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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by vxNsr on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:31PM (#15953393)
There's a lot of permutations of this story including life support systems in hospitals I find them all apocryphal. The cleaning staff would notice right away if they just shut down a huge computer. Esp. in the 80s I doubt it even used the same outlet as a regular vacuum cleaner.
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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by timzentu on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:41PM (#15953487)
Some of them even had the mains wired directly into the case, so you couldn't unplug without an ax.
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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by astura on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:51PM (#15957131)
Correct, this is just an old urban legend

https://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/cleaner.asp

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by zupzupper on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:17PM (#15962429)
I too have heard this story, yet I had this exact problem at a k-8 school district, the staff would unplug the power to my t1 each night.
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