Some nasty chav has decided to test Aritechs claim that the readers are vandal resistant.

 

Still working fine though.

They look like they are bolted to a prefab garage, is that your works server room?

They look like they are bolted to a prefab garage, is that your works server room?

It's a hocky pitch. They use the reader to turn the lights on and off.

Bit of body filler guv, quick spray and you'll never know...

Bit of body filler guv, quick spray and you'll never know...

I believe the engineer told them to do just that.

 

They called asking for a new reader . . .

Hardly a vandal proof pozi screw.

on the same subject - here are some stills of when one of the cameras at my home was attacked with a brick a few years ago.

 

 

 

note: this system was installed by me long before i was in the trade.

also, the stills are from a video, which was captured by a screen recorder hence the rubbish quality. there was only one disc of the raw footage, and the police still have it.

this is why on cameras i install that may be attacked, i give the option of 'attack detection'

the DVR in use at the time was a vista VC16TE, but i've now upgraded to a DS2

Looks a bit posh around there.

to be fair, there are much much worse places. the main reasons for putting these cameras in was in response to burglaries happening via the back alley, which after the police started requesting footage, has pretty much been hit on the head.
 

we did have kids using the alley as a place to throw fireworks around about a year and a half ago... but after showing some stills to their parents, that stopped immediately!

 

there's been nothing wrong since then really, which is good.

 

it is easy to forget which country you're in in this area though.

You should sell some to alterEgo, he's often strangers cumming round his back alley.