Apparently a coat hanger can be used to reach inside the top of the garage door and pop the.
Garage door break in with hanger.
Straighten a coat hanger but leave a curved hook on one end.
Push the hooked end of the wire through the weather seal between the frame of the house and the top of the garage door in the area shown by the red arrow.
Armed only with a wire hanger thieves can either hook the cord to the release handle or hook the release handle directly.
And once they ve gotten this far they ve come up with a way to get by home security systems.
It is easy for a burglar to break into a standard garage in less than a minute using basic supplies such a wedge pocketknife and hanger.
One expert said the emergency latch on a garage door may be more useful to burglars than homeowners.
One expert said the emergency latch on a garage door may be more useful to burglars than homeowners.
Then all they have to do is lift the garage door and they re in.
It is possible to push some garage doors inward at the top to create a gap large enough to insert one s own hand into the garage.