Thief foiled by sprinkler

[clearconscience]

California homeowner uses motion-activated sprinkler with 'impressive amount of pressure' to thwart thieves

This homeowner in California is just trying to flush out crime.

www.foxnews.com

My parents put one of these by their koi pond to scare off the predator birds.
I'll tell you it scares the crap out of you when it kicks on and sprays dang hard!

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[Joe13]

I might put in a pond with one of those. Haven't cuz the raccoons in the area will even get under the wire mesh my neighbors have over theirs

 

[clearconscience]

Yeah they work pretty good. They lived out towards Sandy so raccoons, opossums, coyotes, herons, and eagles.
After installing that sprayer they never lost another fish

 

[Capn Jack]

Gee Joe, Not having a shotgun and a backhoe ,
I found a pellet gun and a garbage bag works just as well.

 

[Ruger Rich]

The herons got mine

 

[Capn Jack]

One of my jobs in Bellevue had a small creek running through the property. So as a nice touch, they cemented in a 3' deep pool about 30' x 10', put some benches around it and stocked it with some nice sized trout.
It didn't take long for the herons and the neighborhood kids to fish it out. ...

 

[Alexx1401]

I might put in a pond with one of those. Haven't cuz the raccoons in the area will even get under the wire mesh my neighbors have over theirs

Had to put a hot wire around Wife's Koi pond when I first built it. Raccoons would only touch it one time. It was sold for small critters. When we got the dogs I had to take it off as the dogs did not seem to learn as fast as the critters and kept sticking their nose on the damn thing every so often. One of these sprinklers look like they would have been the ticket.

 

[CoastRange57]

When I had my business we also managed commercial, industrial and institutional sprinkler / irrigation systems. We had the on site controllers set up on wifi and we could monitor them from our office, since a lot were quite a ways away.

We also had internet cameras on most of the fields. The fields were usually restricted use, but the college dudes would jump the fence and start playing on these fields tearing them up pretty good some times. When we saw them on the fields via camera, I would start turning on the sprinklers and chase them around the field until they gave up. It worked out pretty good really.

We had some pretty good after work beer drinking amusement doing this.