After having my car broken into and my stereo stolen many years ago, I bought a cassette deck (cassettes, remember those?) with a removable faceplate. I took the faceplate with me whenever I parked anywhere I was worried the car might be broken into, including at my apartment complex every night when at home.
The car was broken into again and the thief was upset I'd taken the faceplate, making the stereo useless to him, so he jammed a tool, probably a screwdriver, into the metal connectors to show his anger. That made the stereo unusable.
That was close to the time I got my tax return, and after that I got a car alarm with dual interior and exterior motion detection fields, with a pager that would go off if someone caused either one to trip. If someone just walked by, the car would chirp at them. If they broke in, the siren went off and so did my pager, alerting me to the break in.
It also came with a blinking light that mounted at the front center of the dash under the windshield when the alarm was set. No one ever touched my car again after that. |
