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Sorry to hear Rigg...

Maybe run a decoy fermenter in the shed from now on! One rigged with a taser that goes off if the tap is touched, set right at their chuds.. f*ckin scum!

All the more reason to buy a fermenting fridge, run it inside the house and never let your beloved brew out of your site again ;)
 
i had the old house broken into while i was asleep in my room once.

bastards stole :

$3000 computer
$1200 RC CAR
various trinkets.
After i woke up and discovered these items missing i went to make a coffee and call the police, DUCKING RUNTS i said, they stole 2lts of fresh milk from my fridge.

They just love to add insult in injury
 
Middle of last June my wife goes outside to get the car out of the garage to take the kids to school. She comes back inside and says "I think someone broke into the garage." Shit.

I go outside and the garage's side door had been forced open. We put the kids' bikes up against it and they had been moved. The security light next to that door had both of its light bulbs unscrewed. I looked over everything in the garage but nothing had been taken - absolutely nothing - and I have many $k worth of tools. I had a sheet of plexiglass propped up against the wall next to the door and it covers the light switch, which they obviously couldn't find. They must have fumbled around in the dark and tried to open each of our vehicles, but we luckily always lock them even in the garage. Called the cops and they said that there were another 16 garages in our area that were hit that night. Even though we found a full handprint on the van's side window and a really good set of fingerprints on the car's driver's side window, the cops couldn't be bothered to take the prints. :angry:

The garage now has another security light very near the peak of the gable where no one can unscrew the bulbs. This light points down our previously unlit driveway - the only way in/out of the yard. I also fixed the side door. Nothing short of a hydraulic ram is going to open it now. I bought 3/4" angle iron and fashioned a slide-in door barricade with two pieces of angle iron lag bolted to the door frame on either side of the door and another piece of angle iron across the door, which locks in behind the two pieces bolted to the door frame. I also added bars to the windows in the garage, as well as bars on our 3 basement windows in the house. The last thing I did was to add a tamperproof security light next to our back door, which can't be seen from the street.

Bastards should get their nuts in a vice for dumping your beer. <_<
 
I also fixed the side door. Nothing short of a hydraulic ram is going to open it now. I bought 3/4" angle iron and fashioned a slide-in door barricade with two pieces of angle iron lag bolted to the door frame on either side of the door and another piece of angle iron across the door, which locks in behind the two pieces bolted to the door frame.

Do you have a remote roller door? Do you know they can simply be lifted up unless they are actually locked with the key? Its a risk I take every day, but its still there.

Like the idea of the door security though.

Cheers,
Jake
 
Do you have a remote roller door? Do you know they can simply be lifted up unless they are actually locked with the key? Its a risk I take every day, but its still there.

My overhead door can't be locked with a key without adding the lock kit to it. There are no handles on it at all, but that doesn't mean that someone can't try to wedge something under it and pry it up. The opener can be disconnected from the door, but only from the inside. I suppose it can be pried up from the outside, but the noise that would come from that metal door would be enough of a deterrent.

I actually have been meaning to create a second wireless remote that would turn on the power to the opener, which would in turn be operated with its remote. A friend of mine rigged up something similar after he found his door wide open one morning. With the power cutoff circuit on a different remote, he never had another problem.
 
My overhead door can't be locked with a key without adding the lock kit to it. There are no handles on it at all, but that doesn't mean that someone can't try to wedge something under it and pry it up. The opener can be disconnected from the door, but only from the inside. I suppose it can be pried up from the outside, but the noise that would come from that metal door would be enough of a deterrent.

I actually have been meaning to create a second wireless remote that would turn on the power to the opener, which would in turn be operated with its remote. A friend of mine rigged up something similar after he found his door wide open one morning. With the power cutoff circuit on a different remote, he never had another problem.

So isolating the power with the remote is to stop someone opening the door electrically from the inside once they have gained entry?
 
Maybe they were comercial brewers?



MEeting at brewery................ "how are we going to increase sales?"

Joe lowlife: "Lets empty all the home brewers fermenters"

Tony, That's not very nice. Commercial Brewers (me included) are not all the anti-christ. Some of us at least would taste it first to get some idea of what real beer should be like. ;)

Seriously though, It does rip your guts out to see your efforts go to waste by a senseless act. It also hurts when 2500lts goes down the drain due to a valve left open too. :blink: Not me thank god but I've seen it happen...
 
Riggwelter, that really sucks.
Hopefully those guys will end up"riggwelter" themselves.

Keep on though. I imagine you are brewing dark english beers a la black sheep!!

Cheers
 
That is just totally f**ked.
Wouldn't you love to catch one in the act?

FWIW, I hope your beer got a wicked infection, and they decided to drink some before tipping it.
 
I have an electric fence that surrounds the paddock with the shed, and three dogs. These guard dogs are 'best of breed' for home brewing defence :blink: and are ever vigilant (mealtimes). They are: Lab, cocker spaniel & and shitzhu/staff X. They leave around landmines to deter the most hardy trespasser, and have been known to dish out a punishment known as the 'tetanus trek', where they chase the intruders along the fenceline until they jump it. There is a lot of rusty wire!

InCider.
 
So isolating the power with the remote is to stop someone opening the door electrically from the inside once they have gained entry?

Sorry I wasn't more clear. A normal garage door opener has one remote; hit the button, the door lifts. The idea is to add another, small pocket size remote that you carry with you. To open the door, you first hit the small remote which activates a device that then powers up the garage door unit. You then hit the garage door opener's remote to open the door. With this arrangement, someone can break into your car and steal your garage remote control unit but it won't open the door without the other remote to power things first. I figure that the added unit would be on a timer and/or a an on/off arrangement.
 
Bloody lowlifes...

Makes me mildly concerned, all my gear is in the garage, but the door is right under my bedroom so it should be right...

Reminds me of thieves who robbed our pub, one smashed a stain glassed window, and broke all the till drawers, to simply steal a bag of chicken chips and a bottle of sprite. Or the guys who ram-raided the drive-through, and nicked 2 bottles of JW red...

Karma will get them eventually.
 
That is just totally f**ked.
Wouldn't you love to catch one in the act?

Yes you would, but in this country you are NOT allowed to touch them, or you go to jail, get dragged through civil court etc. The crims have more rights than us people that life by the law, well at least closer to it than the crims!

Heaven help you if you are a licensed gun owner and decide to defend your property and your rights. Its lockup for you!

Seems back to front to me personally.
 
Heaven help you if you are a licensed gun owner and decide to defend your property and your rights. Its lockup for you!

It's worse here in Canada. Last week a couple of guys broke into a home and shot one person. The victim's brother wrestled the gun away from one of them and shot the *******. Guess who got arrested? Read about it here.

Seems back to front to me personally.

You're not alone. :angry:
 
Yes you would, but in this country you are NOT allowed to touch them, or you go to jail, get dragged through civil court etc. The crims have more rights than us people that life by the law, well at least closer to it than the crims!

Heaven help you if you are a licensed gun owner and decide to defend your property and your rights. Its lockup for you!

Seems back to front to me personally.

Does that apply if you actually dont kill the person? Like, say if you just knocked them out and detained them until the cops arrived? Or would you still get in shit? :huh:
 
I'd gladly KO a prick that broke into my place.

If the law says you can't do it I guess it means you just knock them out and drive them into the bush somewhere and take their clothes and just leave them there. Hopefully they can't remember which house they'd broken into.
 
I'd gladly KO a prick that broke into my place.

If the law says you can't do it I guess it means you just knock them out and drive them into the bush somewhere and take their clothes and just leave them there. Hopefully they can't remember which house they'd broken into.
you don't want to cause an accidental death tho, and you've no doubt noticed there's been a few of those recently from single king-hit incidents at night clubs etc... leaving him in the bush with possible head trauma mightn't be the best thing to do.
 
If you want to fire at them, be sure to empty the entire magazine, makes it look a bit more like self defence then and therefore the act of someone who was in a panic and not a calculated murder....

In terms of hitting them, I believe people have got off when they have applied one king hit, as it was considered "reasonable force in an act of self defence"
 

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