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How Nice of
Them to Do That:
Burglars
Break in and Call You
I thought I was in the Twilight Zone. Good
friends of ours were visiting for an evening of
cocktails and dinner when it happened. The
phone rang. My friend Bill asked if he could
check the caller I.D. I was puzzled but said
“sure.” But I was more puzzled when he answered
the phone.
That was only
the beginning. He didn’t say anything, he just
listened for the next half minute, a look of
concern on his face. When he hung up he said,
“excuse me, but I have to call the police. Our
home is being burglarized.”
Before I could
say anything – and I was so flabbergasted I
didn’t know what to say anyway – he dialed 911
and reported a break-in at his home address and
added that “there are at least two people
involved.” And he said that they are still on
the scene. He told the police he and his wife
would be there in 10 minutes and would meet with
them outside his home, just in case the suspects
were still inside.
As he and his
wife, Marge, left, Bill said, “I’m sorry, I
don’t have time to explain, but I will call you
tomorrow and fill you in.” And they left. My
wife and I sat there stunned. “What just
happened?” she asked. “It sounded to me as
though some burglars broke into Bill’s home and
thoughtfully called him to tell him they were
there.”
In effect,
that is what happened, but of course not
exactly. The burglars didn’t call, but they
might as well have. Bill and Marge had
installed a unique system that sensed the
presence of intruders and initiated a phone call
to the number he had installed in the system
before leaving. And when the device called
Bill, he heard two people talking about what
they were doing in his home – via a hidden
condenser microphone amplified to pick up the
slightest of sounds.
When Bill
called me the following day, he explained the
entire story, including how the device, called
Telespy, works. He said that with just that one
phone call the evening before, the unit had paid
for itself many times over. He told me that the
police did arrive in time to apprehend the
intruders and prevent anything from being
taken.
Even the police
were taken aback by how it all went down. They
had not encountered the Telespy before and were
most impressed with how it worked.
We had a lot of other
questions for Bill and Marge, such as, does the
device function as a regular phone under normal
circumstances? The answer was “yes”. Does it
have any monitoring fees? “No”. Can it cause
any false alarms to be sent? “No”. Can it be
used in conjunction with any existing security
system in place? “Yes”. Can it be regulated to
offset the motion caused by my dog? “Yes”. How
much? “Only $75.95.”
That was good enough for
us. Where do we buy it, we asked.
The answer:
www.yoursecurityandsafety.com/telespy.htm |
The
TeleSpy's telephone is the same popular "Slimline" telephone
found in millions of home. Operation is no different than the regularly
produced version and the user would notice no difference. The TeleSpy
plugs into any standard telephone jack for normal phone operation.
The
Motion Sensor