Strange it's been mentioned, but we actually did have an attempted break-in here in the summer of '09. This was right before I put my setup into the growlab, so the room was megabright. We live in a townhouse in a nice area known for low crime so it caught us completely off gaurd.
I work odd hours, and so I'm usually up til 5 am or so (such as now) and one night I heard what sounded like steps on our roof. My dog growled also. I immediately ran outside and saw nothing. I thought I must have heard it from the wrong direction, and that I actually heard it from the outside wall and not the roof. This is because the for a week prior I had seen an unusual amount of wildlife in our area and yard. Deer and antelope. It has happened where I walk out in the middle of the night to take my dog out only to open the door to a group of deer literally at my door. They usually either freeze, or go wild and leap all over the place. Once one leaped up against the side of our house. So the night I heard the noise, and saw nothing I figured something had startled a deer and it knocked itself into the wall.
Well, two days later, I'm outside in the daytime, and my neighbor tells me he filed a police report on a peeping tom. His wife saw a shadow in the middle of the night in her second story bedroom window. When she peeked through the blinds, a small camcorder was attached to a pvc pipe staring right back at her! She screamed an then whomever had it lowered it and ran off before they could get downstairs. This happened the night I heard the noise.
My room that has the plants is on the same side of the townhome as her bedroom. A few nights later, my dog woke me up barking (I had gone to bed at a normal time as it was a day off). I got up and went downstaris. He was barking towards the back door. I looked out the window on that door (it's like a french door the window takes up almost the entire door), and saw nothing. I didn't go outside. Understand that there are no fences in this development, it's all open landscaping. Behind our home is some landscaping then a road. W anyway the next day I took my dog out back for his break, and sonofa..the frame to my back door was all mangled, and my door knob and lock wasn't properly closing. It appeared to me that someone had taken a crowbar and tried to pry the jam apart at the lock height. Luckily they didn't succeed fully, but they did a lot of damage. Had to have the jam replaced and install a new lock and strike plate, got motion activated flood lights installed literally right next to the door. I think the dog barking or me getting up, scared him off, otherwise he didn't have much left to do to get in.
Called the cops, filed a report. They told me there had been several reports of somone peeping and taping through windows in the surrounding neighborhoods, but no reported attempted break ins. He walked around our home, never went upstairs into that back room. At the time, it didn't occur to me that that room is probably what led him to try to break in. About a week later it dawned on me that he probably got footage of my plants in that room through the tiny slits in the blinds. And I bet he thought he could break in and grab 'em (thinking they were mj).
That's when I got the grow tent. And decided I would no longer grant requests for people I don't know to come see them. Too risky.
We never had anymore problems, and our neighbors haven't either. The police stepped up their patrols of the neighborhoods for a few weeks, I guess it helped or he was caught. Yeah I'm paranoid but it started back then. Just never know who is watching or spying. Anyway, sorry for the uber long post!