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I have a 6' locked chain link fence around my back yard, my detached garage has the windows bolted shut, a monitored wireless system with door contacts and a motion sensor. Two weeks ago at 9:00 am someone ripped the fence from my gate, jimmied my garage door and stole about $600 worth of tools, including both my torque wrenches. The police arrived in minutes but didn't see anything unusual so they assumed it was a false alarm. I was in the dentist's chair with my cell phone out in the truck. By the time I got home the thief had broken out a back window and and crawled out. The investigating officer thinks the thief was hiding in the garage when they showed up since the window was broken from the inside and was intact on their first visit. I have since heavily reinforced my pedestrian door, boarded up up my windows with extra 2x4's on the inside, added extra locks and cut the power off to the garage when I'm not home. I travel out of the US for months at a time (now in Sarajevo) and this has totally wrecked my piece of mind. If they want your stuff bad enough they'll do anything to get it. All we can do is make it hard as h@ll for the little monsters to get in.
Bill Stradtner