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Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 1:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Hi, we have something I have dubbed "The Drive-Way Bandit" in our neighborhood. They will steal anything not pinned down in front of your house. (well, actually, they stole a stereo from the car across the street, so I guess they do steal pinned downed things). This weekend they stole the the aluminum bars that hold up the vinyl cover on the bed of DH's pick-up truck. DH thinks they were cashing it in for the weight. I guess you get a good price for aluminum these days. They steal anything! They stole the fishing pole and small motor from the guy next door's little fishing boat. All these thefts were on different days and different weeks. If I left my wet shoes at the front mat, I'm pretty sure they would be gone, too.


Any ideas on how to stop driveway bandits? Leaving the lights on and motion lights do nothing! (next door with the little fishing boat have the motion light) It's like they know when we are asleep. I am afraid to even leave my sprinkler out or my garden hose and reel.

Oh how I miss having a young dog. When my German Shepherd was younger, no one could get within 100 feet of house before she went nuts with barking. Now she is almost 14 and can't hear anything outside anymore.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Naja, you can get a little video camera that hooks to your vcr, I think they're fairly cheap. Won't stop them but you might get them on camera?

Our neighborhoods been like that for years and we've learned to leave nothing out. On the rare occassions we do, we haven't had too many problems. We do have several neighbors who are targeted frequently unfortunately.

Our only problems with it was that both of us like to leave change (well I was leaving dollar bills) in the ashtrays of our cars. Darren for newspaper money, me for the kids lunch money and yep, each one of us has been hit. They got a little more money from my car than Darren's, but not much cuz I didn't keep a lot there, but Darren's was really annoying cuz they didn't just steal his change, they took the whole ashtray! We don't smoke, but that was the only place he had to keep change, chapstick, and gum. Lesson learned, we don't keep money in the cars anymore.

A lot of us have the motion sensor lights and that didn't seem to stop it a bit. In the last year it's gotten better, but I think that has more to do with the fact that besides Darren, there are now quite a few neighbors who have very odd work hours, either getting off very late or leaving very early and there hours aren't always the same (Darren, for instance, can leave anywhere from 2:30am-5:30am.)

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 5:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
A few years ago I used to do a storm watch cam and once in awhile a cockatiel cam where I would put the cam on my bird all day. The site is still active.

http://bughug.250free.com/index.html

Maybe I'll do something like that again. I feel like I would be crawling into a cave if I used a VCR when I already have done live stuff with my computers. I think when I get it set up, I'll post the URL and maybe our members can spot the thieves. I actually have a couple old boom boxes and other things that I can set out front as bait on my bench in front of one of the garage doors. This might be fun.