a magnetic switch inside the door and a latching relay to handle the current. Then put a weatherproof arm/disarm switch in a hidden location on the outside of the garage. Then leave the door unlocked. They open it, the relay latches the car horn on, they poop their pants and they run away. Want more fun? Have it trigger flood lights on a couple second delay at the end of your driveway facing into your property so about the time they get to the road the lights come on in their face. Then they are temporarily blinded and take an alternative route off of your land. That's where barbed wire topped fences come in handy. You can get good DNA from blood soaked clothing scraps.

I like to way you think, Moss . Also like the photo the vehicle and plate idea.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Anyone that sorry enough to break in a place an doubly sorry to kill a mans dog should be shot in my opinion. We have a neighbor thats mom has piad folks not ot press charges because he breaks in. They usually give 10 000 to each person. Its happened for 20 years I knoww of. I pulled him to the side one day and told him what would happen if he was caught. Hes never even been around here.
Back when I was dating my wife her and her parents came by one day. I was showing them the gardens and heard a car pull up by where i park some of my trucks. I live on the intersection where a dead end road meets a main county road and my trucks are parked across the dead end road. I told Amy and my inlaws to hang on and I went to my drawer i nthe shop and got an old revolver I keep in there and went to see what my german sheperd was pointing at. I went up to theis man looking inside my old 4 door 1ton. I asked if he could be helped he gave me a BS line of I haul scrap and wanted to know if this truck was for sale. I told him didnt have a sign on it did it. I pulled the gun and out and leaned up on the truck. Never saw him again. He looked like a slime ball. I asked one of the neighbors and he confirmed he worked for him a few years ago and was a thief.