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m television station WMAZ Channel 13 in Macon, Georgia (just south of Atlanta) comes this latest story of thievery.  As you will see in the video clip on their website, several thugs drove a white pickup truck through the front doors of Target and then loaded up the ATM that was located near the front of the store.  This is the link to the story with video on the WMAZ website:

you have a commercial fire alarm system protecting your business, it is likely that you are aware of the ongoing expense of paying for two telephone lines for monitoring that system.  The National Fire Alarm Code requires a dedicated primary telephone line and a backup telephone line (which can be shared) for all monitored commercial fire alarm systems that use telephone lines for communication.  The monthly phone bills can get expensive!

Grinch is back!  In the latest caper, thieves broke into a storage area for holiday decorations in the city of Macon and stripped all of the copper from the decorations.  Here is the link to the article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle:

l, now that Halloween is over, it is time for the crooks and criminals to turn their attention to the other upcoming holidays.  We have now entered the prime season for retail theft.  With stores and display windows filled with lots of potential presents and other goodies, the crooks come out en masse.  Want an indication that the fun has begun?  See this article from today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper:

is that time of year again–the time when we fire up our furnaces, space heaters, and other indoor heat sources.  Indoor heating systems that burn fuel create carbon monoxide (CO) as a by-product of the fuel combustion that generates heat.  Carbon monoxide is colorless and odorless so it can be a silent killer as it is often undetected until exposure to it results in injury or death.

cont Vision, a leading manufacturer of megapixel video surveillance (CCTV) cameras, has released a new 20 megapixel, 180 degree, day/night, dome camera.  This new camera has four 5-megapixel imagers in one dome camera housing and it allows users to get wide views with high-resolution quality.

l, we have another day with another story of copper theft in Georgia.  As I have discussed several times, copper prices have almost doubled over the last couple of years, making it an attractive target for thieves.  The most recent target was a school system near Columbus, Georgia and the article states that over $100.000 of copper wire was stolen from a warehouse.  Here is the link to the article:

e you heard of Art Clokey? He was the creator of Gumby, the beloved green clay television star. He died in 2010 but October 12 would have been his 90th birthday. This is a link to his Wikipedia article:

ther day in Atlanta…another story of a smash and grab burglary.  These types of burglaries are very hard to stop because the burglars wait until a business is closed (usually a retail business is the target) and then smash the front window and grab everything they can in a very short period of time.