Yesterday, we tweeted about a great article called “13 Things a Burglar Won’t Tell You.” It’s a funny take on the burglar mindset, with points like, “Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard last week. While I was in there, I unlatched the back window to make my return a little easier” and “Here’s a helpful hint: I almost never go into kids’ rooms.”
Author Michelle Crouch even has eight more things a burglar won’t tell you on her blog. We love that one of the sources is convicted burglars in North Carolina, Oregon, California, and Kentucky. Jackpot!
The response to our tweet was big and we’ve been thinking about the whole premise of Michelle’s article. We’re a company that offers monitored security systems and the first thing people think of is protecting themselves from break-ins. But only a small percentage of home emergencies are actually burglaries. A monitored security system offers protection against so much more. So we played with Michelle’s original thought and came up with a few things your home knows, but won’t tell you. That is, unless you have a Monitronics monitored alarm system.
10 things your home won’t tell you, but an alarm will
1. Your teenager just got into the liquor cabinet and is mixing crème de menthe and soda with his chemistry lab partner.
2. Your telephone line has just been cut by someone sneaking around the side of your house. We offer wireless monitoring of your system.
3. That cheap space heater in the bedroom is starting to overheat and is producing smoke. But not enough to reach the one detector you put up years ago in the den. (Does that thing even have a battery?)
4. Your mother has not opened her medicine cabinet today and that means she has not taken her medication.
5. The reason you feel so sleepy lately is because there’s a growing amount of carbon monoxide in your bedroom.
6. Your fifth grader just got home from school and is playing inside safely. You don’t have to worry.
7. Neighborhood kids just hit a home run over your fence and shattered your glass back door.
8. Your aging father slipped and fell in the bathroom an hour ago and doesn’t have any way to let paramedics know because he’s not wearing a medical pendant.
9. The door to the gun cabinet just was opened, but the only person home is your teenage son.
10. Your babysitter is outside, talking to her boyfriend, while your six year old cuts her brother’s hair. With video monitoring, you could be watching this on your smartphone.
