Yes all entry points are hooked up. It goes off if a window/door is opened and its loud and scary because we set it off by mistake about once every few weeks when we forget to shut it off in the morning. I dont have the motion detectors on because my kids would set them off all the time.
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Yes all entry points are hooked up. It goes off if a window/door is opened and its loud and scary because we set it off by mistake about once every few weeks when we forget to shut it off in the morning. I dont have the motion detectors on because my kids would set them off all the time.
Glenn E. Meyer
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Oh, no one breaks in the house in the morning. Burglars prefer day time break ins as it is less likely to meet a homeowner.
Just be careful and keep it on.
Just be careful and keep it on.
zincwarrior
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All the more reason to be armed. My wiener dog tells me cats are as tricksy as they are evilz.
Glenn E. Meyer
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From a well known LEO trainer on another forum in a similar discussion:
Tactical Jackalope
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Uuuf... That's a tough one right there. People need to stop underestimating thieves and criminals. They've often times done these same crimes dozens if not hundreds of times before. Trial and error teaches a lot. Finding criminals that don't commit crimes in numbers is becoming more and more rare.
Wanderlust
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1) get my bedgun sitting on the shelf beside bed
2) turn to the other side and look at the laptop which is asleep and wake it up
3) look at my drop cams via my laptop all over my house and see if intruder is present.
I have never had an intruder but I have used that protocol in the middle of the night when I heard a large bang like something was at the door, so after 15 minutes or so I actually got out of bed and it was a trash can that rolled down street into my door but concealed by the angle could not see on my front cam.
2) turn to the other side and look at the laptop which is asleep and wake it up
3) look at my drop cams via my laptop all over my house and see if intruder is present.
I have never had an intruder but I have used that protocol in the middle of the night when I heard a large bang like something was at the door, so after 15 minutes or so I actually got out of bed and it was a trash can that rolled down street into my door but concealed by the angle could not see on my front cam.
Deaf Smith
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I scream, "mad minute", as my wife leaps for the M1 Carbine and I dive for the AR. 2000 rounds and one minute later we find our cat just wanted outside.
Deaf
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i have posted along this line before. In the 1970s we suffered a home invasion.
I did not have a dog at the time. It took a long time, too long to awake from a deep sleep. Simply could not react.
When i did recognize a threat I could not reach the revolver under the bed. For some reason I thought it prudent to push it further under. Not goo wiith a tall mattress.
This past year, I hear he front door open, as I was sitting, in the breakfast nook on the laptop. Wife was in the kitchen 20 ft away.
My first thought was my son in law is home but it is way too early. In the same instance, Dakota jumped form his bed and charged the door teeth bared. I heard the door close and footsteps, on the porch, For an instant or two nothing registered.
When It did I jumped up and went to the door about 60 ft away.
Pitch black outside and no hint, of anything or anyone . SIL's dogs were not making any noise in their pen. they raise alarm if anything approaches our long driveway, usually.
Dakota was shaking and wanted to hide. The Stranger or whatever had him scared pretty bad.
My Opinion, A family dog, well behaved and mature, will react from sleep and charge anyone alien. He won't generally charge a family member or if he does, when he gets close and recognizes them all is good.
I think a Family dog/friend/guard and companion can save our lives. Dakota might have saved our lives last year. He's about 120 lbpit bull/terrier cross.
A Dog as first line of defense and not much chance of a family member being harmed, unlike awaking from deep sleep and trying to make sense of what is happening. Second line of defense is a handgun or shotgun or whatever you have decided fits your needs.
The Dog will take down anyone or at least awaken the deep, in sleep, and buy you time to react, and avoid to hasty reaction and a daughter come home from college unannounced.
i have posted along this line before. In the 1970s we suffered a home invasion.
I did not have a dog at the time. It took a long time, too long to awake from a deep sleep. Simply could not react.
When i did recognize a threat I could not reach the revolver under the bed. For some reason I thought it prudent to push it further under. Not goo wiith a tall mattress.
This past year, I hear he front door open, as I was sitting, in the breakfast nook on the laptop. Wife was in the kitchen 20 ft away.
My first thought was my son in law is home but it is way too early. In the same instance, Dakota jumped form his bed and charged the door teeth bared. I heard the door close and footsteps, on the porch, For an instant or two nothing registered.
When It did I jumped up and went to the door about 60 ft away.
Pitch black outside and no hint, of anything or anyone . SIL's dogs were not making any noise in their pen. they raise alarm if anything approaches our long driveway, usually.
Dakota was shaking and wanted to hide. The Stranger or whatever had him scared pretty bad.
My Opinion, A family dog, well behaved and mature, will react from sleep and charge anyone alien. He won't generally charge a family member or if he does, when he gets close and recognizes them all is good.
I think a Family dog/friend/guard and companion can save our lives. Dakota might have saved our lives last year. He's about 120 lbpit bull/terrier cross.
A Dog as first line of defense and not much chance of a family member being harmed, unlike awaking from deep sleep and trying to make sense of what is happening. Second line of defense is a handgun or shotgun or whatever you have decided fits your needs.
The Dog will take down anyone or at least awaken the deep, in sleep, and buy you time to react, and avoid to hasty reaction and a daughter come home from college unannounced.
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Don't want to treat the subject too lightly.
Things like i reported don't happen to too many people I hope. One time is too many.
A sub machine gun a bit much though.
a .38 with frangible bullets because of thin walls and children in other rooms?
One I liked was .357s loaded with lead disc. Thee took out anything, with in a room's range but walls and such took most of the energy out.
Don't want to treat the subject too lightly.
Things like i reported don't happen to too many people I hope. One time is too many.
A sub machine gun a bit much though.
a .38 with frangible bullets because of thin walls and children in other rooms?
One I liked was .357s loaded with lead disc. Thee took out anything, with in a room's range but walls and such took most of the energy out.
Waspinator
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one could never know for sure how you will react when woken up from a sound sleep.
Me, Not to long ago a awoke to my house alarm going off. I don't think ,y wife even registered what was happening and I was already half way down the stairs. I bull-rushed out of my room and down the stairs so fast that it wasn't till I was at th bottom of the stairs, scanning the area for anything, that I realized that my revolver was still in the bedside safe.
I would have liked to think that I would have had enough sense to grab it first....something about being woken so suddenly, to such loud noises...I just reacted and put myself between the 1st floor and my family (wife/3 kids) on the second floor. man, crazy stuff.
Oh.. the alarm? my wife had the top part of the window open earlier in the day and forgot to latch it when she shut it. The high wind that night happened to shake it enough to creep down and release the alarm pressure switch! No harm done, except my heart almost beating out of my chest, lol
Me, Not to long ago a awoke to my house alarm going off. I don't think ,y wife even registered what was happening and I was already half way down the stairs. I bull-rushed out of my room and down the stairs so fast that it wasn't till I was at th bottom of the stairs, scanning the area for anything, that I realized that my revolver was still in the bedside safe.
I would have liked to think that I would have had enough sense to grab it first....something about being woken so suddenly, to such loud noises...I just reacted and put myself between the 1st floor and my family (wife/3 kids) on the second floor. man, crazy stuff.
Oh.. the alarm? my wife had the top part of the window open earlier in the day and forgot to latch it when she shut it. The high wind that night happened to shake it enough to creep down and release the alarm pressure switch! No harm done, except my heart almost beating out of my chest, lol
g.willikers
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You and your wife definitely need more practice with this sort of thing.
How about taking turns leaping out of closets and from behind furniture at one another, ala the Pink Panther?
Banging some pots and pans together in the middle of the night is good, too.
As is manually operating the house alarm accompanied by a blood curdling scream.
Might have to practice the scream; a convincing one is harder to do than you think.
How about taking turns leaping out of closets and from behind furniture at one another, ala the Pink Panther?
Banging some pots and pans together in the middle of the night is good, too.
As is manually operating the house alarm accompanied by a blood curdling scream.
Might have to practice the scream; a convincing one is harder to do than you think.
HistoryJunky
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This scenario has happened to me probably no less than 10 times so far in my life. Never has anyone actually broke in, but at least I know how my reaction goes.
I am a light sleeper. I wake up to the loud noise, or the wife does. She starts freaking out. I grab my AK loaded with JSPs and hand it to her, then grab my pistol. Tell her to keep her phone near in case she hears anything else strange. Investigate the house with pistol ready.
I have a 5 month old daughter, so investigating noises is necessary whether they are malicious or not.
Before we had her, we lived in a couple much worse neighborhoods. That's when we had all the previous 10 or so incidents. My strategy then was to either clear only the upper floor of our living space and then wait to hear any more noises at the staircase, or just cover the doorway to our room and wait for noises.
I have had a scary false alarm before as well. Before I met my wife, I lived with my brother who also lived in a dodgy part of town. It was about 10pm and I was home alone. As usual, I had my .38 revolver by me just in case. I went to my room to go lay down and turned off all the lights. Just as I got to my room, I heard the door open to our apartment, but didn't hear keys.
I went to investigate the sound with my revolver at low ready and a flashlight. Turns out it was just my brother's girlfriend coming home.
She was a little bit startled but she understood.
I am a light sleeper. I wake up to the loud noise, or the wife does. She starts freaking out. I grab my AK loaded with JSPs and hand it to her, then grab my pistol. Tell her to keep her phone near in case she hears anything else strange. Investigate the house with pistol ready.
I have a 5 month old daughter, so investigating noises is necessary whether they are malicious or not.
Before we had her, we lived in a couple much worse neighborhoods. That's when we had all the previous 10 or so incidents. My strategy then was to either clear only the upper floor of our living space and then wait to hear any more noises at the staircase, or just cover the doorway to our room and wait for noises.
I have had a scary false alarm before as well. Before I met my wife, I lived with my brother who also lived in a dodgy part of town. It was about 10pm and I was home alone. As usual, I had my .38 revolver by me just in case. I went to my room to go lay down and turned off all the lights. Just as I got to my room, I heard the door open to our apartment, but didn't hear keys.
I went to investigate the sound with my revolver at low ready and a flashlight. Turns out it was just my brother's girlfriend coming home.
She was a little bit startled but she understood.
g.willikers
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Hopefully you both have a plan for when you come back to where she is.
I heard a noise while getting the news paper at 4:30 am in the morning. I went inside, made coffee and thought about the noise that should not be there. I decided to cruse the neighborhood. First decision; do I take a gun, I decided 'no' and took off in my P/U. I drove up on what I thought was two burglars. I called 911; a strange conversation, they wanted to know if I had been hired to patrol, and then it got funnier.
I informed 911 to 'forget about it' because I was hanging up and I was going to go in search of some policeman; and I did. Who knows? Did they find me or did I find them? Anyhow, I gave them the information on the location but suggested the two burglars were long gone.
The policemen made 11 arrest, seems the two I found left without warning the others. The last thing I told the policemen was "I did not bring a gun", and that cheered them up.
And there was another time. That was before viral, that one went national.
F. Guffey
I informed 911 to 'forget about it' because I was hanging up and I was going to go in search of some policeman; and I did. Who knows? Did they find me or did I find them? Anyhow, I gave them the information on the location but suggested the two burglars were long gone.
The policemen made 11 arrest, seems the two I found left without warning the others. The last thing I told the policemen was "I did not bring a gun", and that cheered them up.
And there was another time. That was before viral, that one went national.
F. Guffey
Not at my house. My wife would have hired a divorce lawyer before the sun was up. Thirty-three years of marriage down the tubes.
Just a couple of nights ago, there was a loud bang that seemed to come either from our garage or immediately in front of or beside it. We were still up, watching TV. My wife had her carry pistol in her hand in an impressively short time, before me. She would not have responded as quickly had she been asleep, though, and we both know it. I am one of those who springs awake in an instant; annoys the heck out of her. We looked around in the garage and found nothing, then waited a while before walking the dog (as a pair and with a flashlight, neither of which is normal for us) and looking around for damage. Never discovered the source of the noise. Perhaps it was further away than our initial impression.
I am all for holing up if a serious threat is detected, but not for every little bump in the night. Dogs, cats, wildlife, dishes settling in the sink, noises that are not explained - they all happen way more often than a serious threat and I can't help but think that one would get an adverse reputation with LE organizations if you called 911 every time you heard an unidentified noise.
And then there was that time I brought Darth Vader home. He was a cut out that was used at the Star Wars premier in NYC, NY. When he was removed he suffered damage when removed from the wall. Most of the cutouts were free standing and were collectable because with collectables it is condition, condition, and more condition. To me it was the only one left and I suggested the warehouse take better care of it 'JIC' as in just in case it was worth something.
I took it home and I am sure I informed my wife I was placing it between the wall and a piano.
One night there was a bump in the night, the bump woke up the wife and her big dog. I checked the wife out on a two row 12 gage, I left her two shotgun shells. It was not until she realized her big dog did not get excited when she turned the lights on that Darth Vader was a cut out. And that was not the end of the story. She turned Darth into a sailor cat.
F. Guffey
I took it home and I am sure I informed my wife I was placing it between the wall and a piano.
One night there was a bump in the night, the bump woke up the wife and her big dog. I checked the wife out on a two row 12 gage, I left her two shotgun shells. It was not until she realized her big dog did not get excited when she turned the lights on that Darth Vader was a cut out. And that was not the end of the story. She turned Darth into a sailor cat.
F. Guffey
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HistoryJunky
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Yes I will announce myself before I re-enter her line of sight. She is well trained thanks to the military on use of a rifle as well.