got ripped off last night.. :(

yep dude I got my shit ripped by the cops in june...they were just starting to take off becoming huge and then i saw $50,000 disappear....i couldnt sleep for a week with so much anger FUCK THE POLICE!!

I think cameras won't do the trick unless they are SUPER high quality and SUPER close to the crop so you can make out facial details. Chances are if they came back, they would be well covered from being seen, especially if they are someone you know - they will figure you will recognize them if they're seen... so, you would just end up in agony of watching them steal your plants. Either way, I don't think I'd be willing to show the local cops a video of someone stealing my illegal plants lol. good way to put up a red flag for next year... unless you have a permit to grow or whatever.

I think any noise makers would be your best bet or 'driveway alarms'. I wouldn't think you would want flood lights beaming on your plants in the middle of the night... especially if it just happens to be a raccoon or something setting off the lights, disrupting your plants light cycles every other night.

get some 7/11 door dingers. cost is super low. Mine work in the rain!
They are water proof and I dont think ever had a false alarm.
Once they went off and I was WTF and found a turd from what looks like a duck had been there and flew off.

I have 10 and left them all out all year and even the batteries are good still.

Driveway-Alert-System

" You'll likely get sued but you will have the satisfaction of seeing a thieve screaming with his leg caught in a bear trap"

That made my day.

ford442 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punji_stick

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Thats some nasty shit man i was going to suggest a snare trap to make noise but fuck man thats just evil

obrienross said:

yep dude I got my shit ripped by the cops in june...they were just starting to take off becoming huge and then i saw $50,000 disappear....i couldnt sleep for a week with so much anger FUCK THE POLICE!!

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Lol for this being your first post! 50,000 $ harvest claim on first post. Funny shit.

"I think any noise makers would be your best bet or 'driveway alarms'."

I 2nd this. Throw lots and lots of cans all over the place. This will work.

I like the Geese idea, If you could fence in the entire yard, or just the area where the grow is. Guinea fowl also make a god awful racket when intruders are around.

bears man, get some bears

Bears that throw alligators and sharks with lasers?

[video=youtube;3x5TC8__7aE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x5TC8__7aE&feature=related[/video]

but, seriously, i have a thought right now - it was earlier this year - a group of high school kids came around my back gate yelling at the neighbors 'i wanna axe you somethin' really loud - i went out to find them already coming into my yard talking on cell phones - they asked why there was a light on at night in my yard and i told them it was a greenhouse and not to be concerned.. it seems to me to be the exact kind of dumbasses who ripped my crop early and without clippers.. at the time i was pretty worried and people told me that they likely could come back at harvest time.. but, there was not much i could do.. i made a locking gate, but they can jump my fence very easily...

thoughts?

Sorry to hear, some bs. Well, now you know to @ least padlock your crop. <3
Shit.. I am indoors & I have mine under a key, which still is not crazy bitch proof.

Anywho... Keep it Green, invest in a larger breed dog, two is even better. That is your BEST defence vs Imature Kid FuckHeads who roam the streets cause they are bored.. Be careful though, now they may think you have some stash of bud & such indoors. Not sure your lifestyle but if you work & your house is ever unattended. Dogs are a must.

Got neighbor kids? They always are on the lookout for that shit. It's like they can sense it...I remember being a youngin, searchin the woods for a grow. We actually discovered that my friends neighbor was growing on my friends property, in his dads old bird enclosure. We used to pinch buds, justifying it by saying something like "Should of hid your shit better" or "Should of picked a better spot than that ya stoner" haha etc...but we'd never pull a stunt like that..we were all about the plants staying nice even though they weren't ours. Just a thought and a little story haha..I hurt for ya man. Getting stolen from is the worst.

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get a pit bull or some geese, and make sure one isnt a bit tall and showiing over the back fence ffs.

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Geese? Really? The 2nd best security system you could think of was geese? That's fucking funny, yet at the same time kind of sad. I'm not saying geese won't work but, that's your 2nd best option? Behind pitbulls? Pitbulls number one? Not a motion detected door ringer like in a convenient store with the speaker in your bedroom? So when someone walks in your garden, they don't know, but they made a "ding-ding" in your bedroom? No? Geese and pitbulls is where you go with it? Honestly.... One of the most hilarious posts I've ever read.

But seriously, those motion detector ringing things they have in the convenient stores...they're cheap and loud as fuck. 2-3 of these strategically placed in your garden and the speakers placed near your bed. All you would need is a symbol from a drum set to scare the pesky kids away when they wake you up. They would PISS their pants.

i had a lot of friends who were grow families.. once i was about 16 and drunk and i led a friend to a place where i knew there were some immature plants ripped way early and drying - we took a few handfuls of stem and leaf.. i have felt terrible about it to this day.. we didn't take anything of value - i wouldn't have done it if it were actual buds and certainly not growing plants.. but, i do understand the impulse..

so, locking gates i am going to push for - my family doesn't like the camera idea at all, but i will talk it over with them over the winter.. i want to be able to have the fun of growing ourselves and not get ripped again.. thanks again for all of the good advice..!

Just hide the cameras and dont tell em hhahaha Your the MAN of the house now aren't you hahahah just kiddin buddy hope things go smoothly for you next year!!!!

ya, but i kind of want anyone who comes into the patch to see the camera first thing and decide if they want to be recorded and trip motion lights, etc..

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ya, but i kind of want anyone who comes into the patch to see the camera first thing and decide if they want to be recorded and trip motion lights, etc..

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Put the speaker outside, not too loud, and put the sensors on the way to your garden. They will get halfway there and hear "ding-ding" and think twice. All I know is if you want cheap, versatile security, there's not a whole lot you CAN'T do with motion detectable lighting/noises. Whether the noise is to alert you of their presence or to make them THINK they've alerted you, lol. Or simply lighting them up with a motion detector+LED.

Your screwed once the maggots find you. Fences and all other security methods just lead back to you. If someone wants to burn you than they are in and out before lighting or alarms become an issue. Can't shoot them either. That just won't work out as tempting as it might be.
It would all be so much more fun without all the worries that go with the time invested.
Good luck and just Bivovac with them as long as you can