Don’t let thieves use ‘fishing’ technique to break into your Libertyville garage

Libertyville is a nice town. Nice people, not much crime: you couldn’t almost leave your doors unlocked, almost. Unfortunately, crime does come to Libertyville from time to time and you’re better off keeping the doors locked, not just on the house but the garage, too.

Locks may keep the amateur thieves out but, with the pros, it only slows them down a little. When a pro wants to break into your Libertyville garage, the most common way is for the thief to go ‘fishing.’ Yes, fishing, but not in the sense where you go out on a lake in a boat.

Fishing is a technique thieves use to break into a garage. It’s really rather simple; the thief pushes back on the top panel of the garage door. Then, using a wire or, maybe, a coat hanger, they snag the disconnect cord on the inside of the garage door.

You’ve probably used that disconnect cord yourself, at one time or another. You were inside the garage and wanted to open the garage door. You turned the handle in the middle of the inside of the garage and the cables pulled tabs out of the way by the tracks on either side so the garage door would open.

A thief will come into Libertyville and, if they want to get into your garage, they’ll use the same cable but they’ll access the cable from the outside, which defeats its purpose.

Fortunately, there is a solution that will keep the thieves from using this technique. The technique is to have the garage door installed properly in the first place. This means setting the stop points when opening and closing the garage correctly.

This is how the garage door settings are done so that that it is virtually impossible to get in by ‘fishing.’

• Run the garage door opener until the garage door is all the way down
• Keep running it for a few seconds 
• Set the lower stop point

When this is done right, J.J. Watt probably couldn’t open the garage door by fishing.

Unfortunately, there are other ways that a thief might try to break into your garage. That’s why a good security system isn’t a bad idea, particularly if you have valuables in the garage or if it is attached to the house.

Hopefully, no one is going to try breaking into your Libertyville home or garage. If they do, however, you don’t want to make it easier for them and taking away the technique of ‘fishing’ is one way to stop them.