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Originally Posted by afadeev
Click-bait.
There are dozens of ways to get into a garage, especially when thieves know what is inside and wants it. People in my area get cars stolen by leaving theirs unlocked. Thieves get in, hit garage opener door, walk inside to take the keys, drive off. Onto a highway, into a shiping container (no reception), gone. All the time.
There is only one way to open the garage when the power go out, in the dark. It's the emergency pull string. It stays.
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Click bait is when there's some motivation to get some social media clout. This isn't it. The guy that posted the video and thread on the RR forum has been a long time member there. The only motivation would be do commit insurance fraud for some reason. This is one hell of a way to go about doing it making it all public.
We can go on and on about how many ways there are to get into a garage, house, car, etc, etc. This one simple thing is easy to do that removes one option. If the power goes out, you're still fumbling in the dark in the garage to pull the string. So if you don't have a flashlight, you're pretty screwed unless you have windows into your garage with enough outside ambient light to see. And yes, if someone wants something bad enough they're going to get it. I'm not going to make it easy on them to do it.
In addition to removing the pull string, my garage doors are tied to my home security system with central monitoring. I also have a Chamberlain MyQ that will notify me when my garage door is opened or closed. And in my situation, not having power to run my garage door opener isn't an issue with my backup generator.