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[noisepimp]

So apparently the big sturdy lock on my garage door was sturdy enough, but not the hasp it was attached to. Some numbnuts made off with my bike AND the Noisefest PA and speakers, which leaves me one bike short for a "historic bike ride" event I was going to help with next week, and leaves us one PA short for the Noisefest in October

Comments

[fomhoire]

What is the fascination so many thieves have with bicycles?

Is there really a secure hasp? I've tried quite a few here and people still break them. I'm thinking of drilling all the way through the wood and securing it with bolts.

It sounds like they knew what they were after.

[noisepimp]

yeah, most likely, considering I loaded the PA in and out of that garage door a lot. The bike was probably just an easy target of opportunity, I have taken it in and out of that garage door a total of twice. They didn't bother taking the Dremel, my air compressor, or any of the other easily hockable power tools (my tastes for cheapass Black & Decker tools probably saved me those.)

From the looks of the hasp they took a heavy bolt-cutter to it. I replaced it with a stouter, hardened steel hasp (the previous one was probably just magnesium or other semi-cheap metal) and 1/4" carriage bolts through the garage door. I suppose I'm also going to get back into the habit of barring the door from the inside, which I used to do until I started using the garage door more often. Until I can replace the garage door with a big hearty replacement door (right now it's just two sheets of 1" plywood on hinges) it will have to do...but I am going to get the alarm company to install another motion sensor in the garage. That's my TRAIN ROOM, after all!

[fomhoire]

If they used a bold-cutter it is very likely they knew exactly what they were after.

I have three different locks on the front door here after the incident last year. I guess it worked. I came home from work and someone managed to pull the lock cylinder out of one of the locks after wrestling with it. The lock was destroyed. I guess they didn't want to wrestle with two more locks. They broke the window and found out they couldn't get in that window because I stacked about 500 lbs of junk in front of it. The other windows require a ladder to gain access to them.

[ravennoir]

Ugh,sorry to hear this.