Another Reason to Consider Carrying at Home

[Eric F]

Then make him immediately disarm the system at gunpoint before it actually goes off because they all have a delay to allow disarming when you come home and open the door.

My system has a "occupied" setting.as to where it goes off right away in the event of opening or braking when I am home. That fixes that problem for me but not all systems have that.

 

[1911Tuner]

Asleep at 0200? feh. Me no worry. They might get in..but with all these dogs roamin' loose in the house, they might have a problem gettin' back out.
Good dogs, and friendly to a fault...but when the sun goes down and everybody goes to bed, they're completely serious about their assignments.

Me standin' there with a shotgun would be like a vision of an angel, I'd imagine.

 

[sonyhoppes]

Erik F, I have my system set for 15 seconds of "warning beep" until the real alarm goes off. I only have two settings; STAY and AWAY. The only thing STAY does is disarm the motion sensors so we don't set them off, but all the other perimeter sensors are armed. I do this because I work from home a lot (upstairs) and it gives the wifey time to cover about 5 steps from the downstairs garage door into the house to the control panel. I wouldn't want it to immediately go off on her (or anyone) when someone's home and it's armed for STAY. It would be nice if it had an "everyone's home so immediately go off with no delay STAY setting", but it doesn't.

On another note, depending on the system/company, it may take some time for the monitoring service to even detect an alarm triggered "event". I test mine periodically by calling the company first and then purposely setting it off. I've seen it take as long as TWO minutes for them to even register the alarm tripped on their end and if it's turned off before they "register", that "event" will never come up on their end. Supposedly, their slow ass service is an "accidentally tripped alarm" buffer or something. I thought the CALL BACK to see if everything's okay was the "buffer". That's a long time, especially if someone forcefully enters and pulls the "Get the f*** up now, mutha f***** and turn this off now!", especially at gunpoint. Mr. Sheep unarmed homeowner is going to comply and no one will be the wiser that he just had a home invasion in progress.

 

[jakemccoy]

The police are very cautious not to make this seem like a heroic act. They say fighting back can sometimes end with the victims being more seriously hurt.

I read that a few times now. I still can't figure it out why the police would make such a robotic, generalized statement after this robbery. Or maybe the editor took some editorial liberties…