Anybody using security on there home.

hey_moe · Nov 15, 2009

I have had ADT for a while but in the last two years have had nothing but trouble. I have had the fire dept. out here on false alarm to where we had to pay them 375.00 for the many times they have come out. ADT paid it but it has drove us nuts to a point we had to tell them to stop monitoring it. The control; board is bad but they keep jerking me around. Replaced everything over and over but no control board. I stopped payment on them which my contract has been up for a while. Wednesday I have another company coming in to give a estimate on replacing the whole thing. Any advice...Mike

Gdavis101 · Nov 15, 2009

Brinks is a little more reliable and dependable. My experience with ADT on a Law Enforcement and security level is pretty much, false alarms and misreported trips of the alarm systems. For example, we used to get glass breakage alarms all the time, when in reality it was just a cat crossing through a beam or making a noise of some kind. What ends up happening is the responders don't really take the alarms seriously after awhile because the ones reporting them can't get their information right! And when you go to the same place 3 times in a row in one night because of a faulty system it isn't taken as seriously as it should when the real thing happens.

ckissling · Nov 15, 2009

I trained my wife to kill on command. ckissling

Willy · Nov 15, 2009

Nothing gets past these two. O'course after they spot 'em, I get to deal with 'em.

Pauke! Pauke! · Nov 16, 2009

Unfotunately, my solution is to own nothing but crap that isn't worth stealing.

:jump:

Cazzie · Nov 16, 2009

Live in the boonies and have dogs and guns, best security devices on the planet. Oh, and everybody in the community knows everybody else, so any strangers get long looks and get the Hell outa here eyes. We did have a worthless family down the road (the Hankins, ugliest white people you ever want to see, look more like an audition for a Geico commercial).

Use to steal lawn equipment, Caught them backed into one end of the woods on my property and went in and got the double-barrel and loaded it with two double-ought shells, went out and fired both rounds over their heads, you ain't never seen a monkey-poop brown Granada move so fast. Ne'er a problem since.

Ya gotta understand Moe, I can't live in a city, too much like being a social insect, I got to have my freedom to move. You can't shoot guns in the city, you can't have big dogs in the city, you can't pee in your own yard in the city. These are essential rights for me.

Caz

Gdavis101 · Nov 16, 2009

I personally don't use a security system. I have always invested in large dogs instead, oh and a pistol at my bedside!

n4gix · Nov 16, 2009

Cazzie said:
...you can't pee in your own yard in the city. These are essential rights for me.

Absolutely! I have an inalienable right to pee on my own petunias! :a1451:

Willy · Nov 16, 2009

Cazzie, the house across the road from us just sold to a guy that's a convicted arsonist that moved back into the area a few months ago. Last time he lived near here, he burned down a dozen houses before he got caught. He's been in the area for a couple of months now and three more have been torched in that time. I guess I'm going to have to be extra vigilant with that *** nearby. I keep my 44s loaded.

Cloud9Gal · Nov 16, 2009

Willy said:
Cazzie, the house across the road from us just sold to a guy that's a convicted arsonist that moved back into the area a few months ago. Last time he lived near here, he burned down a dozen houses before he got caught. He's been in the area for a couple of months now and three more have been torched in that time. I guess I'm going to have to be extra vigilant with that *** nearby. I keep my 44s loaded.

Are you kidding me? Wow! That sucks Willy! You can't pick your neighbors that's for sure! Hope nothing bad happens and YES, stay vigilant!!

Cazzie · Nov 16, 2009

Willy said:
Cazzie, the house across the road from us just sold to a guy that's a convicted arsonist that moved back into the area a few months ago. Last time he lived near here, he burned down a dozen houses before he got caught. He's been in the area for a couple of months now and three more have been torched in that time. I guess I'm going to have to be extra vigilant with that *** nearby. I keep my 44s loaded.

You just wonder what is wrong with any nation's justice system that would allow that to happen Willy. We got some bad-ass rednecks around me, but they're good bad-ass rednecks and knowing where you live, I know you know the difference. We cover each other's six, you betcha.

Caz

hey_moe · Nov 16, 2009

One of the reasons I went to a security system is that Linda works at home a lot and I feel better when the system is on. She locks the doors but when you are upstairs you really can't hear anything downstairs. I've had to put a motion detector at the front door that rings a alarm and flashes a light in the pooter room because we can never hear when someone comes over. I can't tell ya how many times I have missed FEDX and UPS. We don't have a high crime rate where we live but we both feel better with it on. Yes I too have a loaded 357 at the bed. But I sleep so sound I need something to wake me up.As far as dogs are concerned I love them to death but get way to attached to them when I had them and we are gone all day, so is it fair to the animal.I have Brinks coming this week to give me a est. on replacement of the current system. It seems like going wireless is not the way to go in my house. I don't know why I keep having panel and sensor failure but I have had enough.

Quixoticish · Nov 16, 2009

A good community and neighbours who look out for one another does the job around here.

Bjoern · Nov 16, 2009

I've got good door locks and (hopefully) good insurance.

hey_moe · Nov 18, 2009

Well the Brinks sales man just left..lol...est. for everything I wanted done between 750.00 to 900.00...ouch! He assured me that every sensor would be hard wired which is what I want. ADT told me there is no way they can do it. After reading on the internet most companies want to do the wireless because it is quick and easy.Cheaper too.I have two more companies coming out this week.

Dain Arns · Nov 18, 2009

You could always go like the "Maersk Alabama" did, armed guards, but probably not too many Somali Pirates in your area. Would like to find out more about this Long Range Acoustic Device they used to repel the latest attack. Sounds useful... :icon_lol:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27401508/ns/world_news-africa/

wombat666 · Nov 18, 2009

Dain Arns said:
You could always go like the "Maersk Alabama" did, armed guards, but probably not too many Somali Pirates in your area. Would like to find out more about this Long Range Acoustic Device they used to repel the latest attack. Sounds useful...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27401508/ns/world_news-africa/

Not that I'd want to hijack this thread so I'll simply say the Japanese Whaling Fleet are equipped with "Long Range Acoustic Devices" which have a much more unpleasant effect than just plain old noise.
:isadizzy::isadizzy::isadizzy:

Marlin · Nov 19, 2009

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We have neighbors (neighborhood watch) that keep an eye on everything when we are not home, and they are all armed and trained.

At our home we have a double layer of dogs to start with. The outside German Sheppard is mean as a junk yard dog and smells funny too. J

The inside dog only barks at two legged creatures. So when the junk yard dog goes off, he will go and look. If he goes crazy, we have an armed response policy, as there are too many crackheads around.

I truly believe in my Natural Rights to Life, Liberty and Property and the right to defend all of the above. We also help our neighbors when they are not home or are in some kind of need.

The real bummer about your ADT problems is that some ADT products watch things that you can not see or smell like CO2 and other gasses not to mention there fire detecting abilities. That is something that the neighborhood watch doesn’t or cant do.

So my advice would be to get a canary to be the CO2 detector, an inside dog that barks at only people and a big outside dog. Arm yourself so that you can also protect your Natural Rights, and start or participate in a neighborhood watch.

Dain Arns · Nov 19, 2009

Snuffy · Nov 19, 2009

LOL!!!

Funny Dain!!

On a note pertaining to the topic, I have the wireless ... seems to work okay.

In fact the control unit is also wireless, it uses cellular to communicate with the monitoring station.

(OH! MOE, it should be spelled THEIR ... c'mon )

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