Alarmed

When my mom was in a rehab facility, after her heart surgery, some of us noticed signs at the entrance of the building that said that the doors were alarmed at night.  That made us chuckle, to think about the doors being afraid of something.

Well, now our church building is alarmed!  That's funny, too.  But, it's not funny, really, because the alarm system had to be installed because of the break-ins.  In the last incident, two office doors were destroyed and had to be replaced at a cost of $600 each!  The thief got about $100 for his efforts but caused more than $1,200 damage.  So, now our building is alarmed.

On Saturday night, they found out that the system works.  There is a group of young people who meet in our building and practice marching routines and go out on competitions.  They had been away on Saturday and came home late at night and stopped at the church to put their equipment away.  No one told them about the alarm.  You can still use your key to get into the church but unless you punch in the code within 30 seconds, an alarm goes off. They knew nothing about the alarm, so of course, they set it off.  Both the police and our pastor were called to the church to check it out. What a startling surprise for the leaders of this group who were only doing what they've been doing.  But now we know, the new system works!

Posted by: NJ on 2/13/2006 1:56:39 PM , 4 comments