Comments on: Thursday, Nov. 5, 1959: A homemade burglar alarm

By: bob

bob — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:17:16 +0000

Gotta love the HSM Security ad. Just hook up a web cam or two in your home and find some software to record images. This is the 21st century, anything is possible. Love this article though. Just goes to show that a little ingenuity is still worth a laugh when it catches stupid crooks.

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hellinahandbasket.net » Blog Archive » Very Clever — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:57:56 +0000

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By: tjbgbr

tjbgbr — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:49:58 +0000

That’s interesting that they seem themselves a cleaver. I’ve always pictured myself as a breadknife, or maybe a carrot peeler.

By: Sandy T

Sandy T — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:23:44 +0000

Ben, you must have grown up in So. Mpls or Richfield. Although I haven’t used the number in 36 yrs, I can still recall our #: Union 9-9439 and my NE Mpls grandmother’s ST 1-9348!

By: jac

jac — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:19:55 +0000

I’m sure you think so Brian :p

By: Brian Torney HSM Security

Brian Torney HSM Security — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:49:30 +0000

History repeats - now business and homeowners purchase video secuirty equipment on the Internet for do-it-yourself installation. Some spend thousands and end up with a system that doesn’t achieve any of their security goals.
They see themselves a cleaver, but, usually, the pros can do a better job.

By: Deborah Nevala

Deborah Nevala — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:35:53 +0000

We made our own homemade alarm too. We suspected our teenage daughter was sneaking out at night throught her bedroom window, which is directly below ours. I attached fishing line to a windchime, hung it over my curtian rod, out my window, and down to hers. Basically the idea was that as soon as she opened her window the windchime would jingle. A few days later, it did.