10 Realities Of Home Security Systems That Prove You're Better Off Dead Than Owning One

4. The Noise

Alarm systems are fallible in many ways, but there is one thing they do considerably well. Make noise. Ear-splitting noise. The kind of noise that makes you want to make like Reservoir Dogs and cut your own ears off. People are typically shocked to discover just how obnoxiously loud their system's siren can be when it goes off. Unfortunately, they usually don't find out until there is a problem. Time and again the noise is so deafening it can cause homeowners to panic and forget their codes for disarming. Desperation has driven more than one alarm owner to rip their keypad off the wall, which does nothing to silence the siren and makes resolving the issue a lot harder. Just when you've got it turned off you'll realize all the neighbors are standing outside with an annoyed looking police officer.