We live on a corner of a cul-de-sac, in a heavily wooded suburban part of a nice town in New Jersey. The bench was for the kids bus stop and sat on the corner down a big hill in front of our house.
About 6 months ago, a nice "wrought-iron" style bench [we thought] was mistakenly taken as something that was left out for free. Annoyingly, we purposefully placed a large planter next to it to avoid any misunderstanding after my neighbor, a retired 94 year old army colonel, told us that he had thwarted the thievery on more than a few occasions already.
It didn't work. Next we placed one of the benches from our old wooden picnic table with the thinking that "no one will want this thing" - we were mistaken. Gone again.
My kids and I are thinking of rigging up some elaborate booby trap for the next set of thieves - something to embarrass them - like spraying them with (non-toxic) glow in the dark liquid and triggering a light to illuminate them with a voice that announces that they have been caught. Ha! that would be funny.
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