Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2004-11-13 11:29 am
azurelunatic) wrote2004-11-13 11:29 am
Fun With Security Systems
OK, great minds. Our heroine has just been presented with a new security system (on the house where she will now be living), and has only been told, "Remember, you’re always going to have to disarm everything before unlocking it," and, "Three bad tries and it calls the security company even if you do get it right after that."
She has been offered the manual to read, and has declined. (Heh, heh.)
What delightfully embarrassing mishaps can ensue with this new gadget? Keep in mind that this is a teenage kid, and her parents (her mother in particular) are the ones in charge of doing things with this security system, and the only command she's learned so far is the code she has to put in before unlocking the door from the outside.
She has been offered the manual to read, and has declined. (Heh, heh.)
What delightfully embarrassing mishaps can ensue with this new gadget? Keep in mind that this is a teenage kid, and her parents (her mother in particular) are the ones in charge of doing things with this security system, and the only command she's learned so far is the code she has to put in before unlocking the door from the outside.
*From a security expert*
If it is a Drywire (hard line) ADT type, Forgetting to turn off any of the house zones will cause the ADT patrol (or their subcontractors, if they are in an enclave, or the local police) to arrive, ask for proof of residence,and a password.
After 3 times of coming out,they start -billing- the account for each visit.
After 10 times, they will suspend the service.
You could have parties busted up, and yes, if there is nobody over 18 there, code or not, they WILL attempt to contact an adult.
Think about how much trouble that can be.
Re: *From a security expert*
Second, more questions:
If there is a fight in progress when the security company representatives arrive, especially if someone from the household opens the door and says that there is a problem, would there be breaking up of the fight and restraining the combatants first, and asking the detailed questions second? At what point might the security company call the actual police?
Also, what sorts of proof of residence is typically asked?
In this scenario that just unfolded in my plot, someone (the man of the house, actually) has forgotten to disarm the door alarm before opening it to admit the moving company. Near-immediately afterwards, after the security company is on its way to investigate a possible break-in, a brawl erupts between the moving company and the household; the older teenager (the one who would ordinarily be throwing wild parties) is the only household member uninvolved. I have her answering the door for the security company (would they knock or just barge in? I have them knocking) and giving her name, the fact that she lives in the household, and the security code that one uses to disarm the doors, and saying that there's actually a bit of a problem. Open door fully on the scene of a six-person brawl.
The security team restrains all combatants; by this point, they've called the police (somewhere in the process), and are intent on waiting to straighten out what looks to be a complex and tangled mess when the police arrive.
Is someone else in the uniform of the problematical moving crew likely to be restrained in the process just on principle, or if he's standing well back from the fray not looking threatening, would he likely be able to not be cuffed?