Re: Home Depot robber delays alarm company, flees with $10,000

["David 01" <ifiwantspam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

?"G. Morgan"  wrote in message
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I was finishing a small business in a shopping center once on a
contracting deal.  The installing company assured me it was on
"test" (they called the CS instead of giving me the code word).

I sent a complete round of burg. signals from every zone, then
turned off the alarm with the duress code.

A minute later the shopkeeper say's "uhhh, it's your company, they
need to talk to you".  It wasn't the company, it was the CS
wanting the code word!  It was not on test.  I told the operator
this was a new install and was supposed to be on test, I did not
know the code word.


So he says he's calling the cops.  I said go ahead, but they won't
come because there is no permit yet.  Then he said, but I also got
a *duress* alarm.  OH FUCK!  I asked him to hold the line while I
dialed the company I was installing for on my cell to get the
code.  The CS dude talked to me for 10 minutes before I got the
code word and he never dispatched that whole time.  What an idiot.

The code word was "Flintstones", one of the VERY few, of
thousands, I can still remember.


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I've been out of the business for years, but my favorite (now, not at the
time) CS experience was many years ago I had added a foot rail holdup alarm
which was silent of course and I had told one of the operators at a small CS
I contracted with that I was going to send 2 signals and to ignore those and
then put me back online.

I sent the 2 signals and spent some time cleaning up some wiring under the
counter and then I raised up and a guy in street clothes pointed a 357
magnum at my nose. About that time I could hear sirens approaching and I
didn't know what was going on. I thought the guy with the gun was a robber,
but it turned out he was a plainclothes detective and that the CS had
dispatched on the holdup signals. I didn't get shot but my adrenalin was
flowing well. After everything was cleared up and the manager gave all the
policeman some coffee and donuts, I called the CS and asked the operator why
they dispatched after I told them I was going to send 2 test signals. She
said, "oh, I'm sorry, I went to the restroom and forgot to tell anybody
else."