Do you have an alarm system at your house?
By NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (115991)
United States
June 25, 2017 9:57pm CST
We installed one a couple of years ago after I badgered my husband for years about it. Our town is small, suburban, and usually quiet but there have been more frequent incidents of crime recently. Over 50 cars had their tires slashed last month by a group of teenagers that were caught thanks to people who had video surveillance on their property.
I always wanted an alarm system due to the fact that we often sleep with the windows open. We had a motion sensor in 2 different places in the front room, where the open windows were, and the freaking cats set it off twice. We had to disable it. The second time the sensor was up at ceiling level so I have no idea how an 8 pound cat managed to trip that thing. Jerks.
Still we have the alarms on the doors and the motion sensor down in the basement. Oh and the video camera trained on the front door. . . so if anyone does break in, we will have a nice color video of him coming through the front door! 
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@thislittlepennyearns (58134)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
26 Jun 17
Nope but we have a pitbull bulldog puppy, which is about the same.
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@shivamani10 (11038)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Jun 17
No. We do not have as we are totally on administrative side. But, most of the factories and shopping malls do have them.
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@marguicha (215389)
• Chile
26 Jun 17
After my house was burglarized, I decided I´d buy a dog, but not any sort of alarm as my brother suggested
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@DianneN (246720)
• United States
27 Jun 17
Oh, definitely! We had ours put in over 25 years ago and updated it twice. We had the motion detectors set high enough so the dog and cats, at the time, wouldn't set it off. We live in a quiet suburban town, but one should be proactive.Several outdoor lights are on sensors, but the deer set them off a lot!
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@NJChicaa (115991)
• United States
27 Jun 17
After like 7 years, I made my husband put a motion sensor light outside on the driveway. I was going out there at 6 am and it was pitch black! I felt so unsafe going out there even though our town is pretty boring. I'm still pissed that we can't have the motion sensor in the front room on. I think I'm going to tell my husband to activate it again. It isn't supposed to notice anything under 25 pounds which my cats aren't. It is very high up on my ceiling. We like to leave the windows open as often as we can so as not to use the AC. That's why I wanted the alarm system. Oh well I guess we shall see.
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@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
26 Jun 17
No,we don't have alarm in our house but our car does have a loud alarm.
We also have cctv cam to check what's going on outside.
