Re: The Bling gang

["Robert L Bass" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"tourman" wrote:
>
> I just finished watching a story on Dateline about a series of
> burglaries committed in Hollywood against a number of Hollywood stars.
> A gang of teens had stolen millions of dollars worth of goods from the
> homes of stars they idolized simply to have in their possession
> objects that the stars actually owned. This young group of
> overprivileged moral misfits had somehow broken into these million
> dollar mansions that presumably were equipped with high end alarms, or
> at least with high end video systems, since the video published from
> these cameras ultimately led to their capture...

One plausible explanation for the initial success is the alarms were
tripped but response from the CS may not been what we see on
TV commercials for the big three.

> Nowhere in the show did it discuss how these amateurs had somehow
> defeated high end electronic security systems, other than one mention
> that Paris Hilton (who had been robbed of millions during three hits)
> left her door key under the front mat...

Brilliant!

> Can anyone cast light on this glaring omission in the show. I
> presume these mansions are well protected even against "professional" thieves,
> so how could a group of spoiled teenyboppers get past this
>  kind of security. I have to assume it was people simply not
> arming their systems or other glaring "user error" stupidity
> like that. After being robbed once however, you'd think they'd
> do something even as simple as arming their system properly....
>
> The single time I've been up those streets in Hollywood back in the
> '80's, even then, I saw the presence of extensive physical and
> electronic home security on all the massive homes I passed.
>
> Any thoughts on this ? What gives....

Holleywood is the same as any uooer class residential, except there's
more money unless it's Nicholas Cage's house.