Just be sure not to mess with any electronics boards. Sourcing replacement boards for old proprietary hardware can be a huge pain, and they would have to leave the gate open while they wait for a new board to arrive and get installed.
That sounds uncomfortable, to the kind of person who needs a gate between them and society to feel secure.
An old buddy of mine commented once on the amount if minor havoc you could wreak with a handful of chain bike locks. Cheap, wrap around some door handles and lock, walk away. Yeah, somebody can bust out a bolt cutter, but for the amount of challenge to remove it, the low cost per use, and the speed of application, it’s pretty impressive for minor mischief.
Relatively harmless, too, as long as you aren’t doing any additional nefarious shit. Might work for some gated community gates.
Pretty hard. Insurance pays for damages like this. Unless you mean super temporary like.
Some years ago I lived next to a weird subdivision neighborhood, with the looping streets and what not. Not a gated community, but there was only one road in and out. One day a tree fell across that road and everybody that lived there was stuck most of the day.
That happened in the small town I grew up in once. It only blocked the street for an hour or two because the people who were trapped by it didn’t wait around for the city to come take care of it; they busted out chainsaws and took care of it themselves.
Downed powerline was worse. Remember trying to go somewhere during a storm at night and I stop for a cop car in the middle of the cuts blocking the road and the cop comes up to the window and tells me to back up some and as I am about to ask why, the downed powerline I didnt see starts sparking and arcing all over the road super close to my car. “Oh shit, yeah I’m just gonna go the other way lol.”
One reason I like living around rednecks. After the last hurricane, which didn’t really touch our hood, dudes were patrolling the streets in pickups, hunting downed limbs.
There was a sandy patch on the way into our camp where cars would get stuck. One day I pulled up on 3 with 2 vehicles and a bunch of neighbors working on getting them out. Parked up the street and walked down, “OK. Who we getting out first?” I’ve been towed out myself on 4-5 occasions.
Coolest thing is that all those dirt roads are private. Somebody put their own money into upgrading and fixing the whole mess. There are at least 2 guys that cruise around on their little tractors and grade the streets now and again.
Of course they were. Have you ever used a chainsaw? They will take every opportunity to get that son of a bitch out.
The first crash is going to get the cops called, so I doubt you are going to be able to crash dozens of cars unless you’re doing it all at once.
Better to get your CDL and park a tractor-trailer and kill the air brakes.
I have no idea, but I like where your head’s at!
This would create problems for emergency services, and so may come with a fine or worse…
We’re trying to trap people. I don’t think in this scenario we care about emergency services being able to reach them and false imprisonment is an even bigger crime.
Then weld their gates shut
Probably not much harder than to trap them inside a gay bar yet we feel differently about these two cases and that should make one pause and think for a moment about the quality of their thoughts.
I mean… depends on how long you are looking to keep them in. Assuming the community is half way wealthy (which, kind of is normal), then cops and tow trucks would be pretty quick to respond, and well, blocking it with cars etc… would seem prohibitively expensive and legally troublesome (as there’s no way in hell it’s not getting traced to you).
I’d agree with the concept, sabatoging the gate mechanism with a chain, or vandalizing the electronics would likely accomplish a similar goal, without abandoning an expensive vehicle that is easy to trace back to you. (which again, even in the best of scenarios is likely only inconveniencing the residents for a few hours).
Unless OP is imagining a period in which police have much more pressing concerns than who’s piling cars up against a rich people neighbourhood.
I don’t think it even requires the police, in most US states, the law basically says that assuming the gated community has a “unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owners expense” sign somewhere, then the owners of the gated community don’t need police approval, they can call a towing company directly and have the cars removed, only needing to inform the police afterwards.
It’s a funny coincidence of history that gated communities for the well off folks in capitalism and mass housing for the not well off in communism follow the same design principle: few access points that can be controlled by a single tank each.
The more well off ones usually have a connected airport and “fuck-you-money” level security. As someone else mentioned, helicopters are an option, or perhaps boat if they’re by a waterway.
So congratulations, you’ve trapped the community doctors and lawyers, maybe a very well off Grammy or two with limited faculties, but you’ve set off the alarm bells to the true predators of society, who’ve now made it to Madagascar and shut down the ports.
They would leave through the service entrance.
You think any given gated community lacks the cash to towe a pile-up?
A few padlocks and metal chain would also work
sounds like you’re planning something.
