Re: Yet another ADT sob story

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 18, 4:58=A0pm, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dec 18, 12:48=A0pm, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > "tourman" <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > On Dec 18, 7:47 am, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Dec 17, 11:37 pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > On Dec 17, 11:08 pm, "Russell Brill" <russwbr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wro=
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> > > > > "nick markowitz" <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > > >news:7bd138e5-b39e-4dac-8c99-688e595c17e7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=
.com...
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> > > > > >http://consumerist.com/2010/12/monitored-alarm-system-wont-stop-=
break...
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> > > > > This sounds fishy.... The "please let me out of my contract song"
> > > > > usually
> > > > > means "I really want it FREE"... The alarm is junk, but she wants=
 it
> > > > > moved
> > > > > to another house??? I'm not trying to defend ADT, but their alarm=
s
> > > > > work a
> > > > > lot better when turned ON...........
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> > > > RHC: Yeah, I'm no fan of ADT either; however, not turning the alarm=
 on
> > > > and then blaming the alarm for not doing it's job is a lot more com=
mon
> > > > than most non-security people think. It never ceases to amaze me ho=
w
> > > > many people will buy an alarm and then tell me at some point they
> > > > never use it.
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> > > I see this all the time they claim alarm did not work etc etc. becaus=
e
> > > there being stalked by a high tech jealous ex
> > > husband/ boy friend who can enter and do things in the home like
> > > Houdini .
> > > In the end the victim in there own delusion has created and caused th=
e
> > > whole situation time and again never found one legitimate case .
> > > A system properly installed is very hard to defeat and if it is
> > > defeated it is detectable. No signs of tampering the victim is
> > > imagining whole thing and doing it to them selves. Buy the book I
> > > could write on this.
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> > RHC: Nick, had another one of these stories just the other day. =A0A
> > person called me and asked me to put in a non-monitored alarm for him.
> > I asked him why he wanted to waste money like this, and he told me his
> > wife is =A0insisting that people are bypassing the heavy duty crank
> > style windows and wandering around the home at night. He wanted to put
> > in a system just to set off a horn and warn his wife when these people
> > are supposedly wandering around. Well, right away I recognized his
> > wife likely had a mental problem and needed the assistance of a mental
> > health expert, and certainly not my assistance. As tactfully as I
> > could, I told him this, and he didn't batt an eye, having recognized
> > this himself long ago. He just thought the alarm would prove to her
> > once and for all that no one was coming in at night.
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> > Well, I told him not to waste his money, since even with the alarm,
> > she would find some excuse in her mind how they were able to somehow
> > bypass the alarm. Poor guy saw the logic in it, thanked me and hung
> > up.
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> > I sensed he was at the end of his rope....
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> > ************
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> > And then there was the one who's neighbor was coming in her doggy door =
and
> > using her cold cream.
>
> There are some real loons out there. Had a sweet customer totally
> loose it and is now in professional care what a shame.

RHC: Not surprising really when you know the statistic that one person
in every five suffers from some form of mental illness......and most
of them are driving too !!!!! (talk about people with guns being
dangerous.....)