Scumbags.

[Manky Monkey]

Stopped by at my lock-up garage yesterday. It's in the middle of a housing estate behind a busy parade of shops, people coming & going all day. Got 3 huge Chubb padlocks on it, one on a hasp welded to an angle iron strap across the top of the door frame & two locked to 1 1/2" steel bars bolted to the concrete floor inside the garage & passing through the door, with strengthening plates around the holes & under the top lock, plus the standard door lock.
Some lowlife had cut through one of the bottom locks with what looks like a bloody great big pair of bolt croppers. Fortunately although they cut through one side of the loop on the padlock it was still locked shut so they couldn't remove it. They've also had a go at the second lock.
I normally keep my bike in there, plus the trike when it's on the road, chained to a steel ring concreted into the floor. Luckily at the moment I can't cos there's half a Sherpa van filling the garage but still got chests full of tools, a generator, mine & Rainbow's trike engines etc in there.
GITS. Thieving lowlife scumbags. So now I'm off to trudge around the town & retail parks trying to find one of those high security locks -the big square blocks with a pin that slides across a slot in one side rather than a normal padlock loop. Will cost me a fortune for the size I need & I can only afford one for now but daren't leave the garage unsecured. Even if whoever broke in didn't take much, the local pondlife would move in & scavenge anything left behind.
Trouble is the bigger the lock I fit, the more they'll think it's worth breaking in. Gits, gits, gits.

[Borgy]

well at least what you have on the door worked and they didn't get in

[Manky Monkey]

Yeah, worrying though. I live in a first floor flat. Got a numbered parking space outside but no garage so I rent this one. Trouble is it's 20 minutes walk away! So if it were broken into I wouldn't know about it till the next time I went up there. If I make it look like Fort Knox they're just gonna think it must be worth breaking into. Couldn't find the type of lock I was looking for, so bought three new Chubb padlocks, slightly bigger than I had before with a thicker but smaller radius loop so hopefully they won't be able to get the jaws of the croppers around them. Mind you, the skin of the door is only paper thin -you could cut a hole in the middle of it with a tin-opener! Ah well, you can only do so much can't you. AWOL used to run adverts for trip wires attached to shotgun cartridges, (blank -obviously. Ahem). Haven't seen 'em for a while. That'd do the trick!

[Borgy]

there illegal now as they are classed as firearms, but they are easy to make

[Manky Monkey]

Shame. Is it illegal to wire the door up to the mains?

[STEViE]

I use carpet gripper on the inside edges of the door myself, with the points layin' so that you pull onto it. That way if the bastids try pullin' the door open they're gonna loose some flesh    Legal? Dunno, don't care. If the bastids are breakin' in then they're illegal so WTF 

[Manky Monkey]

Hmm, that's a good 'un! I reckon I might give that one a go. Can see me grabbing a handful of spikes myself though!

[STEViE]

Done that myself but you do only do it the once. 

[Manky Monkey]

You forget -I'm a remarkably stoopid Monkey. It'd take 3 or 4 spiked mitts before I learnt not to do it. I really ought to be extinct by now you know. A danger to myself!