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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: frotosride on January 17, 2013, 10:29:16 am
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So i describe my location as the mansion in the trailer park. We live in a small condo village surrounded by government funded(me & you funded) housing. well I have found people in my back yard on several occasions in the last few weeks. I'm sure it has happened more but this time they got too brave. I told my wife that after christmass we will probably get more trying to see what kind of goodies we got for christmass....as luck would have it it happened 3 times the next week.
Now I don't want to physicallyharm (kill) anyone, well want porbably isn't the right word because i do want to but I know it's not the best. I have some corabon hollow points, "flying-ashtrays" as I like to call them, and hydrashock in my .45 for just that ocasion.
For now I am going to try escalation of force. Scare tactic is up first. You know how almost everyone has motion activated lights and they were nice prpbably 5-10years ago but now a-days a would be thief is just greatful for the light and know that no one is paying attention. So I decided to add a twist to my motion light.
I started with this cheap thinge seen here from wally world.
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But I had a plan in mind. Lights alone almost never scare people. I mean think of a train. Yea, the light is a little intemidating but that sound is un-nerving especially if you are close to it. So that lead me to this.
I ordered a new horn for my truck (wolo badboy) and I tok one of the oe's and a ac/dc converter and started making noise... it sounds sooo much louder than it ever did on the truck. All I have to do is weather prro it and we will be in business. This will also give me a chance to get outside with my "ashtray" launcher for positive re-enforcement.
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lol thats fantastic. im a little amused at that one. maybe i should put one in my carport...
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I tested it in the garage and it was loud. I had the door up and it was echoing off all the houses. The best part of this i I just go my new horn in the mail. cant wait to hook it up and hear her screamxcxcxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxsssd
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Here's the new horn... it looked cheap when I saw it online but having it in my hand is a whole diffrent world.
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Heres the back view....well actually the the front because its the side that faces away from the truck.
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Of course you realize that every time you walk into your back yard at night you're going to wake the neighbors. In my experience a little wind moving branches will also activate the motion sensor. And, a possum, cat or dog might set it off, as well. You might just end up with upset neighbors who would like nothing better than to see you robbed as revenge, in the end. A horn would be more effective in the country.
You might be farther ahead by organizing an active Neighborhood Watch and establish a rapport with local authorities. May not be as satisfying as whacking a perp, but legal and effective if you can keep everyone interested with regular meetings and neighborhood events. My 2¢.
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Of course you realize that every time you walk into your back yard at night you're going to wake the neighbors. In my experience a little wind moving branches will also activate the motion sensor. And, a possum, cat or dog might set it off, as well. You might just end up with upset neighbors who would like nothing better than to see you robbed as revenge, in the end. A horn would be more effective in the country.
You might be farther ahead by organizing an active Neighborhood Watch and establish a rapport with local authorities. May not be as satisfying as whacking a perp, but legal and effective if you can keep everyone interested with regular meetings and neighborhood events. My 2¢.
I hear ya BD I'm placing it on the side of the house where there are no bushes, trees. I'm sure i won't keep it forever but for my entertainment purposes for the time being it's meeting my needs. I am however the neighborhood watch. And yes it's not fun especialy since it's cold and makes my knee hurt walking up and down the street. I set it up to plug into my back pordh light so I can turn it off and on with a switch it also has a light sensor on it so day time won't be a problem. we will see. I really want to do the neighborhood watch thing but until someone else around here gets pissed enough to want it too im all by myself. But wishing I still lived in the country...then I'd hook it up to an actual air horn and my compressor.
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Need to set up a video camera along with it. Then we can all see the dirtbag jump out of his skin!
The old buck up the street where I grew up had a problem with some kids going in his barn stealing gas etc. He tried locking the barn up but they would just rip the lock off, kick the door in etc. He was friends with my dad, and neither one of them took any crap from nobody. I don't remember exactly how he had it set up. But he had an old leaf spring pulled back with a rope, and set a trip in the doorway so if you opened the door and walked in you got whacked in the shins / knees with a leaf spring! After he set it up it was only a matter of about 24 hours that he found it set off. The next Monday at school one of the older kids from the same part of town was limping around school. Heard from the grapevine that the old man was waiting for him in the barn and whacked him with a ball bat! Over the next few years he got several kids that tried to get in.
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Need to set up a video camera along with it. Then we can all see the dirtbag jump out of his skin!
i second that idea...lol
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Yup, game camera! Or something like that.
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I knew the camera thing would be suggested and I'm going to try my best redneck low buck approach to it but first I gotta get a cheap camera....and no not a game camera those things are expencive..I'm thinking a web cam with a usb lead and motion activation. That should do the trick.
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You can get cheap ones for $20-/+ at Wally world or used on Cl.
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harbor freight has cameras for 35, that have infra red
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Remember the days when the kids would take a twig and "set" horns around halloween? An old buck up the street parked his car where it was easy to get to, left the window down and had an extension cord wired to his horn ring. After that he didnt have any problems! Theres always more than one way to skin a cat!
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I used to have a pond in my back yard, and I tried to keep various kinds of decorative fish in it. At night, raccoons, cats, and whatever else was hungry would scoop out as many fish as they could. One of the deterrents I found was a sprinkler with a motion sensor attached to it. It had a stake on the end that you stuck in the ground, and a connection for a standard garden hose. I don't remember if it was battery powered or if it needed to be plugged in. I don't even remember if it prevented any fish theft. My favorite memories of it were of my boy taking the trash out and forgetting about the motion activated sprinkler....not once...not twice...DOZENS of times! I couldn't NOT laugh whenever it happened. Then, one day, I took the trash out and forgot about the sprinkler. My boy was still laughing when I went back in the house. Good times, good times.
I googled "motion activated sprinkler" just now, and you can buy them online from various sources, and it looks like Lowe's has carried them in the past.
The house I live in now has a detached garage, which has a window on the side of it. I screwed a couple of razor blades right in front of the window latches, so that if someone breaks the glass out and reaches in to unlatch the window, they're (hopefully) going to get cut badly enough that they decide to call it a night. That's not really a deterrent, but I thought I'd toss it out there anyway.
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Remember the days when the kids would take a twig and "set" horns around halloween? An old buck up the street parked his car where it was easy to get to, left the window down and had an extension cord wired to his horn ring. After that he didnt have any problems! Theres always more than one way to skin a cat!
Thats funny. there's nothing like scaring the crap out of someone who's trying to get you instead.
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I used to have a pond in my back yard, and I tried to keep various kinds of decorative fish in it. At night, raccoons, cats, and whatever else was hungry would scoop out as many fish as they could. One of the deterrents I found was a sprinkler with a motion sensor attached to it. It had a stake on the end that you stuck in the ground, and a connection for a standard garden hose. I don't remember if it was battery powered or if it needed to be plugged in. I don't even remember if it prevented any fish theft. My favorite memories of it were of my boy taking the trash out and forgetting about the motion activated sprinkler....not once...not twice...DOZENS of times! I couldn't NOT laugh whenever it happened. Then, one day, I took the trash out and forgot about the sprinkler. My boy was still laughing when I went back in the house. Good times, good times.
I googled "motion activated sprinkler" just now, and you can buy them online from various sources, and it looks like Lowe's has carried them in the past.
The house I live in now has a detached garage, which has a window on the side of it. I screwed a couple of razor blades right in front of the window latches, so that if someone breaks the glass out and reaches in to unlatch the window, they're (hopefully) going to get cut badly enough that they decide to call it a night. That's not really a deterrent, but I thought I'd toss it out there anyway.
I looked at the sprinklers and the ones I saw like the "scarecrow" was expencive but watching videos was entertaining. As for the razor blades i like the thought but I also have 4 kids the oldes being 7 so thats a definate no but it is inventive and most likely effective.
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Bear traps would be more satisfying ;D
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Bear traps would be more satisfying ;D
Electrified bear traps would be more better.
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LOL^ ;D
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When I was a kid the local constable drove CJ5's & CJ7's. When out of town no one knew it was a police vehicle, because back in those days you used your own car, and tossed a blue light on the dash, or roof when responding to a call. He had his spare tire cover stolen many times. Had a rebel flag painted on them. He used razor blades protruding through the cover so if you tried to peel it off from the top you got bloody. After that he found blood on the back of his spare tire a couple times.
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He used razor blades protruding through the cover so if you tried to peel it off from the top you got bloody. After that he found blood on the back of his spare tire a couple times.
I've heard tales of people putting razor blades under the lower lip of their dashboard too, just in case someone tried to reach up there for hot-wiring or stereo stealing. I also heard (Well, read it in a car audio magazine about ten years ago.) that someone had mounted some sort of zip-gun or shotgun or piece of pipe with a shotgun shell and trigger onto his lower steering column, aimed about where the driver's head would be, wired up to the car alarm. If it's true, it's possibly one of the top ten worst ideas in the history of human civilization. I'd trust a crackhead with my wallet before I'd give my car alarm a shotgun.
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He used razor blades protruding through the cover so if you tried to peel it off from the top you got bloody. After that he found blood on the back of his spare tire a couple times.
I've heard tales of people putting razor blades under the lower lip of their dashboard too, just in case someone tried to reach up there for hot-wiring or stereo stealing. I also heard (Well, read it in a car audio magazine about ten years ago.) that someone had mounted some sort of zip-gun or shotgun or piece of pipe with a shotgun shell and trigger onto his lower steering column, aimed about where the driver's head would be, wired up to the car alarm. If it's true, it's possibly one of the top ten worst ideas in the history of human civilization. I'd trust a crackhead with my wallet before I'd give my car alarm a shotgun.
Thats just flat out stupid...one bad day when you forget about that little shell and bang.
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Discouraging someone is one thing. Causing physical harm or worse is unbelievable. Is a possesion worth maiming or killing someone over? Not to me...
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Discouraging someone is one thing. Causing physical harm or worse is unbelievable. Is a possesion worth maiming or killing someone over? Not to me...
I hear that but now adays people will do just that just because you looked at them wrong or cut them off on the road.
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Froto,
I think you missed my point. I agree there is an element out there that has no regard for human life. Some of them we have elected! What I am saying pertains to each individuals reaction to being the "victim" of something that did them no physical harm. I'm not going to shoot you or install razor blades to protect a spare tire or stereo system. I may do things to make it more difficult for you or to discourage you without hospitalizing you. Most of us carry insurance against such things. Why end up in court over it? However, if you break into my home, I'm going to react in a way that will remove the threat from me and my family. There is a big difference between guarding possessions and keeping your family safe.
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^^^^^ This !!!
If someone enters my house while me or my family are there it's very likely that they will not leave under their own power. If the big lab doesn't get them then I'm pretty sure the shotgun will. Would I go outside and attempt to stop someone breaking into my truck? Yes I would. Would I be willing to take a life over stuff? At one time the answer was yes but as I've matured with age that answer has changed to no. Now, if I yell at them to stop and they come at me or something then all bets are off. I will not stand by and let a "bad guy" get the drop on me so to speak.
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we had a farmer rig his barn door up with a shotgun. some kids broke in, killed one he got charged with murder.
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we had a farmer rig his barn door up with a shotgun. some kids broke in, killed one he got charged with murder.
if it was a black kid they would have called the man raciest... reminds me of that incident down here in FL the guy that shot the black teen... the Trayvon Martin Case with George Zimmerman
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Ok, so i got the set up right and we had a big storm the other night and none of the bushes or trees set it off. My dog on the other hand was so scared that she wouldn't go back outside. We had another incident two days ago but I hadn't set the light or alarm up yet! I can't wait to hear the screams of a not so innocent victum....
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I've often thought of the idea of wiring Earl's headlights and horn to a motion detector. Usually, the truck is parked where nobody has any business without our say-so, and a nighttime visitor walking across the front of my truck, to be splashed with light and sound, would be awesome. I could even throw in some loud engine and braking noise too... hehehehehehehehe
It'd also be a great Halloween prank...
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Discouraging someone is one thing. Causing physical harm or worse is unbelievable. Is a possesion worth maiming or killing someone over? Not to me...
Call me simple minded if you want to. But I believe if a man goes someplace he knows dang well he has no business going, like inside your house or shop or car he deserves whatever happens to him. Shot by a gun, cut with razor blades, beat with a ball bat, chewed up by a mean dog or anything else. In the end he only has himself to blame. But nowadays everything is always someones else's fault.
It seems like everything I was taught growing up that was right is now wrong and everything I was taught that was wrong is now right.
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Honestly, the LAST thing I'd want to do is to kill someone... well... not the *last*... that would be for anyone in my family, myself included, to come to harm. All the same, if I can show ol' Roscoe to the intruders, and they run away never to come back, I'd be a happy camper. Not all that unlikely, either, as it's been studied, and the number of successful firearms defenses are anywhere between 800,000 (antigun bureaucrat number) all the way to 2.5 million (Gary Kleck, whose only crime against his liberal employers was that honest research changed his mind), a vast majority of them never involved a shot being fired (and a few, either missed or warning shots).
Heck. Since criminals are such cowards, just having something that resembles a gun will statistically have 'em running for the hills.
I wouldn't advise that, though... if a baddie were desperate enough, or otherwise emboldened, you want something to send his way.