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Life changing event
JamesH:
--- Quote from: Laverda120 on January 14, 2018, 03:46:48 PM ---Does anyone remember the company that advertised in MCN in the 90's and who used to sell a tripwire linked to a shotgun cartridge! The trigger would hit the cartridge when the trip wire was moved by Johnny Burgler when attempting to break into your garage. Nasty shock for someone!Unfortunately you can no longer buy it!
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https://www.ant-supplies.uk/bits-and-bobs/blank-firing-alarm-mines.html
MrDavo:
When I raced classics I had a gallon or so of used Castrol R after every meeting that got painted onto my fence, which discouraged the scrotes from hanging around in the alley at the side of my house, as leaning on the fence would spoil their shell suits.
When said fence got smashed a copper turned up eventually, when I suggested it would be me in trouble if I were to chase them and give them a good hiding, he smiled, looked me in the eye and said “not if you were wearing a balaclava†:)
I’ve had a few old Mercs over the years, fed up of the badges getting broken off I took a new one and ground the back off on my wheel. It was that sharp I once cut myself washing the car, if I found fingers on the bonnet the story was going to be that I’d bought it like that and knew nothing about it.
The badge lasted over a year, the night it did go, I heard a scream outside in the early hours....
royhall:
--- Quote from: Trigger on January 14, 2018, 07:06:26 PM ---If it can be fitted, then it can be removed very easy with a battery angle grinder. Easy way is don't leave tools in a van, if they are not there, then they can't be nicked. And a sticker saying: "No tools left in van over night" doesn't work ;)
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That's easy to say Trig when you just have a few items to take out of your van. Look at it another way, if you don't want your workshop/shop/office robbing take everything home with you every night. Just simply impossible to do. The amount of tools and stock I have to carry daily does not give me the option of emptying it every night. The van "is" my transport/office/shop/workshop. Plus they stole the whole van so I would have had to take that into the house every night as well.
Moorey:
--- Quote from: royhall on January 16, 2018, 07:51:35 AM ---
--- Quote from: Trigger on January 14, 2018, 07:06:26 PM ---If it can be fitted, then it can be removed very easy with a battery angle grinder. Easy way is don't leave tools in a van, if they are not there, then they can't be nicked. And a sticker saying: "No tools left in van over night" doesn't work ;)
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That's easy to say Trig when you just have a few items to take out of your van. Look at it another way, if you don't want your workshop/shop/office robbing take everything home with you every night. Just simply impossible to do. The amount of tools and stock I have to carry daily does not give me the option of emptying it every night. The van "is" my transport/office/shop/workshop. Plus they stole the whole van so I would have had to take that into the house every night as well.
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Not exactly true about not been able to empty the van every day. Thousands of market traders do it every day in far bigger vans with far more stock. If you do it every day you make it easy to fill and empty.
Green1:
Empting them every day doesn't work if you still park your van on the drive.
Years ago my neighbour had his van emptied about a month later they came back and emptied it again.
He replaced the tools again and started putting the tools in the garage at night and backing the van tight up against the door.
About another month went by and they got in the van again realising it was empty they rolled the van forward and emptied the garage taking more then previously as there were additional tools stored in there.
He quit building and started up a firing range in Spain in the end.
Its also worth noting I live at the end of a small cul-de-sac and no van or car normally goes unmissed day or night.
It turned out to be the traveling community causing havoc luckily the local static so called travellers run them out of town.
I'm starting to get a bit paranoid again at the moment as the non local travellers have started to come down the road again in there pikey waggon and they managed to get a good look inside my garage when the door was up. I turned around and he was standing almost in the garage clocking everything.
Not good when it was setup as a joiners shop and most of the bikes were in full view on the drive.
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