Combatting Break-Ins?

So last night was the 2nd time in about 6 weeks that someone waltzed up the driveway, disabled the factory car alarm, and rummaged through the interior looking for cash/easily pawned things. This time it was my girlfriend's car and they nabbed the roll of toll quarters, 25 in cash and a pair of cheap earrings. Any suggestions as to how to prevent this or are we just SOL?

The driveway is heavily illuminated with a 200W Floodlight , 4 exterior entry lights, and is plainly visible from the street (city).

 

12ga, or barbed wire fence with claymores & attach dogs with lasers on thier freakin' heads.

 

Here in South Africa they dont even wait for your car to be parked. They will just rob you at the stop street by smashing your window.

I dont know, we have the car alarms, gates to the entrance, armed response, dogs.....etc.

If they want to get in, nothing is going to stop them.

Yip.. SOL

 

Ive been riped off a couple times.....Gotta be one of the worst feelings. Mabey an aftermarket alarm could deter them?

 

You might not have the time but it might be a good idea to try and stay up a few nights and see if you can catch them, you and your wife can can alternate saying up. Or if you have a camcorder hide in a place where you can direct to your car and hopefully get a visual of the person or persons.

 

Anyway to garage it? It seems like out of sight, out of mind with the small minded thieves.

 

No room to, there is off-street parking but they just hop the 8' fence. Other thing I was wondering is that if they've got the ability to crack the radio frequency for the car alarms it can't be much harder to do so with a RF garage door opener?

 

Like this: Get yourself a nice Desert Eagle .50, stay up waiting for one of those motherf...., then just waive it around til they shit in their pants.

 

Get yourself one of these, I've got some coming:

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/webcam_communications/video_security_systems/&cl=us,en

It's completely wireless, not many cables to run. Record the bastards!!!

 

P!et is correct, the only way to stop them is to catch them. We all installed car alarms factory or OTC, but they really don't stop the thieves if they want to get in.

 

I say get a blow gun, wait up for their return, and start target practice. Dip the tips in something (some type of natural jungle sedative) first for extra fun.

 

Anyone used something like this?
Wireless Driveway Alarm: $99! Motion Detector Alert Sensor & Outdoor Monitor

Thinking of using it to alert me to when someone comes up the driveway. Only issue with using a camera is that when I caught a person in the past breaking into a neighbor's vehicle he was wearing a hoodie and a hat so from any height it was tough to see his face.

 

How about those car alarms that incorporate a camera INSIDE the vehicle, then send that to your phone? They're not that expensive anymore.

 

Like this?

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Or these.











:shrug:

 

Get a big old Rotty or Pit and keep them in the garage, a motion detector and camera set up would be nice. I would def arm yorself with a gun, these aholes are breakin in your car now, what happens when they get a lil more curious? Sorry to hear this is happening.

 

Will you be my friend? All I've got is this:

 

Unfortunately, even video of these people breaking and entering does very little. My carwash has been broken into a couple of times, and the police have perfect video from my surveillance system of them. It has done absolutely nothing for us, other then give me a face to watch out for if they ever come into the wash.....:crasy: Best bet, from what i've experianced with these, is to have a BIG freaking dog. I'm just about ready to buy a great dane or something to sit in my store at night, the thief can by chew toy if they break in again.:gidiup:

 

I think a big dog if a good idea. And hey, it's a man's best friend! Are your cars parked close to where a big dog can look out for it? The barking of it will wake you right up!

What I personally do when I leave my truck out for the night is leave it completely EMPTY! I actually put the rear seats up to show potential thieves that I don't have a stereo system back there or am hiding anything worth stealing.

The only person that's going to break into my truck will probably want to steal the whole thing, not items that I have in the vehicle.

To a scum thief, even a roll of quarters is good money for 5 minutes of work.

 

You're exactly right!!! A big dog will do it all. I, personally, will probably never own a gun. I'm actually on the lookout for a South African Mastiff to be a personal guard dog for myself, my family and my carwash.



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