Car being vandalised...

steveo3002

its a car alarm with a proximity sensor the other poster is talking about

i have one and i can chose to turn the warnning on/off as once kids decide they can make the car beep and you come running out they will do that to wind you up

Paul_Masson

inaspin wrote: »

Thank you all for your replies. I think someone misunderstood.... the lads are friends with some lads who live on our street, not my friends lad, thank god in a way! hehe. I hadn't heard of an anti-social behaviour unit, will try and see if they can help. I know it sounds silly but I'm scared that if we start to stick up for ourselves by starting a neighbourhood watch, etc then they are just going to get worse and cause us even more trouble. Any noise I hear outside, i'm worried they're doiing something else to our car... I've started blind twitching!!! lol.

What?! So your not even going to stand up for yourself? This is why kids get away with murder these days!

bookduck

Paul_Masson wrote: »

What?! So your not even going to stand up for yourself? This is why kids get away with murder these days!

Agreed!

Yes, tell your friend their child is mixing with the 'wrong type', and maybe held as an accessory to possibly other misdoings in the future. Any good parent will have a word with the child, and the child will probably dissuade others from touching your car.

Conor_3

Regarding the car that scraped yours. If you have the registration number, hand it over to your insurers and put in a claim against them. Your insurers will be able to find out who theirs is.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Proximity alarms will just cause more damage and annoyance. As soon as the kids realise what you have, they'll be setting it off for fun.

bookduck

OK, a proximity detector on one of those mosquito yob alarms, so it only is heard by teenagers

inaspin_3

Paul_Masson wrote: »

What?! So your not even going to stand up for yourself? This is why kids get away with murder these days!

It's not that i don't want to stand up for myself, but the lads are very intimidating! There is always a large crowd of them, if you were to say something to them I don't know what else they would do to our property. I am talking to the police, etc but to say something to their face may just end up with us in a worse situation. If they didn't know where I live then i know I wouldn't have a problem giving them a piece of my mind I don't think I am personally responsible for kids getting away with murder these days though! I am a mum with a young baby and was just asking what other steps I could take

Thank you for all of your replies.

anewman

inaspin wrote: »

they lean against peoples cars

Wonder if this could apply

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/ukpga_19880052_en_3#pt1-pb6-l1g25

25 Tampering with motor vehicles

If, while a motor vehicle is on a road or on a parking place provided by a local authority, a person—
(a) gets on to the vehicle, or
(b) tampers with the brake or other part of its mechanism,
without lawful authority or reasonable cause he is guilty of an offence.

Road traffic act 1988

anewman

bookduck wrote: »

Here is one, but there are many http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/5093.html

That's just the sensor. I got one off Ebay from the US delivered for about £25. I find it occasionally false alarms.

anewman

bookduck wrote: »

OK, a proximity detector on one of those mosquito yob alarms, so it only is heard by teenagers

What an interesting idea. I wonder if http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ULTRASONIC-GENERATOR-INSECT-REPELLER-MOSQUITO_W0QQitemZ140249614147QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140249614147&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318 would do the job. It has the correct frequency range, but only 100db (most car alarms are about 120db) - although it does have a connector for an extra speaker. See http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/ for details of frequencies.