I once stayed in a little trailer my brother had in a small park in Dallas, while i was swapping the motor in my van, it sat right near the road there, only steps from the sidewalk. I had a bicycle for chasing parts and picking up pizzas, and one day while sitting just inside the door, watching something on tv, through the curtain I noticed something moving, looked out that way and it was 3 teenage kids walking by. A minute later I noticed something else move and looked out, one of the kids was getting on my bike, I stepped out the door and first hollered at him, which only made him dig into the pedals harder, and before I could run after him, he was already out of reach, and they were all way on down the road. Needless to say, I never saw that bike again ; )
Just recently a guy here on the forum had a trailer sitting in front of his house, which also disappeared. There is NO place safe.
If you can lock it, lock it, if you can't lock it, keep it out of sight. ANYTHING you can do to increase the amount of time it takes to remove/steal something, do it.
The biggest deterrent against stealing is fear of getting caught, that's it, no morals, no concience. Every second you can add between them and your property being taken will increase the chances of it staying in your possession. A lock, a chain, a gate, a dog, anything that makes it harder for them to get to it, or takes them longer to take it away, will be in your favor.
Ha! I even was on an apartment renovation job in Nashville, and there was a post in front of the complex, with a big old camera on it, the wires were even hanging there loose. The supt told me he had probs with theft until he'd brought that ol camera on the pole and had it put up there, not even connected, just the effect of the camera being there had greatly diminished theft
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