I have a question for the alarm gurus on the board.
Last weekend we had some (attempted - I scared them away by turning on the porch lights) vandalism on the wife's car when it was parked in the driveway about 1 am.
Teenagers were trying to remove the antenna. Had they broken into the car my motion sensor would have gone off and alerted me but they didn't try that - they were just trying to unscrew the antenna.
Other than a regular car alarm system are there other solutions that people use ?
I can back the car into a corner between two retaining walls so the antenna is in the corner.
I was thinking that I could string black fishing line about 2 feet high so and maybe have a "pull the pin" type contact for a DS10a.
My idea was they would trip the alarm by running into the fishing line and set off a bunch of lights and stuff ? (and up here we can't hook the line to a shotgun trigger !)
Any suggestions ?
Last weekend we had some (attempted - I scared them away by turning on the porch lights) vandalism on the wife's car when it was parked in the driveway about 1 am.
Teenagers were trying to remove the antenna. Had they broken into the car my motion sensor would have gone off and alerted me but they didn't try that - they were just trying to unscrew the antenna.
Other than a regular car alarm system are there other solutions that people use ?
I can back the car into a corner between two retaining walls so the antenna is in the corner.
I was thinking that I could string black fishing line about 2 feet high so and maybe have a "pull the pin" type contact for a DS10a.
My idea was they would trip the alarm by running into the fishing line and set off a bunch of lights and stuff ? (and up here we can't hook the line to a shotgun trigger !)
Any suggestions ?