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Safe & Secure
« on: March 06, 2019, 03:38:01 AM »
There was just an ad for ADT featuring the twin brothers from some DIY show.

Starting thinking, if DS were now, what system(s) would each have?

Barnabas....no electricity....would he finally get in the millenium?

Collinwood...who would decide; Roger or Elizabeth? Again, if the show was now, but characters same, would they even consider a system that goes off when a tween/teen leaves the house, or sneaks back in?

I *think the older, cheaper systems had loud A L A R M S going off; wonder if that would scare a werewolf away....

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Re: Safe & Secure
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2019, 04:56:58 AM »
It is interesting that Elizabeth was willing to invest big bucks for the alarm in her casket when she was buried alive but never thought to invest in a security system for the main house.
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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2019, 05:18:00 AM »
Security system? My God - they never even locked the door. People could basically walk right in at will at all hours.  [snow_wink]
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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2019, 04:22:43 AM »
 [pointing-up] A did!! (lol). It always "shocked" (for lack of a better word ) me when Count Petofi would just walk right as if he owned the place!
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Re: Safe & Secure
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2019, 02:25:37 AM »
Some of the doors were locked, some of the time.

Think of the french doors/windows in the sitting room...

Barn did usually lock his door; I know this because of all the times people knock and knock and knock....

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Re: Safe & Secure
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2019, 10:20:43 AM »
Eccentric and very old artist Harrison Monroe showed his eccentricity in his elaborate home security system, complete with life sized dummy of himself as he looked in 1897 sitting in a chair in the receiving room. One of the more bizarre DS sub-plots.

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Re: Safe & Secure
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2019, 05:51:48 PM »
Quote from: Patti Feinberg on March 09, 2019, 02:25:37 AM
Some of the doors were locked, some of the time.

Think of the french doors/windows in the sitting room...

True - though mostly when the plot dictated it. At other times people came right through the window.

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Barn did usually lock his door; I know this because of all the times people knock and knock and knock....

Yes, when it comes to the Old House, its door is often another story entirely. Though even at the Old House there are many instances where people just walk right in. And let's not forget how many times someone gets in through an unlocked window. It's not very smart to lock the door but leave the windows unlocked - but that's our Barn...

Though when I posted I was thinking mostly of Collinwood's main door. There may be instances when someone actually had to unlock it to let someone in - but 99.99% of the time it was left completely unlocked. And as dom pointed out, it wasn't even just the family who'd walk right in. I'm reminded of Adam sneaking right in with the intent of killing Vicki after the experiment failed. Though it would have been hysterically funny if he'd knocked, someone had answered, and he'd said to them "May I please come in? I'm here to kill Vicki. Have a pleasant evening."  [laughing6]
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Re: Safe & Secure
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2019, 09:16:55 PM »
I always wonder, why the Collins' with their money, never installed a doorbell.  OK, the Munsters' didn't have one, but the Addams' did.

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Re: Safe & Secure
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2019, 01:57:15 AM »
Quote from: Mysterious Benefactor on March 09, 2019, 05:51:48 PM
how many times someone gets in through an unlocked window.

This might sound odd, but, were there window locks in the 1700s?

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Re: Safe & Secure
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2019, 07:35:54 PM »
If movies and TV shows depicting the period are accurate, then they definitely did...  [easter_wink]
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