Best way I've found to get rid of religion hustlers at my front door:
Agree. I live in an affluent low-crime neighborhood, but no neighborhood is crime free. I formed a neighborhood watch years ago and I'm the coordinator. Also a graduate of Norman Police Citizens Academy and regularly volunteer at our local PD. Our neighbohood covenants don't allow vehicles to be parked in the street at night and in my section they must be garaged. This cuts down on the night time carhoppers. They hit all the neighborhoods around us, but seldom in ours. We have six block captains and always stress that all of us are a part of our neighorhood watch. Just neiighors neigbhors taking care of neighbors. Most of the homes have security cameras
Intelligent access is not
In front of the cars , perfect place for your new garage!I did actually think about this when buying my house. We found a new construction in our price range which was a bit of a miracle in this area, but it doesn't have a garage (originally a requirement during my search). What it does have is a long steep driveway that places our cars and the house well above street level. I've gotten a kick out of watching Jehovah's Witnesses huff and puff just getting to our front porch. I think our small hill will deter most thieves just because it makes our cars less convenient than others. If not, that's what our cameras and insurance are for. Would be a bummer, but I try not to stress all the time about things I can't control.
Please excuse the unfinished landscaping. Tackling one piece of the "contractor special" yard at a time. ?
I usually tell them I'm not interested . . . I'm "Buddhist "
Intelligent access is what lets you lock and unlock the car by touching the handle?
Yes, I should've been more accurate. Intelligent access is not standard on all trims. I corrected my post--thanks!
I have a club that I will occasionally use. Usually while on a road trip.
Search for "smash and grab vehicle theft" on YouTube. There are roving gangs of smash & grab thieves here in the STL area, and they operate both day and night. I've also read about them in other major metro areas. During the day they drive around shopping areas and parking lots of office buildings that don't have security. The smarter ones will have a couple of cars. The lead car is the scout. They'll drop one person off at the end of a row of cars who goes down the line to look in the windows and ID target cars. These are cars with anything that looks like it's worth taking sitting out in the open. This serves two purposes. First, it can help smoke out any security or police who might be nearby because they will go to investigate. Second, targets are marked for the next team in a second (or third) car, which is generally a driver and two or three others. This team drops off thieves who go directly to the marked cars, break out the windows, and grab whatever the scout saw. They don't rifle through cars because that takes too much time. The thieves take the booty to the waiting car, and the entire team is gone in less than a minute.
One time when I was at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa one of the guides decided to put a big rubber snake on his roof to keep the baboons off his car. I kind of worked, baboons didn’t jump on the roof. But what they did do was grab big sticks and beat the snake they did way more damage then just walking on it. LOL
