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    I know I know, feeding the beast but a single ring camera is like $3 a month to have the video storage. It is free if you just want to look at it live or get a notification and look at it when action is happening and not have it stored on the cloud. Simply safe/arlo/ring take your pick….

    With that said, ain’t a chance any of that crap is coming inside the house. Only outside flood lights and stick up cameras.
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    Quote Originally Posted by .45fan View Post
    Buy some cheap cameras.
    They are easy to install and remove.

    We had a similar issue happen several years ago, so we put wireless cameras in houses we are getting ready, now. You get notified on your phone and can take appropriate actions from there.
    Had cameras. They smashed one. Cut another and the 3rd was out of position

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    Quote Originally Posted by thepatriot2705 View Post
    Had cameras. They smashed one. Cut another and the 3rd was out of position
    Look into Simplisafe.

    No wires, do drilling to run any wires because everything is wireless, No 'need' for internet or a phone line as it uses a sim card / cellular connection to contact you / police, Internal battery backup on the main part for if the power to it goes out (or gets disconnected somehow).

    Monthly monitoring for me is just under 16 per month and there is no 'contract'. You can place the system anywhere (at any house) yourself in minutes with ease. If you want it monitored after you set it up just give them a call with the new address for where it is at (so they can properly notify police where to go if it is triggered.

    IIRC my entire system cost about $250.00ish. Came with 1 camera + all the other sensors one would normally expect. Easy as pie to add or delete sensors whenever you wish and they have a wide variety to choose from. Smoke detectors, CO2 monitors, Water leak monitors, on and on...

    Cheap insurance and for me a tax deduction to boot.

    I called one time out of curiosity and asked them what would happen if I kicked the door in and instantly destroyed the base station (the part with the sim card). Lady said the alarm would not sound due to the base station being 'killed' but that me and the police would still be notified right away. As soon as any sensor 'trips' a signal is sent to their monitoring station. If they do not receive the 'disarmed' signal shortly thereafter they get to work making calls. That first signal is the important one and it gets sent before anyone could have a chance to get at the base station and shut it off / destroy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    I was once painting my house in Ft. Lauderdale with a vintage 80s boombox on the front porch supplying the tunes. I was on a ladder on the side of the house. I saw a car slowing down on the street and I knew EXACTLY what was going on. I jumped off the ladder and intercepted "fat ass black bitch" half way up my lawn with a "Can I help you?" and she mumbo jumbo'd some shit asking about a person that NEVER lived in that house.

    I pretended to walk back to my ladder and she pretended to walk back to the car and sure as shit when I doubled back she was half way up my front lawn again. So I literally have to bike lock my radio to the porch rail or I have to take it with me all around the house and risk dripping paint on it OR people will walk right up on my front yard and do a 4pm snatch and grab.

    There is nothing a criminal won't do if they think they can get away with it.

    So yeah, we can limit our exposure and we can accept a lot of extra work and expense to try and protect ourselves from these aholes, but at the end of the day, if we didn't live in a society that made criminal elements feel safe pulling the shit they do...it woudn't happen.

    And we don't need to live in Saudi where they get there hands chopped off, there were plenty of places in 1970s US of A where if you got caught pulling this shit, you got your ass kicked hard. Then the cops often showed up and kicked your ass some more.

    If it wasn't for a huge proliferation of CWPs in the last 20 years and the understanding that in most states homeowners can and will shoot you if you break into an occupied dwelling, things would be third world out of hand where if you went outside at night you'd EXPECT to get robbed.
    There are lots of places like you describe right there. If they think they can - They will.


    Having always had pairs of Dobermans for the last 20 years or so that go literally everywhere with me - If that bitch had walked up in my yard like that I would have kept right on painting until they were 'finished' chewing her a new asshole (or two). And then called 911 to have her carcass hauled off my lawn...

    For some strange reason they just despise strangers.

    A guy that I get a bunch of my work from recently had his truck broke into for the third time in the last year alone. Every single time at a Home Depot parking lot while he was inside for a few getting whatever. This last time they got him they got away with a pistol he had in his console and his business laptop. The pistol cost him little to nothing but the TIME he has to spend now to replace the work he had saved on that laptop is really going to be a hard ass hit for him to get over.


    Not at all worried about someone breaking into my truck looking for something to steal if I need to go inside someplace real quick to do whatever. I could leave it unlocked and the doors wide open while I go do whatever and my stuff will STILL be there when I get back.







    When not at home I have an alarm to let me and whoever else know if anything is going down. Cheap insurance for when criminals do feel brave and try to do their thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disciple View Post
    Amazing. That you didn't commit homicide I mean.
    Ultimately, it's why I moved. That was gonna come eventually.
    It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.

    Chuck, we miss ya man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DG23 View Post
    There are lots of places like you describe right there. If they think they can - They will.


    Having always had pairs of Dobermans for the last 20 years or so that go literally everywhere with me - If that bitch had walked up in my yard like that I would have kept right on painting until they were 'finished' chewing her a new asshole (or two). And then called 911 to have her carcass hauled off my lawn...

    For some strange reason they just despise strangers.

    A guy that I get a bunch of my work from recently had his truck broke into for the third time in the last year alone. Every single time at a Home Depot parking lot while he was inside for a few getting whatever. This last time they got him they got away with a pistol he had in his console and his business laptop. The pistol cost him little to nothing but the TIME he has to spend now to replace the work he had saved on that laptop is really going to be a hard ass hit for him to get over.


    Not at all worried about someone breaking into my truck looking for something to steal if I need to go inside someplace real quick to do whatever. I could leave it unlocked and the doors wide open while I go do whatever and my stuff will STILL be there when I get back.







    When not at home I have an alarm to let me and whoever else know if anything is going down. Cheap insurance for when criminals do feel brave and try to do their thing.
    That is some "Higgins" stuff right there!

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    Quote Originally Posted by thepatriot2705 View Post
    Had cameras. They smashed one. Cut another and the 3rd was out of position
    Sorry to hear that.

    Would it help if they were mounted different, high enough that they can't smash and using wireless cameras so they can't cut anything?

    Just a thought.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DG23 View Post
    There are lots of places like you describe right there. If they think they can - They will.


    Having always had pairs of Dobermans for the last 20 years or so that go literally everywhere with me - If that bitch had walked up in my yard like that I would have kept right on painting until they were 'finished' chewing her a new asshole (or two). And then called 911 to have her carcass hauled off my lawn...

    For some strange reason they just despise strangers.

    A guy that I get a bunch of my work from recently had his truck broke into for the third time in the last year alone. Every single time at a Home Depot parking lot while he was inside for a few getting whatever. This last time they got him they got away with a pistol he had in his console and his business laptop. The pistol cost him little to nothing but the TIME he has to spend now to replace the work he had saved on that laptop is really going to be a hard ass hit for him to get over.


    Not at all worried about someone breaking into my truck looking for something to steal if I need to go inside someplace real quick to do whatever. I could leave it unlocked and the doors wide open while I go do whatever and my stuff will STILL be there when I get back.







    When not at home I have an alarm to let me and whoever else know if anything is going down. Cheap insurance for when criminals do feel brave and try to do their thing.
    Nice looking pups.

    We lost our red female a few months ago to old age, still have a black male.

    They are a great bread, and I agree they don't like strangers.

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    Cameras can serve as a deterrent, an early warning, and an investigatory aid. However, they don't stop or prevent a whole lot of crime. The MAJORITY of thefts and robbery's I handle happen on tape. A mixture of hard security (replacing door hardware, locking doors and windows, 3M film on ground floor glass), cameras, and good lighting is always a really solid combination, but junkies honestly do not care. Make it so the majority of criminals think getting in is going to be lengthy, difficult, loud, and risky. Hope that the minority of criminals choose another location.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .45fan View Post
    Nice looking pups.

    We lost our red female a few months ago to old age, still have a black male.

    They are a great bread, and I agree they don't like strangers.
    Get another before the one you have is too old to help you raise it up.

    They really do learn a LOT from having others like them around...

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