car is being targeted!
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car is being targeted!
Okay everyone,
Here at my apartment I've been noticing alot of people looking at and in my car at night. I don't know if I'm in a bad neighborhood or not, but there are cadillacs all over with rims and systems. I feel like I'm in the ghetto and my car will be broken into soon. What would you suggest other than an alarm? I don't want my system stolen.
Here at my apartment I've been noticing alot of people looking at and in my car at night. I don't know if I'm in a bad neighborhood or not, but there are cadillacs all over with rims and systems. I feel like I'm in the ghetto and my car will be broken into soon. What would you suggest other than an alarm? I don't want my system stolen.
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Rep Power: 0 I HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS FOR YOU TO PONDER.
1. HIRE ARMED SECURITY TO STAND BY AND PROTECT.
2. SLEEP IN IT.
3. BUILD YOUR OWN GARAGE ON THE PARKING LOT AND LOCK IT INSIDE.
4. MOVE TO A BETTER PART OF TOWN.
5. INSTALL AN ALARM.
1. HIRE ARMED SECURITY TO STAND BY AND PROTECT.
2. SLEEP IN IT.
3. BUILD YOUR OWN GARAGE ON THE PARKING LOT AND LOCK IT INSIDE.
4. MOVE TO A BETTER PART OF TOWN.
5. INSTALL AN ALARM.
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Rep Power: 511 cameras.. and make your car loud as a mother****er when the alarm goes off, inside and out... make sure it wakes the entire neighborhood if someone breaks in..
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Rep Power: 0 Get a car cover and a hotel door alarm. The hotel door alarm is easily available at luggage and gift shops... Get the one where the alarm goes off if the pin is pulled. These are VERY LOUD with a different, piercing sound thatn your car alarm. Find someplace on the underside of one of the bumpers and attach the alarm there where it is easily accessible. Attach a light cord to the underside of the car cover near where the alarm would be. Attach it permanently to the cover, and a hook to the other end. Then, when you cover your car with the cover, attach the hook to the alarm. If the cover gets pulled, that alarm will go off, and you now have a pre-warning before they are actually in your car, then if you have a real car alarm, you will have a second warning if they get it... just a thought...
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Rep Power: 336 Originally posted by Explosivo
Get a car cover and a hotel door alarm. The hotel door alarm is easily available at luggage and gift shops... Get the one where the alarm goes off if the pin is pulled. These are VERY LOUD with a different, piercing sound thatn your car alarm. Find someplace on the underside of one of the bumpers and attach the alarm there where it is easily accessible. Attach a light cord to the underside of the car cover near where the alarm would be. Attach it permanently to the cover, and a hook to the other end. Then, when you cover your car with the cover, attach the hook to the alarm. If the cover gets pulled, that alarm will go off, and you now have a pre-warning before they are actually in your car, then if you have a real car alarm, you will have a second warning if they get it... just a thought...
Get a car cover and a hotel door alarm. The hotel door alarm is easily available at luggage and gift shops... Get the one where the alarm goes off if the pin is pulled. These are VERY LOUD with a different, piercing sound thatn your car alarm. Find someplace on the underside of one of the bumpers and attach the alarm there where it is easily accessible. Attach a light cord to the underside of the car cover near where the alarm would be. Attach it permanently to the cover, and a hook to the other end. Then, when you cover your car with the cover, attach the hook to the alarm. If the cover gets pulled, that alarm will go off, and you now have a pre-warning before they are actually in your car, then if you have a real car alarm, you will have a second warning if they get it... just a thought...
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Rep Power: 811 A member here gave me some good info on what to do via PM. Thanks again. I'm really worried now cause I see people pull up next to my car and just sit there for a while. Then they leave after 5 mins. Very strange. I need to do a few more things.
Does anyone know if I can connect a second siren using the same cables going to the first one? I wanted to have a second one hidden in case they cut wires to the first.
Does anyone know if I can connect a second siren using the same cables going to the first one? I wanted to have a second one hidden in case they cut wires to the first.
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Rep Power: 0 Buy a bear trap...hide it under a blanket in your car.
They get inside your car, and WHAP...they've got one mother of an explanation to the cops...especially if you tie it to your vehicle.
They get inside your car, and WHAP...they've got one mother of an explanation to the cops...especially if you tie it to your vehicle.
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Rep Power: 300 Originally posted by SILVERSI
I HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS FOR YOU TO PONDER.
1. HIRE ARMED SECURITY TO STAND BY AND PROTECT.
2. SLEEP IN IT.
3. BUILD YOUR OWN GARAGE ON THE PARKING LOT AND LOCK IT INSIDE.
4. MOVE TO A BETTER PART OF TOWN.
5. INSTALL AN ALARM.
I HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS FOR YOU TO PONDER.
1. HIRE ARMED SECURITY TO STAND BY AND PROTECT.
2. SLEEP IN IT.
3. BUILD YOUR OWN GARAGE ON THE PARKING LOT AND LOCK IT INSIDE.
4. MOVE TO A BETTER PART OF TOWN.
5. INSTALL AN ALARM.
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Rep Power: 0 wireless camera, and a alarm that has a super sensitive alarm that if they are standing in the vacinity of the car, it will start beeping and/or going off. they will no longer look in or standing around
Originally posted by gearbox
A member here gave me some good info on what to do via PM. Thanks again. I'm really worried now cause I see people pull up next to my car and just sit there for a while. Then they leave after 5 mins. Very strange. I need to do a few more things.
Does anyone know if I can connect a second siren using the same cables going to the first one? I wanted to have a second one hidden in case they cut wires to the first.
A member here gave me some good info on what to do via PM. Thanks again. I'm really worried now cause I see people pull up next to my car and just sit there for a while. Then they leave after 5 mins. Very strange. I need to do a few more things.
Does anyone know if I can connect a second siren using the same cables going to the first one? I wanted to have a second one hidden in case they cut wires to the first.
do you mean hooking up a backup siren? i have a backup siren. the siren will go off when the battery is disconnet. (ie if they cut the battery cable) i have one and it's behind my bumper and it's loud as hell.....it's 3X my alarm. not that's expensinve. cost me $100CND installed. don't know about US
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Rep Power: 811 I need to get me a bear trap lol. But I think I'll get that backup siren. I have a backup battery if they disconnect the big one, but then they could just cut the siren wires. So I need another separate siren. I want to keep the siren going so they get discouraged and go away. The trunk now takes me at least 2 mins to open with keys, so they won't spend that much time when the siren is going.
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Rep Power: 527 But if they cut the battery cables wouldn't they be unable to start the car?
Oh wait you said they're just going to steal your system, not your car. My bad.
Make sure whatever sirens you get are remote shut off. Too bad there are other innocent people around... otherwise I would say get alarms loud enough to cause permament ear damage to anyone who sets them off. Then you could shut them off remotely before you have to get near your car.
Set up a device to lock them in the car and fill it with knockout gas. Hehe.
Oh wait you said they're just going to steal your system, not your car. My bad.
Make sure whatever sirens you get are remote shut off. Too bad there are other innocent people around... otherwise I would say get alarms loud enough to cause permament ear damage to anyone who sets them off. Then you could shut them off remotely before you have to get near your car.
Set up a device to lock them in the car and fill it with knockout gas. Hehe.
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Rep Power: 527 Electrify your system so when they try to remove it. ZZAAPP! Just make sure you remember to turn off the electic system before YOU touch it.
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Rep Power: 527 Or, sit on the roof with a gun, and when they try to break into your car, shoot out their tires. Then they'd have a system that they'd have to carry away on foot.
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Rep Power: 811 That's funny. But I've heard that there's an independent alarm that you actually have to use a key to turn off once it's triggered. It's linked to the main system, though.
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Rep Power: 0 Really im a lite sleeper so i hear everything so if someone breaks into my car i will hear and when i do i have a .22 semi auto rifle with one magazine loaded with blanks so if i hear a breaking window then i go outside and start shooting the guy runs away cause he thinks there bullets coming out and really theres not but on the other hand if he shoots back i have another magazine loaded with real bullets .
My neghborhood isnt bad so i have never had to do this but for some reason one night someon drives by and want to jack my car i might have to
My neghborhood isnt bad so i have never had to do this but for some reason one night someon drives by and want to jack my car i might have to
You should have a stake out from the outside not in your home not enough time to run after him. F alarms he'll have a chance to run and get away. Get a camera and have the police ready to move in when they come.
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Rep Power: 0 Attach a sticker to the driver side window that says
"This car protected by Glock"
Or find some big huge street thug, a friend of yours if you know somebody like that, who's huge and looks really threatening. Have him wait at your house and when you see somebody checking out your car, walk out together, have him get in the driver seat and you in the passenger, and as you're getting in have him look at whoever's checking out your car and, well, just think of something Mr. T would say - you get the idea. Then drive off, like it's his car. I think a lot of people would be scared to rip off a guy who could turn them inside out. I know I sure am ...
"This car protected by Glock"
Or find some big huge street thug, a friend of yours if you know somebody like that, who's huge and looks really threatening. Have him wait at your house and when you see somebody checking out your car, walk out together, have him get in the driver seat and you in the passenger, and as you're getting in have him look at whoever's checking out your car and, well, just think of something Mr. T would say - you get the idea. Then drive off, like it's his car. I think a lot of people would be scared to rip off a guy who could turn them inside out. I know I sure am ...
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Don't bump your system when your within your neighborhood. I turn all my shi*t off when I'm a mile within my place, I pull off the faceplate and have tinted windows....
That keeps people from knowing you have a system. Then if people are still interested in my car I have an alarm set as sensitive as possible, no proximity that pisses the neighbors off...
If you can call the police with a plate number so if you are broken into you have a place to start investigating....Wireless camera are a good option if you got money to burn. You can set it up for motion detection, anytime someone comes into view the camera activates and begin recording...make sure you can get a good shot of car types or faces with it and you are all set.
If people really want your system they will get it. All you can do is take necessary precautions and hope for the better. Everything else is for when it happens. You can nab the *****(s) and hopefully get your system back in full.
Guns and bear traps while an entertaining idea because I like screaming of aggony from bad people and carnage you then open yourself up to legal issues. Especially if he dies...believe it or not juries out there will convict you of murder attempted murder etc. for protecting your own investments and punishing severly the people who pose a danger to them.
That keeps people from knowing you have a system. Then if people are still interested in my car I have an alarm set as sensitive as possible, no proximity that pisses the neighbors off...
If you can call the police with a plate number so if you are broken into you have a place to start investigating....Wireless camera are a good option if you got money to burn. You can set it up for motion detection, anytime someone comes into view the camera activates and begin recording...make sure you can get a good shot of car types or faces with it and you are all set.
If people really want your system they will get it. All you can do is take necessary precautions and hope for the better. Everything else is for when it happens. You can nab the *****(s) and hopefully get your system back in full.
Guns and bear traps while an entertaining idea because I like screaming of aggony from bad people and carnage you then open yourself up to legal issues. Especially if he dies...believe it or not juries out there will convict you of murder attempted murder etc. for protecting your own investments and punishing severly the people who pose a danger to them.
