Technology finally saved my butt...

[k0ua]

When your garage door is closed, that rope is hanging about 6" directly inside of the top of the door. Take a straightened coat hangar with the hook on the end still, slide it up between the framing and door, swish it around a bit, and pull the string out through the front. Pull the cord, open the door. Take anything you want. Bye!

Uh.... what did I say about a "misspent" youth? .....Just saying....... Probably ought to delete these posts... Just saying.....Some things are best left unsaid....

 

[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

Uh.... what did I say about a "misspent" youth? .....Just saying....... Probably ought to delete these posts... Just saying.....Some things are best left unsaid....

Better to be informed and do something about it. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

There are lots of products out there to help make it more difficult. For example, a product like this. It makes it more difficult, so the person will probably move on VS spending time working on it.

 

[k0ua]

Better to be informed and do something about it. :thumbsup:

yeah, and the next video up in the same panel is about bump keys... where does it end? There are so many many ways to B&E you cant really protect from them all.. yeah I know, you can't "put the genie back in the bottle", and you can't unknow something that is known....Most all security is an illusion. I know another way to open garage doors even those will "rolling codes" and all of that in 1 second and you don't even have to get out of your thieving car. It never ends...

 

[MossRoad]

Yep. Remember cheap fiberglass garage doors that had a cable from the center handle out to either side latch. All you had to do was poke a hole through the fiberglass next to the handle, reach in with a bent wire, and pull the cable. Some criminal tried that on one of ours many years ago. Fortunately, I had a light beam in the garage with the reflector on the door. As soon as he lifted it, the alarm went off.

 

[oosik]

I only have a multiple bay open carport and one hidden outside key. I've had to use that outside key a couple times. Leave the house and forgot to include the key ring. I still lock the house when I leave. Old habits die hard.

 

[mikester]

I made the mistake of telling my wife where the key was hidden. One day she locked herself out and used the key. And then one day I locked myself out and the key wasn't there anymore. She doesn't remember what she did with it after using it.

If you are relying on a hidden key and you live with others, be sure to have TWO hidden keys. One for you and one for them to lose.

I have several neighbors who still leave their house unlocked and the keys in the cars. I also see people leaving their car running in the parking lot or on the street going to the local variety store or coffee shop.

I can understand that happening in the country but it surprises me when I see guys leaving their BMWs running downtown Toronto streets stopping to buy cigarettes.

 

[Sigarms]

I have several neighbors who still leave their house unlocked and the keys in the cars. I also see people leaving their car running in the parking lot or on the street going to the local variety store or coffee shop.

I can understand that happening in the country but it surprises me when I see guys leaving their BMWs running downtown Toronto streets stopping to buy cigarettes.

My car doors at home are genearlly always unlocked. Nothing in the cars anyway. ANYTIME I / we leave home, I generally ensure that all the deadbolts and doors are locked. Friday night I didn't do the dead bolt on the front door because I don't have house keys with the car I was taking (which I'll change this week). We always have cars around house, have to drive down the standard gravel road off a rural sideroad to get to house, added the dogs go nuts when they hear a car coming into the driveway. The only visitors I get is generally the mail person or the local fire department annually for their donation (which I gladly give). Secruity system are shotguns that are locked and secured on each floor level by primary entrance door LOL

 

[Jstpssng]

I generally leave my trucks unlocked and usually leave the keys in my company truck during the week. In winter it's for safety, in case of fire I can go out through my bedroom window and get into the truck.

Lately though somebody has been going around stealing cats from vehicles. My personal truck was out by the road and hasn't been used all winter; I moved it down to the house, and both trucks are locked when before I go to bed at night.