Jim boyle came home from work one tuesday and noticed his garage door was open.
How thieves open garage doors.
A number of online videos show how it s done.
Inside his single story house someone had rifled.
This abc news report from a few years ago covered this topic.
An open overhead garage door is an open invitation to burglars.
Which made us question how.
By disengaging the safety release on your door the door can be rolled up by hand to let a thief inside and then quickly back down as if nothing were out of the ordinary.
To open up a roll up garage door all a thief needs to do is thread a coat hanger or hooked piece of wire through the top of the door and pull the emergency latch.
Hackers can easily modify a standard door opener to accept a usb port and software is readily available on the web to modify how it operates in short thieves can use a device that can remotely open garage doors.
Two men walking through arran road in the morningside area stop to check if a garage door is open.