Re: Some cautions for "Newbies"

["Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can bet some of the folks at NYPD and the Mob were involved in that
one......

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Nomen Nescio wrote:
>> Everywhere Man said:
>>
>> >It's my opinion that cell backup here, given the high percentage of
>> >times you can't find a signal, is worthless. Now with the changes
>> >coming in 2008 regarding the towers it has become even less appealing
>> >to offer.
>> >What's it like in your area?
>>
>> Those sonsofbitches can't even make my phone work as well as it should,
>> so
>> I'm not real confident in the ability of the cellphone companies to
>> provide
>> reliable alarm service.  I share your problems with getting adequate
>> signal
>> strength consistently.
>>
>> Private radio networks are a better way to go, but sometimes those radios
>> are a pain in the ass, too.
>>
>> I'd be more concerned about NYC, though.  It's long been known for
>> skilled
>> attacks on alarm systems (though no offense, that may not be a major
>> worry
>> for the average Brinks customer).  I will always remember how back in the
>> mid-1970s, burglars whacked the main cables leading into Holmes' NYC
>> central station.  Ten thousand direct wire systems went off all at once,
>> guess which one was actually being robbed.
>
>
> Now THAT was a major event here.
>
> Up till then, something like that wasn't even thought of for a movie
> plot. If I remember right, they got past the central station locked
> doors, held the operators prisoner. Cut the lines in a man hole with an
> axe. I think they got jewels and furs at multiple locations.
>