Car could have disappeared last night

I know tis theft, and to be totally condemed, but on a certain level ya gotta tip the hats to the blokes who gained entry, and neutralized all the tracking systems etc.. if it was that cutting edge in terms of security. But surely you'd never be able to use the thing in public, Russia or not?!?

Shees!! Now I really feel quite at home !!!

Having survived 3 unsuccesful car-jackings,1 succesful one, a mugging and an armed robbery I feel I have the credentials to pass comment!

The one's that come into your house with a weapon, knowing you might have a tracker are'nt going to be satisfied with the keys downstairs. Lock a door between yourself and the rest of the house at night.Mobile next to the bed is the best burglar alarm with the emergency number on speed dial on button1.

Sensor lights that can be set for body weight at front, sides AND back of house is a great deterrent (the toilet window only needs to be open after your morning constitutional)

if you see a fishing rod poking around, DONT grab it!! it may be someone who has visited my country and has razor blades taped to it.

remember that fishing rods cant go around corners.

Rottweilers are great but show me a rottie(or any other breed) who does'nt like hamburger patties, and then show me where animal barbituates at the local vet are subject to pharmaceutical control.

In terms of opportunists,joy-riders etc, all you can do is make sure that your neighbours car is easier to steal than yours!

Other than that, I'm thinking of a business selling Machine-guns, searchlights and watchtowers.

In terms of protection away from home,sarf Effrica had a system of pepper sprays, activated by sms to a built in mobile phone or panic button that would spray pepper all around the car.

So all the criminals did was shoot you before you could activate it.

By now I'm sure we have all done 10 trips to the window to make sure our pride and joy is still there. 

Sleep well ppl.

PS: A friend was phoned by Tracker to say they had located his car and it was moving.

"Where??"

"we dont know but as it's doing about 300 miles per hour and crossing the border we assume it's in the hold of a cargo Plane," was the answer

PIR activated lights - B&Q @ liffey valley do a range that casue a plug in module in the house to chime (day and night) if the beam is broken. Handy on the side passage where you might not notice the light going on as they root thru your shed to take your tools to break into house. Fit a shed alarm so you know when they are trying to steal your tools

Most standard domestic alarm systems I've come across in Ireland rely solely on magnetic contacts - get some PIR's added to the downstairs zone of the system. We had three PIR's put in and system upgraded to take a monitoring signal for 200 yoyo's. Make sure the box at the side of the house with the phone connection is secure. Monitoring company should respond to loss of connection but who knows?

Cameras - preferably infra red so they can see in the dark, fitted under the eves of the house so out of worst of weather, connected to a remote pc with internet access, images are stored on a webserver so even if they locate and take the pc you've still got piccies of 'em - software can be set to different levels of sensitivity so next doors cat doesn't trigger a recording or alarm sound

Check the windows - were they designed for the glass to be replaced externally? Yup? Oh dear, a pallette knife and 15 mins I had every pane of glass out of the whole back of the house, took under a minute to get the kitchen one out - find out the material of construction UPVC etc. get an appropriate glue and fix em' in place. Yes it'll cost more to fix if next doors lad puts his ball through, but then how likely is that?

Use the key code on the OBC if your car is equipped with and have an extra immobilising feature added that only you are aware of.

Should've put my place up as a show house when I was done with it! Landlord freaked when I told her I'd drilled holes here & there for the extra security but paid for the work once I'd explained it all!!