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Alice

Richard,	

Theives don't like noisey alarms. I USED to have problems with kids 
rolling my AG's down the hill while they were still growing on the vine.

I installed an old car alarm using mouse traps as the triggering device, 
when the Pumpkin was disturbed the mouse trap would close and activate 
the alarm. I used a cheap transformer to step the power down from 110 
volt to 12 volt. This was an inexpensive way to help protect my pumpkins 
I worked so hard for.

I later improved It by using cheap fence, the stuff they use when they 
pour a concrete driveway. I hooked it up to a Radio Shack house alarm 
and used mercury switches on the fence so if it was moved or climbed it 
would activate. I also used the mouse traps under the Pumpkins.
	   
Sounds like a lot of trouble to go through but when I work so hard I 
hate to loose it to some punk.

					Bob T.
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