Originally Posted by Thrush

What is the point of a house alarm tho?

Most don't make any noise (they used to, but then councils got too many complaints about em going off that they were classed as a noise nusiance and alarms now have to be virtually silent, and as such, no one pays any attention to them anyway) and the ones linked to the police are crap aswell - by the time the plod get off their asses and get to your gaff, the tealeaves are long gone. And since the plod have no hope in hell of ID'ing em, and stand to make no money from fining anyone, they won't investigage anyway...

Far better off getting a shit loads of locks, metal framed doors/gates, and hooking the handles up to mains voltage - then the little cunts won't get in