Listen up fellow cabin owners, you can do something besides wring your hands and wait for the next break-in!
You’ve probably heard this line; “Don’t leave anything in your cabin because someone will just break-in and steal it”. The old timers will tell you that you should expect to be “HIT” about every 5 years or so. Well…..this may be so, but I own a cabin, pay my taxes, mow the grass, fix the roof, cut the wood and “don’t accept the status quo”.
Camp is that special place I go to get away from the stress of my job and the daily rat race that we call modern living. The last thing I want to do is go to camp and find out that some half wit dead beat broke out a window and hauled out my tools, furniture, gas grill, or my wife’s favorite frying pan. It’s my place, my property and my responsibility to protect it.
How do you stop these crooks in their track? You can’t duct tape a shot gun to a chair aimed at the door with a string tied to the trigger and the door. It seems like an effective crime stopper, but its really quite illegal and it will probably shoot you or someone totally innocent by accident.
You can, however, install a Sun Wind and Wire Cabin Alarm System www.CabinAlarm.com which runs on a 12V battery, uses no power when armed and incorporates a 140 db (as loud as a shot gun) internal pain generating siren to drive the crooks out and away from your property. The price is very reasonable at around $240.00 and is quite simple to install. Now you would think this would be enough protection, but if you have some doubts there are some Extreme Measures that you can take to make you feel even better and the crooks won’t appreciate any of these.
You can attach a “BURGLAR BOMB” www.stopthecrime.com to the Cabin Alarm. I should note that this product has no affiliation at all with www.CabinAlarm.com , but it can be wired directly and it will definately put things in your favor. The Repulsar I and Repulsar II Burglar Bomb unload 6 ounce aerosol can/s containing capsicum (OC Pepper) into the cabin causing immediate problems to the idiot trying to enter the cabin. The spray is a nontoxic inflammatory agent that causes uncontrollable coughing and sometimes nausea and excessive tearing. The crooks primary concern will be to get away and the spray will dissipate with some airing out.
Still not enough? Well, I got this idea from someone the other day on my comments form. You can purchase an IMPCO 12V DC electric solenoid shutoff valve L-416-12V and use it to load propane into a $250 ZON Mark 4 Propane Cannon (grunt grunt) as Tim Allen might confirm; to let out one nerve rattling, blast from hell www.suttonag.com/Zon.html . The 12V solenoid can be wired directly to the Cabin Alarm. ZONs website says a 20 lb tank of propane will run for 17,000 blasts. You can hook it up the the Cabin Alarm timed output so it will stop after a few hours. When you’re at camp you can use the propane to grill some steaks or chicken.
Let’s put this Cabin Alarm with these Extreme Measure in perspective:
You’re a lazy, no good, half witted, gut-less cabin robbing crook (do you get the feeling I’ve also been robbed?) and you break into a cabin to get some stuff to sell at the local bar. You know the cabin is an easy mark and there is very little risk of getting caught since its late at night in the middle of a work week. You sneak onto the property and you bust open the door with a log and super loud sirens go off. You step inside and you realize the noise in the cabin is an unbearable 140 db siren and its busting your ears. You cover your ears and realize the air is filling with a gastly, burning fog, “what the hell is that” and you stumble for the door and suddenly you hear a nerve jolting super loud blast from outside the cabin……….. you’re so scared you don’t realize you’ve shi**** your pants…. you poor baby. You’re tripping over your own feet on the way out and you never look back. The experience gives you nightmares for years.
The Cabin Alarm with a few Extreme Measures seems to pretty much provide the security you need, but you don’t have a phone line and you want to be called about the break-in. Look for a distibutor who carries the DigiCell, AnyNET Network Access Module. For a few hundred dollars and a minimal fee of about $8.00 / month you can be notified about the break-in, see www.uplink.com/DEALERS/products.asp for more information. The DigiCell AnyNet system isn’t affiliated with www.CabinAlarm.com ,but it will connect directly to the Cabin Alarm. A customer gave me this tip and wired one up to a Cabin Alarm kit himself.
Before you read this article I bet you never knew you had so many amazing choices available to protect your special place in the woods or on the lake. Most people really believe you just have to live with the break-ins, but these things are available and they don’t cost you an arm and a leg.
If you know of any other Extreme Measures for your cabin or camp protection that just might go along with a Cabin Alarm, drop me a line and I’ll put out the word.
Steven.
Great blog . thanks for showing us.