Technology finally saved my butt...

[MossRoad]

Got 4 of em, they work great. They hang over the car so you really have to reach for them.

Of course. I have never seen a garage door opener chain latch without the manual pull rope to unlatch the chain/opener slider from the door.

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!

 

[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