mrmikey
Veteran Member
This kind of stuff irks me.Reminds me of an incident that happened many years ago when an old drinking buddy of mine worked as a bouncer at a roadside tavern. His truck was constantly being burglarized while he was on the job. He tried various alarm systems but, as you noted, they were mostly ignored in the crowded tavern parking lot.
Out of frustration, he wired two oil burner transformers to the truck body so a would be thief would get a 5000 volt shock when they entered the cab. It worked very well for a few months until one night, he found a dead body lying next to his truck after he got off work. It was an older, well known thief who had several B&E convictions. He had a heart condition and the shock killed him when he tried to break into the truck.
To make a long story short, my buddy got in serious legal trouble for booby trapping his truck. What really gets me though is, the thief's family hit him with a wrongful death suit! He was in court for a couple of years and I lost touch with him so I don't know how it all ended.
I guess this is why you don't see high voltage alarm systems on the market.
Yeah, it's too bad he died but saying that, if he not tried to break into the truck he'd still be alive. If it's not your stuff, you have no right to be touching it.
Reminds me, a lot of decades ago my dad had a shed in his back yard, 8 x 10 or similar. Used to keep his mower couple of shovels in it, nothing worth anything but he put a padlock on it. Well the shed backed on a path and there were people breaking into it just because. Ended up he'd just pull the hasp over and not bother with a lock figuring it'd be just left alone.
Then the local idiots would open the door and have a crap or a leak in it. At the end he ended up gluing a couple of razor blades to the underside of the hasp so they were sticking out 1/4" or so. Couple days later the door was swinging in the wind with a small pool of blood below the door, never was bothered again after that.