Okay, here's my story and question.
Asleep, stealth camping on a residential street (I know, broke my number one rule), in
San Diego last year. Woke up, someone is walking around the van with one of those
powerful cop maglites, trying to see in, which he couldn't. I assume it was a cop, but
didn't hear the fast idle of his car. Thought my black lab was going to bark, but all
he did was a low growl.
If I had the alarm that is in my other Westy, one that goes through a series of really
irritating, loud noises, lights flashing, etc., and triggered it from inside, waking
up the whole neighborhood, would he have backed off, thinking "uh oh! now they will
blame me, I think I have a more important call at Dunkin Donuts"?
As it was, after that I couldn't sleep and was leaving the next day, so I waited about
15 minutes after he left, got dressed, slipped through the curtains into the front and
headed out.
What would you do (other than don't park in front of houses)?

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "mordo" <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:19 PM
Subject: Alarm system, was Bus story

> >
> > "Or an alarm that alerted you wihout alerting everyone else within a
> > two-mile radius?  Surely there are some innovations out there?"
>
>
> Preventing theft is pretty difficult. A determined thief will take a car,
> alarm or no, because they know most folks don't pay attention to alarms
> anymore.
>
> As the real objective must be to recover the stolen vehicle before it gets
> chopped and sold off, LoJack or other similar GPS locating system is
> probably the best thing going.
>
>
> --
> mordo
> 1990 Carat
>