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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
Another popular garage door scam is to make blocks out of a 4X4 that are about 8 inches long and cut at a 45 degree angle on one end. Paint them white so they are difficult to see. Go through a neighborhood and place one in the lower corner of every closed garage door so they are sitting on the angle cut leaning against the door. Put out about 50 of them and come back two hours later and you will find a dozen garage doors open. What happens is someone comes home and opens the garage door. The block falls over and under the door. When the person goes into the house and hits the button, the door starts to close and then opens. The person thinks they have closed the door, but it remains open. Thief comes back and cleans out the garage. Easy, simple, cheap, and impacts about 20% of the closed doors. They place them around 8:30 PM and return about 11:00 PM.
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That's why we stand there and watch the door go all the way down and stay there when we shut it at night. Also, when we leave in the car, we make sure the door goes all the way and stays. We sometimes encounter a situation at certain times of the year when the sun is just in the right/wrong position and blinds the sensor at the base preventing the door from closing. We have to shade the sensor from outside and close the door.