larry barnhart wrote:
D.E.Bishop wrote:
We have a S&B that is about 6 miles of a minor highway and about half of that is some very rough desert roads. We have been robbed so often that I am planning that when we finish repairing the vandalism to leave it unlocked with door closers that hopefully won't be stolen too.
We had 1/4" steel shutters bolted through 8" cinder bloc on windows and 1/4"X1 1/2 square tube jail cell looking doors over the entry doors. The thieves cut the through bolts with a torch and stole all the steel for scrap value.
My point being, extreme security items won't stop thieves given enough time, they will steal those too. Having an item visible and normal security will help from having thieves steel from you. There just isn't a fool proof system.
Minimize valuables in the rig and don't take extreme measures for security, pulling the high pressure fuel pump relay along with the removing the batteries will stop almost indefinitely any theft of the rig. I think that's the best you can do. Unless you can find a storage yard like ours, IR detectors, Laser trip beams(smoke won't help you evade them like Tom Cruise does)hi-def cameras and random visits by a security company that monitors the cameras from afar with mobile response always close at hand.
Not fool proof but it's good.
I would think you would understand what bullets are for by now. It sucks for you to have this problem but I see more of this happening in our future.
chevman
I'm thinking that they are not home when this is occurring so bullets would not help.
To the OP. There are a lot of good suggestion here but, I agree that the best way if to find a different place to store it. If they are "borrowing" the whole RV then they could wreck it too. Your friend could come home to find the doors have been open and something has been living inside. Or, even if just the wind and rain got it it would still get wrecked. Thus, the rig is totaled.
Best to store it somewhere that this doesn't happen.
