Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and
they phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were
authorising a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get it
up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

"Halmyre" wrote in message
...
Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and
they phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were
authorising a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get
it
up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

AWEM

In article ,
says...

"Halmyre" wrote in message
...
Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and
they phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were
authorising a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get
it
up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

AWEM

I did think about that, so the new mower is kept in the better-secured
garage (although I've got to get the car out in order to get the mower
out, dammit)

--
Halmyre

...the new mower is kept in the better-secured
garage...

Don't underestimate the returnees. Mine came back well equipped to
tackle a well secured door on a brick outbuilding.

Halmyre wrote:
In article ,
says...

"Halmyre" wrote in message
...
Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and
they phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were
authorising a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get
it up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

AWEM

I did think about that, so the new mower is kept in the better-secured
garage (although I've got to get the car out in order to get the mower
out, dammit)


Dip into ye olde sporran Halmyre and get an alarm fitted - we got done over
some time ago, and the b******s managed to move the car out of the garage
enough to remove some rather valuable equipment.

After that, I had an alarm professionally fitted to the house and garage,
and bugger me, about three months ago the alarm went off in the wee small
hours - and I found that the garage door had been forced again, but this
time, whoever it was ran off - well worth the several hundred pounds for
that alarm fitting.


Falco

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:12:11 +0100 someone who may be "Andrew Mawson"
wrote this:-

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

An appropriate reason for high voltage to be connected to the
replacement lawnmower. They won't do it twice.

If one was serious perhaps some old SM-70s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-70 could be found, which would
certainly give the thieves a bad day and which the survivors would
not forget in a hurry.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000...#pt3-pb3-l1g54

On 8 Aug, 21:54, Halmyre wrote:
Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and
they phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were
authorising a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get it
up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

GSM alarm, phones you if there is a problem, stick a PAYG sim in and
remember to test it once a month.

Lots on epay,like

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wireless-GSM-A...em5 193ed9d9c

Cheers
Adam

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:27:40 -0700 (PDT), Adam Aglionby wrote:

GSM alarm, phones you if there is a problem,

So you are 20 miles away and your alarm rings you up, what do you do?
Ring a neighbour and ask them to possibly disturb the intruders and
get thumped for their trouble? Call the Police, they won't take any
action unless you can say for definite the intruders are still there.

--
Cheers
Dave.

On 9 Aug, 00:15, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:27:40 -0700 (PDT), Adam Aglionby wrote:
GSM alarm, phones you if there is a problem,

So you are 20 miles away and your alarm rings you up, what do you do?

Check the CCTV, 2 seperate network connected systems one very offsite.

Ring a neighbour
Well the banshee wailing and floods triggering off the open collector
output has probably ****ed immediate neighbours off, more likely to
visit damage on alarm than phone Feds , when was last time you phoned
anyone for a sounding alarm?

and ask them to possibly disturb the intruders and
get thumped for their trouble?

Mines programmed to dial a series of workshop neighbours after me,
some of them live close enough to disturb intruders if the are trying
a supermarket sweep like last time, be very unlucky intruder to bump
into collection of once bitten blacksmiths , mechanics and bikers in a
dead end lane...

Call the Police, they won't take any
action unless you can say for definite the intruders are still there.

Covert CCTV for when they have bricked the Overt CCTV should still
have chance to confirm presence of intruders from anywhere that will
support phone data.
If neighbours are `interviewing` intruders Police presence probably
not best.

Cheers
Adam



--
Cheers
Dave.

On 9 Aug, 02:08, Adam Aglionby wrote:

Covert CCTV for when they have bricked the Overt CCTV *

Does anyone have a source for weatherproof camera domes? Cheap
wireless webcams are all over eBay these days, but finding a housing
to turn them into security cameras is harder.

On 08/08/2010 22:32, wrote:

...the new mower is kept in the better-secured
garage...

Don't underestimate the returnees. Mine came back well equipped to
tackle a well secured door on a brick outbuilding.

Happened to me as well some 2 decades ago.

Well constructed wooden doors breached on both occasions and the padlock
on the yard gate broken on the second occasion. A helpful neighbour took
the van registration number the first time around and passed it on to
the Police who couldn't be arsed to actually look for it once they had
found it had recently changed hands to an owner who couldn't be arsed to
register the change of ownership.

Complete co-incidence of course that at the time there was a group of
travellers camped within sight of my house, albeit at some distance away
at the bottom of the hill.

I too now have an alarm which I installed myself which seemed to have
upset the insurance company more than the duplicate thefts.

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:12:11 +0100, Andrew Mawson wrote:

"Halmyre" wrote in message
news:6ce37db6-70fc-4a96-a1c3-
...
Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and they
phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were authorising
a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get
it
up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

Somehow suspend the replacement from the shed ceiling so that it swings
out through the doorway at face height when the door is opened.

"Yes, officer, I always store my mower like that. Leaves more floor
space... practical, see?"

Halmyre wrote:
In article ,
says...

"Halmyre" wrote in message
...
Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and
they phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were
authorising a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get
it up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

AWEM

I did think about that, so the new mower is kept in the better-secured
garage (although I've got to get the car out in order to get the mower
out, dammit)

http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp...ferrer=froogle

Cheapo screeching motion sensor, time delay, operated by key, less than £6,
scare away local smackheads who want to sell your stuff for a quick fix

--
Phil L
RSRL Tipster Of The Year 2008

On 9 Aug, 15:09, Jules Richardson
wrote:
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:12:11 +0100, Andrew Mawson wrote:
"Halmyre" wrote in message
news:6ce37db6-70fc-4a96-a1c3-

...

Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and they
phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were authorising
a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get
it
up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

Somehow suspend the replacement from the shed ceiling so that it swings
out through the doorway at face height when the door is opened.

"Yes, officer, I always store my mower like that. Leaves more floor
space... practical, see?"

Heh, the first person that would be caught out by that would be me.
But at least I'd only do it once...

--
Halmyre

"Halmyre" wrote in message
...
On 9 Aug, 15:09, Jules Richardson
wrote:
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:12:11 +0100, Andrew Mawson wrote:
"Halmyre" wrote in message
news:6ce37db6-70fc-4a96-a1c3-

...

Ne'er-do-wells unscrewed the door of my shed and made off with my
elderly Husqvarna mower. However, phoned the insurance company and
they
phoned back within a couple of hours to say that they were authorising
a replacement. Result! So, message to the scrotes - get
it
up ye! (ancient Scottish blesssing).

--
Halmyre

Beware - they have a habit of returning a few weeks later to nick the
replacement new stuff - happens VERY often.

Somehow suspend the replacement from the shed ceiling so that it swings
out through the doorway at face height when the door is opened.

"Yes, officer, I always store my mower like that. Leaves more floor
space... practical, see?"

Heh, the first person that would be caught out by that would be me.
But at least I'd only do it once...

--
Halmyre

Put a gopod quality padlock on the door and coach bolts through the hinges.
If shed has leccy in it, wire up a light to come on as anyone approaches or
a dusk to dawn light. Nothing more they hate than lights coming on...
Jim