Posted on 01/26/2022 8:15:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
The thief dubbed the “snake burglar” for the way he wriggled on the floor to avoid Riverside businesses’ alarm systems seems to have reappeared.
The burglar, who made off with thousands of dollars worth of cash and merchandise from multiple businesses in December, might have struck again, this time at a gold exchange business earlier this month.
“My ADT alarm was set, we have motion sensors back there and it didn’t catch him, and that’s been the case with all of the other people that were burglarized by this same burglar,” Meyer said.
Police said they’re investigating to see if this thief is the same person who committed last month’s burglaries, but Meyer laid at least partial blame on his alarm system.
“There’s definitely something faulty, something going on with the ADT motion detectors, because if they’re designed to detect motion, this guy is moving around a lot in all of these businesses, and ADT’s motion detectors are not picking it up,” Meyer said.
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Snake, slithers, strikes. I wonder how long the writer had to think to come up with that headline.
How does he slither in without opening a door or window? Does he come up through the sewer and out the toilet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kgr_IW1eGI
Most motion detectors, even newer ones, use infrared to detect significant changes in the surrounding room’s temperature. Normally, walking around in a room would set off these sensors, but using something as simple as a piece of styrofoam to shield your body can trick them.
My focus would be on current and former ADT employees, as they would be the mostly to know of a flaw within their security system.
Sounds like a burglar alarm installer gone bad.
Why bother being sneaky. In California you can just walk into a business and take what you want daring the owner to stop you.
I’m guessing you didn’t click through to the article…
“Meyer said the burglar came in through a neighboring property in the same strip mall and got away with about $50,000 worth of silver.”
If he came from the neighboring property he would still have to go through a door. So how did he not trip the alarm in either place?
Again…read the article and watch the video. The guy broke into an adjacent, vacant store, and then breached the wall near the floor so he could crawl in at floor level.
Ok, I read the article not watched the video where the info was. Now I see how he got in.
I do wonder how he figured out that the ADT motion sensors wouldn’t pick him up…
Just cut a hole in the wall.
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