To booby trap a back porch so that only those (including pets) who are supposed to be there get knocked to kingdom come?
Yeah, I know. It's not. Wish we could. After someone tried to break into her row house while she was home last year my daughter installed motion lights and door alarms. And sometime yesterday in broad day light some SOB came right up on the back porch and stole the $600 bike she had chained to the wall. Right now I'm daydreaming of a ferocious electrical charge being routed through the porch...
Mantrapping is illegal in most, if not all, jurisdictions. Something that is legal is using a game camera to photograph trespassers with the hope of being able to identify them.
ReplyDelete@Bob - I can dream... But the camera is a possibility. A friend of mine did nab a thief that way.
ReplyDeleteI've got a game camera up at my house. Though for a $600 bike, I doubt the police will get too exercised to do anything about it even with a photo. Has she considered a Rottweiler?
ReplyDelete@Andy - It's Baltimore, too, and the police don't like to take reports because it makes the crime stats go up. I wish on the Rottie. Right now she's got a boxer but it was inside.
ReplyDeleteIf you do get a game camera photo of any quality and the police don't respond to it, you can always run off a few dozen copies and make them "magically" appear on local phone poles/bulletin boards with the word THIEF! as a title.
ReplyDeleteGame camera or one of these- http://www.myarcherfish.com/
ReplyDeleteIt can be programmed to send video to your cell.
@Bob - I would enjoy doing that...
ReplyDelete@NFO - Can a signal then be sent out to the shotgun mounted above it when appropriate?