Jul 18 2012, 10:25 AM
QUOTE(craftsnknots @ Jul 18 2012, 09:53 AM)
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I just want to share something; I received this from mum this morning fwd-ed from their residents community.
"With the increasing news on crime within Klang Valley, my family & I are now part of the statistics. As hard & as painful it is for me to relate the incident, I feel it's important with the hope that none of you will ever ever be in such horrific situation.
It's habitual for my husband & I to sit at our porch for our...morning coffee/newspaper as well as evening quality time with our dogs and also with each other. Tuesday (26 June) night was like any other nights for us. We were sitting at our porch; chatting while surfing the net on our respective phone/laptop. <Note: We always sit facing the main gate to ensure that we have good view of the road as well as the surroundings>
At approx. 11pm, my husband went into the house to take something from the room upstairs. Out of nowhere, 5 Indian men in ski masks & gloves armed with parangs jumped over our main gate (like ninjas as they were so quiet and only took about 5 secs), I screamed but was immediately shown the parang and taken into the house where my 2yrs old son was (woken up from his sleep but still in a daze). I pleaded for my son's safety and was allowed to carry him with me upstairs.
In the meantime, 3 of the guys already rushed upstairs and held the parang to my husband's neck. All 3 of us were held in our bedroom while they ransacked the house; demanding for cash & jewellery n threaten to hurt our son if we do not. They even demanded for the key to the Honda. In fear, we obliged and gave whatever we have. Then they wanted to tie us up with cable tie (which they came prepared) but we pleaded not to as we have a young son to care for. Luckily they agreed but said some threatening words and left.
When we replayed our CCTV footage, this whole nightmare lasted for only 7mins from the moment they jumped over the gate and drove off in our car (and there was also another guy waiting in another car, gray/silver Proton Waja) which felt like forever to us.
Please take this as Learnings:
1. Don't take chances and avoid putting yourself in any risky situation (In our case, we shouldn't be siting at the porch so late at night. We took for granted and assumed that our home is and always will be our safe haven)
2. You will never know when a robbery/snatch theft/etc gonna strike (We thought we have 'eyes' on the surrounding but it took only a few seconds for the robbers to jump over the gate)
3. If ever in such horrific situation (which I pray none of you will ever need to go through), stay calm (cry/scream hysterically may aggravate matters)
I thank God that my family & I came out of this ordeal unharmed. Admittedly, emotionally and mentally, we would need time to come out of it which I believe we will with the support from our families & friends.
Please be alert at all times, don't take anything for granted and stay safe, my friends."
And So I have 2 questions,
1) which alarm system comes with 2 codes to disarm the alarm. Say when we accidentally trigger the alarm ourselves we can just disarm it, what about when they break in and held me captive and asked me to disarm it, is there a system that wld allow a different code to disarm but still send help? Avantis guys just came over few weeks ago before i left the country, the guy said no one ask before and he does not know but will come back to me, but i am only home next week..so I dont know..charging me RM2500
2) when the above happened and we are outside the house but within the compound, alarm does not work right? what else can we do? Is there any system with a 'carry around alarm trigger'?
"With the increasing news on crime within Klang Valley, my family & I are now part of the statistics. As hard & as painful it is for me to relate the incident, I feel it's important with the hope that none of you will ever ever be in such horrific situation.
It's habitual for my husband & I to sit at our porch for our...morning coffee/newspaper as well as evening quality time with our dogs and also with each other. Tuesday (26 June) night was like any other nights for us. We were sitting at our porch; chatting while surfing the net on our respective phone/laptop. <Note: We always sit facing the main gate to ensure that we have good view of the road as well as the surroundings>
At approx. 11pm, my husband went into the house to take something from the room upstairs. Out of nowhere, 5 Indian men in ski masks & gloves armed with parangs jumped over our main gate (like ninjas as they were so quiet and only took about 5 secs), I screamed but was immediately shown the parang and taken into the house where my 2yrs old son was (woken up from his sleep but still in a daze). I pleaded for my son's safety and was allowed to carry him with me upstairs.
In the meantime, 3 of the guys already rushed upstairs and held the parang to my husband's neck. All 3 of us were held in our bedroom while they ransacked the house; demanding for cash & jewellery n threaten to hurt our son if we do not. They even demanded for the key to the Honda. In fear, we obliged and gave whatever we have. Then they wanted to tie us up with cable tie (which they came prepared) but we pleaded not to as we have a young son to care for. Luckily they agreed but said some threatening words and left.
When we replayed our CCTV footage, this whole nightmare lasted for only 7mins from the moment they jumped over the gate and drove off in our car (and there was also another guy waiting in another car, gray/silver Proton Waja) which felt like forever to us.
Please take this as Learnings:
1. Don't take chances and avoid putting yourself in any risky situation (In our case, we shouldn't be siting at the porch so late at night. We took for granted and assumed that our home is and always will be our safe haven)
2. You will never know when a robbery/snatch theft/etc gonna strike (We thought we have 'eyes' on the surrounding but it took only a few seconds for the robbers to jump over the gate)
3. If ever in such horrific situation (which I pray none of you will ever need to go through), stay calm (cry/scream hysterically may aggravate matters)
I thank God that my family & I came out of this ordeal unharmed. Admittedly, emotionally and mentally, we would need time to come out of it which I believe we will with the support from our families & friends.
Please be alert at all times, don't take anything for granted and stay safe, my friends."
And So I have 2 questions,
1) which alarm system comes with 2 codes to disarm the alarm. Say when we accidentally trigger the alarm ourselves we can just disarm it, what about when they break in and held me captive and asked me to disarm it, is there a system that wld allow a different code to disarm but still send help? Avantis guys just came over few weeks ago before i left the country, the guy said no one ask before and he does not know but will come back to me, but i am only home next week..so I dont know..charging me RM2500
2) when the above happened and we are outside the house but within the compound, alarm does not work right? what else can we do? Is there any system with a 'carry around alarm trigger'?
If you in the house and not sleep, you won't arm the alarm right? So there is nothing to disarm. Unless you trigger the siren or send help. If the thieft ask you to disarm, just cincai push some few button. Or off the siren.
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