Yard growers -- how to deal with theives?

GranolaCornhola

GranolaCornhola

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Prevention is the key. First buy motion sensing lights for around your house. Just having lights turn on is often deterrent enough. Hopefully ou have a privacy fence, mine is 6 foot tall, but what I did is buy some bird netting and stretched it across the top of my fence and trained both hops and wild grapes to grow through it, I now effectively have a 9 foot tall fence now. on top of the wooden slats of my fence I also screwed in prickle strips. I got them off e bay, apparently they are popular in the UK.
ALso, you probably stick with lower odor plants like NL5, Blue mystic, c99, etc. Best not to draw attention in the first place. In michigan no law states ou cannot have a firearm if you are legal. You can open carry here, and keep arms per your constitutional rights.








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skunkwreck

skunkwreck

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Humanrob said:
Well, this has gone off in some odd directions. The original question is very much about staying within legal bounds in a grow happening within a residential neighborhood. There have been good suggestions, so thanks everyone.
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A couple good sized hungry hogs can take care of a body rather quickly...bones and all...only teeth will be shyt out !
 
mattzheng

mattzheng

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qwizoking said:





Been my solution.
Very intelligent and family oriented dog, will give its life for you without question.. if set on a chase, will continue till it catches you or collapses even if not trained to do so. Ive had pits and whatever. Pinschers are where its at

But ive only really grown on my ranch in west tx, which is 10's of thousands of acres. Literally every direction as far as you can see and never had to worry

And i just picked a gun, you may want a rifle..but you can get one of those^ for $3-400 .45 acp
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Yea, my dobbie is not scaring away anyone with that cheeky smile on his face all the time. :D
 

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Humanrob

Humanrob

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oragrow said:
I was thinking of a little dye and sunk essence mixed in with the water. :mrgreen:
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OK, now you're talking... just make sure you don't forget where it is and walk into yourself. I'd feel better about it if it had a remote shutoff.
 
FLkeys1

FLkeys1

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I have motion lights around my plants, not just to try and spook them off but I have security cameras that will record the person, people and the light makes things more clear on the recording but best of all I get a txt message with in 2 minutes of the camera picking up motion alerting me that Ahole is in the garden!! Phone is on next to my bed and it will wake me up.. Best security of all is friend loaned me one of his pit bulls for the season..

New business venture ? Rent a dog ??
 
Solar Flowered

Solar Flowered

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I just lock my plants up at night. I sleep by them so anyone trying to enter my garden would have to commit a 2nd degree felony. However, door barricades can also buy you valuable time if it comes down to them or you.
 
MaiNiaK420

MaiNiaK420

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I think of home security like a target or dart board. (With your home and family at the center) There should be several rings of defense.
1) Familiarize yourself with your states castle law. (Some states castle laws are better then others) Maine's laws are similar to Texas..
2) Post your property in accordance with your states law.
3) Place "property is under video surveillance" signs at all entrances to your property. Preferably a gated entrance. (If you have a large property and don't want to draw attention. Place them up the driveway some so they can't be seen until the property has been entered)
4) Motion sensors and trip wires. Place these where you believe it most likely for someone to enter your property. They sell wireless ones. (Again if your property is large.) Telephone wire is cheap and capable of carrying dc current long distances. Using trip wire style devices, a signal can be sent to a homemade plywood board depicting your property, with 12 volt lights indicating each zone a trip wire is set. (The ones that fire 12 gauge blanks work well too)
5) Camera's. Place cameras where they can't easily be seen. If this can't be achieved, place them so they overlap so if anyone tried to mess with one they are caught by another camera. There are wireless and hard wired style cameras, usage will dictate which kind is needed. They sell ones that record to an in house DVR fairly inexpensive and if you have WIFI these can be linked to send pictured events to your cell phone. You may also choose to have a monitored home security sytem that stores these events to a cloud off property, monthly services charges apply.
6) A dog. Never underestimate the effectiveness of having one of man's best friends around.
7) If all else fails, we have hogs, an outdoor wood boiler and an excavator.
 
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