These Brinks commercials have been annoying me for some time. The intruder breaks in – or starts to – the siren is triggered, the Brinks central station employee phones the house and asks if everything is okay. The frightened homeowner says no, and then, finally, the Brinks employee says he’ll dispatch the police. If no one had answered the phone, would he have assumed it was a false alarm, or dispatched? Instapundit says -
WHEN I WATCH BRINKS HOME SECURITY COMMERCIALS LIKE THIS ONE, I think that the nice lady might be safer from the evil intruder if she had a gun, instead of a telephone and a siren.
Yes, she certainly would. That’s why we keep loaded, readily accessible guns in the house, and we know how to use them. But as far as alarm systems, waiting for that phone call to arrive before help is dispatched is just dumb. Better: microphones monitored at a central station so that the operator can hear for him/herself if help is needed and dispatch it immediately. Also: panic buttons that trigger the microphones, no matter what state the alarm is in, so that the central station can know what’s going on and dispatch.
As for Brinks… it’s literally a waste of time.
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