||>Just walked in on two black guys putting some of my tools in their car. I ||>yelled at them and they dropped the tools and took off. Chased them in my ||>truck till it got too dangerous, turned around and headed home. That's when ||>I realized they had been in the truck. Took the center console with about ||>$60 cash and misc. junk. got the tag number, but don't expect much. ||>What makes me the most mad is that I was in my office 50 feet from the truck ||>and never heard them till it was too late. Course I know it could have been ||>a lot worse and I'm grateful I was not hurt, but I am still pissed. ||>
||>Plan on installing motion sensors to tell me when someone drives up. Also at ||>each door. I live in the country with the shop out back. Would also like ||>to put in a camera and VCR setup. Any suggestions? Sure would like to have ||>them on tape. I bought a cheap system several years ago, but it had such a ||>poor image quality I took it back. ||>
||>I live and work alone, so I have always worried that someone could clean out ||>the house while I was in the noisy shop. Never thought they would just ||>start loading tools with me in the same building. ||>
||>Word to the wise: Protect yourselves and your tools. ||>
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||There has been a lot of conversation concerning VCR's, Video Cameras, ||etc., during this thread but I am pretty much convinced that even if ||you get them taped, and they get caught, two days later they will be ||back ripping you off worse. Courts, lawyers, judges, etc., don't ||really do anything to help the victim. Motion detectors / other types ||of sensors to let you know they are THERE are good, but I would only ||use the video tapes to see the expression on their faces when they are ||looking down the business end of a 12ga double with 00buckshot. I am ||about half inclined to blow them away, stick a crowbar in their hands ||and claim self-defense. At least THEY wouldn't be back to do it ||again. In case you didn't read between the lines - I'm FED UP with ||the courts/lawyers and basically the entire system. News stories like ||"they found him dead in a KNOWN crackhouse" DOH ! ! or "We are going ||to supply all the junkies in the city with sterile syringes, free of ||charge, so they don't give each other AIDS." DOH ! ! What the hell ||has happened to common sense??? Yeah, he broke in, damaged the ||vehicle, stole the tools you make a living with, but we really don't ||have any room to house him in the jail, so he'll be out on the ||sidewalk in about an hour..... ||Sorry for the rant.... Ken.
I think the best use for those video records is to demonstrate just cause for whatever course of action you wind up using to discourage their future thievery/mobility/procreation/breathing etc. Rex in Fort Worth