LETTER: Alarming misunderstanding
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Your support makes all the difference.CLAIRE Tomalin seems to be under the same misapprehension as many other people about burglar alarms ("On Alan Bennett waving at the window...", 3 September). It is a fallacy that having one is an indication of possessing valuables.
These days most homes have several easily saleable and portable items: televisions, radios, videos, cameras, etc. But whatever one owns, who wants intruders "turning over'' one's belongings anyway?
A police security officer recently put the point of alarms to me rather succinctly. He said they were to a burglar the opposite of an open window. If one does not want a working alarm, his advice was at least to display an empty alarm box in a conspicuous position.
William Wordsworth
Canterbury, Kent
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