Just last week we had someone to break the glass on our storm door. I don't know if it happened while I was in the office or at night when we were sleeping. Behind that storm door is a wooden door that has a security sticker on it. I don't know if that stopped them or if it wasn't even an attempted robbery- it could have been a kid with a baseball for all I know. We do have a couple of fake cameras with wires running to them from a motion sensor that activates movement and a red light. They are visible and look realistic.

Inside our house, we have a battery back up monitored alarm system that is wireless and utilizes mobile phone towers. We have every door monitored as well as all of our rooms except the bedrooms and bathroom with motion censors.

One time my wife set it off on accident and didn't have her phone with her. The police were there in less than 2 minutes.

Laurence, let us know what your insurance covered. Hopefully you had your equipment under the right policy. I once got burned b/c my agent told me my equipment would fit in a personal articles policy. Once I had a camera broken during an event, they told me that since I used it for business it was not covered under that policy. My insurance person paid for it out of their own business b/c the mistake was on their end.

j razz