Ways to protect the car

[Lafiro]

Well last night was another night some duchebags tried doing something on the property. I will explain more towards the end on this one.

Last year the block had a few robberies of this one house, and a car got its rims jacked just 100 feet from mine. My dads old car window was bashed in. His car was hit twice.

Now I have my car repainted, with new rear and front windshield, and my dad got himself a brand new car. Neither of us want to leave it in the street, but we only have 1 garage. There is room on the right side of it though to put another car or two!

So I got to work, and demolished a cement divider between the garage way and the grass that is about 8 inches higher. I then went about 3 feet into the lawn removing dirt and the grass, now comes laying down cement to make it an even slope up.

The problem is, there is no field of view of this side of the garage, and my parents do not wake up to anything other then the door opening.

So last night, some black car, steel stock rims, really dark tints, stopped next to both my dads/uncles car around 12:45am(I know this because I heard a really loud thud sound that was either a door being slammed shut, or someone attempting to break glass), a hispanic kid late teens or early 20's was next to the car stairing into all the windows and looking around, I got away from the window, put on pants, got the cell phone, ran outside, and by then they already left up the block and proceeded to make a turn and left slowly, no speeding involved.

So either they didn't see me, or just really didn't give a shit what they were doing/they were caught.

Anyway, so now I really need to find of a way to overlook this point next to the garage/maybe even the front of the driveway. Its very difficult, but now Im not too worried about spending the $1400 or so on a nice night megapixel camera and lens.

But it doesnt end there, I need advise from everyone. What else can I do to alart us in the house that maybe someone is now on top of the lawn? Or getting close to the garage or the car? I need a way for not necessarily a lihg to come on, but I actually want to be woken up.

Anyone know of the tools or sensors needed to put outside and how to apply that to lets say an alarm or a light next to the garage or in the house? The camera will be used for face recognition/for police, and the waking up part is the catch the little runts/making get a licence plate number at least.

I know some cameras suposedly can take input/output of sensors or alarms, but I have never known what is needed or what companies can do this. SO far my choices for cameras I guess are from either Arecont / IQeye.

Thank you everyone.