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So thieves broke into your storage unit again

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Re: So thieves broke into your storage unit again

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There are a million reasons why you should never do this, but I would be tempted to use storage unit #3 as the place to keep my land mine collection. Edit: “You have a land mine collection?” No, but after storage unit #2, I’d daydream about starting one.

Booby-trapping your property is illegal even in the reddest of red states.

Re: So thieves broke into your storage unit again

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    If you use the disc lock the storage facility sells, you'll likely
    pay an additional markup on it, but it's also guaranteed to be
    acceptable to their partner insurance company.
I'm surprised - I'd have expected the facility's locks to be guaranteed to be unacceptable so as to minimize the insurance company's payouts. Insurance agencies already do worse on a daily basis, this level of consumer-hostile bullshit would barely even register.

Re: So thieves broke into your storage unit again

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There are a million reasons why you should never do this, but I would be tempted to use storage unit #3 as the place to keep my land mine collection. Edit: “You have a land mine collection?” No, but after storage unit #2, I’d daydream about starting one.

I imagine it'd be a lot cheaper and legally-viable to store your collection of electronic burglar alarms. Especially if they dial a human when triggered.

There are some neat videos out there where people make their own with Arduinos etc.

Re: So thieves broke into your storage unit again

#9

There are a million reasons why you should never do this, but I would be tempted to use storage unit #3 as the place to keep my land mine collection. Edit: “You have a land mine collection?” No, but after storage unit #2, I’d daydream about starting one.

Booby-trapping your property is illegal even in the reddest of red states.

id put a bank of ultra bright white LED lights facing the door and a speaker with a recording saying this footage has been sent to a remote location. thank you for closing the door behind you.

Re: So thieves broke into your storage unit again

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There are a million reasons why you should never do this, but I would be tempted to use storage unit #3 as the place to keep my land mine collection. Edit: “You have a land mine collection?” No, but after storage unit #2, I’d daydream about starting one.

Booby-trapping your property is illegal even in the reddest of red states.

That would be one of the million reasons why I wouldn’t do it.

I didn’t say I’d actually do it. I’d surely daydream of it.

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