Outdoor Lights

[redfield79]

My husband is on the HOA board in our community. A couple of piece of shit teenagers keep destroying the lights that point to the neighborhood sign at the entrance and we're tired of buying new ones.

Does anyone have lights that are unbreakable? Or have any ideas on how to make it harder for them to break?

*shakes a cane*

Comments

[goldeygrad97]

An you install a security camera, so you can at least catch the culprits?  We have one of those you use when you go hunting.  I think it is motion activated.  Or at least place the lights up high so it makes them harder to break?

[rhysande]

Set up motion activated cameras to find out who's breaking the lights and who their parents are (don't be surprised if you find the culprit is a disgruntled homeowner and not a teen).

Can you backlight the writing on the sign? Then you could get away with smaller, less delicate and harder to reach and break LED lights, plus you would have less light pollution than you would if you are shining spots on the sign.

[theidolhands]

ooh, I like all these suggestions and hope we get a follow-up from you

[brockulfsen]

Enclose the fittings behind heavy plastic and switch to LED lights to stop them over heating.

Destructive vandalism is a matter of quick rewards, hard work and vandals don't tend to mix, so you just make destroying the lights too hard.

[christ_chexx_4u]

fucking kids. i volunteer at a nature preserve, and we have some local teenagers that keep vandalizing the place. their latest stunt was to set fire to some wooden collection boxes that were recently placed. these boxes were hand-built by some teenage boys as part of their eagle scout project, and now we have to figure out how to tell them that some assholes just burned them to the ground for no reason. the whole things makes me so sad and angry, WHERE ARE THESE KIDS PARENTS??

[redfield79]

MTE!!! And someone suggested it might actually BE the parents. LOL. Oh boy.