Possible break in attempt on my garage

[Jayy]

Over the past 2 weeks, there have been multiple break ins / attempts in the quiet street I live in.

Sheds have been broken in to in 3 of the 5 neighbours houses, a generator stolen from land behind the houses from a shed, some club houses belonging to a local bowling club the other night and then the same neighbour had their shed done a day after.

Been on alert anyway over it all but last night I put the bike away, went out this morning and noticed this:

https://i.imgur.com/6iK9GyB.jpg

Am I right in thinking this is a crow bar which someone has tried to prise the door open with some time early this morning?

Have a CCTV system coming tomorrow and some of them pressure alarms for the door in the meantime.

[CaNsA]

I am an expert because Liverpool.

That's a crowbar mark on the door frame.

[Ste]

That's what it looks like.

If they're just trying every shed / garage rather than specifically targeting you then with a bit of luck they won't be back with a bigger crowbar. If you can, keeping your bike elsewhere til you've got more security might be wise.

Is that the only lock on the door?

[Jayy]

Dead bolted from behind and electric front doors to get in and out with a remote.

Never had any issues so wasn't really a big concern until now but my logic is...

Have bought a very high res (2560x1440) indoor/outdoor IP camera with 4x optical zoom and night vision, so it's bang on quality wise.

Going to setup the camera to get the front of the garage / side all in one from a high vantage point at the side of the house. Then going to create motion zones around the front / side doors and setup email alerts. Will also set motion events from 12am - 8am daily so I don't have it going off in the day with posty, people, etc etc.

Then setup a fresh email and assign an alarm buzzer noise to it, leave it on a tablet I don't use which is hooked to bluetooth speakers and every time an email comes through it will sound like a WW1 air raid siren going off.

Also got some of them vibration alarm things for the door whilst I get a quote for a proper alarm system in there tomorrow/thurs.

[Jayy]

I sleep like 15ft from the side door, here's the view out my window and I always have the window open, usually go bed about 3am so the sneaky fuckers must have done this between 4am - 8am like the neighbours said some times around 5-6am their sheds got done.

https://i.imgur.com/PbosqgB.jpg

When I'm asleep, I could sleep through an earth quake which is the problem, so I wouldn't have heard the window going through if they did that.

I wonder about putting an iron gate/door thing over it?

[CaNsA]

Let the dogs camp in the garage for a couple of night.

They'll love it.

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[notbike]

Take up archery. Store your crossbow collection outside facing the door you want to protect. Crossbows are best stored with the bolts left inside. Accidentally arm them and rig them to go off when someone approaches the door without first enabling some kind of safety mechanism.

Thief is kill

but who was shoot?

[ScaredyCat]

Circus in town?

Also, fishing wire and rape alarm...
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[Jayy]

I'll sit in a chair behind the door tonight, covered in olive oil, naked and with a 22 in cucumber in my hand. They won't be back if they see that.

Got a car parked across the front and right up against that door now. dogs in living room.

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[bugeye_bob]

electrify the door handle and fit a remote on/off switch.

https://uk.suntekstore.com/goods.php?id=14009443&utm_source=gbuk&utm_medium=paid

make sure the circuit "isnt" on a rcd,
simple enough to do, and who is going to complain to the Police ?
" I was trying to break in and it kept giving me electric shocks"

[Wonko The Sane]

I wouldn't do anything to the outside of the door otherwise, if they come back, it confirms there's something inside you don't want stealing.

however, brick up the inside of the back door and let them spend ages crow-baring the door open to be met by a brick wall - or similar physical barricade.
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[CaNsA]

[J4mes]

At that height/distance combo its definitely worth keeping some pans full of cooking fat on the boil in your room tonight.

"Sorry officer I was just having some late night chicken dippers and knocked the pan off the windowsill"

[Rogue_Shadow]

I think BCF have covered all the bases.

However I would add

Less is more, don't make your security upgrades too obvious.
Otherwise you'll just make yourself a bigger target

Also consider trading your bike in for an SV, nobody steals an SV ...

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[Jayy]

Update: Camera arrived this morning, spent all day fucking about with it. Realised I didn't need PoE injectors as you need to power the cameras anyway, so you're still running wires for power and you might as well run DC + Ethernet to the sockets inside then it's just 1 ethernet powerline adapter to carry data, not plus the PoE at the other end in the router.

I don't have it fixed to the wall yet, just positioned out my window, which is always open anyway and it works well...

https://i.imgur.com/V6DP6JF.png

Night vision is impressive, even though I do have the outside light on as well presently.

Garage door has trip alarm behind it, when the magnets detatch, it sounds a 130db rape alarm type noise which is deafening. Chucked a bin with a spare tyre on it for added securitiesssss.

Motion detection is setup with time zones and mapped at knee height, so it won't pick up hedgehogs or small animals so let's hope these fuckers don't rambo it across the floor on their stomachs

Found the loudest alarm ring tone (nuclear missile warning type), rigged it as a notification for the email address I setup and hooked it to a bluetooth speaker... it's fucking loud. Push notifications on too.

Moths keep setting the alarm off so been tweaking the sensitivity of the motion sensor, damn this thing is crystal clear as well.

I know someone said they would probably have hoodies up, etc, which I agree with but I wanted the motion events more than the camera as now I have an early warning system + the internal trip alarm and on the off chance it's some dopey cunts from round here and they don't have hoods up and one of them looks up at the red LEDs, bingo but if not.. doesn't matter, I shall release the hounds and lead them on a merry chase.

Between this camera today and note 7 / Gear VR yesterday, haven't got much done

[Jayy]

Camera is a Reolink if anyone is wondering (that night screenshot is sat on a 1920x1080 monitor and I cropped half of it off so doesn't show how good it is).

https://reolink.com/shop/rlc411s-4mp-4x-optical-zoom-poe-ip-camera/

£100 on Amazon + £20 for a DC power box. It's a PoE camera though, which I thought I needed, so I bought some TP Link injectors but I will send them back.

Already have a powerline adapter setup for when I do fix it to the side of the house.

Full res...

https://i.imgur.com/0TJc9f5.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0TJc9f5.jpg

[grr666]

Nice bit of kit Jayy. Very reasonably priced too.
It's pretty crime free where I live but I plan to build a garage for bike storage and I'd be mad not to include some security
equipment while I'm at it, not least because it will be attached to the house and will have a door into my kitchen.
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