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Whats a good visual way to stop thieves from breaking into my vehicles, I live in a neighbor hood and the night before last 17 cars were broken into. This is the second time in about 3 months. The problem is its random and happens late at night so I can sit outside and wait and let them hear my shotgun breech close.( That sound would scare them)

On one hand I want them to stop breaking into my cars, On the otherhand I want to catch them

My idea was a motion senor spot light, however my porch light was on and is about 10 feet from my suv and is bright enough to find my keys in the dark.

My other idea is a game camera to try and catch the !@#$%^&*

Any one got anything else

All 3 of my vehicles were broken into I just cant believe the balls these guys have.
 
How about a battery powered electric fencer hooked up to it? Give'em a good jolt,I'll bet it would back them up.
 
these guys have no balls, thats why they do it at night,,, In Texas we drag 'em in the house and shoot 'em. In any case, the pain of punishment must exceed the fun of stealing, now and forever.
These are the kids your friends raised. Think about it.
 
I wish i could pop some rock salt in their @ss, but laws here in CT say can discharge a firearm within 1000 feet of another home(which my driveway is) and you have to prove your life was in danger
 
security cameras are relatively cheap and easy to put up one camera and speaker combination will cost around 150.00 -200.00 and make sure it is Black and white I understand color is not admissible in court for defense and if after dark wont pick up as well of details in low light conditions.
 
How about a sprinkler on a motion activated switch? Give them a good soaking. Won't stop them but you will feel a bit better,
 
I don't know if this will actually deter auto vandalism, but it can sure spoil somebody's evening: leave all your old, rusty fishing lures in your glove box. Thieves work by feel, eh? The local creeper gave up on my car after an encounter with a couple of old surface plugs.

If you are prepared to take the risk of sitting on one accidentally, you can set the hooks in other innovative places around the car, as well.

Beats birdshot.
 
Here is a link to a local trial.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=rochester+scott+self+defense&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701

Yeah the kid is dead, but everyone paid a price.
Police are trained to make the split second decisions. I am not sure I would want to be in the position of being responsible for killing someone for thieving.

You could also wind up dead.

The game camera is a good idea.
 
Not sure how you could 'hook' this up and you'd probably be the one who got 'caught'; several years ago, there were numerous mailboxes being destroyed. Kids were riding around late at night; they'd stop, get out and smash the boxes with baseball bats. After the second time, one fellow got some indelible purple ink (don't know where he got it); put it in a LARGE zip-lock bag and draped it over his mail box; put it on after dark and removed it before daylight. It couldn't be seen in the dark. It was about 2 weeks before they hit him again, but everyone in town knew who the culprits were, by the ink all over their faces and hands. Can't remember the results, I think the judge just shook her finger in their faces, but it stopped the mailbox bashing.
 
Your cops must be about as good as the ones we had when we lived in town. Response time and attitude was pathetic. We had kids breaking window glass in an alley behind the house. We saw them go into a house and the cops wouldn't even go talk to them. Sure glad to be out in the country. Sheriff and state troopers are much better.

Larry in Michigan
 
A motion detector hooked to a light in the house so they think someone is up and looking. Also could hook to an alarm.
 
Car doors closing and alarms going off were reported at 11Pm to 1130PM

Cops didnt even send a car out till 5 AM


For the people who suggest a video camera

What is a way to store the footage, Im not home enough to change tapes every 6 hrs....is there any kind of Tivo for securtiy
 
Sorry I don't have any new ideas but will add I just got in from feeding and noticed that some one packed off a deer stand this week. Worthless ba$t@rds!

Only thing a thief is good for is hog feed.

Dave
 
Several years ago there were kids ride'n around here, leaning out the window and knocking mail boxes off the post with bats. Boxes were landing 20' up in the yard. One guy got his busted twice. He had his brother who worked at a machine shop make him one out of bent 1/4" steel and he welded it to 4" oil field pipe filled with concrete. About two weeks later he left for work and there was a bunch of splinters around his mail box and that week a no good punk was wearing an arm cast.

Dave
 
Walmart sells game cameras for 50 bucks w/ night vision. I have been tempted to get one to take pics of the driveway.
 
Many people have $350 worth of junk in their garage and a $35,000 car parked outside. Either clean out your garage or build one. As for the thieves, if they are under 18 there isn't much the justice system will do with them..just shoot them in their privates so they can't pass on their stupidity!!
 
I would gather your neighbors and head down to the police Chief's office and demand they do something. If nothing happens there, go to the city council and embarass the cops into doing their jobs. If that doesn't work, elections are good times to expose useless politicians. If that doesn't get it done, I would move, far away.
 
(quoted from post at 21:09:47 12/29/09) How about a battery powered electric fencer hooked up to it? Give'em a good jolt,I'll bet it would back them up.
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My buddies father & half their neighbor hood did something similar, instead of using a fencer he attached the 120 volt AC positive side of the wall socket to the bumper & parked the vehicles on the lawn or left them on the driveway after a rain...
 
Well, ron why don't you run over them with one of those foreign tractors you want to buy. Then they can blame the chinese.
 
Bring back the VIGILANCE'S. It worked back in the 1800 and we are worse off today with the greed and corruption then back then.
 
Purchase a few human silhouette paper targets, and blow the sh%#$ out of them. Leave them on the front seat, with a hand full of spent brass.
Tim
 
Why would you expect the police to do anything? The only thing they are interested in is munching donuts, writing tickets to generate revenue so they can get the newest and latest FBI recommended 'toys', and tasering Grandma. They wouldn't believe you, if you were to tell them that the sun rises in the east. Their main interest lies in gaining more power for themselves at the expense of our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
 
if you search security cameras you can find all kinds, including motion sensor that records to a sd memory card. these can look like a clock, smoke detector or other things.

frank
 
you live in the wrong place.........research the "castle law"........after dark, coming at you or running away from you, legal to kill 'em!
 
Simple game cam works well and ya you only get there picture and they still brake in unless the flash is the type that can be seen and then you may scare them off plus get there picture. Seems a picture of them in the act goes a long ways in court and that in the long run might stop the problem better then just scaring them off. I know taking pictures sure did help stop 4 wheelers on my farm. Some how the people can not say it wasn't me when the cops have a picture of them and there 4 wheeler
 
I could tell more real stories about breakins than we have space for. The short answer is to leave NOTHING in the vehicle, leave it unlocked and move on. The jokers I had to deal with were better armed than me and sure as h. arnt afraid of lights and cameras. Like the cops I shoot with like to say - when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
 
I could tell more real stories about breakins than we have space for. The short answer is to leave NOTHING in the vehicle, leave it unlocked and move on. The jokers I had to deal with were better armed than me and sure as h. arnt afraid of lights and cameras. Like the cops I shoot with like to say - when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
 
Another idea on the fenc charger idea since you say the vehicle has plastic handles. You could buy you a couple of those old fashioned seat covers, the kind that are designed to vent and are made of coiled wire covered in something. Hook up the charger to the cover and when they slid in the vehicle or otherwise touched the thing they would get the jolt of their life.
Good luck.
 
Tivo for security cameras...is called security systems :)

Ones they market for Quick-e-marts last time I looked (about 18 months ago) commonly were storing 9 months of video from multiple cameras on their hard drives. It's not continuous motion, they may have 1 or 2 frames per second instead of 30 frames per second like video.

(They store the video that long in case management finally starts suspecting an employee's been scamming the till and wants to go back looking at their shifts for what's been going off the shelves and what's been going in the register. Places often have a camera pointed right at the cash drawer now.)

That's the nice thing about the game cameras, they're kind of the same deal in an affordable, easy to use package.
 
I use the game camera on my Xmas tree lot it works great get the one with the flash it scares the guys off before they get anything.
Walt
 
Unless you have a warning that they will get shocked, you could be liable if they are injured. You used to be able to buy stickers that say you have a security system. Sometimes just a simple deterent like that works. A big beware of dog sign might help too. Dave
 
Here in NY, some ingenuitive victim sat quietly a few houses down from his own (his truck had already been broken into)out of sight with a baseball bat. When the thief woke up in the ICU with some broken limbs and probably some slight brain trauma and a few broken teeth, the Police had no idea who did it...not that they looked too hard. Word musta got around though because there hasn't been a car burglaries on that street in a loooooonnnnng time.
Of course a ficticious tale to protect the innocent!
 
At Christmas I went to my sisters house and both my nephews received airsoft guns for xmas..
Basically a plastic pellet fired out of a realistic gun at 340 ft/second. And it hurts to get hit with this. And my one nephew has an Automatic MP-5 submachine gun. I think this would be effective against the punk that is doing the car busting.
 
Often times, these kind of criminals will "case" the area 1st, I've seen them doing it in a neighborhood I visit friends at, and warned them just the same, as I knew they'd be back and from previous break ins. You may get lucky and see them before, it's good to keep an eye on things via some surveillance, might provide some intelligence on their activities.
 
A dog that will raise Cain at night will keep most intruders away as they don't want to be found out.I have a Great Pyrennees outside and Rat Terriers inside when the big dog barks the little ones bark and alert me to take a look.Most Livestock Guard Dogs (not to be confused with herding dogs) are nocturnal and make make great watchdogs.Never had anything stolen but did catch a cop that pulled into a farm road at 2AM to take a snooze (LOL)Thats fine she owes me a favor now.
 
I know some people that live in a sub division where there seemed to be a lot of stuff missing from homes. They all had a good idea who was doing it. The son of a cop in the area. They talked to the cop but of course he wouldn't believe it was his little angel. Well, one night just after dark one of the neighbors caught the kid trying to take something out of his yard. He took the kid out into the road and beat him senseless with a phone book. Of course the kids dad asked a couple neighbors but they knew nothing. I think even to a cop, a story of getting beat by a phone book for being on the road at night doesn't make a lot of sense. Stuff stopped going missing though. Dave
 
Leave nothing visible in your vehicle. If possible, put your vehicle in the garage. Car alarms can help, if anyone pays attention to them when they go off.

Crooks are out there. Be careful where you park and light up the vehicles all night. Make your vehicles look like there is little to gain from breaking into them and lots of danger of getting caught--the thieves will probably pass your vehicles by.

As far as ever shooting or seriously harming a car prowler goes, talk to your attorney first. You probably have a right to detain a car prowler and overcome their resistance to arrest, but if you carry it too far, you will be the one getting in bad trouble. And the car prowler might hurt or kill you in the confrontation too.

My son's car was broken into last week. He had gone to a party and drank too much, so he left the car at that location and rode with others to sleep it off. The next morning, a window was broken out and about $2000 worth of flight gear was gone. I have told him to put that stuff in the trunk, but maybe now he will be a believer. He feels REALLY DUMB!
 
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