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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2008cats set off our house alarm
We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had just gone upstairs to bed and the alarm went off. We think Sam was chaseing Cinnamon and she jumped on the back of a chair in the living room and then onto the half wall. I have picutes on it and when we came downstairs to see why the alarm went off 2 pictures were on the floor. We had to call the alarm company to report a false alarm. All the cats had big eyes after all the noise. We have an outside speaker for the alarm. Ann  SignatureAnn in Connecticut see my cats at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ann791/sets/ read Sam's blog at http://kittens-3.blogspot.com/ * * * > We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had just gone > upstairs to bed and the alarm went off. We think Sam was chaseing Cinnamon [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Ann Reminds me of a time my parents were having Robbie looked after by a neighbour when they lived in DC. They had gone away for a few days and on the last day the neighbour lost my parents key. So after panicing, she called her son in the fire-service, explaining that they needed to rescue Robbie. A fire-truck (with neighbours son on board) and 4 firefighters, turned up and broke in, to rescue Robbie.... It set off the house alarm. What my parents hadn't told the neighbour, was although the house alarm could be switched off in the house, if the the alarm went off, it was automatically notified by the alarm company to the local police and the Embassy. If the Embassy didn't get a call from my dad verifying he'd switched off the alarm, the Embassy protocol was to notify the State department....who followed *their* protocol, which was to send the secret service to the address to deal with a potential "diplomatic situation". My parents came home, to find a firetruck, 4 policeman, 2 police cars and 4 secret service guys all outside and around the house. Robbie was asleep on their bed! Helen M > Reminds me of a time my parents were having Robbie looked after by a > neighbour when they lived in DC. They had gone away for a few days and [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Helen M ROTFL SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >> We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had >> just gon [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > Helen M As an alarm installer of over twenty years I find this story very entertaining! When we first purchased our house we had plumbers here working on the kitchen and putting in the pipes for a half bath. We were not living here yet but, had the alarm system in. We had the plumbers choose a code they could remember and I think they had a key to the house. They showed up to work one day and had problems with turning off the alarm. Every time the dropped or banged something the alarm went off. Finally they stopped for lunch. They were sitting at the table in front of the kitchen windows. They put the shade up and there were 2 cops out there. They had to explain the whole story to them and I think we were called to be sure the men had permission to be in our house. Good think the plumbers had a sence of humor. SignatureAnn in Connecticut see my cats at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ann791/sets/ read Sam's blog at http://kittens-3.blogspot.com/ * * * > >>> We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > As an alarm installer of over twenty years I find this story very > entertaining! On Apr 21, 9:00 pm, "Ann" <ann...@hotmail.com> wrote: > We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had just > gone [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Ann Reminds me of a time my parents were having Robbie looked after by a neighbour when they lived in DC. They had gone away for a few days and on the last day the neighbour lost my parents key. So after panicing, she called her son in the fire-service, explaining that they needed to rescue Robbie. A fire-truck (with neighbours son on board) and 4 firefighters, turned up and broke in, to rescue Robbie.... It set off the house alarm. What my parents hadn't told the neighbour, was although the house alarm could be switched off in the house, if the the alarm went off, it was automatically notified by the alarm company to the local police and the Embassy. If the Embassy didn't get a call from my dad verifying he'd switched off the alarm, the Embassy protocol was to notify the State department....who followed *their* protocol, which was to send the secret service to the address to deal with a potential "diplomatic situation". My parents came home, to find a firetruck, 4 policeman, 2 police cars and 4 secret service guys all outside and around the house. Robbie was asleep on their bed! Helen M Who ever said keeping cats was for wimps. You aren't helping the 'real men prefer dogs' set one bit. Jo Reminds me of a time my parents were having Robbie looked after by a neighbour when they lived in DC. They had gone away for a few days and on the last day the neighbour lost my parents key. So after panicing, she called her son in the fire-service, explaining that they needed to rescue Robbie. A fire-truck (with neighbours son on board) and 4 firefighters, turned up and broke in, to rescue Robbie.... It set off the house alarm. What my parents hadn't told the neighbour, was although the house alarm could be switched off in the house, if the the alarm went off, it was automatically notified by the alarm company to the local police and the Embassy. If the Embassy didn't get a call from my dad verifying he'd switched off the alarm, the Embassy protocol was to notify the State department....who followed *their* protocol, which was to send the secret service to the address to deal with a potential "diplomatic situation". My parents came home, to find a firetruck, 4 policeman, 2 police cars and 4 secret service guys all outside and around the house. Robbie was asleep on their bed! Helen M ============================== I bet the neighbor refused to ever babysit Robbie ever again. Pam S. LOLing a lot. > We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had just > gone upstairs to bed and the alarm went off. We think Sam was chaseing [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Ann BCT, in spades. :P SignatureTheresa, Stinky and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had just gone > upstairs to bed and the alarm went off. We think Sam was chaseing Cinnamon [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Ann lol -- leave it to cats to manage to do something like that. Did you tell the alarm company it was the cats' fault? Ginger-lyn I told the alarm company a picture fell. Not that the cats knocked it down. SignatureAnn in Connecticut see my cats at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ann791/sets/ read Sam's blog at http://kittens-3.blogspot.com/ * * * >> We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had just >> gone upstairs to bed and the alarm went off. We think Sam was chaseing [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Ginger-lyn >We have an alarm system with glass break sensors. Peter and I had just gone >upstairs to bed and the alarm went off. We think Sam was chaseing Cinnamon [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Ann purrs that they calmed down quickly. My alarm went off tonight, too, but turned out someone was actually checking out the apartment getting ready to break in. I have a sensor on the sliding screen door on the patio, and when I checked someone had opened the door. -- Steve Touchstone Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess, Furby and Rocky (RB) Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj > purrs that they calmed down quickly. My alarm went off tonight, too, > but turned out someone was actually checking out the apartment getting [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 > Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj Whoa there. I hope everyone's ok and not too stressed out. Pam S. >> purrs that they calmed down quickly. My alarm went off tonight, too, >> but turned out someone was actually checking out the apartment getting [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Pam S. After checking with the neighbors I learned there have been a couple break ins here in the complex in the past few weeks. Hopefully, this will encourage the management to replace the security lights, which have been burnt out for about six months. Another thing this latest alarm reminded me of was that my neighbor who had a remote to turn off and reset the alarm moved out about a month ago. The alarm dials my cell phone when it goes off, so when she was here I could call her and have her check on things, and then either she could reset it with the remote. When it went off the neighbors had to put up with the noise and flashy lights until I got home to check things out. The siren turns off automatically after a few minutes, but the lights keep flashing until the system is reset. I got home about 30 minutes after it went off, and by the time I arrived all the cats were calmed down and waiting for me at the front door, probably thinking since I was home it was time for dinner ;-) -- Steve Touchstone Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess, Furby and Rocky (RB) Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj |
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