Garage security

growler

growler

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I have been using the following for years but have just upgraded so thought I would share
I use a baby monitor in my garage, nice and cheap (always ‘as new’ ones for sale) and fitted by door gives warning at the early throws of a break in.
The added feature of my upgrade (£10 off eBay) is 2 way communication so instead of ‘ lullaby baby in a tree top’ it’s ‘get the f@k away from this garage’ if the worse happens and the naughty little cherubs think there’s someone behind the door (I don’t like alarms but garage has bleep warning sensors that also picks up on monitor if door is forced very quietly or I’m in deep sleep)
Added bonus can also ask wife for a coffee when working on bikes (she can tell me to f@k off as well)
 
I think I’ve mentioned this before but:

A bloke,Leon, at the end of my street purchased a brand new HD thing.

His wife and children were on holidays, and the wife posted happy snaps on FB. He couldn’t go on holidays with them because he had to work.

Second night home with HD, he was upstairs and woke to the squeak of his garage door opening.

Armed with a baseball bat, Leon went down to the garage to give his two visitors a …… good morning tiding.

They dropped the HD on its side and jumped into the box body truck that was backed up to the garage and took off.

Police deducted the visitors had broken into the house during the day, gone into the garage and removed the garage door alarm magnets, unlocked the door from inside and came back in the cover of darkness to help themselves.

Pricks!
 
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growler said:
I use a baby monitor in my garage ...
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Brilliant idea. Thanks Growler. I just ordered one on ebay.

I do have a monitored alarm system with a PIR detector in the garage, but I have to remember to arm only the garage zone when I'm in the house, which is a bit of a fiddle with the alarm system key pad. The baby monitor is simpler and more versatile, especially with the 2 way comms. Once it's installed I'll almost be disappointed if some cretin doesn't try to break in!

I'll have to work on my scary voice dialogue. Maybe I could say something like "you have 5 seconds to clear the area before toxic nerve gas is released" :)
 
I used to think that the problem of thieves was only an Italian issue and that in other countries like America or Australia it didn’t exist, because there they simply shoot thieves.
 
Love..rda said:
I used to think that the problem of thieves was only an Italian issue and that in other countries like America or Australia it didn’t exist, because there they simply shoot thieves.
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I thought that it was the other way around. Thieves shooting people.
Every body spends their time shooting everybody. Even school kids.
Paul
 
Love..rda said:
I used to think that the problem of thieves was only an Italian issue and that in other countries like America or Australia it didn’t exist, because there they simply shoot thieves.
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Big difference between gun ownership laws in Australia and the USA. You won't find anyone wearing their side iron at the local supermarket here (in Oz)! And thank fuk for that - you can ram your NRA and whatever amendment is quoted from the days of Whyatt Earp firmly up your back barrel.
 
piranha-bro2 said:
Big difference between gun ownership laws in Australia and the USA. You won't find anyone wearing their side iron at the local supermarket here (in Oz)! And thank fuk for that - you can ram your NRA and whatever amendment is quoted from the days of Whyatt Earp firmly up your back barrel.
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Aussie guns…. 💪
 

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My great grandpa had a banana farm in Australia before WWII.
Thieves came at night, he took his pistol and started to shoot.
The thieves ran away.
 
For a country without a gun problem, we sure do have a lot of shootings and drive bys. My parents, when they bought their first home has 2 choices: a house in Balmain, an inner suburb of Sydney with a lot of Whalf Labourers lived and where Sydneys Organised Crime Gangs sprang from, or an outer suburb with lots of families and new imagrants lived called Guildford. They chose the latter; it's now the drive-by capital of Australia with pretty constant intense rivalry and underworld killings. The other suburb, Balmain wouldnt have a dog shed under 3 or 4 million dollars, and all the old gangsters are long dead. It's a funny old world.
 
sfc vintage said:
Re: burglar alarm: I have 2 Rottweilers, the thief can get into the workshop, but not get away again in a piece
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Ha Ha love it, multiple dogs is better, I have 5 Bull Arab Dingo cross known locally as the "Chromosomes" absolutely thief free property.
 
Vince said:
For a country without a gun problem, we sure do have a lot of shootings and drive bys. My parents, when they bought their first home has 2 choices: a house in Balmain, an inner suburb of Sydney with a lot of Whalf Labourers lived and where Sydneys Organised Crime Gangs sprang from, or an outer suburb with lots of families and new imagrants lived called Guildford. They chose the latter; it's now the drive-by capital of Australia with pretty constant intense rivalry and underworld killings. The other suburb, Balmain wouldnt have a dog shed under 3 or 4 million dollars, and all the old gangsters are long dead. It's a funny old world.
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Yeah spent a few months out Fairfield/Guilford was rough enough mid 80s shit place, spent 7 years in Balmain till the yuppies forced me out loved it 25 pubs still standing on 500 acres mid 90's, never ending pub crawl and still a lot of old school and new hard c**ts around awesome place to live.
 
Love..rda said:
I used to think that the problem of thieves was only an Italian issue and that in other countries like America or Australia it didn’t exist, because there they simply shoot thieves.
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Having had plenty of long term experience in various countries including Italy, France, UK and the US it's not solely an Italian issue but for sure property crime and theft of motorcycles is a worse problem in Europe generally than in the US. You are not wrong in your reasoning either, it'd be dangerous to steal something out of many garages in the US and its a fair assessment that for that reason few try in comparison with e.g. UK... The keys never come out of my US-stored bikes.

I sure wish we could order new bikes in the US without the immobilizer crapola that we don't need, and without locking fuel caps that make fueling more difficult. I've never, ever seen fuel stolen out of a motorcycle, anywhere.
 
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