Posted on 06/30/2007 10:08:46 PM PDT by onyx eyes
Article from a little neighborhood newspaper: Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise or feel as if someone is trying to get into your house, or, has gotten into your house, press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home at night think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is breaking into your house, odds are the burglar or rapist won't stick around .
And, very important. Carry your keys with you when walking anywhere, and while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm works the same way there....This will stop a carjacker or rapist, and should be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual assault or crime.
That’s a very good tip.
Thank onyx eyes.
My keys don’t have a panic button. They do have a pocket knife though :)
I prefer to walk with my hand on my gun, and my shotgun next to my bed. But that’s just me.
I’ve seen this and it’s stupid. It’s another “we’ll come up with ANY other idea, no matter how stupid, to keep you from carrying a gun” feel-good scheme.
Here’s some of the problems with it:
1. Nobody pays ANY attention to car alarms any more. They go off too often for no good reason.
2. Many cars will only panic for 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
3. Many car alarms can barely be heard outside when the car is in a garage.
4. Hitting the alarm will more than likely cause the would be rapist or burglar to panic and attack you (as dead witnesses can’t testify) rather than leave.
I can’t remember the last time someone took a car alarm seriously.
No, it’s a very BAD tip.
Don’t want to scare them off, I want them carried off!
Heh!
Car alarm goes off around a group of people -see who notices...
Pump-action shotgun goes, “Cer-CHAACK!!” around a group of people -see who notices.
I prefer my .38 and .44 instead of car keys, but hey, what do I know?
Exactly. This purported “security tip” is right up there with “fan your car keys out in your hand and use them to rake the face of your assailant” in the ranks of “stupid and ineffectual security tips”.
I've got intrusion alarms that would raise the dead in Christ. They're so loud if they ever go off in the middle of the night, I'll probably have a heart attack. LOL Of course, the good news is that they will scare an intruder to death.
Nothing beats the racking of a shotgun.
I saw a sign in a casino parking lot in Vegas that said that if your car alarm goes off and you don't stop it in 10 minutes, they will tow it in 15 minutes.
Hmmm...intruder in my house.
Car alarm for a car parked in a garage, so the sound is muffled, or an AK74.
Car alarm or AK74.
Car alarm or AK74.
Tough Call.
They make lots of noise and even little ones bite.
Except the safety coming off and the bolt being racked on an *AK* shotgun.
You never know when you'll need to key someones car. :-)
Personally I prefer to scare off intruders with the sound of my racking a shell into my shotgun.
Oh come on. The tip isn’t that bad. They even teach that in karate.
Hence, my pocket knife on my keychain.
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