perimeter alarm for when you're showering

[silverlance]

I have driveway patrol set up on the outside of my house. i have adt for when i'm not home or in bed. (actually, because I like sleeping with the window open, I use my dog for a perimeter alarm when i'm sleeping - works great! too great sometimes..)

but what about when i'm in the shower?

here's the plan:

i want to hang a perimeter alarm above the lintel to the hallway where all the bedrooms and showers are located. i want to activate this only when i'm inside the shower - and of course the reciever & alarm should be permanently placed inside the bathroom.

but here's the problem: the only perimeter alarm i've found so far is driveway patrol, and i've already got that set up outside the house. so i can't use driveway patrol (unless i want the alarm to go off every time i move in the house). the solution needed is a similar alarm system, but one that operates on a different frequency so they operate independently of each other.

anyone got any suggestions?

i'd really appreciate it - i want the alarm to buy me time to get out of the shower and pull my shower gun / shower sword (yes i keep a short sword in there).

 

[Preacherman]

Perhaps a Claymore mine aimed down the hallway, triggered by an infra-red beam across the entrance to the hall?

 

[1 old 0311]

What are the odds that of the 1440 minutes in a day, this would be the 10 minutes a burgler would pick????????

Kevin

 

[45R]

How about showering in the driveway.......?

 

[Biker]

Simple. A trip wire that automatically shuts off the hot water supply. The resulting scream should be enough to wake anyone else in the house and scare the pants off the would-be burgler.
Biker

 

[Technosavant]

http://www.radioshack.com/product.a...y_name=CTLG_002_002_000_000&product_id=49-312

This is close, but not exactly what you are looking for.

I think somebody makes one with a separate chiming module, but I am not sure where to get one.

 

[JamisJockey]

You already answered your own question

i have adt for when i'm not home or in bed

 

[armoredman]

Two dogs, foru cats, 5 year old, and wife with 9mm CZ2075 RAMI, and Yugo SKS....don't need anything extra for alarm when showering.... Shower sword? No room to swing, unless it has a stabbing point as opposed to slashing. Roman gladius?

 

[JamisJockey]

i'd really appreciate it - i want the alarm to buy me time to get out of the shower and pull my shower gun / shower sword (yes i keep a short sword in there).

Somewhere, some Mall is missing its Ninja.

 

[Owen]

What I do

Shower time has always been a concern of mine. Ever since my first experience in a gang shower in Junior High, bathing has always caused me a certain degree of anxiety. I can only take so much taunting about my inadequacies.

Before I take a shower, I undress in my bedroom , and err, conceal my, err, weapon with a Level III Kevlar bath towel. I turn off the lights in the hal as I emerge from my bedroom, and belly crawl to the bathroom. As I wriggle into the bathroom, I throw a double handful of Titanium caltrops down the hall. These have a wireless pressure switch in them that sprays clouds of oven cleaner (way better than OC!), concealed in Frank Lloyd Wright style wall sconces, into the air in the hallway. I close the door and engage both deadbolts and a time delay magnetic lock.

I purchased about 50 Intercepter inserts, and made them into a lamelar plate shower curtain. On the back of the curtain I hang my Remington marine magnum (actually it's an 870 express that I painted with Silver Krylon).

When I am done with my shower, I egress out of the bathroom window, and hand over hand along a carbon-fiber gutter to my bedroom window, so I may enter and dress in my digi-camouflage.

I reckon this is the safest part of my day

 

[Byron Quick]

What are the odds that of the 1440 minutes in a day, this would be the 10 minutes a burgler would pick????????

Ever heard of Murphy?

He's out to get me. The odds of this being the ten minutes out of the 1440 in a day that a burglar would pick is too damned high.

I don't have an alarm in the bathroom. But if you bust the door down, I can shoot you without getting out of the shower stall to retrieve a weapon.

See me at the beach in a set of trunks, I can shoot an attacker as I come out of the surf.

Murphy's Law: Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

1st Corrolary of Murphy's Law: And at the worst possible time!

ALL of the data to date indicates that the universe is out to kill each and every one of us, sooner or later. Plan accordingly.

1st Law of Thermodynamics: You can't win.
2nd Law of Thermodynamics: You can't break even.
3rd Law of Thermodynamics: You can't get out of the game.

 

[Mongo the Mutterer]

in best parental voice....

"And WHY are we spending SO MUCH time in the SHOWER?

 

[JamisJockey]

in best parental voice....

"And WHY are we spending SO MUCH time in the SHOWER?

That's a quick way to go blind, ya know.

 

[Phoenix_III]

in best parental voice....

"And WHY are we spending SO MUCH time in the SHOWER?

The most reasonable solution (if you have a shower weapon handy from the stall, good for you/A+), is a deadbolt on the inside of the bathroom door. Some one planning to kick the door in (or just turn the handle and barge in, most do not expect anyone, living alone/at home/etc to have the door even locked) will need more than one kick, which is more than enough warning to get your head on straight. If you have the house alarm/perimiter alarm (Driveway alarm? Not sure if it is just for cars or...?), then that will work for most who simply approach.

Just a thought.

=)

 

[Lupinus]

Set up wall mounted gun turrets with motion detectors. When they detect something they spin make all sorts of funny booting up noises and point right at him. Lots of gun, big mean looking gun's.

He will either run or chit himself and faint

Just for kick's make it have one of them little bang flag's come out of one of the guns when the threat is neutralized.

 

[Mongo the Mutterer]

Just a thought, but what if the intruder has bodacious ta tas and wants to scrub your back??

...


or do your front...

Oh my,

 

[Lupinus]

that intruder is welcome to break into my house anytime

naughty little girls need someone to punish them after all

 

[Biker]

That's a quick way to go blind, ya know.

Nah! It's an old wives tale, heh heh. However, I *do* have to shave my palms!

Biker

 

[silverlance]

lol* you guys are hilarious

yah, i know, for me it's always a constant struggle between my desire to be a well-trained law abiding gunnie and a wascally mall ninja. don't know where the slider is at the current moment, probably vascillating between the two at an egregious rate.

i shower at least once, sometimes twice a day. that's between 30-60 minutes of shower. i shower REALLY early in the morning (about 5am) usually, or really late (11pm). while i'm in there i can't hear, see, or smell anything. my dog lies right outside the bathroom door, but what if the goblin has read the thread on how to silence sentries with a single knife thrust from behind and is bent on coming in on me at that most inopportune of times? further, what if i'm not in the shower, but taking a good long crapper (which is why i'll have to take a shower afterwards)? that's another 30-60 minutes that i spend each day in the bathroom. add on to that brushing, shaving, trimming, plucking (ok, just kidding)... and i'll bet folks spend a lot more time in the john that they think.

now i don't have a gun in the bathroom yet - what with it being a pretty insecure place and rust prone - but as soon as they start selling Maks down here in Cali again i'll be buying one to put in a ziploc and leave hidden in the bathroom (i'll have to figure out some way to secure it so that burglars or nosy vistors won't get to it.. .probably attach it to the bottom of the counter behind a drawer). so i've got a sword and a lot of gumption for the time being.

now this blade is 20in long, has a "tanto" tip and has a doublehanded grip. standing on the toilet, anybody coming through that door better have a thick noggin or they're getting a whompin or stabbin.

i thought about OC, but figured that in such a small area i'd wind up just as fubar'ed as the BG.

and stun guns and water are a baaad idea.

i guess a small crossbow would be ok, but reloading is a real pain unless you stock 3. which could be a really cool conversation piece for the neighbor who wants to borrow your can, but then again rust intrudes rudely.

anyhow - i'm going to check out the radio shack website and ask around to see if i can find someone who can show me how to put together my own perimeter alarm. i really like driveway patrol - i have two recievers, one that is mounted in mid-house, and the other next to my bed which i turn on when i'm the only one at home. i can detach the bedroom one (it's hung on a screw and velcro mounted) and carry it out with me if i'm cleaning the sks in the backyard.

btw:
i recently bought two fake cameras from diy hut. they're the silliest things, they look pretty much like fake cameras unless you're more than 25 feet away, but they're cool in that they have motion sensors built in and when people get within range a little led flashes and the "camera" zooms in and out and moves from side to side.

for ten bucks, it's worth the incredulity.

..

ps: i actually would love to have my m1s90 loaded and ready to go at all times, but for many reasons the only gun i keep loaded is my p228. and i'm not sure if walking about holstered 24/7 is such a good idea ...

 

[secamp32]

Where do you live?

cause I want to make sure I never go there!! Any place that requires a sword in the shower is off my vacation list.

 

[TallPine]

I just solve the problem by not showering anymore.

A side benefit is that most people leave me alone now.

 

[pax]

I leave my clothing lying in a tactical manner on the floor, so that the intruder will trip over them and make lots of noise.

pax

 

[chris in va]

I actually kinda like the idea of a deadbolt/brace for the bathroom door.

You guys laugh all you want and make jokes, but if I was living alone in a higher crime area, I'd want something to at least warn me of impending doom.

Just the other day I found myself tucking the P11 under a towel on the sink while taking a shower since my roommate(s) were gone for the day...

 

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

This bathroom thread repeats itself every couple of months. Simply obtain a sturdy metal door for the bathroom and install deadlocks. Guns and/or knives contained therein is at your option, but bear in mind that the humidty can be extremely rough on the finish.

Can't you set your alarm just to be triggered by doors or windows if you're inside and bypass the internal motion detectors? It would certainly be worth a call to the alarm company to see if you just aren't setting it correctly.

~ Blue Jays ~

 

[jondar]

Guys, and Ladies, don't think it can't happen. Around ten years ago an engineer who worked in the same department as my wife was alone in his house one Saturday morning. He was showering when an armed intruder entered an unlocked front door. The intruder was apparently bi-sexual, he bound the homeowner's arms and legs and sexually assaulted him. After the assault he shot him in the back of the head. The intruder was arrested that afternoon when he tried to force a woman jogger into his car at gunpoint. She ran but had the presence of mind to glance at the license number. The intruder was on probation after serving part of a sentence for forcible rape. For months after that I kept a .25 wrapped in a towel on the shower frame, and checked every door to make sure it was locked. More than that I don't see what else you can do.