Spooked

[Claw Hama]

Get serious and go piano wire with 240v. Sorry Ern I know thats not constructive.
But seriously can you borrow someones dog for a while? Not a slipper although they make plenty of noise.
I have actualy seen dogs for hire somewhere too, mild garde dog type things. Or dig sit one from the pound for a
while.

[artme]

Don't you hate scum who won't work for what they want????

Trouble is you set up something like a fishing line and the low mongrels can get you for setting a man trap.

[Claw Hama]

Nar just tell them you were checking your fishing line, hell leave some hooks on it.

[AlexS]

Not a man trap ... just an interactive alarm.

[Claw Hama]

yeh they make all the noise and rucus.

[tea lady]

I would still ring the cops. I spang a burgler getting over the fence in FItzroy once. He ran off from my place minus his dignity, but I called the cops and told them he was about, and they got him coming out of a house up the road.

[Woodwould]

Fishing line connected to party poppers would scare the mongrels off and alert you to the intrusion at the same time.

If I ever caught the git, he would remain my guest for a week or two!

[rsser]

Just as an aside, I was once in a management role and my unit had several computer labs for students to use. It was in the CBD and the labs had to be open so anyone could walk in. Each had about 20 PCs but the security cables could be cut with a decent pair of pliers. When I queried this the answer was that they were really only there so that junkies when caught stealing couldn't plead that they were overcome by the DTs and get off lightly. Having pliers or a boltcutter with them showed intention and planning.

[tea lady]

My car was broken into so often in Fitzroy that I use to just leave it open. They use to break the lock anyway, and I cost a fortune for a poor artist to fix. All I had in the glove box was a fluffy (but unused) tampon. (Can I say tampon here? ) And it only had a tape deck that wasn't worth steeling. It was only a cruddy old Gemini, Hardly the type of car they would steel for a joy ride. (Although I don't reckon they were to bad. Could give others a run for their money on a windy road. )

[Woodwould]

All I had in the glove box was a fluffy (but unused) tampon. (Can I say tampon here? ) And it only had a tape deck that wasn't worth steeling.

What ever will they think of next!

[springwater]

Could give others a run for their money on a windy road. )

Wasn't the mast a hassle with overhead tram lines...or low bridges

[underfoot]

My elderly and diminutive auntie had the fly screens cut on her windows a couple of times (didn't get in) but frightened her.
She now has an old pair of size 14 black studded bikers boots permanently positioned by her front door.
No more attempted break-ins and the boots haven't been nicked either

[rsser]

LOL.

I have a Dutch cousin who has backpacked widely in Asia; a woman, on her own.

The backpack is a faded, dirty and delapidated thing and she's found that she can leave it unattended when she needs to and it's never been nicked.

On the same principle, the state of my garden makes the place look like a rental property but sadly it doesn't seem to have worked this time.

Time to get a rusted car body and dump it in the front yard ;-}

[Woodwould]

Time to get a rusted car body and dump it in the front yard ;-}

Sounds like Tea Lady might have something suitable.

[tea lady]

Sounds like Tea Lady might have something suitable.

Sorry! Long gone. It died, but I got $50 for it for parts.