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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Protecting Car Stereos
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 10:59:33 EDT
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Well, for one thing, I'd recommend an ultrasonic alarm, if you can get one.
So far I have only heard of one.  However, my brother's car was broken into
about a year ago in a way that none of the conventional, switch-oriented
alarms would help with -- the burglars broke into the back window, crawled
inside, took out the stereo, and then opened the door and ran off.  Thus
the switch-oriented alarms would have done no good at all; they would have
only started ringing when the burglars were ready to escape.

(I realize that there are piezoelectric breakage-sensors you can stick onto
windows, and probably other devices, that would help with this.  My real
point here is that many of the alarms, which just use switches on the
doors (or use the inside-light switches) would appear not to be of much
value against a reasonably experienced burglar.)
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