Re: silent or audible

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L Bass" <no-sales-spam@bassburglaralarms> wrote in message
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> The pathetic thing is watching the TV ads for Brinks where a would-be
burglar smashes the glass, hears the wimpy, little interior
> siren and runs off.  Two seconds later the phone rings: "Hello, Mrs.
Jones.  This is Brinks Security.  We just wanted to let you
> know that the 101st Airborne are landing on the lawn as we speak."

If you are going to call something pathetic at least get it right what they
say in the commercial and although a 2 second response that scenario is more
common than you think and those "whimpy" sirens do scare people off

> I always offered silent holdup and audible panic.
> One neat trick is to use 2 holdup buttons almost
> side-by-side.  Set the system to trigger a silent
> holdup if only one is pressed and an audible panic
> if both are pressed.

And in a real panic situation they aren't going to remember what does what

> BTW, a policeman in our area recently shot and
> critically wounded his own daughter when she returned
> home late at night after sneaking out.  He thought she
> was an intruder.  The newspaper didn't say whether
> there was an alarm involved.  I assume there not.

No alarm was involved, she activated motion triggered lights outside