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MY Daughters Pawn Shop Was Robbed
dav1965
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The silent alarm went off Saturday night around 1015 and was never checked on.
Monday when my daughter went to work the alarm was beeping so she went to the computer and checked and a message was sent to the police and they never responded.
She called the police and they arrived over 1 hour later. They sent squad officers instead off detectives and she lost it.
She is my child. LOL
She told the officers that she knows they are busy but you can not respond for over 2 days.
The officer told her that its not her stuff why do you care. She told him i get a percentage of the profit so this month because of your lazy * i will not make anything because they stole 4 dirt bikes and 16 expensive big screen tvs.
So because your fat * was at the donut shop all weekend i am going to lose around 1000 dollars.
Im sure they are looking real hard right about now.
Monday when my daughter went to work the alarm was beeping so she went to the computer and checked and a message was sent to the police and they never responded.
She called the police and they arrived over 1 hour later. They sent squad officers instead off detectives and she lost it.
She is my child. LOL
She told the officers that she knows they are busy but you can not respond for over 2 days.
The officer told her that its not her stuff why do you care. She told him i get a percentage of the profit so this month because of your lazy * i will not make anything because they stole 4 dirt bikes and 16 expensive big screen tvs.
So because your fat * was at the donut shop all weekend i am going to lose around 1000 dollars.
Im sure they are looking real hard right about now.
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Were they Sheriff dept or city cops? If its the Sheriff she should get the owner of the shop to write him a letter and complain.
My daughter was some kind of upset.
The detectives come in every day looking for anything stolen and then when she needs them no one comes at all.
I don't blame her for being upset 2 days to respond or really never respond to an alarm. I am sure the shop is paying for that alarm and a response from the Police.
The store I last worked had an alarm with a battery backup and we got a few calls every year where something was making it go off. The internal laser trip just meant a mouse or bug.....but if you had glass break or outer wall vibrations it meant someone was actually trying to get in. EVERYTHING would set off this ear drum breaking noise that got the attention of everyone. We had a couple buttons inside that would set off a silent alarm.......I didn't even know they were there until someone unplugged the counter it was attached to by accident and it set it off. In walked a group of officers that said our alarm was going off. I told them I was pretty sure it wasn't because it was impossible to be in the store at all with that thing blaring.
I can't understand how ANY alarm can be set up so poorly that a silent alarm is set up to go off if a break in occurs and phone calls to the account holder aren't made.
There have been several court cases: the police have no obligation to respond to an emergency call, even if a life is in jeopardy. But, they usually can be relied upon to take a report.
Neal
Where I work, we set up a fairly hidden silent alarm that is tied to several other systems. If these more sensitive detectors get tripped, it texts us, and starts recording on all cameras (vs just motion) as well as audio (usually doesn't record audio). Most of the time these are moths, paper fluttering with the AC, etc. However, we have recorded people with hands cupped against the outside windows probably trying to decide if there was anything worth a smash and grab.
Your daughter should have had the alarm sent to her own phone. I know there are systems where you can have live pictures sent to your Iphone. If your daughter had this system, she could have called 911 and told the cops there are burglars in the store, Right Now!
And the cops would have responded.
Now this was before the wide spread use of cell phones.
The alarm system itself was set up to call local police and and my phone number. I had to record the messages on the alarm system myself. No central station needed.
The trick thing was in case of a "push-in" type of robbery, If forced to disarm the system,
you just used your id number that shut off the alarm, BUT you added the number 1 to the code. It then was silenced but it called the police that a ARMED robbery was in progress.
If the system ever lost a dial tone for more than 2 minutes it would then set off the alarm bells.
Pretty trick things for the "dark ages" of technology. :shock:
Also, the alarm system was linked to a very loud horn that also went off and could be heard 3 blocks away. That was very irritating to others that lived within the 'horn sound range' at night.
In the two incidents someone actually got into the store, response time was never over 2.5 minutes. Then again, the cop shop was only 8 blocks away
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
As for her giving them her piece of the mind much respect.