I thought that even more concern would be raised as I hadn’t answered the phone, and I wasn’t answering the gate, and a car was parked outside. From the time that I had pushed the panic, over 15 minutes had passed. He didn’t ring the bell again, nobody phoned me again. I also wondered if he was in his car calling the police for backup, in which case I had some serious explaining to do. I got concerned that he in fact WOULD jump over the wall because those guys are armed man. Nobody called again, nobody jumped over the wall. I watched the ADT guy get back in his car. I had pushed a panic button, which should trigger every SOS signal in the books over at security headquarters. After all, I was in serious distress and unable to answer. I stood next to the intercom but didn’t pick it up. Note that my car is in the driveway, showing that someone is home.Īt 8 minutes, 8 seconds our gate bell rang. We have these old school patterned windows next to our door where I can see our front garden and gate. I took my tea and stood at the front door. For me, this would show that someone is in distress. A siren that continually goes on and off might signal an erm, alarm of sorts. An alarm going off for a minute, then switching off would tell neighbors that it was activated accidentally. I would have thought that if a panic was pressed, then the siren would continue to alert neighbors and passers by. Interestingly, the siren didn’t activate again. I made a cup of tea and checked more emails. It appeared that nothing was really happening, and nobody was arriving. I didn’t answer the call, because after all, I was in ‘distress’ and unable to take the call. Or, been attacked by some sort of crowbar gang or something. By now I had checked a few emails and put some cartoons on for the boys. When my stopwatch was at 2 minutes 42 seconds, my phone rang. The siren blared and eventually switched itself off after about a minute and a half. At around 11am, I closed our front door, set my stopwatch, and pushed the panic. In case there’s a medical emergency, a fire or if something happens to mommy that they don’t know how to help with. We have them all over the house, and we’ve trained the kids to use them too. This morning I was discussing security with Graeme, and I told him that I was going to test the panic button. We signed our contracts and felt secure in the fact that this area is better managed, as promised. We also stipulated in our contract that in case of emergency, they have full access to the property and need to jump the front wall if necessary so that they could view the front and the back property – especially if we’re away, but in any case if there is an emergency: They have access. They promised a maximum 4 minute response time, as they have so many patrol cars and bicycles in this area. When we moved to the suburbs, we had a meeting with ADT and expressed our concerns. This is a business that had been taking about R425 of my money every month for three years, at a total of about R15 300. ![]() Interestingly, the SAPS had showed up before they had. In fact, I had to call them about 25 minutes later to ask why nobody had showed. I phoned my husband and he got on the highway from town, and made it home to me before ADT had even arrived. They ran off when they saw me, and as they ran I pressed the panic button three times, but nobody showed up or called. ![]() In that case, 3 guys had gained access to our property while I was home alone. I don’t know why – as we’d previously had a bad incident in Observatory. We have a pretty good security set-up, but we had ADT installed when we moved in. Not often, but sometimes just the boys and I are at home.
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