Thursday, October 21, 2004, 8:09:04 PM, Steven G. Cameron wrote: SGC> **The motion detectors they sell in this area, connected to a garden SGC> hose, hoping to chase the deer away (from eating garden plants and SGC> flowers), might be one (partially) effective approach. I don't think we have them here. (I just surfed, just in case.) And they'd probably get all the cats, which wouldn't charm some of my neighbours! For use against Republicans, otoh... is it illegal to put some semi-permanent dye in the water? Judy SGC> TC, SGC> /Steve Cameron, NJ SGC> Judy Evans wrote: >> I'm thinking of a motion-detecting light but there's a problem: very >> little motion can set them off. (I live in an end-of-terrace house >> with a lane running down the side of the house and my -- rather long >> -- garden; people have forced the side gate [I've sorted that out] and >> they climb over the wall; they've tried to prise of part of the >> outermost back door; I found a metal bar a bit like a crowbar in the >> garden. The chances of anyone getting into the house through the *2* >> back doors and when the alarm is on are more or less zero, still... .) >> >> I do have some very powerful flashlights! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html