"Bill" wrote in message
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In message , Rod Speed
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We saw the hilarious situation where a mate of mine had set up
an alarm system on a system at work, not about burglars, just for
system failure and flooding etc, which rang a series of numbers
with a voice synthesised message.

When it did flood, he called him fine. But he couldn't understand
what it was saying and it wasn't even obvious to him that it was
the alarm system calling, even when it kept calling repeatedly.

He ended up calling the cops and telling them that he was
getting malicious calls.

We never let him live that one down.

MMMMMmmmmmmmm
I had a phone call on my mobile last year saying "Alarm at Graham's unit"
and it repeated this a couple of times. Said person Graham had installed
an alarm complete with auto dialler because he was going to be away for a
while and wanted additional people to be aware if there was a break in.
Myself and 2 others were on the list.

Just a pity that he hadn't told any of us!!!

Maybe he didn't want to risk you lot looting the place
while he was away but wanted something better than
no alarm at all if for some reason it didn't manage to
call him on his mobile |-)