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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: rojawe on September 29, 2009, 12:00:52 PM
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>> What to take to bed with you - not a joke .
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>> Pretty neat idea. Never thought of it before.
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>> Put your car keys beside your bed at night
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>> Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your
>> parents, your
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>> Dr's office, the check-out girl at the market, everyone
>> you run
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>> across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night.
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>> If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to
>> get in your
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>> house, just press the panic button for your car.. The
>> alarm will be
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>> set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either
>> you turn it
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>> off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a
>> neighborhood watch
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>> coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you
>> start to
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>> put your keys away, think of this: It's a
>> security alarm system that
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>> you probably already have and requires no installation.
>> Test it. It
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>> will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will
>> keep
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>> honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it
>> with the
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>> button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your
>> driveway or
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>> garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is
>> trying to break
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>> into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't
>> stick around.
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>> After a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out
>> their
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>> windows to see who is out there and sure enough the
>> criminal won't
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>> want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to
>> your car
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>> in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there.
>> This is
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>> something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe
>> it could
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>> save a life or a sexual abuse crime.
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>> P.S. I am sending this to everyone I know because I think
>> it is
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>> fantastic. Would also be useful for any emergency, such as
>> a heart
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>> attack, where you can't reach a phone. My Mom has
>> suggested to my Dad
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>> that he carry his car keys with him in case he falls
>> outside and she
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>> doesn't hear him.. He can activate the car alarm and
>> then she'll know
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>> there's a problem.
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I'm skeptical. My first response to a car alarm is to roll back over and wait for the jerk to turn it off. if I'm in a parking lot I will reflexively look towards the noise, so it MIGHT have some use there. On the whole though I think car alarms are in the boy who cried wolf category. We have become conditioned to ignore them. That being said, If I were trying to stealthily comit a felony I would probably skeedaddle at any loud noise that indicated I'd been detected, but then I'm not a burglar.
FQ13
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Even in my small town, car alarms don't even merit a glance. While it MAY deter the BG it will only annoy the rest of the folks who hear it.
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I'm skeptical. My first response to a car alarm is to roll back over and wait for the jerk to turn it off. if I'm in a parking lot I will reflexively look towards the noise, so it MIGHT have some use there. On the whole though I think car alarms are in the boy who cried wolf category. We have become conditioned to ignore them. That being said, If I were trying to stealthily comit a felony I would probably skeedaddle at any loud noise that indicated I'd been detected, but then I'm not a burglar.
FQ13
Even in my small town, car alarms don't even merit a glance. While it MAY deter the BG it will only annoy the rest of the folks who hear it.
It is a good idea, if you tell your neighbors about it..... It will still take them several minutes to awake from their slumber, check things out, realize they might want to call the cops, talk things over with their spouse, find their phone, actually call the cops, explain the situation and what the car alarm going off for an extended time means in that neighborhood...... and then you also have to factor in about 5-15 minutes for the cops to actually arrive once dispatched.
*Hope you got a gun to "cling to" while you are waiting!
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Walking to my car I always keep my finger on the alarm button of my key fob. If I'm confronted, I figure the honking will momentarily distract, giving me time to disengage.
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Walking to my car I always keep my finger on the alarm button of my key fob. If I'm confronted, I figure the honking will momentarily distract, giving me time to disengage.
Or engage with advantage.
As long as you look at it as a half second of extra time and not THE final solution, it is a good idea.