Home Alarm Idea

[Scott in Florida Panhandl]

Received this in an email from a friend. Great idea if you car has an alarm system. I must admit, my wife's car does and this never crossed my mind!
Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just 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 for the night and you start to put your keys away, 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 your battery runs down or 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 trying to break in your house, odds are the burglar or rapist won't stick around... after a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't wa
nt that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there..... This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

P.S. I am sending this to everyone I know because I think it is fantastic.
Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone.

My Mom has suggested to my Dad that he carry his car keys with him in case he falls outside and she doesn't hear him. He can activate the car alarm and then she'll know there's a problem.

[cowgirlone]

My sister in law had to use her's one night. She was living alone on a farm when someone drove into her drive way and back behind her garage. (in the middle of the night)
They were trying to get into a storage room she had on the back of the garage.

She hit her car button and scared them off.

After that, we loaned her a shot gun.

[CGUARDSMAN]

or hey you could have an alarm installed in your home with fire protection and a monitored system and save on your home owners insurance

[COSunflower]

OR....you could get a flock of guineas!

[Idahoe]

I was going to say a great big snarling dog, but I kinda like the guinea idea, there's no way to shut them up.

BTW, that's a very creative idea with the car alarm.

[rockinl]

What a great idea. How simple. It would work great for me.

Thanks for sharing. You never know what things seem so obvious, yet we might never think of them. That is what makes this forum so great.

Way to go!

[MicheleMomof4]

I use to do this at our last house. I kept the car keys and cell phone next to me when DH worked 3rd shift. I figured if someone tried to get in I could turn the alarm on the car or if I had to climb out the window I could least lock myself in the car.
We have a house alarm at this house and I feel much safer when he is on 3rd shift.
God Bless,
Michele

[Wayne02]

I use the panic alarm thingy to find where I parked my truck in parking lots all the time. I can never remember where I park the truck.

[radiofish]

My trucks are a 67 and a 69 Ford F-100s, so no alarms on them. With my electronics/ ham radio background, I put in wireless sensors at the road by my gate to an audiable and video surveillance system (homemade in the US of A). I am on a heavily wooded hillside, so only 1 road in here and I am the last house. I knew all of my electronics schooling would come in handy someday!!

Plus being a Marine Corps Veteran, things that go bump in the night had better fear me on my turf.....

[Hears The Water]

A lady that I know just went through a home break in. The man cut the electricity to her house, cut the phone lines and broke the door down. He waved a gun at her and screamed at her and took her car keys, money and cell phone. She is still traumatized by it. Her husband works out of town a lot I guess. I will send this info to her... it might make her feel safer. Thanks for the tip.
God bless you and yours
Deb

[MicheleMomof4]

Originally Posted by Hears The Water

A lady that I know just went through a home break in. The man cut the electricity to her house, cut the phone lines and broke the door down. He waved a gun at her and screamed at her and took her car keys, money and cell phone. She is still traumatized by it. Her husband works out of town a lot I guess. I will send this info to her... it might make her feel safer. Thanks for the tip.
God bless you and yours
Deb

Oh my word Deb! How awful! I will pray for her. What a world we live in.
God bless,
Michele

[texastami]

Thats a great idea if your car has an alarm!

Ours doesn't - and I have been thinking about home safety alot since we moved into a very large city again!!! DH started working 3rd shift about 5 months ago....

We live in a townhouse apartment.... and I have thought ALOT about "what if someone tries and succeeds in breaking in to our home while we are upstairs asleep....?"

So, to make things a bit safer, we all take our cell phones upstairs with us at night.... (we don't have a land line) This way we can avoid them being stolen, and we can also call out if we have any "problems"....

I also take my purse, DH takes his wallet and I have all our important papers (BC/SS cards, etc) upstairs (its unhandy when I need them but I don't usually need them that often!)

Car keys hang on the hook downstairs until bed, and then they go upstairs with us as well.....

We have a baseball bat at the top corner of the stairs if anyone should decide to come up uninvited (horrible blindspot for person coming up the stairs.... but the "batter" would have a great shot!!)

DS room has a 12 ft safety ladder if it were a dire emergency (fire or unwanted visitor for the kids to get down out the back bedroom window if they needed to GET OUT fast)

[PyroDon]

Our alarm seems to work well .
first stage is a dog that sneaks up behind you and proceeds to growl with that low tone that makes every hair stand on end . second stage is the attack horse comes thundering around the house , third some long haired guy in his underwear bursts out the door while chambering a round in the winchester.
And if that doesnt scare you away we'll sic the kids on ya

Actually the dog doesnt sneak at all lately she simply sounds off showing teeth and hackles if a leaf moves anywhere in the yard . The attack horse is on a tether and can sweep the legs out from under anything he can reach.