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ChadTower:
Jim, those are defense points. There is nothing in those laws that say cannot be charged with. You can use them to defend yourself when charged, sure, but do you really feel like spending 6 months in court? How about spending your life savings on an attorney? Or the still very credible possibility that your defense is unsuccessful?
People can be as brave as they want in an internet thread but the whole point isn't "what can I do to defend my family", it is "what can I do to prevent an incident in the first place".
Here, nobody will call the police if your alarm is going off. They will call if you are having a party, if a tree falls, if your dog is annoying them. They will do nothing and deny having seen anything if there is an actual problem. Your neighbors are not reliable and don't care except in that it might affect them later on.
hulkster:
--- Quote from: saint on May 12, 2009, 09:41:11 am ---Few more points:
1. An alarm system is a balance of security vs cost. Nothing is fool proof. What you're doing is improving the odds in your favor.
2. If you're building the house, do what we did at the advice of our alarm system installer. Have the phone line enter the house at a buried location via conduit into the house. Unless you know where to dig, you can't cut my phone line from the outside. You can cut it from the pedestal at the street, of course, but again that's fairly suspicious behavior to an observer and I'm improving the odds in my favor.
3. On my alarm system there are two modes (and I believe that's fairly common). Away mode, wherein there is a 20-30 second window to disarm it before it calls in. Home mode, wherein it calls in instantly if it alarms. You set it to home mode when you're shut up for the night.
4. The central brain of our alarm system cannot be reached in the 20-30 seconds disarm window unless you know exactly where it is and are a fast runner. If you have that knowledge I have bigger problems than a random burglar. Not even casual friends know where are system is. I'm not sure any of my friends know where ours is.
5. There are 4 sirens in my house. You're not disabling all of them. If you have an external siren it's going to be mounted up where someone can't easily get to it before it goes off.
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k, that sounds awesome, but how much do you pay for it?
Blanka:
The cheapest is to get rid of the expensive stuff in the house :D
(and just fill it with 200kg+ arcade cabinets)
saint:
--- Quote from: hulkster on May 12, 2009, 10:13:10 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on May 12, 2009, 09:41:11 am ---Few more points:
1. An alarm system is a balance of security vs cost. Nothing is fool proof. What you're doing is improving the odds in your favor.
2. If you're building the house, do what we did at the advice of our alarm system installer. Have the phone line enter the house at a buried location via conduit into the house. Unless you know where to dig, you can't cut my phone line from the outside. You can cut it from the pedestal at the street, of course, but again that's fairly suspicious behavior to an observer and I'm improving the odds in my favor.
3. On my alarm system there are two modes (and I believe that's fairly common). Away mode, wherein there is a 20-30 second window to disarm it before it calls in. Home mode, wherein it calls in instantly if it alarms. You set it to home mode when you're shut up for the night.
4. The central brain of our alarm system cannot be reached in the 20-30 seconds disarm window unless you know exactly where it is and are a fast runner. If you have that knowledge I have bigger problems than a random burglar. Not even casual friends know where are system is. I'm not sure any of my friends know where ours is.
5. There are 4 sirens in my house. You're not disabling all of them. If you have an external siren it's going to be mounted up where someone can't easily get to it before it goes off.
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k, that sounds awesome, but how much do you pay for it?
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Will check when I get home.
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