How do you catch a thief?
My car has been broken into, a few weeks ago our garage was broken into (forcible entry), and last night our garage was broken into again. The police feel like we’re being targeted, most likely by someone we know. This is getting old really fast, and I want to know who is robbing us. I’m sure there is a good possibility that they’ll return, they seem to be making a habit of it… so is there an affordable way (read: I’m not buying a whole security system) to find out who it is?
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Spy cameras It looks like these go from around $50.00 on up to the hundreds. I think I would opt for a hidden camera such as these just so I could catch the thief instead of using an obvious camera that they may damage or steal.
Can you create a way to spy yourself?
Make a phoney blind in the garage, maybe a clothesline in the corner and hang some blankets and wait to snap a photo.
SMILE! You’re on Candid Camera! :-D
@Coloma I do actually have every intention of pulling the night shift for at least the next week. I have no idea when or if they will be back, but I intend to be awake next time. I’m pissed.
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Yeah, well I should clarify that I wouldn’t want you to risk any harm, but, if it were me, I think it would be hard to resist not hiding on the roof or somewhere with someone and see what happens. Lasso ‘em…..quick hire a cowboy! hahahaha
Do you have a nearby neighbor that has an externally mounted video camera? If you do, perhaps their camera is already or could be focused on your property.
Yeah, you gotta get a camera, or you and your husband can camp out around your property and wait for them, but that could get messy.
1) Borrow my Dragunov
2) Wait for the bastards.
3) Shoot ‘em in the ankles.
4) WHO’S THE SNEAKY ONE NOW?!
@Brian1946 we do, but no one that can get a clear view of our garage or driveway from their property. We talked to our neighbors the last time they broke in.
I just want to know who it is, because not only do the police think it is someone we know… I do, too. I don’t know who, but I know that the way it has been done just smacks of it being someone familiar with our routine and also with the kind of items we have in the garage.
It pisses me off, because my husband is the type of person who would give you the shirt off of his back if you needed it, and we may not have much, but we have helped so many people in the time that we’ve lived in this house. We’ve let kids move in with us, we’ve helped people pay bills, I feed them when they’re hungry, whatever. It makes me furious that someone would do this to us, when if you need something, all you have to do is ask. UGH.
@Blackberry yeah, I don’t like the second option. My husband was pacing around the house all evening with his firearm.
Hahaha, Kate, I have the PERFECT shot from the rocking chair in my bedroom. That would be the best day ever.
@ANef_is_Enuf I would be doing the same thing, but you guys have kids and that just makes it different, but if I was childless: slam a redbull, put on the black clothes, get ready for action! I hate thieves.
@ANef_is_Enuf
I know all too well how you feel. My house has been burglarized 3 times and my previous car was burglarized 4 times.
I now have a car alarm, and motion-detecting light units mounted in the front and back of my house.
@Brian1946 yeah, I think they are installing an alarm tonight. It’s sad that it needs to be that way.
Isn’t a Dragunov overkill?
@ANef_is_Enuf : You need Dan and Fiddle to come and hang out. They’ll catch them! And Symbeline and Katawagrey in case it’s Zombies…
I have some very interesting techniques for human zombie traps.
“You need Dan and Fiddle to come and hang out.”
Count me in for a midwest fiesta featuring barbequed burglar! ;-D
From what I’ve seen of Fiddle and Dan, they would really be all you need lol.
@Brian1946 Holy crap, man. How are you not boiling with anger right now lol. I wouldn’t even be on fluther, I would be at my window right now with one of these Dragunovs.
Got a pitbull?
Keep one in/near the garage and we’ll see who has the laugh last ;)
On a more serious note, a camera would probably be the way to go.
Or do some detective work and look for clues and suspicious “friends”.
@Blackberry
“How are you not boiling with anger right now”
The last burglary was about 10 years ago, and I was major angry back then, but that was mostly because of the mess that was made; whoever it was only stole about $10.
According to the investigating officer, the burglar probably came through the pet door. After that I had fantasies about catching the burglar coming through the door, and stomping its head into a bloody pulp on my kitchen floor.
Old boyfriend? What is being taken? Do you have a dog?
@john65pennington definitely not an old boyfriend. We have 2 dogs, but I don’t think they (or we) heard anything over the air conditioner in the bedroom.
They took lawn care equipment, like a hedge trimmer and a backpack leaf blower, an iPod type device, car audio equipment – speakers, stereo.
Place your dogs inside the garage and see what happens.
Its someone in your neighborhood, since all that is taken is what they can carry in one armload.
@ANef_is_Enuf Either that or you can just have me, @incendiary_dan, and @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard sit in your garage until he comes back. That’d be a scary sight.
@ANef_is_Enuf
“I have a basset hound.”
Bassets are excellent mobile burglar trippers. ;-)
Let ol’ blue do his stuff and see what happens.
So, the Apache used to use this great little trick where they’d dig a small, foot-sized hole, cover it up and camouflage it, and put a stone on either side with a decently strong piece of rope tying the two stones together. If you can get someone to step on it, it brings to two stones together, sometimes hard enough to break their ankle (I wouldn’t suggest using stones big enough to break ankles, though).
@chyna that’s not my dog, but I agree. :)
This is my basset hound and this is my beagle mix. Not exactly guard dogs, but I love ‘em.
Some ideas to ponder:
• Set up a motion controlled like and recording so when anyone steps in the forbidden zone, the flood lights come on and a recording says “You are being filmed, the tape is going to the police, get ready to go to jail!”
• Get some dye that will not wash off and booby-trap the door with it. So if anyone forces their way in, it will dump all over them. If they live in your neighborhood, they will have a hard time hiding.
• Use the motion control method with the sound or a rattlesnake. When they enter and set off the motion control, they will hear what they believe is a rattlesnake.
• Have a lab come out and dust for prints. Chances are they are not smart enough not to leave any or other trace elements. I would not be surprised if their DNA was not already in the system.
• Put a disguised pad on the ground so when they step on it they will get a shock, literally.
• Have a large spring-loaded hand like in that Jackass movie that will trip and slap the dog s*** out of them when they come through the door, just don’t pad the hand so much, make it hurt some.
@Hypocrisy_Central hahaha, I wish I really could rig a giant hand to the door. That would be awesome.
This is night #2 of my staying up on watch. The alarm is installed, and set to only go off in the house.. not the garage. I intend to catch this shithead.
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