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bogstandard:
A very cheap deterent is what a friend of mine has done. On the inside at the top of his gate and fence, about 2" down, under the top rail as shown on your neighbour's fence, he has nailed carpet gripper strips, the ones used around the edges when having fitted carpets. He has them sticking out and pointing down, so as they grip to climb over, the 'spikes' dig in and hold their fingers to the fence, the more pressure they put on them the tighter they grip. His cats have no trouble with them, but nightime prowlers seem to do.
Just where your fingertips would automatically try to grab hold of to climb over.
Rather than hanging on by your fingertips, they would be being held on.

Within a week of him fitting them, the police had lovely DNA samples along the top of his garden gate and all the way down his drive. I bet the culprit couldn't scratch his a**e or pick his nose for a fair while.

As to the legality of what he has done, the police turned a blind eye (up to now), and no one has yet been back to complain.

I'm not condoning doing it, just a passing comment.

Bogs

Stilldrillin:
Nice one John!  :thumbup:

Darren:
Nice tip there John, but you might find that's a bit dodgy...the police might turn a blind eye for now but if someone had the B**ls to complain it could be a different story.

Glass buried in cement and razor wire were outlawed some years ago, this might be seen in a similar fashion, even worse could be considered as "intent"

Like thieving isn't..... :doh:

Some years ago I almost had to have a dog put down cos it bit some scum, I think cos he only got nipped I got away with it. It could have been a lot worse as the dog was more than capable. As I said that was years ago...now I'm not so sure they'd turn the other way.

Bernd:
To bad they outlawed guns. Now only the outlaws have them. Or so the saying goes.

Bernd

raynerd:
I`m obviously really naive here then - could you really get "done" for screwing carpet nails to the inside of your OWN fence on your OWN property? Is that not just the same as the steel spikes we have on some of the gates around work?

Darren - regarding bumping, whilst at uni I got quite into speed picking with my mate who was working full time at a locksmiths and I got pretty decent at 5 pin tumblers and could even do a few anti-picking pin tumbler locks. My parents went sick with shock when, infront of them, I picked there front door house lock nearly as quickly as they could do it with the key just simply by raking the pins with a raking pick and adding a little tension. We even made a tool using a apple corer to pick lever locks (mortise locks). I did it for about a year and then lost interest. It must have been only about 2 years ago when I came across the idea of bumping, I watched a video on youtube showing a young girl at a lockpicking convention (presume she was with parents :S)  bumping a lock!! Youtube search "girl bumping lock) !  IT is scary, like darren says, if someone comes around with a small collection of bump keys they can pretty much open the majority of locks on a normal street!!  :doh:   

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