Fun With Security Systems

[azurelunatic]

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.

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[tygerr.livejournal.com]

No alarm-monitoring service I've ever had sends "security" to respond to an alarm. The service makes a phone call, and if whoever answers doesn't give the correct "don't send the cops" password in ONE try, there will soon be a visit from Actual Police With Legal Jurisdiction Over That Address.

Just to clarify.

[azurelunatic]

If there's no response to a phone call (one phone in the house plugged in, perhaps, and no answer), that would mean a response team of some sort.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

First comes the Backup Phone Calls: call the homeowner's cell or work number, a designated neighbor, etc.

Next step: send the police.

Security firms that monitor people's homes don't seem to have their own in-house response teams.

[azurelunatic]

Cellphone's turned off, and he's not at work 'cause he's in the process of moving. Neighbors are too new to be designated. So. Send forth the deputies! (It's a small town.)

[azurelunatic]

Heh. OK, when the altercation is still in the verbal phase, the phone rings upstairs and no one answers. She brushes it off as "no one important would have the number so soon".

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

This works...and then 10 minutes (or whatever) later, the cops arrive to a "Domestic Dispute" in progress. With none of the participants prepared for it.... heh.

[azurelunatic]

Exactly.