The Bling gang

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

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. 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...

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....