I’ve been looking at good solutions myself as well. Do you have a dog or home alarm system?
I’ve heard of many criminals doing the knocking the door thing and then, breaking in. I know someone who this happened to even though their kid was in the house at the time. They knocked and she ignored it, but they broke in and ransacked everything after no answer. Kid locked herself in her room and they tried to break in that door, but left after some hard, scary attempts at the door. They did mess up the rest of the house and stole many things in a truck.
Currently, we simply don’t open the door at all now figuring like spam, it’s better to not let them know if you are home or not and they can take their chances since you never open the door. If we didn’t have kids, I’d be a much bigger fan of guns at home as well, but that doesn’t help you when you are out. Best solution is to have nothing of thief value at home.
Do you know how long they were in the house? We have a camera as well, but are looking for more and more ways to secure the data since we’re storing it inside the house to a network NAS. Also more seriously considering the home alarm companies, but that doesn’t help since the police are really slow to respond anyways (thieves have at least 10 minutes+). It does help to limit their time if it’s blaring really loudly and they’d rather not bother. I hate how there has to be a monitoring fee and things like ADT say it’s free, but tack on a installation charge.
At this point, I am planning to get more deadbolts and chains (have to cut at least) and more seriously getting those door jam alarms which emit some loud noise when the door opens from the outside (probably a bigger deterrent), my concern if I am out is it keeps blaring non-stop for hours on end.
It’s impossible to keep a home completely secure, but please share ideas. I’m especially interested in the different home alarm companies, though concerned with the home alarm company’s disabling your alarm and robbing you from the inside.
Lastly, we’ve had stuff stolen before as well and the police does absolutely nothing…incredibly upsetting and feel very violated.
The macbook article is interesting. Are there GPS devices you can buy or software for the PC that does the same thing?
