These idiotic ads for home security systems aren’t anything new, but this one happened to air while I was in a position to capture it.
If you are afraid of such a thing:
- You’re nuts. Such a thing is only slightly more likely than your house being hit by a meteor;
- You need a gun, not an alarm.
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Forget a gun just get a nice samurai sword http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story
These commercials are ripe for parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9hWWOjJzZY
And…what happens if you DON’T answer the phone? Do they assume everything is OK?
If you don’t answer the phone or do and can’t give the secret password, then the security people pass that information on to the 911.
The police rank this type of call below the level where actual people call in reports of crimes in person, but in the best of cases, I’m sure they would still have at least five minutes or so.
For all this awesome protection, you pay a fee every year to the police to do something that’s in their job description already. (Although I do support a payment of some kind in each case of a false alarm.
I don’t know what kind of mischief they’re using to counter just cutting the phone line before the B&E nowadays. I don’t think anyone wants to lease out dry pairs anymore.