Adrenalin rush!

[doobin]

Got to bed at half one this morning. Three AM and I'm woken by the phone. It's the yard alarm. Beam sensor is being tripped every couple of minutes. I occasionally get one blip as a bat flies through, but never this. It's Saturday night, and weather is windy. Prime robbery time. No way I'm going alone. I ring the local security firm on speedial and they pick me up within three minutes. We have no bell on the alarm yet- it just rings me.

 

Despite him seeing the police in town (which is all quiet) five minutes ago, they won't answer the radio.

 

You have no idea how much of an adrenalin rush this was giving me! Got to the yard, and all quiet on the western front. No floodlights on, but as they're on an 8-minute timer and we'd taken slightly longer to get there we assumed they'd had a walk around and decided it was too much bother to try to rob anything. So we had a cuppa together while Mike from ProTec security filled in his report sheet.

 

By this time and with the caffeine I'm wide awake and so go along on patrol for the next hour with Mike. He was a copper in South Africa, and let's just say i wish our police were allowed the same methods of operation four our theiving scum back here!

 

So come ten past four and Mike's dropping me back home. As I go to open the van door, the phone rings again! Two trips on the sensor come through on the texts. We're back towards the yard like a bat out of hell. I'm convinced we'll catch them- if there's two trips on the sensor as they walk into the yard then that means they're still there having a nosey. I'm watching the clock as we approach. We're rounding the final corner within six minutes of the last text. Lights should still be on.

 

Imagine my disappointment to find it quiet as a church mouse with no floodlights on. I test them and they all work fine- I don't get ten yards from the beam sensor before the lights come on. So I think we've got a problem with the sensor.

 

Forget rollercoasters- if you want adrenalin, get yourself an alarm system connected to a sim card. Might even help keep your gear safe too.

[MikeTM150]

i know the exact feeling!! Its even more of a rush when someone does actually walk off with ur quad bike and then ur following the gps like some sas trooper to find it and retrieve it. U never get back to sleep for a good 12hrs after all the excitement and adrenalin!!!! Glad nothing stolen though!!

[Steve Bullman]

 

Forget rollercoasters- if you want adrenalin, get yourself an alarm system connected to a sim card. Might even help keep your gear safe too.

 

well it certainly sounds like it keeps you awake at night at least

[NI Tree]

i know what you mean it is good fun. dealing with poachers when you are younger than them it can get intresting. but as our farm is very dangrous in places due to it beaing recamed mud flats there are ditches(some you would not know it was there) and the ground is held togther just by the grass root. try telling a kids to stay of it for there safety (it is worse when an adult is there at times ) some tried to cross a clear ditch/ river and were v.v. lucky to be able to get hold of the fire brigade just in time.

they can be so silly

[treequip]

Got to bed at half one this morning. Three AM and I'm woken by the phone. It's the yard alarm. Beam sensor is being tripped every couple of minutes. I occasionally get one blip as a bat flies through, but never this. It's Saturday night, and weather is windy. Prime robbery time. No way I'm going alone. I ring the local security firm on speedial and they pick me up within three minutes. We have no bell on the alarm yet- it just rings me.

 

Despite him seeing the police in town (which is all quiet) five minutes ago, they won't answer the radio.

 

You have no idea how much of an adrenalin rush this was giving me! Got to the yard, and all quiet on the western front. No floodlights on, but as they're on an 8-minute timer and we'd taken slightly longer to get there we assumed they'd had a walk around and decided it was too much bother to try to rob anything. So we had a cuppa together while Mike from ProTec security filled in his report sheet.

 

By this time and with the caffeine I'm wide awake and so go along on patrol for the next hour with Mike. He was a copper in South Africa, and let's just say i wish our police were allowed the same methods of operation four our theiving scum back here!

 

So come ten past four and Mike's dropping me back home. As I go to open the van door, the phone rings again! Two trips on the sensor come through on the texts. We're back towards the yard like a bat out of hell. I'm convinced we'll catch them- if there's two trips on the sensor as they walk into the yard then that means they're still there having a nosey. I'm watching the clock as we approach. We're rounding the final corner within six minutes of the last text. Lights should still be on.

 

Imagine my disappointment to find it quiet as a church mouse with no floodlights on. I test them and they all work fine- I don't get ten yards from the beam sensor before the lights come on. So I think we've got a problem with the sensor.

 

Forget rollercoasters- if you want adrenalin, get yourself an alarm system connected to a sim card. Might even help keep your gear safe too.

 

 

My one worry about any nightly scrote hunts is that I might just catch one in the act, it’s getting harder and harder to get rid of the body these days.

 

 

Well at least your nights disturbance was protecting your property, we were woken by the neighbour (somewhat the worse for drink) trying to beat his own door down because the wife had locked him out and wouldn’t open the door.

 

After kicking at it for a while he resorted to breaking his flimsy garden gate, to some end best known to the drunken state of mind.

It went quiet about 1.00 AM

[easy-lift guy]

At least your alarm system works, better than the sick feeling one gets from being robbed!

A little fine tuning and it should work better. Thanks for sharing.

easy-lift guy

[porky]

The PIR outside lights come on here when it's very windy. I can't remember the technical details why though, maybe it's a similar thing.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

We had some false alarms but then caught someone at 3.00am

[doobin]

What did you do with the person you caught? PM if neccesary!

[skyhuck]

At least your alarm system works, better than the sick feeling one gets from being robbed!

A little fine tuning and it should work better. Thanks for sharing.

easy-lift guy

 

Based on this thread, I'm not sure thats true.