billryan
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March 4th, 2018 at 4:30:38 PM permalink
A woman in my complex fell in her bathroom and evidently suffered a compound fracture of her leg. Unable to get to a phone, she managed to get to her purse and set off her car alarms panic button. Someone complained to the office and security was sent to her apartment.
I never thought about using the car alarm for that.
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March 4th, 2018 at 5:13:41 PM permalink
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A woman in my complex fell in her bathroom and evidently suffered a compound fracture of her leg. Unable to get to a phone, she managed to get to her purse and set off her car alarms panic button. Someone complained to the office and security was sent to her apartment.
I never thought about using the car alarm for that.



I never would have thought of that.
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March 4th, 2018 at 5:25:46 PM permalink
Not bad.

Unfortunately my car clicker signal thing doesn’t hit my garage. :(
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March 4th, 2018 at 6:03:46 PM permalink
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Not bad.

Unfortunately my car clicker signal thing doesn’t hit my garage. :(



Between your noisy neighbors and this, it is time to find a new place to live.
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March 4th, 2018 at 6:05:18 PM permalink
All senior citizens should have Life Alert.
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RS
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March 4th, 2018 at 6:36:36 PM permalink
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Between your noisy neighbors and this, it is time to find a new place to live.


I figured out they were just redoing their carpet. Looked up to their balcony and saw carpet looking s***. And no noise as of late to speak of.
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March 5th, 2018 at 1:53:15 AM permalink
Blaring tv? car alarm?
Most car alarms reset after a while she may have had to have reactivated it.
Doubt she had her purse in the bathroom though... just closer than her phone to drag herself.
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March 5th, 2018 at 2:57:21 AM permalink
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evidently suffered a compound fracture



I hope not!

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March 5th, 2018 at 8:04:24 AM permalink
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All senior citizens should have Life Alert.

lol I read that in the voice of the old lady that says exactly that sentence on their commercials...

Fairly clever of the lady, though with 1 fractured leg I'm not sure how one couldn't crawl to a phone. Perhaps she was very elderly? I also have lived in like 6 apartment complexes over my years. I'm pretty sure if I sat there yelling "HELP" for 30 min even someone would have done something about it (like at least called the cops or told the front office). She was unable to scream?
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March 5th, 2018 at 11:41:07 AM permalink
I remember seeing one of them key fobs that said panic on it.
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March 5th, 2018 at 1:37:14 PM permalink
Good idea. I only use the alarm to find my car in enormous parking lots, which happens more often than I care to admit.
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March 5th, 2018 at 3:55:22 PM permalink
In some neighborhoods, repeatedly setting off your car alarm will only anger someone enough to come out and damage your car. And you'll still be on the floor, yelling, "I've fallen and I can't get up."
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