Find Out About Home Security Systems And Home Alarm Products
It just happened to us and i am mostly surprised that i was not so much scared as embarrassed. me and my mother were woken up in the middle of the night by burglars and rather thoroughly hogtied and gagged. We stayed that way til dawn when my boyfriend came to pick me up and untied us.
I already have a motion activated camera to see who is snooping around in my backyard when I am at work.
I am thinking however, of getting surveillance cameras for my house. I have burglar bars and doors, but those only work if they are locked. If someone follows me home and sticks a gun in my face as I am unlocking the gate to my driveway, obviously, I am going to comply. There are no secrets in this ghetto, so I assume the local gang members know I have guns. So I fear them ambushing me one night and getting access to my house. I am five foot four and 118 pounds and not very physically imposing. Also the gun I carry is only a .25 auto, and I carry it in such a way as to avoid detection in a stop and frisk, so a quick draw is out of the question. So if someone draws a 9 (the current favorite weapon of 18th Street Gang) on me, I will have to comply.
I think it might be useful, if some gang members are in my house to tell them :"Oh, by the way, there are six cameras that have been taking your pictures. Kill me, and you will spend the next 30 years on Death Row."
But all that would depend on them NOT being able to locate the video recorder. Is there some internet service that you can pay to upload video and store it, so burglars and criminals cannot get ahold of it?
jlpagern
I live in Los Angeles. There are no gun permits here.
jlpagern
If you actually believe that someone would rather be inside prison rather than outside of it, you lack a fundamental understanding of the real world.
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DT FR
There are no gun permits in Los Angeles. Big city cops do not like locals. They like other cops and view all non cops as the enemy. 18th Gang has 25,000 members. They are not afraid of the 10,000 members of the Los Angeles Police Department and they are not afraid of me. I guess you live in a really small town. All your advice is worthless in a mega city. Stick to gving advice to Mayberry R.F.D.
Two weeks ago I had the visit of burglars in my home, so I would like to install a home security system in my property, and would like some advice.
Don’t want to pay a monthly monitoring fee, just an upfront 0 or so for the self-installed system (or a couple hundred dollars for installation if its reccomended). I’d like a remote (or an external keypad) and an external alarm siren so that burglars cant just break the keypad once inside and silence the alarm. Would need about 10-15 window/door sensors, and maybe 2 motion sensor for the garage/shed. And again, would like wireless for ease of installation, with enough range for a 2000 sq ft house. Many thanks in advance!
I just bought some ADT Security stickers and I was wondering if they are the right kind
I bought these
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDYnimYYobqW1pxbY5uRgiQ0kRbvNKfoA4IrtYjxA7crpU16ZOFw
However I see this kind more
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8fjyK2m32orjKZbgpgcAnmwjH5x4poBq430FClGZzPnEDhqVW
I’m asking because I hope I don’t have an old kind that isnt used anymore so burglars will know.
Also does ADT offer wireless service because I wish I could find a security sticker that says wireless because I heard that burglars are more likely to break in your home if you have the security stickers advertised because all they have to do is cut your phone line unless of course it’s wireless.
If phone lines and alarm wires were running into a house through a little metal pipe, then it would be a lot harder for a might-be burglar or other invader to cut those lines while trying to stop their victim(s) from calling the police or trying to stop their victims’ alarm systems from calling that dispatcher. That should be painfully obvious to the people installing the lines. Why don’t they do it that way, then?
It doesn’t matter who owns the wiring. What matters is who installs them, and how they do it. Who pays for the lines has nothing to do with whether or not the phone company could start off by installing the lines via conduit. The same with the alarm company.
And don’t be the guy who says something like, "Maybe if the burglar can’t cut your phone lines, he’ll just kill you instead," since that wouldn’t make sense, because then I would respond with this:
"Well, what if you’re NOT HOME for the burglar to kill? The alarm could still call the company if the wires were in a conduit that was hard to cut. And even then, sometimes burglars cut phone and/or alarm lines to make it easier for them TO come in and STILL try to kill you. But if they can’t cut the phone line first, then you might still get a 911 call out in time."
So, now, when you answer, consider the potential pitfalls I just steered you around. Okay?
Will you come back periodically to see if I have any follow-up for your answers, and then RErespond with follow-up to my follow-ups, please? Thanks, if so.
Okay, Hydroace and DT Warwick,
My real name’s Mike.
Actually, I’m surprised that they would just bury the wire without putting it in a pipe, anyway, just because of the tilling, etc. But I think it’s more than 2 inches deep where my parents live ( a lot of tilling got done there).
Isn’t that cable–from the box or pole–thicker than just the line that runs around in your house, and seriously, wouldn’t it be more than 2 inches deep (and if not, why not)?
Yeah, I’m not really talking about pipe all the way from the house to the phone box or pole (although that would be ideal). I just meant one little pipe that goes from a few feet below the surface of the ground (so a thief would have to dig around in the ground to find the bottom where the cable comes out), or from the top of the roof, into the house’s point of entry with an elbow that gets sealed in (at least in the case of the phone line). Why would one little piece of pipe just a few or several feet long (not many yards way out to the street) cost so "too much" for the phone company to decide to afford when they install it–just the one straight pipe a few feet or so long?
Yeah, Hydro, I’m talking about where the cable was buried at the lower depth because it was the original installation.
Why not just take it up a metal pipe from that depth where it meets the house, up to the box, and then lock the box? That little bit of pipe wouldn’t cost much, and it would slow a potential thief or other attacker down considerably, wouldn’t it?
I was sitting on the computer looking at some stuffs when all of a sudden the burgular alarm went off and it told me it was my front bedroom window so I immediately called 911 and notified the police about the situation. This is not the first time this has happened because the same thing has happened last week. But when they brought in the K-9 dogs to sniff around the places i said i saw the burglars ran they said they founded no trace of people at all. The Lieutenant officer then said he thinks it’s something wrong with the burglar alarms system and requested me to tested it. How come they think it’s a alarm malfunction when i saw someone ?? Do you they think I’m playing false alarm games ?? I was home alone when that happened and i feel like no one believes me of what i saw. It has happened multiple times this past few weeks and I don’t know what is going on right now.
What could I do to make them believe me there was people trying to break in ??? My stupid digital camera ran out of batteries when I tried to take pictures of the burglars on the outside of my house.
I was sitting on the computer looking at some stuffs when all of a sudden the burgular alarm went off and it told me it was my front bedroom window so I immediately called 911 and notified the police about the situation. This is not the first time this has happened because the same thing has happened last week. But when they brought in the K-9 dogs to sniff around the places i said i saw the burglars ran they said they founded no trace of people at all. The Lieutenant officer then said he thinks it’s something wrong with the burglar alarms system and requested me to tested it. How come they think it’s a alarm malfunction when i saw someone ?? Do you they think I’m playing false alarm games ?? I was home alone when that happened and i feel like no one believes me of what i saw. It has happened multiple times this past few weeks and I don’t know what is going on right now.
What could I do to make them believe me there was people trying to break in ??? My stupid digital camera ran out of batteries when I tried to take pictures of the burglars on the outside of my house.
I’m looking for a computer alarm software that makes some kind of a noise to alert/ drive away burglars. Is there anything like that?
If I have alarm signs/stickers outside my apt. will that make burglars want to break in thinking I have something they want or will it really deter them from trying???