Trespassing kids

[wmccall]

Did I mention in Sept we will become grandparents for the first time?  The timing will be about right as I'm about to take a couple of kids out soon.  Kidding of course.  For the first time in 10 years we have problems with kids getting into our hot tub.  First we found a hamburger bun floating in the tub one night.  Later I found girls lip gloss in the filter compartment. I put up a security camera and caught the kids. It was the ones I suspected.  We have two drug dealers in the neighborhood in rentals and it is their daughters.

[kurt6137]

I truly feel for you. It is just another sign of the times, when parents do not instill any respect or judgement in their children. I hope they are given a punishment, that is fitting the crime, but knowing the parents, they will probably blame you for having the hot tub, lol...god I hate this society now, terrible thing to say, but I have no faith in the human race.

[Chas]

I have had many of our customers with similar experiences - mostly the ones who live right along the ocean and face the beach. The odd thing is, most of them live in gated communities, so it is usually a surfer or diver who put into the water some distance away and brings in the sand and other oddities with them.

One of them asked us to install a set of new locks on the cover fasteners: we did and they cut the straps. We put on a pair of 'hurricane straps,' and they cut those. The home owner put some eye-bolts around the tub and put cables with padlocks on them to hold the lid down.

That time they pulled it all out, and took the cover with them when they left.

That hose was for sale ( the owner lived two doors down) so we just shut off the heat and put a new cover in place, unlocked.

That was the end of it as far as I know.

Others have installed security lights (which they can switch OFF when they want to use their own hot tub). If you do that, or if you install those automated sprinklers (see below) be sure they are up out of reach or they will simply be trashed and the hot tub still used.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Orbit-Enforcer-Activated-Deterrent-Sprinkler/dp/B009F1R0GC

[wmccall]

When the mom got home, I spoke with her yesterday and she assured me she would talk to the girls. I took over the box of the security camera I put up and told her I had caught them red handed.  Hopefully it will stop. I haven't seen her husband since fall, he may be in jail.  As I was talking to her, I looked down and saw a syringe on the ground, I didn't want to be obvious and check it out.  We will see how it goes. I'm leaving for vacation in 3 weeks, I may drain the tub if it looks like it will be above freezing all week.

[Chas]

Such a bummer. At the very least, don't put any chlorine in just before you go ...


And plan a full decontamination when you return...


 

[Jacuzzi Jim]

 To bad you can't put some kind of hard core dye in there.   

[JohnnyK45]

Perhaps you can have a neighbor keep an eye on things while you're gone and call the cops if he or she sees people in your tub.

J

[Chas]

Oh, and congratulations on becoming Grandpa Bill!

 


 

[Tman122]

When the mom got home, I spoke with her yesterday and she assured me she would talk to the girls. I took over the box of the security camera I put up and told her I had caught them red handed.  Hopefully it will stop. I haven't seen her husband since fall, he may be in jail.  As I was talking to her, I looked down and saw a syringe on the ground, I didn't want to be obvious and check it out.  We will see how it goes. I'm leaving for vacation in 3 weeks, I may drain the tub if it looks like it will be above freezing all week.

I am available to house sit.

[wmccall]

When the mom got home, I spoke with her yesterday and she assured me she would talk to the girls. I took over the box of the security camera I put up and told her I had caught them red handed.  Hopefully it will stop. I haven't seen her husband since fall, he may be in jail.  As I was talking to her, I looked down and saw a syringe on the ground, I didn't want to be obvious and check it out.  We will see how it goes. I'm leaving for vacation in 3 weeks, I may drain the tub if it looks like it will be above freezing all week.

I am available to house sit.

You might be able to do it from home, I need to work on getting the camera visible outside of my local router.

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

That would be AWESOME! Access remote access to your camera, and an aimable water cannon operable via the net. I'd put in a shift or two keeping watch for you.

[meriflower]

Have you seen one of these, the Covana?  I haven't but it looks like it's only accessible with a key and would keep out unwanted visitors.

http://www.sterlingcovana.com/index.html