I need help catching the neighborhood Gazing Ball Thief.

[XNASA]

We've had two gazing balls stolen from our front yard in the last 2 weeks. The first one was a translucent-pinkish color. The second, swiped last night sometime between 11 and 7 this morning, was garnet.



Honestly. Why would anyone do such a thing? Perhaps they are transfixed by the power of the Gazing Ball?

How should I go about apprehending said villain?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. maybe they resell them on Ebay

[johnnie]

2. Get another one and wipe it down with dog shit

Or put some other chemical on it that will melt the skin off their hands when they touch it. Just a few thoughts. :)

[XNASA]

6. A foul-smelling chemical that causes skin burns?

You mean like douse it in Budweiser?

[johnnie]

7. .

x(



*This* coming from someone who has lost both of his balls?

[MissMillie]

3. on the top of the new ball

just tape a little sign saying that there's a surveillance camera taping them.

[asthmaticeog]

4. Rig the next one to explode.

Duh. :eyes:

[displacedtexan]

5. Hm.

Buy an old bowling ball at Goodwill
and paint it with metallic spray paint.

Attach (putty?) one of those personal
screaming battery-powered alarms
to the bottom of the pedestal and the
bottom of the bowling ball.

Keep watch at the window with a flashlight.
Even if you fall asleep, the alarm should
wake you.

Use the flashlight to get a license number.

[In_The_Wind]

12. oooh

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. Boobytrapping.

[XNASA]

9. How do you know it's a female doing this?

Or maybe I'll get lucky and it's a guy with mantits. :shrug:

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. Maybe he was also trying to take out a franchise coffee bar...

[bleedingheart]

10. a pressure switch and a thick coat of vaseline....

1. coat the gazing ball in vaseline...makes it slippery ...
2. get a pressure switch that you can rig so that when the ball is sitting on its base it is in the "off" position...have that switch hooked up to some loud music or perhaps a blaring set of lights that will be triggered to turn on when the ball is removed...
that should cure your thief...and if they drop the ball...the set of prints will be in the vaseline...

[tigereye]

23. you are a crafty woman BH

:hi:

[bleedingheart]

26. howdy back at ya there!

I have been politicing on the phone all day...

[Burma Jones]

13. Get an alarm, and then beat the shit out of them with a..

Pink Flamingo

[XNASA]

14. Ah yes. The Pink Flamingo Police.

I won't even have to shop for a new 'uniform'. I've already got one.

[tigereye]

24. yeah, like you've ever worn pink pants!

I really like those shiny balls.... :rofl: but it wasn't me.

[CottonBear]

19. LOL!

:rofl: I have pink flamingos and a gazing ball in my garden!

[marzipanni]

Put a Christmas ball on the pedestal

Under it place a note: "Due to your thievery we will be displaying a tiny, forlorn gazing ball. Please return its mother and father A.S.A.P..

[LostinVA]

15. They've done it in mine, too

[jukes]

16. punji pit

definitely. you have to stop this freak before he elevates his thievery to wind chimes & MORE!

[kay1864]

17. LOL!

"Hee hee, I've almost got the third one, almos--AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! <scrunch>"

(the image of an actual punji pit in a suburban front yard Just Kills Me)

[jukes]

18. OHHH!

"pistol ground spike"!

bury a 6" length of 1" gas pipe vertically, w/ a 12 GA shotshell inserted in the bottom. the primer needs to be resting on the tip of a roofing nail driven througha small "base-plate" of plywood.

plant a circle of these around your balls. you'll soon be able to detect your thief by his obvious limp.




EDIT: i used "limp" & "balls" in 1 post! he he oh!, and "spike", too!

[skygazer]

20. Electrify it

[CottonBear]

21. There is a motion activated water sprinkler that blasts the intruder .

I've seen this device online. It is used to deter deer and other varmits from gardens. You just hook it up to the hose and plug in the motion detector and wait. :)

[XNASA]

22. Now that is rich.

I'll be looking for a device like that this weekend.

[pitohui]

25. is it worth the strife?

i think it is rude to remove them and i personally like them myself, but i would keep it it in a fenced back yard

i am just captivated of the idea of a slightly hidden gazing ball that you come around the corner of the garden and see by surprise

i suspect you have frat boys or some other kind of idle troublemaker destroying or removing the gazing balls to no purpose, as a prank

keep their mysteries hidden

[jukes]

27. OF COURSE

what's life w/o strife? who wants to blindly gaze into a sparkly till you disappear w/in it?

PROTECT THOSE BALLS!

[BikeWriter]

28. Go to war on them! Shoot them down in cold blood...

or would that be rude? :shrug: