I love the bear bait idea. Maybe I could hang some copper tubing (which is why they are stealing air-conditioners) dangling outside. Fill them with honey bees, or snakes, or ricin.
And yes, Bert, all icins should be spelled the same.
Leslie Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC
"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "