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From: plrlegal
Date: 03-07-2007, 10:43 AM (1 of 13)
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We just received this from our Consumer Protection Agency here at the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office: A safety tip for your home to thwart home burglaries and scare away thieves! 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. Just press the panic alarm on your car key chain. 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 want that. Try yours to make sure it works before you rely on it. Just know that you must press the alarm button again to turn it off. 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. It could save a life or a sexual abuse crime. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: MaryW
Date: 03-07-2007, 10:53 AM (2 of 13)
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Patsy, thank you so much for this. I will pass this along to everyone.
MaryW
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From: plrlegal
Date: 03-07-2007, 01:28 PM (3 of 13)
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You're very welcome Mary. I have a security system in my house so I never thought of the security system on my car as something you could use in this way. However, I will remember about being in a parking lot and using the panice button on my key fob as a security feature. I don't venture out much by myself after dark these days. I do go to my church quilt group once a month but there are always several ladies leaving the church at the same time as we're getting in our cars in the parking lot and there are always men that we all know in the church gymnasium on that evening playing basketball or something as we're leaving so we're pretty safe there and at the Quilt Guild meeting the second Tuesday night of the month we are also at a church and there are always several ladies leaving at the the same time but otherwise dh is almost always with me if I'm out at night. In fact, even if I need to run to Hancock's five minutes away, he is most always willing to drive me and wait for me. The world just is not as safe as it once was to be able to move about freely after dark anymore. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: weezyrider
Date: 03-08-2007, 09:22 AM (4 of 13)
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What do you do if your truck doesn't have an alarm? My Toyota doesn't. BTW- someone's alarm went off for 2 days when the kids had their own apartment. They finally came over to our house to get some sleep! - The owner of the car had gone skiing. Weezy 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 03-08-2007, 11:08 PM (5 of 13)
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Well, I guess if you wanted to use the advice given in the Safety Tip you could always go have an alarm installed on your truck or not. Both of our vehicles had the alarm systems in them when we purchased them and they've never gone off by themselves. I've set mine off accidently a couple of times and it took me a few second to remember how to turn the alarm off but I've also done the same thing with the security system in our house. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: Lise
Date: 03-09-2007, 08:33 AM (6 of 13)
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I have just been warned about the latest danger women drivers face. When you get in your car where it has been parked you usually put your purse on the passenger seat, turn the key, lock the doors and before moving glance in the rearview mirror. If you see a paper stuck to the rearview mirror DO NOT GET OUT OF THE CAR! The thieves are watching and one jumps into your car and is gone with your car, keys, and purse credit cards, address etc.while you are left standing there. Lise 
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User: Lise
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From: JacquiP
Date: 03-09-2007, 08:31 PM (7 of 13)
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While it is important to try to safeguard yourself, remeber that the theives usually have things figured out faster than anyone! My husband told me a story of when he lived in a bad urban section of our state. He says that theives used to walk down the street looking for cars with alarms. Then they would smash the window of the car and wait for the person to come out with the keys. Then they would stick a gun in their victim's face and steal the car! If it happened to be a neighbor that came out to check, they would make them their victim instead! The other problem I can see is, here in Connecticut, hearing car alarms go off is such a regular occurance that most of us ignore them. I didn't mean for my first post to be so gloomy but I thought this should be considered also. |
User: JacquiP
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From: Longblades
Date: 03-11-2007, 08:39 AM (8 of 13)
| I have never seen this mentionned as a safety tip anywhere but it seems to me that some car alarms, or audible sounds should be turned off. I mean the one that sounds when you shut your car door and prepare to leave it. On your way into the store to shop for instance. Is that not just a signal to a lurking thief, alerting them to the fact that another car has been left alone, ready to plunder? I guess it is not a safety issue as you are not with the car but it could save damage to your vehicle, I think. |
User: Longblades
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From: plrlegal
Date: 03-11-2007, 04:37 PM (9 of 13)
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The only sound my car makes when I lock it with the key fob is the click of the locks. The horn will honk if I continue to click the lock feature but only once.???? I'll have to let our Consumer Protection Division know how much negative feed back I got on their little safety tip. I thought it was a pretty good tip myself. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-11-2007, 05:31 PM (10 of 13)
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One time at a family gathering my mother-in-law's car horn kept going off. We would all run out to see what was going on and she would turn it off with her key and we would go in. A few minutes later it would go off again. Finally we found my nephew (about 4-years-old) sitting under the kitchen table with the spare keys laughing his head off. Cute kid. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
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From: paroper
Date: 03-18-2007, 09:12 PM (11 of 13)
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Same type of thing happened to me one time. I put the car keys in my pocket and started cleaning house...as I vaccumed the floors, the garage door started going up and down. I was bumping the keys when I pulled the vaccum cleaner toward me...I was probably also locking and unlocking the car doors.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
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From: Longblades
Date: 03-20-2007, 11:22 AM (12 of 13)
| Yes, and I reached my car once, after shopping, and found it already unlocked. The key fob in my jam packed purse had gotten depressed and unlocked my car. I guess that can't happen from too far away but I really don't know how long my car was sitting in the mall parking lot, unlocked. It could have happened as I first left it. |
User: Longblades
Member since: 07-14-2005 Total posts: 182 |
From: MaryW
Date: 03-20-2007, 11:42 AM (13 of 13)
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It is a good tip, we all need to be more careful.
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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