bloody Bastardo's there good for nothing people, i'm just glad i stay in a building that has a secure entrance at the front, then they would have to climb a flight of stairs before they get to my door and believe me its no small climb lol.

Just glad they didn't steal anything or get into your house.

Yip your alarm paid for itself today which i'm glad hope there deaf now lol.

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Originally posted by sixofour.604 The criminal needed to setup a wifi scrambler, and cut the connection to the grid...alarm is now moot.

Yayy! Magic technology steals the day.

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when i was 14, i came home from school and found some ****** in our back room with a bag of all our shit. he pissed bolted and i managed to hurl a mini kids cricket bat at him. it got him on the back pretty good, but it didn't seem to bother him much. he just stumbled a bit heh. the adrenalin gave this **** super powers. no shit, he put one hand on the top of the back fence and vaulted straight over.

anyway... expect them to be back. they always come back. the first time they come in, they to a quick scan and take the easy stuff. the second time they come, they come prepared. we got robbed again 2 weeks later.

booby trap time, imo. sentry turrets, bear traps and rope loops counter-weighted by big logs (like with the ewoks in star wars).

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Originally posted by cryophonik The officer told me that the department has been responding to more burglaries this summer than they've ever seen - 1 or more each day, all in broad daylight (i.e., while people are at work).

Sorry to hear about that Cryophonik and I'm glad that it was a close shave.

I can honestly believe that burglaries are rising. Its the same in some parts of the UK, which some people say is because of the economic situation and individuals turning to home burglaries.

Best thing you can do is make sure your gear is insured - you've got invoices, serial nos and photos of the gear in a secure place (even scanned in copies and save them on your hotmail email) and make sure you've got offline backups of your work. With the cost of hard drives these days and external USB/Firewire/Esata HD enclosures being cheap as chips, there's no excuse to keep backups of your work.

If they nicked my mac, well that's pretty bad and annoying although I've got a backup of my OSX partition. But if I didn't have a backup of my work disk, that will really piss me off no end.

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Get macaulay culkin round to make some traps, thats if hes not too busy getting high . . . . .

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if my gear and mac got stolen, i'd sell myself on the streets

Tip: Keep OFF-SITE backups of all of your work / data.

I'm going to start doing this (keep a copy of everything important both at home and in my office). Maybe it's the IT geek in me.

Cryo, glad to hear they didn't make it too far.

That's well bad , sorry to hear that mate but glad you didn't get anything nicked , it seems to be on the rise everywhere at the minute it's annoying.

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Like Echo said now is the time to really watch your place. They know you have gear and that you have an alarm so watch out. With a dolly and a van they can take most of your gear in under 5 minutes.

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If it was just a random event - which it may well could be the alarm would have deterred them away to return a second time! Unless like Zild mentioned they know what you have.

And, in most cases break ins are purely random events and if there not its because people know whats inside and this generally occurs, as a rule of thumb, through someone we know that we consider a friend, but perhaps is not, to leak infomation to someone else, or take upon it themselves to do such an act.

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They had this show on TLC about in home security, where they would get two former thiefs to try and break into your home and expose the flaws.

They would come in a professional looking van with workers jump suits, and scan your house looking for an obvious open because people are lazy about locking things. One house had an alarm, but once it went off it didn't matter. In 3 minutes two guys cleaned out the entire house and left with the BMW. After the burglars had left, the security company called. Even if the security company had called immediately, you still have to factor in police response time and most likely they would have gotten away.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

A lot of people blame the economic climate here in the uk which could be partly correct however the lack of any deterrent is a bigger cause.

I apprehended someone in my house just over two years ago dished out my own punishment and didn’t call the police.

However that fuc**er had the balls to call the police himself to say that he had been assaulted whilst breaking in!!!

He got a suspended sentence despite it not being a first offence offering a broken home story as his defence whilst I got convicted of Battery, Gbh section 18 and only just got off a firearms charge as the weapon I owned was a legal airsoft M16 replica.

Needless to say I got well and truly screwed with a total of 300 hours community service which was later increased and a two year suspended sentence.

With regards to security there is little point trying to turn your house into fort Knox. If someone really want’s to get in there is little you can do to stop him. All you can do is add deterrents to make him think that it is easier to go next-door (Apparently one of the most effective security measures for a home property is a note on the door saying that you do not answer the door to strangers. A lot of home burglars have the check to knock during the day to check that no one is home and this way he cannot be sure the prop is empty)

What I would suggest is that if you have your studio set up in it’s own room then get a lock fitted to that internal door. If the thief does not know what he is looking for he is unlikely to waste time breaking into that room and will stick to easier things such as cameras ect. I also suggest that you rack as much equipment as possible as no one will spend the time unscrewing it . If you’re a dj a lockable coffin will go some way to prevent your setup being taken not least being the weight. Cdjs ect are a thieves favrioute

What do you guys do for off site back ups? The thought of a fire scares the shit out of me. .