a word of warning - sat navs and reverse monitors
Discussion
Sorry to be the miserable rascal......for those of you who may use reversing cameras....my truck was recently broken into to have the monitor ripped off the dashboard, destroying the cable, and damaging beyond repair the dashboard. The coppers think it was local scroats who thought the monitor was a sat nav....
Costs so far have been £200 replacement window, £350 new camera kit , hours back and forwards dealing with police and scenes of crime ( no criticism here ), additioanl hours putting in a brand new cable ( 20 metres ), additional labour to have the new screen fitted in the dashboard that runs above my head.
the good news is that I didn't catch them in the act as I may have ended up down the local nick for my actions....
Beware !!
Cheers
D D
Costs so far have been £200 replacement window, £350 new camera kit , hours back and forwards dealing with police and scenes of crime ( no criticism here ), additioanl hours putting in a brand new cable ( 20 metres ), additional labour to have the new screen fitted in the dashboard that runs above my head.
the good news is that I didn't catch them in the act as I may have ended up down the local nick for my actions....
Beware !!
Cheers
D D
Sorry to hear David - best come up with some sort of 'make it invisible' disguise - we are talking about lowest of the low here and my experience is that if they can't see any clues at all, they are less likely to try to nick it even if they don't know/care what it is.
When car stereo theft used to be far more rife, I replaced mine with one of those removable face things which I used to carry around in my briefcase; I came back to the car one day to find it had been broken into, presumably because they thought that removable face would be in the glovebox. Doh.
As to 'retribution' >
Years ago, a mate (much to my surprise because he is - shall we just say - 'well known' around where he lives and most definitely not the sort of bloke you'd want to get the wrong side of) had his house broken into via a pair of french doors. Knowing that statistics prove that a follow-up visitation was likely, to much stated concern from several about the potential consequences, he said he was going to wire up the door handles to the mains so that grabbing hold of both would result in the offender completing the circuit. His concession to those concerns (or is it health and safety?) was to fit a circuit breaker.
About six months after he did this I bumped into him and of course asked him for an update i.e. Did they come back? Yep, just the once.
When car stereo theft used to be far more rife, I replaced mine with one of those removable face things which I used to carry around in my briefcase; I came back to the car one day to find it had been broken into, presumably because they thought that removable face would be in the glovebox. Doh.
As to 'retribution' >
Years ago, a mate (much to my surprise because he is - shall we just say - 'well known' around where he lives and most definitely not the sort of bloke you'd want to get the wrong side of) had his house broken into via a pair of french doors. Knowing that statistics prove that a follow-up visitation was likely, to much stated concern from several about the potential consequences, he said he was going to wire up the door handles to the mains so that grabbing hold of both would result in the offender completing the circuit. His concession to those concerns (or is it health and safety?) was to fit a circuit breaker.
About six months after he did this I bumped into him and of course asked him for an update i.e. Did they come back? Yep, just the once.
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