My home has a security system. I wonder what would happen if I let, say, young relatives stay here and they triggered, say, five false alarms. Most likely outcome: A severe talking-to by the local constabulary, and many fines. Not, oh gosh, and back-slapping among comrade LErs. Like you said, more equal than others. It would be interesting to read up on the laws re: false alarms of Fairfax County. -Declan On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:23:35PM +0500, Reese wrote:
In response to AW, it's very simple. Some animals are not only more equal, but more important than others. Gee, that redundantly repeats itself.
Trivia file entry # 1: In the land of the brave, home of the Freeh, there are motion detectors in the basement. Nice. Squeak squeak.
At 05:33 PM 3/31/01 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Obviously this calls for wiretaps on Freeh's phones and email and hidden cameras in his house to prevent future occurrences....
From [risks] Risks Digest 21.28 ========================= Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:57:54 -0500 From: Graystreak <wex@media.mit.edu> Subject: Risks of self-induced false alarms
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38625-2001Mar7.html
FBI Director Louis J. Freeh said he and his wife had been baffled by a series of false alarms from the security system in their Great Falls area home. Fairfax County police responded each time, but no suspects had been nabbed.
It seems that two of his six sons, then ages 5 and 4, had been amusing themselves by making their 2-year-old brother run in circles in the basement to set off the motion detector. "They would sit and watch for the police to come," Freeh said.
[AW notes: no discussion of why the motion detector was on in the basement while the children were home, nor why the police didn't adopt a "call before responding" policy after some number of false alarms.]
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