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Re: ADT Strikes Again



On Apr 9, 6:34 pm, "Bob Worthy" <secur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Spawnie" <newbiesp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
> news:3o9Lj.17942$Q52.5642@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> > The story claims : "When the phone line was cut, according to the lawsuit,
> a
> > siren should have sounded.  Security expert Jeff Zwirn says the alarm
> should
> > have been activated instantly"
>
> Obviously his opinion. Jeff has been out of the operational end of the
> business for several years since he run his own secuirty business, here in
> Florida, into the ground. Maybe it was his mother that run him into the
> ground. You would have had to know the Swirn's to appreciate that comment.
>
>
>
> > Read your contract. I would love to see where ADT states to the customer
> > that cell backup unit is provided to initiate an "Instant" alarm
> condition,
> > or even a siren. That is just not what that piece of equipment is made
> for.
> > Can it be done? Sure. Is it a good idea? No.
>
> > Thier so called expert makes 4 claims:
> > The control panel failed.
> >     Did it? If so how where the police notified?
> > The Radio failed.
> >     Again, if it did how where police dispatched when the phone lines
> where
> > cut?
> > The Glassbreak Sensor failed.
> >     I have no knowledge of the specifics of this case, but I would be
> > willing to bet a weeks pay that this was the device that initiated the
> > police response, probably after an entry delay.
> > The Motion Sensors Failed.
> >     Really? If the customer was home and armed the system in stay, would a
> > motion normally trip or not?
>
> I was in court, as a witness for a client, back in 1992 in a case against
> Jeff Zwirn and his company, when he had one in Florida. There were several
> difficiencies with the system that where intentionally made, twisted off
> loops etc. One of Mr. Zwirn's defense statements, on a disconnected leg of
> the phone line, which was only one pair and no RJ, was that line seizure was
> not invented yet. That was the statement of a self proclaimed "expert". He
> is a payed gun and don't forget that the term "expert" is given to these
> types by the attorneys and accepted as so by the courts. No one is truely an
> "expert" as this industry is to diverse and changes at high speed. There are
> those that have more qualifications than others, however reading some books
> or writing some articles hardly qualifies someone to hang a shingle as an
> "expert". <

Another uneducated adult.

deficiencies  NOT difficiencies

Here's a good rule of thumb............................If you don't
know how to spell a word, or if you're not familiar with the
definition of a particular word, LOOK IT UP before making an attempt
to use it in a post where you declare yourself a genius.

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