Yo all,
This morning my wife discovered her car was either broke into or she left a door unlocked, nothing we thought was stolen, however the clove box & ash trays were gone through. We reported it to our local police and even an officer came out and took a report. We asked if they could drive through the neighborhood after 2am at least once a night. Later a fella from the next street up came to my door, his car was broke into and again the door might have been unlocked because there was no sign of forced entry, BUT he had our papers from our vehicle that were in our glove box!
It looks like some teens have been trying car doors and seeing what they could get. If they were successful once, and get a taste for theft, next will be breaking into houses or something else.
What steps would you take for home security that are low cost? So far after living in this neighborhood for two years, we know of only one minor theft from a uhaul trailer that was left unlocked on an adjacent street. In other words we are in a low crime area, most homes are occupied by owners, (however this is changing with foreclosures, and corporate buyers buy homes cheap and rent them out).
My current plan to prevent future possible vehicle crime.
1. Put our Garage front lights on dusk to dawn to motion sensor.
2. Add low intensity spot light that will focus on our two vehicles parked in driveway, these spot lights will only come on from midnight until dawn when the motion sensor activates covering the driveway.
3. I am considering putting our garage inside lights on random timer to activate at least twelve times between 12am and 6am. My garage door has windows in upper part.
4. My driveway is a 3 car drive with two car garage and gate for RV or boat parking next to the garage. I already lock the gate, but am considering putting a low intensity light that again would be on a random timer dusk until dawn.
5. I am considering converting a pc-cam to a motion sensing camera that would wireless send pics to my PC.
Note my walk up to the front door entry is already using a motion sensing light.
We can't put our cars in the garage too much stuff in there from projects and wood working equipment.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
This morning my wife discovered her car was either broke into or she left a door unlocked, nothing we thought was stolen, however the clove box & ash trays were gone through. We reported it to our local police and even an officer came out and took a report. We asked if they could drive through the neighborhood after 2am at least once a night. Later a fella from the next street up came to my door, his car was broke into and again the door might have been unlocked because there was no sign of forced entry, BUT he had our papers from our vehicle that were in our glove box!
It looks like some teens have been trying car doors and seeing what they could get. If they were successful once, and get a taste for theft, next will be breaking into houses or something else.
What steps would you take for home security that are low cost? So far after living in this neighborhood for two years, we know of only one minor theft from a uhaul trailer that was left unlocked on an adjacent street. In other words we are in a low crime area, most homes are occupied by owners, (however this is changing with foreclosures, and corporate buyers buy homes cheap and rent them out).
My current plan to prevent future possible vehicle crime.
1. Put our Garage front lights on dusk to dawn to motion sensor.
2. Add low intensity spot light that will focus on our two vehicles parked in driveway, these spot lights will only come on from midnight until dawn when the motion sensor activates covering the driveway.
3. I am considering putting our garage inside lights on random timer to activate at least twelve times between 12am and 6am. My garage door has windows in upper part.
4. My driveway is a 3 car drive with two car garage and gate for RV or boat parking next to the garage. I already lock the gate, but am considering putting a low intensity light that again would be on a random timer dusk until dawn.
5. I am considering converting a pc-cam to a motion sensing camera that would wireless send pics to my PC.
Note my walk up to the front door entry is already using a motion sensing light.
We can't put our cars in the garage too much stuff in there from projects and wood working equipment.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
