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From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: Car Theft - Part 2 (McGuard Whee
Message-ID: <55200137@trsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 12:24:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 12:24:00 1985
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Nf-From: trsvax!mikey    Jan 22 11:24:00 1985



It just goes to show that the only secure system is your own, not an
off the shelf unit.  If you can buy it, so can a burglar, and he can
take it apart to see how it works.  I my hometown in PA, there was a 
ring that got caught when they started hitting houses protected by
this new security company.  It turned out they were one of the 
company's first customers and they figured out how it worked.  If a 
burglar came to rob a house, he'll hit an unprotected house first, a
protected house with a standard alarm second.  He'll leave a house 
alone if it has an alarm he doesn't understand, even if it is a
relatively cheap and simple system, he won't know what to expect.
The same goes for cars.  Although the people who steal tires are
usually hit and run, a good LOUD alarm with a radio pager and motion
detector are a good deterent.  I had my motorcycle tampered with 5 times
in 4 weeks back in 1980. I tried to put an alarm on it but kept getting
false triggers and anoying the neighbors.  I finally took it off, to
experiment with something else, but amazingly, the bike never got 
touched after that.  The individual(s) who were doing the tampering
must have thought I still had an alarm and since they couldn't find it,
they left well enough alone.

mikey at trsvax