Re: How to secure an abandoned building that has pigeons, etc.?

["Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may just be that you have too much time on your hands.

"autonut843" <hmjunk31415@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> This'll sound wierd and some may think I have an alterior motive.
> I don't, I'm just curious.  Years ago I ran across the book 'The New
> American Ghetto' by Camilo Jose Vergara at the library.  It chronicles
> the decline of buildings as they go from useful to abandoned to torn
> down.  I never would have thought about stuff like this but I found the
> book fascinating.  One of the buildings it has pictures of is the
> Michigan Central Train Station in Detroit.  This week for some reason I
> got curious, 'I wonder what ever happened to that building?'  (Did it
> get torn down, fixed up, still abandoned?)  (I live many states away
> from Detroit.) so I started googling.  Found out that LOTS of people
> have wandered through the empty building and have pix on the web
> showing what they saw.  Amazing.  One person mentioned that now the
> building is sealed up with alarms so nobody can get in any more.
>
> So that got me thinking.  Here you have this huge building that has all
> the windows broken out, has been severely vandalized over the years,
> has an immense perimeter, but has been a magnet for people to go
> exploring and vandalizing in.
> let's say they brick up the lower two or 3 floors of windows and secure
> that.  I assume they would put standard magnet switches on the secured
> lower perimeter doors.  But, since (As Vergara's book documents)
> frequently people will just bread a hole in the wall to get in, or
> maybe climb up to an upper window that wasn't bricked up.  How would
> you alarm a building like this?  I would think you'd HAVE to have
> interior motions of some sort, but I would think that the pigeons and
> any other animals that get in would cause lots of false alarms.
>
> Before someone starts thinking that I want to go in some building and
> bypass the security.  That's not my intention at all.  I've got too
> much to lose to risk wandering through abandoned buildings. (wife,
> kids, mortgage...)  I just can't see how you could secure something
> like that economically and not have tons of false alarms.  I know how
> to secure an enclosed building that is maintained.  I am just curious
> how one would handle a partially open situation like this?
>
> Thanks,
> Middle Aged Curious Nerd
>