Re: security system advice

[Nomen Nescio <nobody@xxxxxxxxx>]

>With the value of copper and metal going up, there's been a lot of
>thievery of metal going on around here. Plumbing shop was relieved of
>over $70,000.00 in copper a few months ago on Long Island. I've got a
>General Contractor who stores his metal in a shanty type structure in
>back of his shop and it's been hit a few times in the last year or so.
>Not much in value but costly when he thinks he's got material and has
>to stop a job because it's not there.  I was thinking that a quick way
>to get them out of there would be with some kind of pepper spray. With
>CCTV I think he'd just have the pleasure of watching some stranger
>take his stuff and he'd need lighting and etc, etc. And once he stops
>who evers doing this, he's left with a very expensive CCTV system that
>never gets used anymore.

You might want to look into smoke generators.   These were developed in the
UK about ten or fifteen years ago as a way to thwart smash and grab
burglaries.  They fill up the area with a dense nontoxic smoke in a matter
of seconds.  If they can't see, they can't steal.

Cross-zoning of initiating devices is recommended. :-)  Obviously, this
system doesn't get along well with smoke detectors, and if the local fire
department doesn't know about the system, they may conclude the building is
on fire.

smokecloak.com is one of the original companies; there are others.