Burglars and alarms

[ARW]

I have said before and I'll say it again.

Burglars like houses without burglar alarms.

The house opposite mine was burgled this afternoon. As cool as you like they knocked on the door to check no-one was in before going around the back and breaking in. My CCTV only has partial coverage of the house and it is some distance away -CID have taken a copy of the CCTV as there is a chance that the hat the burglar was wearing might be recognised if the pictures are circulated tonight.

There is no way they would have done that if the house was alarmed.

[Dave Liquorice]

Naw they'd just fill the sounder with squirty foam, like the ones that broke into the local Co-op did a while back. Bear in mind this sounder is

park and Front Street...

Who'd pay any attention to man in hi-viz jacket up a ladder next to the sounder? During working hours, people might notice but will they challenge them, ask for ID etc, I very much doubt it.

[Onetap]

Why would they bring a ladder to burgle a house if there are adjacent houses with no alarms?

Similarly, burglars don't pick locks, they pick the house with no locks.

It's like the joke about not having to out-run the bear, but just out-run the other bloke.

[fred]

The difference in this case would be that it isn't a commercial installation where no-one gives a damn, but a neighbour across the road who they know and like.

With neighbours in close proximity it's difficult to ignore strangers or multiple sounders going off. In my case it's multiple sounders with enough sound pressure inside to give burglars the choice of rapid exit or hearing loss.

I know it's not the same for your place due to the absence of neighbours but you could still inflict pain indoors and use gsm paging to make you of the break-in.

[Peter Parry]

Someone I know had a system like this. It was really useful. When he was 100 miles away it would phone him and tell him the alarm had gone off. Once it did it when he was in France. It really helped him relax on his holiday.

Over 99% of alarm activations on class B systems are false alarms. That is why the police no longer respond to them.

[fred]

Perhaps his own fault for having such an unreliable alarm.

Also no point in having a paging alarm if you're Billy no mates and have no-one nearby you can call to check out the premises.

[ARW]

Relaxing would help with the insertion of the garlic suppositories.

[Brian Gaff]

No you would have had a better class of burglar as it would be obvious your house had something valuable in it.

Brian

[Owain]

If it's a choice between garlic suppositories or dismantling the s*n*f*o ...

Owain

[ARW]

I walked into Barnsley Hospital and removed 20 ceiling tiles one morning without any questions been asked.I had no work permit so no-one was expecting me.

[ARW]

Bollocks. It's a street with identical 3 bed semis. There will not be a lot to chose between them on what is worth pinching.

[charles]

some jokers round here removed a brand new york stone driveway with in a day or two of it being laid

[ARW]

And the PCSOs have just been handing out letters as another house on the next street was also burgled yesterday afternoon. And the burglars have either cased out the place or know my neighbour - guess who is looking through all his available CCTV for clues?

[charles]

when my daughter was living in Hemel Hempsted about 20 years ago, the next door neighbours came back from holiday to find the house empty. The entire contents of a small terraced house were presumably worth something.

[ARW]

I was out, but I can guarantee that there were at least 5 neighbours that were in that would have had a look if the house was alarmed and the alarm sounded. And I would not like to get into a fight with two of those neighbours - one's built like a brick shit house and has biceps bigger than my chest. And the other one is a big fat woman with a big fat gob.

[Jethro_uk]

Years ago my Dad was a test driver for a car dealers. In those days they wore white lab-type coats (to distinguish from overalls I guess) One day he went for a drive with a colleague who asked him to stop at a nearby post office. Curious, my Dad went with him as he started to unscrew a big map of London off the wall. No challenge at all. As he was putting it in the car my Dad said: "Why take that ?" to which the reply was "it'll look good in the office."

The white coat thing was a good trick - my Dad never used to worry about visiting hours in hospital. Although it was essential to carry a clipboard for some reason.

[Mathew Newton]

Mine texts me to alert me of detected movement, and with the IP cameras I can access the system remotely from a web browser to actually confirm (or not) it being a genuine incident.

Whilst on holiday it does provide a surprising amount of peace of mind being able to see that the house it still there, unburgled and not burn down!

Mathew

[Peter Parry]

Some years ago I read of the arrest of a gang of burglars who adopted the simple but very effective ploy of carrying magnetic signs for local alarm companies in their van. On arriving at their victim and having ensured they were out they simply stuck the same signs as the logo on the bell box on their van, put up their ladder and proceeded to silence it. Some neighbours even helped by holding the ladder.

They were apprehended by chance, they hadn't insured their van and were caught by an ANPR car the crew of which were a bit suspicious of the number of alarm company signs stuck inside the van.

[Dave Liquorice]

Because the no alarm houses don't have an open upstairs window? Also van with ladder on roof looks like a works van of some sort, see comment about magnetic alarm company signs...

[Dave Liquorice]

But that's the po>>> Who'd pay any attention to man in hi-viz jacket up a ladder next to

It obviously works quite well especially if you have a few appropiate magentic signs, just remember to keep the van taxed. B-)