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Corvus corax:
Police are 30 minute response time from where I stay so it's pretty much left to me to secure my stuff.

Powder Keg:
Looks like I'm going to have to get something going. A few little things have started to disappear from a trailer outside my shop. Probably just drunks rounding up scrap for some Mad Dog money. But I've woken up. I'm going to look into those deer cameras. Padlocks have been installed on the fence. I really need to beef up the door to the shop. I have work to do this weekend.....

Wes

raynerd:
That is disappointing to know Wes. My Uncle has just got a security camera. £140, wireless, records to a 32GB SD card and loops. It is on a sensor so isn`t on all the time but apparently you get 48 hours of recording on that which I expect on my back yard, would work out at a few weeks recording with it only coming on when I am in the yard or going to the bin! So a couple of weeks before it loops and is wiped which would be plenty of time to see something has gone and view the camera - I`m strongly considering one. The day footage is excellent quality, the night footage is easily good enough to identify someone.

Hope you get sorted.


Edit, looks like this one. This is £200 so he must have got it cheaper, then again his Mrs was listening so he could have been quoting a little less!!
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7003385.htm?CMPID=GS001&_$ja=tsid:11527%7Ccc:%7Cprd:7003385%7Ccat:garden+and+diy+%2F+home+security+%2F+home+safety+and+alarms+%2F

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bp:
Here in South Australia some years ago, we were living in a well known Northern Suburb.  One evening we received about 5 or 6 'phone calls threatening to come and break in to retrieve something of his that he believed we had.  After a few phone calls I phoned the Police.  They were dead keen on coming out as it was clearly a distressing situation.  I gave the Police our address, as soon as I mentioned the suburb, the Policeman said "Oh, I'm sorry we don't go there at night"
The house was up for sale and we moved pretty soon afterwards!!
cheers
Bill Pudney

AR1911:
"We don't go there at night" Damn. that's a Sign!

My shop is 30 miles away,, a 25x40 steel building in the middle of a rundown residential trailer park.
Hey, it was a bargain!

I'd had it about 2 years, long enough to fill it up with tools. I drove up one evening to find the door swinging on the hinges.
Everything of value was cleaned out.  I had never insured it, but I check with my homeonwers carrier anyway. I was delighted to find I was covered under "off-premises" coverage.
It was 10% of my homeowners coverage.
So, I added up my losses and got a nice check, went shopping for new tools  :thumbup:
Mind you, this was a automotive stuff, when I was racing but not yet machining.
I did add a HD deadbolt, and I bought a 2-zone wired alarm box from Radio Shack. I have motion sensors and door switches on it, a loud siren out of reach, and a strobe.And warning stickers.
That's been about 10 years and so far no one appears to have tested it. 

Today it's full of machine tools, so I really need to look into adding coverage.

I also carry a pocket pistol all the time, and have a revolver hidden in the shop.
You Brits need to fix that legal problem you have.

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