Mystery in North Olmsted solved: Source of key fob, garage opener problems identified

cleveland.com ^ | 05/04/2019

[BenLurkin]

The cause was a custom, man-made device inside a resident’s home, North Olmsted Councilman Chris Glassburn announced Saturday afternoon. Residents of Virginia Avenue, Brendan Lane, MacBeth Lane and Terra-Lynn Drive reported they were plagued with the problems for weeks.

Glassburn would only say it is a notification system which allows the resident to know if there is movement in the house/someone is in the house.

Glassburn and Bill Hertzel, a retired communication employee, found the device after a resident agreed to allow them inside a home.

“The device, which ran on a battery backup, was identified and disabled,” Glassburn wrote in a statement.

Residents had experienced radio interference that prevented them from opening their cars and garage doors.

Many of those residents at first figured it was their device acting up.

[hinckley buzzard]

I work in No Olmsted one day a week. There’s a reason no one hears about the place.

[Maris Crane]

Thank you, drSteve, I appreciate your supporting my comments.

I tried not to be snarky and I know that when you are in a hurry to post it sometimes causes errors, but JOURNALISTS, REPORTERS AND WRITERS should be more careful.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

We can disagree about whether we need to scrupulously avoid splitting infinitives. Meanwhile, our language is being assaulted in more serious ways. For instance, all my teachers taught me that “they” was a plural pronoun, and to never use it to reference an individual. That was a useful rule, as the reader or listener knew that it referred to two or more individuals. Today, we’re often left confused, when the (formerly) plural pronoun is also used to refer to individuals, who don’t know which sex they are.

[Maris Crane]

I didn’t want to sound like the Grinch, but there are so many abuses of the language, English, which I think is a very beautiful language when used properly.

Many people forget what they are taught, that is, if they were taught correctly in the first place. I’ll allow that kind of misusage, but my gripe this time is, that it was committed by someone whose job it is to know...ta da...proper English. A reporter, columnist, editor, author making mistakes like that is inexcusable.

Using substitute words to accommodate certain idiocies of present day culture, drive me wild. The fact that we are being forced to change our words so that they control the nonsense makes speaking a chore.