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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / July 2006Otp a note from my sister with a good idea
----- Original Message ----- >>>>Here's a very good tip from a neighborhood watch coordinator. >>>>"Keep your >>car keys next to your bed on the night stand. "When someone is >>trying to get into your house, or if you hear a noise outside your >>house," just press the panic alarm on your key to set off the car >>alarm. >>It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and keep >>honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the >>button on the key chain." A lot of burglars will cut your telephone >>line before breaking in so this is a real good idea. this doesn't help us as we don't have a panic alarm on our keys. But, it does remind me of one tip they were publicizing during an unfortunate killing spree that happened back home in 1990 --- If you are trying to escape from someone who has broken into your house at night, DO NOT TURN ON THE LIGHTS!!! It sounds counter-intuitive at first, but the thing is most of us know the layout of our house fairly well and, if pressed, can manuver around furniture in the dark. A stranger has no idea where your couches and chairs are. Most likely you can get through your house ok without lights and most likely the intruder will stumble, trip and/or fall in trying to do so. Also, if you have something in the house you can strike the intruder with, it helps to have the lights off so said intruder doesn't know what you're up to!  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare Hi Nann, I am sorry for the bad memories this brings back to you. When I realized that the first thing the house breaker does is cut your phone line,,,, I stopped my alarm protection. It gave my wife several years of false rest while I worked shift work. So it goes Harv > this doesn't help us as we don't have a panic alarm on our keys. But, it > does remind me of one tip they were publicizing during an unfortunate [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > can strike the intruder with, it helps to have the lights off so said > intruder doesn't know what you're up to! > Hi Nann, I am sorry for the bad memories this brings back to you. When > I realized that the first thing the house breaker does is cut your phone > line,,,, I stopped my alarm protection. It gave my wife several years of > false rest while I worked shift work. > So it goes > Harv hmmmm, i wonder if alarm systems have developed to the point that the alert goes out if the connection is cut. Seems it would make sense. As for the bad memories, no one who lived in Gainesville at the time will ever forget. Murders around there are almost always family disputes or drug related. But in 1990, a violently mentally ill man came to town and viciously slaughtered 5 UF students over a weekend. It cut deeply and also pulled the community together. There are a couple of permanent memorials to the students in town now. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > hmmmm, i wonder if alarm systems have developed to the point that the alert > goes out if the connection is cut. Seems it would make sense. The "connection" in many installations is an automactic dialer on your regular voice line. Thus there is no connection 24/7 and cutting the phone line prevents the dialer from making the call. Other installations involve a dedicate 24/7 phone line, and if that phone line is cut, the alarm company received the alert. These systems cost more because you're paying for the second phone line in addition to the alarm company's fee. ... I'm a person of many moods, and all of them want chocolate. Ahhhhhh, I see now. You can tell how much experience I have with alarm systems. Where we live now, my sole experience is with the blasted alarm at the Senior Center across the street going off from time to time. Considering half the folks in town don't even lock their doors, it's rather annoying! SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare >> hmmmm, i wonder if alarm systems have developed to the point that the alert >> goes out if the connection is cut. Seems it would make sense. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > ... I'm a person of many moods, and all of them want chocolate. "Keep your car keys next to your bed on the night stand. A .38 is even better. ;-) > "Keep your car keys next to your bed on the night stand. > > A .38 is even better. ;-) true enough and my thoughts too. Harv > > "Keep your car keys next to your bed on the night stand. > > > > A .38 is even better. ;-) > > true enough and my thoughts too. > Harv Some years ago, I heard about someone who kept his pistol in the table next to his bed. One night he woke thinking he had heard a sound and saw a shadow at the foot of his bed. He drew the pistol and shot.......his foot (he was on his back and his foot was sticking up). > In article <pceug.49229$VE1.25190@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>, > none@nobody.net [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > and his > foot was sticking up). LOLOLOL It is a good thing he did not have a "got to go hard on",,,,,,,,he could of really done some damage. LOLOL Harv Harv wrote: > LOLOLOL It is a good thing he did not have a "got to go hard on",,,,,,,, > he could of really done some damage. LOLOL You mean one of those morning "woodies?" <g> ... Puritanism is the fear that someone might be having fun. |
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