What a dummy I am!

[WardenRoss]

I had a similar brain lapse a few years ago. We left for a weekend getaway early one Saturday morning and returned very late Sunday night. When I was coming around the curve to the house, I reached for my garage door opener and looked up to see the garage door wide open. I checked the house, and everything was exactly as we left it. I am 100% sure I hit the button to close the garage door when we left as was the wife, but we didn't wait for it to fully close. I can only surmise that for some reason the light beam safety feature must have been activated opening the door back up.

Now I always wait for the door to fully close then an extra 5 or 10 seconds to make sure it is fully closed.

^^^^This!

Sometimes they "bounce" and return to top. If only could get Wifey to wait to see before hitting the gas pedal!


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[pharmer]

.....About an hour ago, I opened the closet where the house safe is, and guess what? THE SAFE DOOR WAS STANDING WIDE OPEN! Nothing missing, but there it was, just waiting for some doped-up miscreant to help himself.....

Doesn't happen often but I have done exactly that more than once. I too trust in the USA made, S&G Treadlok. Basic security is easy and you can do it yourself. I have Blink cameras covering 270* and the doorbell cam covers the front. No matter where I am, they will alert me to any "visitors" that I can talk to through the system. Motion lights replaced the "carriage lights" and a few dozen LED's tend to scare off the "opportunists." Glad everything was just where you left it. Joe

 

[moosedog]

I have a rule that as soon as I get what I want out of the safe, it gets locked back up just for that reason. Glad it worked out ok and thanks for reminding others. It's an easy mistake to make.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

I had a similar brain lapse a few years ago. We left for a weekend getaway early one Saturday morning and returned very late Sunday night. When I was coming around the curve to the house, I reached for my garage door opener and looked up to see the garage door wide open. I checked the house, and everything was exactly as we left it. I am 100% sure I hit the button to close the garage door when we left as was the wife, but we didn't wait for it to fully close. I can only surmise that for some reason the light beam safety feature must have been activated opening the door back up.

Now I always wait for the door to fully close then an extra 5 or 10 seconds to make sure it is fully closed.

I have a friend that lived within pistol shot of I-81 in Carlisle, Pa. When he first moved into his house back in the 1990s he had an automatic garage door opener installed in his detached garage. More than once he returned home after work to find the door wide open. Apparently CB radio signals from truckers on the interstate were activating the opener, or so he was told by a local garage door installer. An upgrade to a better system was the fix. Fortunately he never had any thefts while the door was standing wide open.

John

 

[yaktamer]

When I was in college I worked security at a major amusement park. You'd be surprised how many times some family was so excited to be there they left the car in the parking lot with all four doors wide open, sometimes with the keys in the ignition and the engine running.