Yet another ADT sob story

This sounds fishy.... The "please let me out of my contract song" usually means "I really want it FREE"... The alarm is junk, but she wants it moved to another house??? I'm not trying to defend ADT, but their alarms work a lot better when turned ON...........

RHC: Yeah, I'm no fan of ADT either; however, not turning the alarm on and then blaming the alarm for not doing it's job is a lot more common than most non-security people think. It never ceases to amaze me how many people will buy an alarm and then tell me at some point they never use it.

I see this all the time they claim alarm did not work etc etc. because there being stalked by a high tech jealous ex husband/ boy friend who can enter and do things in the home like Houdini . In the end the victim in there own delusion has created and caused the whole situation time and again never found one legitimate case . A system properly installed is very hard to defeat and if it is defeated it is detectable. No signs of tampering the victim is imagining whole thing and doing it to them selves. Buy the book I could write on this.

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RHC: Nick, had another one of these stories just the other day. A person called me and asked me to put in a non-monitored alarm for him. I asked him why he wanted to waste money like this, and he told me his wife is insisting that people are bypassing the heavy duty crank style windows and wandering around the home at night. He wanted to put in a system just to set off a horn and warn his wife when these people are supposedly wandering around. Well, right away I recognized his wife likely had a mental problem and needed the assistance of a mental health expert, and certainly not my assistance. As tactfully as I could, I told him this, and he didn't batt an eye, having recognized this himself long ago. He just thought the alarm would prove to her once and for all that no one was coming in at night.

Well, I told him not to waste his money, since even with the alarm, she would find some excuse in her mind how they were able to somehow bypass the alarm. Poor guy saw the logic in it, thanked me and hung up.

I sensed he was at the end of his rope....

RHC: Nick, had another one of these stories just the other day. A person called me and asked me to put in a non-monitored alarm for him. I asked him why he wanted to waste money like this, and he told me his wife is insisting that people are bypassing the heavy duty crank style windows and wandering around the home at night. He wanted to put in a system just to set off a horn and warn his wife when these people are supposedly wandering around. Well, right away I recognized his wife likely had a mental problem and needed the assistance of a mental health expert, and certainly not my assistance. As tactfully as I could, I told him this, and he didn't batt an eye, having recognized this himself long ago. He just thought the alarm would prove to her once and for all that no one was coming in at night.

Well, I told him not to waste his money, since even with the alarm, she would find some excuse in her mind how they were able to somehow bypass the alarm. Poor guy saw the logic in it, thanked me and hung up.

I sensed he was at the end of his rope....

And then there was the one who's neighbor was coming in her doggy door and using her cold cream.

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There are some real loons out there. Had a sweet customer totally loose it and is now in professional care what a shame.

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RHC: Not surprising really when you know the statistic that one person in every five suffers from some form of mental illness......and most of them are driving too !!!!! (talk about people with guns being dangerous.....)

Try that again, less hateful PLS

RHC: ?????????????...Hateful ??....sorry, you lost me there.....

Define mental illness.

RHC: I cant ! I'm not a health professional. However, the statistic I stated is a fact. I assume the definition as used is very all inclusive and includes major mental health issues such as schizophrenia all the way down to common depression. Obviously one in five people is not crazy, so it has to cover a vast number of mental health issues.

My point was that with that number of people affected in some fashion with mental problems, and with a good lot of them driving, this likely represents more of a risk to society than the odd screwball with a gun. That's all I meant, and it was certainly not said in any kind of hateful way.

I don't deal in hateful comments in this newsgroup, or any other. Lifes too short.....

At one time in my Area of western Pa we had May view, Woodville, Dixmont ,Western center all state mental health hospital facility. Since now that medications and therapy , group homes etc are no being used instead of these institutes they claim the mentally ill are being better taken care of. That said the number of homeless on the streets has quadrupled and who are the homeless the same mentally ill people who where suppose to be helped by all the new medicines, therapy etc. The same homeless who are committing crimes. The same mentally ill who go off there medication and cause problems including going on shooting rampage. etc/ etc. As bad as they claim it was for some of these mentally ill to be institutionalized what good has it done them when they go off there medications and end up homeless or in jail and or terrorizing the community.

I've been saying that for years.

What ever happened to all the people they used to keep in mental instituion= s?

Whenever there's a gun massacare incident no one ever states or asks what m= edication the gunman was on.