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Does anyone have any idea how to stop vandals breaking into our shed at our
allotment. Am getting very tired of mending the door |
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In message , Phil &
Diane Martin writes Does anyone have any idea how to stop vandals breaking into our shed at our allotment. Am getting very tired of mending the door Leave the door open. And take all your tools home with you. :( -- dave @ stejonda |
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"Phil & Diane Martin" wrote in message ... Does anyone have any idea how to stop vandals breaking into our shed at our allotment. Am getting very tired of mending the door Are they nicking your stuff or just breaking in for the hell of it? A lock on the door makes them think there's something worth having. Our shed on the allotment is not locked, just an old nail through the hasp, and only the old crap tools left there. Mind you, our allotment is fortunate to be very close to the adjoining houses, one of whom is also an allotment holder (the occupant, not the house) and we think this deters them. At least we've had no trouble so far. I may be proved wrong one day. If all else fails, rig up a device which will scare the hell out of them. Someone I knew years ago had trip wires on the path to the shed, and opening the door pulled a length of fishing line which in turn pulled a load of tin cans from a shelf above the door. Steve |
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dave @ stejonda wrote:
In message , Phil & Diane Martin writes Does anyone have any idea how to stop vandals breaking into our shed at our allotment. Am getting very tired of mending the door Leave the door open. And take all your tools home with you. :( ............ Then they will use it as an open house drug den. :-( :-( -- ned |
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"dave wrote in message Does anyone have any idea how to stop vandals breaking into our shed at our allotment. Am getting very tired of mending the door Leave the door open. And take all your tools home with you. :( May sound stupid but that's what we do, realised soon after we took on our allotment that it was not safe to leave anything on site. The b...t..ds even pushed one shed over 'cause they couldn't get the door open. So we bought a 1974 SWB Landrover S111 van and use that to cart everything back and forth, a mobile allotment shed, comes in handy for other things too. You can then also subscribe to alt.fan.landrover. :-) Of course they may nick the van (if they realise the transfer box is in neutral when it doesn't move). -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:17:17 GMT, "Phil & Diane Martin"
wrote: Does anyone have any idea how to stop vandals breaking into our shed at our allotment. Am getting very tired of mending the door you can buy tripwire claymore devices that explode loudly they dont fire ballbearings though. ask at motorcycle shops ,as they are used to stop thieves nicking mobikes from lockups. |
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"george" wrote in message ... On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:17:17 GMT, "Phil & Diane Martin" wrote: you can buy tripwire claymore devices that explode loudly they dont fire ballbearings though. ask at motorcycle shops ,as they are used to stop thieves nicking mobikes from lockups. Can you tell me more about this, please? Spouse's four month old scooter ws stolen in the night even though heavily chained and steering locked. Mary |
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"Stephen Birchall" wrote in message We used to next to a recreation park and had some bother with a crowd of youths lobbing stones over the hedge toward the greenhouse. I came out one evening, walked over to the group, whipped out a camera - flash - and walked off again I've used that to good effect in different circumstances. Mary |
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:11:37 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
wrote: "george" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:17:17 GMT, "Phil & Diane Martin" wrote: you can buy tripwire claymore devices that explode loudly they dont fire ballbearings though. ask at motorcycle shops ,as they are used to stop thieves nicking mobikes from lockups. Can you tell me more about this, please? Spouse's four month old scooter ws stolen in the night even though heavily chained and steering locked. Mary YOU cant use them in the street i guess, try the mobike shops in the mags and adverts |
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In article , says... In article , says... On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:17:17 GMT, "Phil & Diane Martin" wrote: Does anyone have any idea how to stop vandals breaking into our shed at our allotment. Am getting very tired of mending the door While I wouldn't recomend it, a friend of mine was having trouble with scumbags breaking into his lockup, he sacrificed a few nights to sitting in his lockup with his shot gun. When they finally showed up he was sitting there with the gun pointing at them. He pointed out that it was His lockup and that he would be quite upset if it was broken into again. After that he could have left the door open with a big stack of cash in full view without the least problem. Persuade the toerags that they're not going to benifit from robbing you and they may well not bother. We used to next to a recreation park and had some bother with a crowd of youths lobbing stones over the hedge toward the greenhouse. I came out one evening, walked over to the group, whipped out a camera - flash - and walked off again (I'm not into verbal exchanges). It certainly worked that time, as we didn't have any problems after that. Perhaps a flash going off if an intruder opened the door ? Maybe not adviseable in all circumstances. There was an incident in Surrey where a guy pulled an emergency stop to try to avoid running over a couple of drunks. On of the drunks was nudged enough to fall over. The tow then dragged the driver out of his car and proceeded to beat him up. Hearing the disturbance, my neighbour and I looked out and intervened to prevent any further damage ("Could you describe the person being attacked sir?" "Yes, officer he's the one with blood pouring from his face, a broken jaw and cheek that I can tell from my brief look"). A few weeks after that incident the same idiots actually stopped a car to have a go at the driver and an argument ensued with the driver having to do a similar backing off to try to avoid further assaults. My neighbour and I heard again and I headed off with camera in hand this time. The sight of 4 drunk thugs whose main desire is to have a fight and to destroy incriminating evidence approaching at full sprint is one that I won't forget. Posting the camera through a neighbour's door and then hiding behind a garage was scary. The police *don't* arrive quickly and you *are* in danger. SWMBO was on the phone to the local police and they came at their own sweet pace. They *did* find that two of the idiots were breaching bail conditions and arrested them. Overall I support the sterling work done by all departments of our police force and wish they had the resources to do their job fully. The one time I *really* needed them, they responded as fast as possible, patching my phone through to the helicopter and probably saved my life at risk to the lives of a couple of their own officers[1]. Warwick-- about to do the footnote from hell. [1] I used to drive a rechipped, Honda VTI[2] that was such changed that it did 220HP rather than 170 per spec of the car. Nice car that at low revs drove like a shopping trolley and then turned into a manic street racer when the foot went down (I've grown up since then). One evening I was stuck behind a Toyota Celica that crawled along a road and then went *very* slowly round a roundabout. I had a car that could easily pull the stunt of going quickly around the outside of his car and ended up ahead of him coming off the roundabout. I headed off towards the next roundabout and noted he was now tailgating me and going as fast as I was. As I slowed for the roundabout he rear ended me gently so I changed my line and went left from the wrong lane to lose him. In the next mile I was nudged 4 times at ever faster speeds. I got to a long straight dual carriageway and floored it as fast as possible for a couple of miles and as I backed off for the slip road was hit again a bit harder. I then dialled 999. Thankfully my phone was charged up and I had a handsfree capability. The Toyota was stolen and the person who stole it was known[3] The heli was close enough to come and assess how I was handling my car with a psychotic trying to run it off the road and decided that they could manage minimal intervention by 'using' me. They set me off on a 5 mile loop and got cars in closing roads to get the innocents out of the way. On the fifth loop they told me to floor it around a bend since there would be nothing coming and to try to get some distance. I was expecting some brave soul with one of those stingers to jump out to blow out his tyres. A Volvo backed out and I just avoided it. It lit up all the flashing lights and the maniac driving it apparently jumped out... as he hit the switches. The Toyota, needless to say, didn't have a hope of missing it. The driver was saved by all the airbags and managed to walk from the remains. He didn't even need to be cut out from a car that hit a Volvo at over 130mph. The idiocy, timing and bravery of those officers can only be applauded And out of interest there were no repairs required on my car. Even though I'd been hit by another car at over 150mph the closing speeds had been so close that there'd only been pushes and rubs leaving white marks that rubbed off with some polish. [2] Looks like a nice little Honda Civic until you notice the bits of body kit and the lowered suspension. Suitably subtle power for my tastes. [3] They knew who had stolen the car and that he was considered dangerous. |
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"Warwick" wrote in message ... COR! Mary |
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