Garage door openers: A burglar's way in?

@JamesHxstatic Damn burglars are getting smarter.

One time, just for fun, I drove around my neighborhood with my garage door opener and pushed the button at every single home, just to see if my garage door opener would open someone else's garage. I felt a little bit reassured that my opener did not work on anyone else's garage. But, I'm willing to bet that if I had driven around long enough, I surely would have found someone else's garage door opener that was programmed on the same frequency as mine!

Even when we had a car our garage is old-fashioned. To open and close the door we had to do it manually. I can just imagine someone shouting hello, hello into the door opener while trying to raise the garage door with the cell phone

I am so blessed not to have a problem with finding a place to store my garage door opener. I just leave it in my garage..... Alas, there is no garage...so no need of a garage door opener.

Thieves are always coming up with new tricks. Hopefully we are out of the way enough to dodge most baddies. You can't see our house from the road but of course if thieves do come here, others can't see them either. And there is a group that suss out small properties and take ride-on mowers, generators, etc.

I haven't even had a garage in over ten years, when I was living with my girlfriend at the time. We didn't even think of that then. Probably wouldn't now, either.

The house I'm renting now doesn't have a garage, just a carport, but when I did have a garage I kept the opener in the little door in my car's console. I've been doing that for years. One of the ways I kill time standing in line or waiting for anything is to imagine different ways to commit crimes. Sometimes I come up with something that is feasible so I take steps to prevent that particular action and it is usually something that I soon see on the news! Another thing I always do is stay look around the garage on my approach and also a quick scan of the inside before I pull in. Then I keep my doors locked and engine running until the garage door shuts. I've been doing that for years and sure enough, a few years ago it was reported that people would quickly sneak in as the door went up and attack as the person got out of the car. I also keep my insurance information in my purse, not the car, in case it is broken into and someone can get my address. My car is completely nondescript and anonymous and nothing inside can identify me to someone breaking into it.

I have heard of this happening before. I think the police have a good idea. It is what I thought of also before reading this. Not the registration though. That is a good idea. We have a lot of 'jockey boxers' around here this time of year.

I do not have a garage door opener, but I did hear about this a few years ago. The police here have been preaching never to leave anything in sight in your car.

I think they are saying to keep the opener with you when the car is unattended in a parking lot. At night you could leave it by your wallet or another place in your home where it would not be forgotten. We don't have this issue as our garage is not attached to the house. Items stored in our garage don't hold much value aside from the snow blower and lawn mower.

That's too bad. :-( I agree, a garage door opener is a little bulky to cart around