Business owners in Tacoma, Wash. are taking an electrifying new approach to combat criminals.
Aaberg’s Tools & Equipment Rental owner Alexx Bacon installed electric fences to deter criminals after a series of break-ins.
"Obviously people are very scared of it...which is what we wanted. We don't want anybody getting hurt. We want people staying off our property. That's why we put the original fence up. But we had to go to the electric fence as extra security," Bacon said on
"Fox & Friends" Thursday.
Bacon said prior to installing the electric fence, he relied on a normal fence to protect his business. After numerous break-ins and continued damage to the fence, he decided he had to find a better alternative.
"It was just
nightly break-ins, always middle of the night, waking me up, taking me away from home. Coming in, fences cut wide open, like in the camera there. Costly repairs. Every time I'd have to have an emergency fence repair, you're talking $1000, roughly to the point where I started driving around with a roll of fencing in my car, and I'd fix it myself because it was being broken into so frequently, I couldn't stop it," he explained.
In addition to the fence damages and costly repairs, Bacon also lost thousands in goods ranging from small hand tools to employee trucks.
"It was just out of control," he said.
Bacon decided to deploy 7,000 volts as back-up instead. According to the business owner, the electric fence is an annual subscription of upwards of $15,000. He explained he sees the fence as a "long-term" investment to
help his property, noting he does not own the actual fence.
"It's just DC voltage. It runs off batteries. It's not hooked up to the power grid. It's painful to hit and it will continue to go. But...there's no amperage. It's not going to kill you," Bacon added.
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