!00 locks on the door won't stop these criminals...

[cracksman]

connect the chicken wire to a car battery not sure what it would do to the plants though

[Vincent-XXI]

Chicken wire: Check
Car battery: Check

The next morning...

"What a beautiiful day the sun is shining and the 12foot plants are eating my neighbours. Lets get some breakfast, lets see cheerios, weetabix or brand X hmm WEetabix it gives me the energy I need." (note to weetabix you owe me money for advertising )

*CRASH* Bob from next doy comes flying through the window

"Ooh Hey Bob."
"Gahhh acck "
"I wonder whats on the news"

TOday reports are coming in of many attacks in Ireland from giant..

"Boring, lets put on some music insead and get picking giving all my attention to something infront of me ala most horror movies while something sneaks up behind me. Still not registering the earlier sightings of the monster plants till a random point when I'm doing some menial task."

O Fortuna Full volume. (Carl Orff you now owe me money as well.) WHaaa! Giant plants attacking neighbours I've got to do something!!! But in minute the good bits about to play when it gos from really Quite to thundering Loud!! There it was now to save my neighbours!!

*Thermites the country and has a cup of tea*

The END Steven speilberg War of the worlds is nothing next to this.

Seriously though chicken heads err wire great thinking.

[Chrispy]

[wtf|pickproof?]

I think there are things called "claymore". They should be quite suitable to protect a bunch of plants, shouldn't they?

wtf|pickproof?

[Mad Mick]

And back on a some-what serious note....
Those who are up to no good don't like noise...especially if the home-owner has a dog. Or even better, a dog who doesn't live in the house...

It's practically impossible not to make any noise when moving over gravel. Any form of building which is succeptible to being targeted for theft, espionage, kidnapping etc. usually has a break in the topography consisting of a gravel bed far wider than which is able to be jumped over etc.

Food for thought.

[raimundo]

claymore is a directional command detonated mine, you have to place it, aimed at the direction of the enemy,(noted on the plastic case) and you have to squeeze the clicker at the appropriate moment. in any case, it will damage the garden, so forget that one.
In latin countries, where front lawns are not common, just a wall, and if any garden exists, its inside, surrounded by the house and property wall, the street is just walls and windows with thick iron bars, the thick iron bars in some cases were there for hundreds of years, the security or insecurity situation is static, and the iron bars are fundamental, however many houses do not have airconditioning, and are built to leave the windows glassless most of the time. A type of burglar developed who reaches into rooms from the street with a fishing pole to lift purses and such. Snatching off the table from outside on the street. for every problem there is a solution and one mans solution is the next mans problem.

[mrdan]

You guys are so funny. Why all you gotta do is just dont have plants or a lawn! Just a mote with Pirranahs.

[Raccoon]

The solution is even simpler still. You say it was 3 properties in a cul-de-sac that was robbed of its flora? Doesn't anyone suspect that neighbor with the jungle that appeared over night?

But yes, it would be rather difficult to prevent someone from making off with decorative gardening, without adding unsightly security. There are some alternatives though.

Use large flower pots that weigh in excess of 60 pounds that would be difficult to lift and transport.

For smaller pots, one could bolt them to the ground, or to an object which is buried in the ground. Since many pots have a drainage hole in the bottom, or are made of plastic, a simple bolt and washer can be inserted in the hole and secured to a slab of buried cement.

Make hanging plants permanent by securing the pot to the basket, and the basket on an irremovable hanger.

[p4rk3r]

Alternate theory: Homeless vegetarian

haha I like that

[Schuyler]

Holy old thread batman!!

Great story and theories, though.

[JackNco]

not sure about some of the explosive theories but how about CCTV?

John

[Stray]

claymore is a directional command detonated mine, you have to place it, aimed at the direction of the enemy,(noted on the plastic case) and you have to squeeze the clicker at the appropriate moment. in any case, it will damage the garden, so forget that one.

Claymores can be tripwired too. the improvised method involves a plastic spoon, some wire and a clothespin, you all can figure out the rest...

but yeah so many of you all talk about rigging explosives and other such nasties to the yard... mightest well let the thief take them if you do that, atleast you wont get prison time on top of losing all your plants.


Either plant those wonderful plants like one poster said (poison ivy etc) or go vietcong style on them lol.






or just a hole without spikes that when they drop into it they sprain their ankle or break their knee...

[Firearm]

Watch the movie Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit and it'll all make sense.

http://www.wandg.com/

[apache405]

The solution is even simpler still. You say it was 3 properties in a cul-de-sac that was robbed of its flora? Doesn't anyone suspect that neighbor with the jungle that appeared over night?

But yes, it would be rather difficult to prevent someone from making off with decorative gardening, without adding unsightly security. There are some alternatives though.

Use large flower pots that weigh in excess of 60 pounds that would be difficult to lift and transport.

For smaller pots, one could bolt them to the ground, or to an object which is buried in the ground. Since many pots have a drainage hole in the bottom, or are made of plastic, a simple bolt and washer can be inserted in the hole and secured to a slab of buried cement.

Make hanging plants permanent by securing the pot to the basket, and the basket on an irremovable hanger.

In my old house my family tried the whole bolt it to the ground/fix hanging things to beams permanently, but even though we had attached our lanterns to the beams, some idoit just made off anyways, so we ran 120V lines and put lights in them. One stole them after that. (i wonder why?? *zap*)
My current house also had the same problem when it was still pretty new. The landspacers would steal plants (my mom's roses, for example) and put them in a block or so down the street.

[JackNco]

barbed spikes!!!!!!!!!!!! dude there just plants, and what if i kid walks in ?

John