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the Fet

climber

Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La

Mar 29, 2017 - 03:35pm PT

I have a little box installed in my car. If someone breaks in it emits a cloud of noxious gas and a recording comes on that says "you have been exposed to a poisonous deadly gas. To receive the antidote you must turn yourself in at the nearest police station and have them call me."

capseeboy

Social climber

portland, oregon

Mar 29, 2017 - 03:38pm PT

Someday, just maybe, climbers et al will collectively get it together and take a geezer (like me) with them to sit at the TH to watch over peoples cars & stuff (not just their own) in exchange for beer, food, $,.... What the hell else am I doing? Blah Blah. Consider the user fees for almost everything these days. Sure it's another fee, but whats free these days? Or keep dealing with stolen goods and smashed cars?

I smell an app needing creation here. TH sitters R US?

Another option is being dropped off. And that has a price too.

I never LIKED paying for camping. My attitude was always, this land was made for you and me. That doesn't seem to fly so well anymore.

11worth

Trad climber

Leavenworth & Greenwater WA

Mar 29, 2017 - 04:00pm PT

A few years ago we returned from a week long backpack trip in the Olympic National Park and found that someone stole the stick shift transmission out of our car.

Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber

Mar 29, 2017 - 06:04pm PT

I once noticed my BD daypack was missing out of my van. It might have happened at the rest stop I was at. Went to go brush my teeth after dinner and...WTH is my pack(with toothbrush/paste inside)? Or, it might have happened when I stopped at a Starbucks earlier that day. When I wne to go back to the car, I was going to give Teddy a walk and....the door wasn't locked. Usually I am really careful, but I missed it that time.

Either way, I was very lucky that I had my wallet with me at the SBucks, and then it was sitting int he console elastic pocket on the doghouse when at the rest stop. They got my hairbrush and an in need of replacing toothbrush and squeezed to almost empty toothpaste, and that was about it. Well, the backpack was of value to me. I had to admit it pleased me to imagine them thinking they were sure to score and being pissed off to find nothing.

Jon Beck

Trad climber

Oceanside

Mar 29, 2017 - 06:25pm PT

The TrackR device will allow you track something like a ladder, but it is hit or miss as to its effectiveness. It depends on connecting to a phone running the TrackR app in order to send location data to you. Could be any phone running TrackR that sends the data.

Cheap, but is most useful for keeping track of your keys, theoretically once a lot of people start using TrackR it will work better.

https://www.thetrackr.com/bravo/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=Bravo_Search_GeneralKeywords_cpc&utm_campaign=Bravo_Search_GeneralKeywords&gclid=Cj0KEQjwtu3GBRDY6ZLY1erL44EBEiQAAKIcvum2Vs2lK-B7TNlfWvxZzRnhWnajqry7nMAJwP_53GcaAkxK8P8HAQ

MH2

Boulder climber

Andy Cairns

Mar 29, 2017 - 07:46pm PT

justthemaid

climber

Jim Henson's Basement

Mar 29, 2017 - 08:05pm PT

Dwain- rather than a tracking device- it might be worth an additional investment to back up your cable with one of the cut-proof types. That... or a pit bull .

...someone stole the stick shift transmission out of our car.

OK... that's ^^^ really weird. Junkies get all kinds of "ideas" when left to their own devices.

A buddy of mine has an idea for an anti theft device. Invent a fake stick-shift and phony clutch pedal.
Most of the current generation of hoodlums don't know how to drive a manual transmission.

Another "weird" one.. I bought a carton of milk 2 days ago... I ran into the post office for one minute to drop a box on the counter. When I got back to my car the milk was gone.
Who the fVck steals milk? I guess it WAS "organic"- roughly the same cost per ounce as bullion.

ms55401

Trad climber

minneapolis, mn

Mar 29, 2017 - 08:12pm PT

tweakers gonna tweak. cost of climbing.

Gary

Social climber

Desolation Basin, Calif.

Mar 30, 2017 - 07:05am PT

Legalizing drugs would eliminate a lot of petty crime.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187762.Licit_and_Illicit_Drugs_The_Consumers_Union_Report_on_Narcotics_Stimulants_Depressants_Inhalants_Hallucinogens_and_Marijuana_Including_Caffeine_Nicotine_and_Alcohol

Hope you get your ladders back, Cosmic.

Phil_B

Social climber

CHC, en zed

Mar 30, 2017 - 09:35am PT

A friend of mine puts an old pair of tighty whiteys in the cab of his pickup. He's enhanced them by putting a streak of chunky peanut butter in the back.

No break ins for him. He also puts all his valuables either with him or in his locked steel box in the bed of his pickup.

Bad Climber

Trad climber

The Lawless Border Regions

Mar 30, 2017 - 09:55am PT

Oh, Phil, that is AWESOME! I gotta remember that one. Just make the whole idea of breaking in too nasty to contemplate. Seriously LOL.

@The Maid: Damn. Milk theft? Healthy petty criminals at least.... Jeez.

BAd

Splater

climber

Grey Matter

Mar 30, 2017 - 10:44am PT

Long ago an idiot broke into my brand new car and mangled the stereo and carved up the entire interior - the total damage was about half of the cost of the new car.
Then I put a fake AM simple radio looking cover over the front of the stereo, which worked quite well. Another guy installed a flashing red LED to look like a burglar alarm, (before these were common).

Off White

climber

Tenino, WA

Mar 30, 2017 - 11:35am PT

Tami said she was surprised no one had staked out the parking lots to watch for the thieves. A few years back some folks did that at Exit 38, sport climbing area just outside Seattle. Thieves had been breaking in using a slim jim, scanning credit cards from wallets, and putting everything back. You get more time to use credit card numbers if people don't know they've been stolen. So people staked it out and tried to confront the thieves, turned out to be a crew with lookouts and Russian accents. Likely Russian Mob, folks were lucky to not get shot. Cops were no help at all.

Be careful about cornering thieves.

SteveW

Trad climber

The state of confusion

Mar 30, 2017 - 08:41pm PT

Evidently there were a few break-ins at the Golden Cliffs, near Golden, CO.
The Front Range Climbing Stewards were up there working on trail maintenance, and saw the perps come back one day. Called the cops and the bad boys were caught red handed!!!
There occasionally is some justice!

jeff constine

Trad climber

Ao Namao

Mar 30, 2017 - 10:11pm PT

crime rates up in Bishop.

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

Nothing creative to say

Mar 30, 2017 - 10:29pm PT

Reminds me to remove the garage door opener, reg and insurance. Putting it on the phone is a good idea. Or just fold it up and carry with each time hike/climbing trip.

Matt's

climber

Mar 31, 2017 - 11:30am PT

you guys are paranoiacs-- worried about the absolute worst case scenario of a car break-in.... if you had the same mentality about rock-climbing, you'd be tying into three ropes for every climb!

On average, there is 70 reported car break-ins a day in san francisco... I would imagine that 99+% of the break-ins involve nothing more than theft of contents within the car.

SalNichols

Big Wall climber

Richmond, CA

Mar 31, 2017 - 01:21pm PT

Its easy enough to make breaking into a car an unsurvivable enterprise. Just put a sign on it that says "You may want to stand way over there if you set off the motion alarm" to keep the innocents away.