> gerald: if you must overnight on the street,park near apartment
> buildings-
> MIKE

Because VW bus owners can't afford a home & only live in Apts?  LOL

Tom B.-how about funeral home parking lots?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerald Masar <azsun99@EARTHLINK.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Alarm system, was Bus story
>
>
>> 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
>>
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