Now we are warned NOT to leave gate & garage openers in cart
 

"Ole Boy" played Hacienda CC today and was warned by starter, to NOT leave openers in carts...They are being stolen, gate cards are being sold, openers to personal garages are being tested in neighborhoods to see if opener will work with someone's garage door!....Yipsters!

Yeah, alot to be concerned with. :(

BTW, What does "Yipsters!" mean? I have seen that on TOTV before, perhaps from you...LOL. I'm not familiar with that word.

Thanks!
 

Thanks for the information... I've passed it on!

What in the world is going on???

This little tidbit of information surfaces every time a little crime appears. Makes for a nice urban legend.
Don't get paranoid...............................

However
 

If you have MVP garage door openers, they apparently are not as secure as the more popular consumer models available at Home Depot and Lowes. The better garage door openers codes change each time they are used thus making it hard for someone to scan your codes or for one of your neighbors to accidently open/close your door. It is a common occurance for MVP door openers to open/close accidently when someone else operates their own remotes.

And no, I do not own stock in Chamberlain or Stanley garage door openers.

Home burglary expedited via Stolen GPS and Stolen garage door openers is nothing new:
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/ne...-break-in.html

Gate passes being stolen has been an ongoing problem since I have lived here. Someone loses their gate pass and seems to think it is okay to take someone else's. Not nice but it happens.

As long as you don't have an address in your cart (like your social cards), your garage door opener should be safe. Really haven't heard of anyone having their opener being stolen (and I know several Sumter County deputy sheriffs quite well).

Red
It nice to read someone with common sense. Thank you

My opener is so wired to my golf cart you'd need some serious wire cutters and time to take it down. I thought my husband was paranoid when he first did this years ago..now thinking he's the smart one.

My wife and I recently went to LSL for dinner in our cart. When we came out we were surprised to see we had left out GDO, Social Cards and both of our iPhones in the cart cup holder. Luckily they were still there but we were both stunned that we did that. It will not happen again.

It only stands to reason you wouldn't want to leave your garage door opener in an open golf cart. We have had changed the code to our garage door several times as it kept going up or down when anyone did anything in the hood... A friend locked her car door and my garage door went up. If someone takes your garage door opener.... It's possible it could open MY garage, or someone else's garage!

I seem to remember a couple of years ago someone posting their garage door went up, and when they looked outside, someone was driving around the hood with an opener to see what doors it would work on. If my memory serves me... That person still posts on here. Maybe they will see this and come on and relay the story again.

We now have a different system and lock them down at night! I don't see any reason to leave my opener in my cart.

Steve, if you have an MVP garage door opener system you'd have to use the MVP remote wouldn't you? So you'd have to have a whole new system to get the better ones, right?

If a gate pass is stolen, can it be deactivated so no person can use it? Just curious. I know we have to pay to have another one, but wasn't sure if stolen one can be cancelled out.

You get a new pass (well, 3 new ones) and all old ones are deactivated sooner or later.

I have left my iphone in my card when i went to lunch or dinner after golf by mistake. And it was there when I got back. There are a lot of good people in the villages.

Be proactive
 

Why would one leave anything that they don't want someone to take in their golf cart? Isn't it just common sense to take out the key, door opener, purse, and lock up your golf clubs. Most people aren't proactive. They wait until something happens and then take action. By then it's too late. Don't give thieves a chance to strike. Ask yourself before you leave your car or cart....if I come back to my cart and this is gone, is it ok? If not, you had better take it out or lock it up. You can buy club locks at Palmer. It only takes about 1-2 minutes to lock them up. Perhaps a small price to pay.

Someone told me to put your cart to the "tow" position as this will help prevent people from stealing it. Of course, you need to take the keys with you.

I just glanced at this mornings paper and they caught two people who were stealing carts and burgularizing homes.

Hats off to LEO.

If your garage door went up when your neighbor opened her car door. You should get someone to either service your garage door opener or get a new one. Something is seriously wrong with the electronics. That should never happen. They are entirely different communication protocols.

Never leave a garage door opener in your cart unattended.

As long as you don't have an address in your cart (like your social cards), your garage door opener should be safe. Really haven't heard of anyone having their opener being stolen (and I know several Sumter County deputy sheriffs quite well).[/QUOTE]

I was thinking about this the other day. Our cart has my wife's and my names on the front of the cart. I thought all a thief would have to do (albeit a long shot) is drive around the neighborhoods and look for the signs outside the house that also have our names on it.

When I bought a house in Atlanta the people had not left the openers. I bought a touch pad and installed it by the door. It had a bell wire that ran up to an input on the opener. Kind of a pain as you have to get out of the car to punch in the code but it felt safe.

All of these information exchanges have done a lot of good. Someone must have put two and two together and there have been a total of five bad guys arrested this month.


One of the advantages of being old enough to live here is that most of us are NOT working and we are sage, nosy, and experienced with smelling rats and noticing something not quite right.


We need to continue to be cautious but not overly afraid. Together we are formidable.


Don't MESS with old people!!!!!!

If you leave anything in your cart and park it anywhere but in your closed garage, you are setting yourself up for a crime of opportunity.

How sad that a fellow Villager would be so callous, not that I am surprised, just sad......

Happinow, you must be as young as you look with that precious baby! I didn't leave things where they should not be in my younger years either! Nowadays I'm likely to leave my head if it weren't attached to the neck bone!:a20:

Go get im Gracie. This is the Gracie, I know. :smiley:

Joe

[QUOTE=Trayderjoe;833365]If you leave anything in your cart and park it anywhere but in your closed garage, you are setting yourself up for a crime of opportunity.

Being from NY originally, i have always followed the principle of never leting it be too easy to steal anything, like leaving shopping packes in vie as opposed to one's truck. I they want it bad enough, they will have to work for it. However, it doesn't hurt to be informed of what bad peple are doing, as it should make us aware, but not afraid.

"Always be vigilant", is a security term worth remembering.

A little change goes a long way
 

Wendyquat. I am a bit younger than your average villager, and that is my little grand baby I'm holding who I love to pieces! I know, as we get older, that we forget things. I even forget things now. But, maybe before we jump put of our carts we can take a few seconds to scan to make sure we have things where they need to be. Usually when we are In our carts we just jump out and onto to the next fun thing. It's easy to do. But with all that's been going on, we may have to change our way a little. I dont want to see anyone else violated in any way. Let's all be safe.

Would you leave your purse and keys in your car..common sense