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From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a little advice
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 13:12:44 EDT
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> Second issue: car alarms.
> 
> Do they work?  Anyone ever seen any statistics?  Do I go all the way? or
> is an ignition cut-off as good as anything else?
>
A good alarm system will keep the joyriders from getting the car (but not
necessarily from trahing it is they get pissed), but a real pro is tough
to stop.

Case in point:  several years ago, a friend of mine had a new 'vette that
he was hyper about somebody ripping off, so he had everything he could think
of put in to protect it.  He lived in an apartment building with a basement
garage one of the better sections of Brookly.  One night, a team of pros 
broke into the garage and stole about fifteen expensive cars. They got
around the exterior alarm sytem--cut out a small piece of the body to do
that.  They got around the interior alarm system without setting that off
either--some more interior damage.  They found and got around the ignition 
cut off.  They had a didtributor rotor to replace the one he always took
out when he left the car.  But he still beat them: he had a very heavy chain
around the rear end and a pillar in the garage (shades of American Grafitti),
and they didn't have anything to cut the chain.