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<P>This is a pretty involved question I could answer it with a number of devious answers.</P>
<P>One that comes to mind is, "Make sure that the VANAGON labels are kept clean and easily readable."&nbsp; But that only works for those thieves that have owned vanagons in the past or know a friend that owns one.</P>
<P>Seriously, I live in Capital hill-Seattle.&nbsp; Our apartment was burglarized three weeks ago and pretty much all the major valuables were taken.&nbsp; We lost over ten grand of important stuff.&nbsp; The lost computer has been an extreme PITA that I'm still dealing with.&nbsp; Criminal are predators preying on, most of the time, working class folks that are just trying to get by in this world with a little dignity.&nbsp; The rich folks who can "afford" to lose from petty thievery usually have pretty fancy security systems leaving themselves sittin' pretty. </P>
<P>Sorry for the rampage, but I've built myself an ANGST pile to burn, since most of my valuable that I lost in the incident were in the vanagon shortly before we left for dinner.&nbsp; I took them out since I thought the apartment would be safer than the vanagon......wrong!&nbsp; Here's why:</P>
<P>My van was bought with a VIPER alarm system on it.&nbsp;( I've seen in&nbsp;for about $100)&nbsp;Any doors or any bumps and that damn siren goes off and it is really, really bad.&nbsp; Just hearing it makes you want to go find the jacka*s that owns it and beat the cr*p out him.&nbsp; That true for myself include, however, I'm the owner.&nbsp; Usually it only goes off when the garbage truck is going by. (vibrations).&nbsp; Aside from that, If you really own the "kind" equip., put the curtains up.&nbsp; Thieves don't break into something unless what's there and it's a sure thing for something they can turn into liquid$$ to go buy dope.&nbsp; Keep your CD's out of view.&nbsp; I have a stereo with a removable face AND a fake cheap-a*s AM radio face to take its place if I'm in a bad area for parking.</P>
<P>The last suggestion is to get insurance for such a horrible event.&nbsp; Because we should all keep in mind, that there is NO system that is completely secure!! (that goes for national security as well, even though I tried really hard to keep politics out of this.)</P>
<P>Brian Cochran</P>
<P>84 westy </P>
<P>seattle</P>
<P>From:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Maximiliano Goldschwartz &lt;<A href="http://lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000005&amp;a=2f54e38a4b608b117131b6475f99acbd&amp;mailto=1&amp;to=maxito@PACBELL.NET&amp;msg=MSG1004831177.37&amp;start=853652&amp;len=40240&amp;src=&amp;type=x" target=_top><FONT color=#000099>maxito@PACBELL.NET</FONT></A>&gt;<BR>Subject: thefts, security<BR><BR>Anybody has experience on how to increase the vanagon's security?<BR>I mean make it harder for someone to break in and steal the huge amount of<BR>stuff that's in the cabinets.<BR><BR>Extra locks?<BR>Alarms?<BR>Explosive handles?<BR><BR>Dangerous animals inside? :)<BR><BR><BR>max<BR><BR><BR></P><BR><BR><BR>
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