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Do you use your house alarm when you are at home?

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  • 14-04-2013 10:31pm
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    CaraMay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭


    I find it bizarre that people don't turn on the house alarm when they go to bed at night. It seems so stupid to me.

    Do you?

    If not, why not?


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    nhg
    Registered Users Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭nhg


    Yes, every night. Never leave the house without turning it on either, no point of having it otherwise.


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    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    Eh yeah, I like to be made aware of people breaking into my house!!


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    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    No


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    #5
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    Of course! I even put it on when I'm home alone during the day as well


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    admiralofthefleet
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    yeah we arm downstairs, not upstairs because you dont want it going off when you are running out for a gypsies kiss at 5am


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    Munster46
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭Munster46


    I always put mine on at night no matter what , I always find it strange when people don't turn theres on at night it's like what's the point in having it.


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    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    Yes.

    Sometimes it accidentally goes off at night, I run down the stairs in a haze to turn it off - then I realize, standing there in the dark, what if there's someone in the house?


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    KilOit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭KilOit


    Yes op! i put the alarm on and have 2 attack dogs that sleep with me in the bed




    This guys a crook who's going to trace your ip if you say you don't put the alarm on!


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    aquaman
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭aquaman


    Thinly veiled "tell me your security arrangements so that I can burglarise your house", market research thread


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    NuckingFacker
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    Always turn it on. By "it" I mean the crocodile dog. I give him a good poke as I head upstairs to make sure he's not fast asleep. I wish all burglars the very best of luck playing with him. He's a dote.


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    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    I think Caramay is trying to find houses to burgle :p

    Edit: Damn you Aquaman


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    No. I have a gun.


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    Hank Scorpio
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    No. I have a gun.

    Careful now


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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Got a stupid motion sensing alarm in the house. Seemed like a great idea at first I guess. Only to realise you can never have the alarm on while someone's in the house or else you'll set it off for no reason!


    P.S. I should buy a gun...


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    Overheal
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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I don't think I've ever heard a house alarm going off and became concerned that somebody was being burgled. Just ever wished they'd turn it to feck off.

    My dog is about 100 times cheaper to run and more efficient.


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    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I don't think I've ever heard a house alarm going off and became concerned that somebody was being burgled. Just ever wished they'd turn it to feck off.

    My dog is about 100 times cheaper to run and more efficient.

    And that is why monitored alarms were invented


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    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    MarkMc wrote: »
    And that is why monitored alarms were invented
    For dogs??


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    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    For dogs??

    Nope, the bit about people not giving a shít about alarms going off.


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    MarkMc wrote: »
    And that is why monitored alarms were invented

    Monitored alarms are just about as sucky in my experience. My mam's a pharmacist, and key-holder for the pharmacy where she works because she lives closest to it.

    Whenever the alarm goes off, the phone-watch company calls her first of all. She then has to contact Gardai to arrange a place to meet as key-holders are not supposed to enter or approach the premises alone.

    The whole thing usually takes about 40 minutes and more than once the perps have gotten away not only with drugs and till contents but the safe as well, and have never been caught. Even the Gardai know they will not be caught at that stage.

    I'm sure such setups work well for certain places but it's not much of a step up from conventional alarm systems for a lot of places either.

    I think people are being lulled into a false sense of security in how monitored alarm systems are being sold to them.


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    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    There's an alarm going off as we speak. Im in an apartment block and its SO LOUD! Going for about a half hour now, it does it a lot, same apartment. Normally lasts about 5 minutes. This is getting silly.


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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    There's an alarm going off as we speak. Im in an apartment block and its SO LOUD! Going for about a half hour now, it does it a lot, same apartment. Normally lasts about 5 minutes. This is getting silly.

    This is where you need the gun!


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    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    I don't have one. I would like to get one for when I'm in the house at night, but I think they're pretty much useless for when the house is empty.


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    congo_90
    Registered Users Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭congo_90


    if in bed I set all doors and windows. combined with my retriever who is lovely but doesn't take to strangers in the garden she makes a good early warming as her bark is certainly intimidating. when I'm out I set full arm which is all sensors in and out.

    it is monitored which is grand sometimes i forget the dog is in the house asleep and she'll trigger the alarm. the monitoring people call and check everything is alri.


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    mattjack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    This is where you need the gun!

    to shoot at the alarm ?


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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    mattjack wrote: »
    to shoot at the alarm ?

    Indeed! Or the burglar... whoever is the culprit!


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    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    It stopped, thank God :)


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    anncoates
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    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    yeah we arm downstairs, not upstairs because you dont want it going off when you are running out for a gypsies kiss at 5am

    You run out the window for a piss?


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    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,570 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I don't think I've ever heard a house alarm going off and became concerned that somebody was being burgled. Just ever wished they'd turn it to feck off..

    I'm lucky enough to live in a tight knit community where we'd check things out like this, I reckon that's why we haven't been burgled. Our dogs are good too, big, strong, gamey and willing, but there's the risk of poison.
    My name is URL wrote: »
    My dog is about 100 times cheaper to run and more efficient

    My dogs vet and food bills are more expensive than my alarm.

    Where do you live My name is URL? Just curious...


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I don't think I've ever heard a house alarm going off and became concerned that somebody was being burgled. Just ever wished they'd turn it to feck off.

    My dog is about 100 times cheaper to run and more efficient.

    I have a dog too, a big one.


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