Attempted Break In!!

[Dave]

Having written what I did, my PIR lights and a loud voice might make them go away. I can speak *very* loud.

Dave

[Dave]

But if I am away from home to the tune of 266 miles at our daughters, what is the use? Even ten minutes away will be enough for the scroats to get away with what they want.

Dave

[Dave Liquorice]

hurry a

'Cause they get the call from the monitoring company and IIRC they will have established via multiple sensor triggers and listening and these days maybe even seeing what is going on. The contract with the monitoring company will also ensure the maintenance is done.

[geoff]

In message , Cash

[Roger Dewhurst]

I suppose you could try two very large speakers each generating 150 decibels or more. One generates a sine wave of 40 Hz and the other a sine wave of 30 Hz. The noise from each will be deafening enough but the 10 Hz beat frequency will be gut busting to defaecation point. The police merely have to follow the smell!

R

[Owain]

Sounds like the ideal application for an electric fencer.

If anyone complains say you thought it would deter slugs.

Owain

[Andy Dingley]

Electric fences don't deter chavs, they just annoy or even attract them.

Although the perimeter fence wires by the allotment were put in on insulators, just in case 8-)

Maybe I need a pulser that delivers a few kV on the first jolt, then drops to an innocent 50V afterwards, or if it detects blue flashing lights.

[Appin]

The message from "Dave Plowman (News)" contains these words:

Who knows? Planners are a law unto themselves.

[Appin]

The message from Roger Dewhurst contains these words:

Lists reach their best when debating methods of dealing with persons one doesn't really like :-) Interesting with a big amp controlled from PIR detectors via a relay.

[DavidM]

So just exactly is involved in "maintaining" an alarm, apart from testing that it works and replacing batteries?

Has always sounded like a bit of a con to me.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Probably fixing all the cables that have been damaged by poor routing when installed if many of the pro installations I've seen are to go by. Otherwise precisely nothing, like most things electronic.

Indeed.

[Dave Liquorice]

Not quite nothing the backup batteries don't last forever and as only a user you won't know it's not going to maintain the system unless you get a power cut when you are there and notice the failure.

Admitedly there isn't much else to do with a properly installed system. Checking all the senors are still working and are dust and wild life free might be done but I doubt the latter if a walk test shows them functional.

[Dave Liquorice]

Assuming you are in a good enough coverage area to use the web. Texts get through when voice/data is unuseable.

I wouldn't use 999 I'd call the local station direct, the local Police mobile or the 0845 number only then 999 if those three didn't work. The first probably wouldn't, the second would most of the time, the third should.

[F]

It is.

[Andy Dingley]

Testing it still works.

Replacing large chunks of it if you find that it doesn't.

[Andy Dingley]

I'm also concerned that giving electric shocks to misfit chavs might give them terrifying superpowers....

(This makes more sense if you watch TV on Thursdays)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember JTM saying something like:

And also the copper's laundry bill.