Re: Compact cheap "surveilance" camera

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teflon nonstick wrote:
> On 26/6/06 11:03, in article C0C56F5F.A1C2%teflon1@xxxxxxxxx, "teflon
> nonstick" <teflon1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Just sit outside and wait.
> >
> ...or, a normal Yale lock with a self-closing spring on the door.

Yes, we're putting a self closing springeethingee on the combination
door, and double locking the ranch slider (and not giving out keys, so
it can't be opened at all unless an executive member is there).  That
should at least keep the place locked in the winter, it's not going to
set the alarm and turn the lights out though.

In the summer it might be a different story, the door tends to get
propped open to keep the place cool during the day and people are there
later in the summer too, so probably more chance for people to think
"oh, somebody else will close it".

Maybe alarm monitoring would work, but I just think it would be more
trouble (and expense) than it's worth, if the alarm company rings up at
2am to say the alarm's not set, either they would have to drive 1/2 an
hour out there close up, and drive 1/2 an hour back, or one of us
would.

My idea was simply to try and tell those who have left it open, to not
do it again, but to do that you have to figure out who it was that left
it open.  With 120 people it could have been, it's not as easy as
saying "was it you", and a blanket "don't leave the place unlocked"
just doesn't work (the members have been told, and told, and told
again, to no avail).