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How Many Ways to Break into a House?

Marla Daily - 3-14-2011 at 09:27 PM

Reading the thread about the stolen boat trailer in Loreto prompted me to recall a house break-in we had a number of years ago in Loreto. While we were gone and things were locked up tight, burglars climbed over our locked gates and broke into our car left parked in the yard. They took the "gato" (car jack) out, placed it between the window bars and the side of the house, and simply jacked the bars right out of the cement block wall, one click at a time. With the bars pried out, smashing the window was the easy part. Fortunately the dual sided-dead-bolt kept them from opening the door from the inside. The house was tossed, furniture and beds flipped, but nothing was taken. They failed to touch a single book in our large Baja books collection. The emergency cash? In the Baja bird book of course! It remains remarkable to me that the burglars thought to use our own car jack to pry off the window bars! Mexican ingenuity at work!

baronvonbob - 3-15-2011 at 06:40 AM

Interesting. Just put inside bars in my garage, makes me wonder since the crime rate is increasing!

DENNIS - 3-15-2011 at 07:20 AM

No matter what you do, they'll find a way. It is our responsibility, however, to give it our best shot. I'm convinced that loud noise, alarms, are the best deterrent that you don't have to feed.

wessongroup - 3-15-2011 at 07:44 AM

The last place we rented had a "klaxton horn" connected to the security system... with battery back up...

Ya didn't want to "trigger" the damn thing... was really loud ...

DENNIS - 3-15-2011 at 07:51 AM

Here ya go, Wiley:

http://www.submarinegear.com/klaxon-horn-kit/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5kp7-dcgY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_horn

wessongroup - 3-15-2011 at 08:00 AM

Just bought one for the car.... wooohooo .... that should make someone look... or ex-navy look for "BATTLE STATIONS"... :lol:

Thanks was looking for something for our 44th wedding aniversry... coming up in two days....

Your a life saver.... I'll be sure and tell the wife where I got the idea... :lol:

larryC - 3-16-2011 at 07:53 AM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
No matter what you do, they'll find a way. It is our responsibility, however, to give it our best shot. I'm convinced that loud noise, alarms, are the best deterrent that you don't have to feed.

I agree, I installed an alarm with battery backup, and I incorporated motion sensors so that when they do get in at least my neighbjors will know it.
larry

Klaxon Horn Kit

mcfez - 3-16-2011 at 08:52 AM

Hell....I'm ordering one of these today for our farm house!

DENNIS - 3-16-2011 at 09:30 AM

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Originally posted by soulpatch
Hey Larry,
when on of our neighbors in Gecko had an issue they bought one of those cheap motion sensor cameras......
caught on memory.

That would be the first thing they would throw in the sack if they saw it. :yes:

Jim/Liisa - 3-16-2011 at 01:25 PM

High walls,such as a court yard make easy targets for theives.

DENNIS - 3-16-2011 at 01:50 PM

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Originally posted by Jim/Liisa
High walls,such as a court yard make easy targets for theives.

Why? I would think a high wall would be a barrier....especially with a bunch of broken glass across the top.

Jeeeeezo....there's only so much you can do.

Jim/Liisa - 3-16-2011 at 05:17 PM

Thats right! They do that as will as put bars on their own windows, seems they don't trust themselfs.

Edited on 02-05-2011 by Jim/Liisa]

[Edited on 02-05-2011 by Jim/Liisa]

krafty - 3-16-2011 at 05:35 PM

I think HIGH walls are definitely a deterrent-and a security monitoring sign

Dogs - Meaning Well-trained Dogs, and a Good Caretaker

Gypsy Jan - 3-16-2011 at 05:44 PM

We have broken glass installed on top of our seawall.

We have an electric wire (cattle grade) just behind it.

We have a contract with an alarm company (they are useless).

In the recent past, when we are not home, our caretaker and our dogs have scared away several intruders.

Homes in our community have been broken into (some are just homeless people who do no harm), but other homes have been looted in the last couple of yers.

[Edited on 3-17-2011 by Gypsy Jan]

Jim/Liisa - 3-16-2011 at 05:47 PM

With walls. believe Me, it keeps them from being seen.

DENNIS - 3-16-2011 at 06:25 PM

We live in a crime-infested toilet and, at the same time, tell the world it's wonderful.

Yeah...Yeah....I know. "It's so much worse in the US."

Total, self-serving nonsense.

joerover - 3-16-2011 at 06:32 PM

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Originally posted by Marla Daily
The emergency cash? In the Baja bird book of course! !

loose lips sink ships

Property Crime vs. Human Crime

Gypsy Jan - 3-16-2011 at 06:40 PM

Hey Dennis,

In general, I find that my local neighbours respect and practice ethical behaviour and live their life to make a better future for their children.

Much of the new problem is the detritus that is floating south of El Norte.

DENNIS - 3-16-2011 at 09:36 PM

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Originally posted by Gypsy Jan

In general, I find that my local neighbours respect and practice ethical behaviour and live their life to make a better future for their children.

Yeah...I know. Thing is....if there weren't bad people, you wouldn't have good people. It's a value judgement. If everybody was good, you wouldn't even realize it.
So....if you really appreciate the good people, they, and you, owe it to the bad ones.
You can pay your moral debt to these bad folks by not locking your door and allowing them to come in and relieve you of your flat-screen every now and then. It will make both of you a better persons. :biggrin:

DENNIS - 3-16-2011 at 09:47 PM

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Originally posted by Gypsy Jan

Much of the new problem is the detritus that is floating south of El Norte.

It is a home-coming of sorts, doncha think? Detritus being drawn back to the source?
We, as North Americans, can't take responsibility for this polution...as much as some say we should.

DENNIS - 3-17-2011 at 05:52 AM

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Originally posted by soulpatch
I agree with Dennis.

Usually no one agrees with me after 8PM, but thanks, Frank. :lol:

wessongroup - 3-17-2011 at 06:41 AM

Dennis... the wife said thanks for the great gift ... she can't wait to try it out... :lol:

DENNIS - 3-17-2011 at 07:35 AM

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Originally posted by wessongroup
Dennis... the wife said thanks for the great gift ... she can't wait to try it out... :lol:

The best time to test the horn is at 3AM, Wiley. That way you can ask your neighbors what they think of it. I'm sure they'll tell you. :lol:

larryC - 3-17-2011 at 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by soulpatch
Hey Larry,
when on of our neighbors in Gecko had an issue they bought one of those cheap motion sensor cameras......
caught on memory.

Frank
I thought of that but the last guys that were caught were from Ensenada, and having pictures of someone I don't know wouldn't do me any good. Also, so far most of the breakins are at night, and the low light cameras are pricey. Maybe you know of one that is affordable.
Larry

Martyman - 3-17-2011 at 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by soulpatch
Hey Larry,
when on of our neighbors in Gecko had an issue they bought one of those cheap motion sensor cameras......
caught on memory.

So did they actually see Kiki on camera?

fishabductor - 3-20-2011 at 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Marla Daily
Reading the thread about the stolen boat trailer in Loreto prompted me to recall a house break-in we had a number of years ago in Loreto. While we were gone and things were locked up tight, burglars climbed over our locked gates and broke into our car left parked in the yard. They took the "gato" (car jack) out, placed it between the window bars and the side of the house, and simply jacked the bars right out of the cement block wall, one click at a time. With the bars pried out, smashing the window was the easy part. Fortunately the dual sided-dead-bolt kept them from opening the door from the inside. The house was tossed, furniture and beds flipped, but nothing was taken. They failed to touch a single book in our large Baja books collection. The emergency cash? In the Baja bird book of course! It remains remarkable to me that the burglars thought to use our own car jack to pry off the window bars! Mexican ingenuity at work!

you got lucky they stole all of my books as well as everything else possible.

Where there is a will there is a way, and with tweakers there is a pile of drug induced will.

BajaBlanca - 3-20-2011 at 07:26 PM

we have speakers in the back palapa and I told the local kids that it was a security system with cameras ... oh boy did their eyes pop !

:lol:

fishabductor - 3-20-2011 at 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BajaBlanca
we have speakers in the back palapa and I told the local kids that it was a security system with cameras ... oh boy did their eyes pop !

:lol:

Mount a black metal pipe on the roof horizontally and tell them it's a canon. :lol:

BajaBlanca - 3-22-2011 at 03:23 PM

:lol:

slimshady - 3-22-2011 at 09:13 PM

Check this link out. How to break into a garage in six seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMz1tXBVT1s

fishabductor - 3-22-2011 at 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by slimshady
Check this link out. How to break into a garage in six seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMz1tXBVT1s [/qgoinuote]

that would be hard to do on a g-door without windows which most are. I thought it was going to be down with a truck, nose it up to the door and then push it off the tracks slowly. The gdoor will buckle and fall. oing the same thing will also break open a gate as the welds will rip away from the lock. I have seen a lot of thefts in baja, the us, but particularily on construction jobsites.