Thanks.
Try this:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=ADT+Yard+sign
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Regards,
Robert L Bass
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Bass Home Electronics
941-866-1100
4883 Fallcrest Circle
Sarasota · Florida · 34233
http://www.bassburglaralarms.com
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<briansgoogl...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Why do you suppose that is?
> I have a self-installed system and am using
> a central station of my choosing, but have one ADT yard sign (because
> everyone recognizes ADT).
Yes, they are recognized far and wide as the some of the cheapest, most
poorly designed and installed residential systems currently available.
>I'd be interested in purchasing a couple
> more to place elsewhere on the property, and am looking for anyone who
> can source these.
Source them? SOURCE them? You mean steal them and sell them to you?
> Please let me know either here or via private email
> at briantf27 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Wait. You're a network engineer, right?
> Thanks.
Fuck off.
js
"alarman" <alarm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Come on man, does that really make sense to you?
"nick markowitz" <nick-ma...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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I prefer to use yard signs & window stickers. I pity the fool who uses signs
but has no system installed, though.
PS- Use spell checker Nick.
Because they hate capitalism?
> > I have a self-installed system and am using
> > a central station of my choosing, but have one ADT yard sign (because
> > everyone recognizes ADT).
>
> Yes, they are recognized far and wide as the some of the cheapest, most
> poorly designed and installed residential systems currently available.
I don't care, and the low life wetbacks who are breaking and entering
in my neck of the woods don't know this.
> >I'd be interested in purchasing a couple
> > more to place elsewhere on the property, and am looking for anyone who
> > can source these.
>
> Source them? SOURCE them? You mean steal them and sell them to you?
I could steal them myself. They're everywhere. No I mean source them,
jackass.
> > Please let me know either here or via private email
> > at briantf27 (at) yahoo (dot) com
>
> Wait. You're a network engineer, right?
Nope, but you're obviously an idiot.
> > Thanks.
>
> Fuck off.
Blow me.
Sounds like you blew it.
>
>
> Sounds like you blew it.
Perhaps, but I had my expectations set very low to begin with.
Need to learn how to take things with a grain of salt around here. You may
have heard me say many times, it is just kicks and giggles for me with some
of these folks. Pick out what you need and either have fun or ignore the
rest.
>
That follows the EXACT opposite pattern from almost all the breakins in
my neighborhood and the surrounding neighborhoods, and frankly isn't
intuitive. Most breakins are quick smash and grab jobs... And here in
California, it's the illegals that our legislature coddles who are the
perpetrators. These aren't tech savvy criminals. They want to get in,
grab stuff of value that can be pawned off, and get out. First they
pick the neighborhood (affluent areas), and then pick the easy targets
within the neighborhood. The houses with signs (with or without
systems) are not getting hit.
The *one* story I've heard that hasn't fit this mold were a pair of
idiots who thought they knew the police reponse time, and could get in
and out of alarmed houses fast enough. They didn't count on a neighbor
hearing the alarm and subduing them with a couple Taser guns until the
police arrived.
Yep. And when it ceases to be fun, my replies usually stop. :)
Hahaha. Right. I can understand ADT taking exception to EBay sellers
who are suggesting the use of the signs without buying an alarm
system... But what I do with a sign on my private property that I
obtained legally is beyond their concern and control.
Better that and return when you want rather than trying to return to face
the reminder of your comments. People here can dig up more stuff, regardless
of how old it is....and will quickly remind you of it. Catch ya in the
future if you decide to face the heat. ;o]
>
:-)
js
ADT does not sell lawnsigns so you don't own it legally.
<briansgoogl...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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There are legal doctrines involving the abandonment of property that would
come into play here at some point. That also applies to leased systems left
in houses.
Personally yard signs make good targets/target holders
I guess when a law is enacted which says "Purchasing ADT lawn signs is
forbidden by law" I'd take care not to do so. Dealers who sell ADT
lawnsigns as accessories might be frowned upon by ADT, but even that is
NOT illegal. In the case of EBay, I'm sure the guys who are currently
selling ADT signs with the logo intentionally distorted in pictures
received a nice pissy letter from ADT lawyers who had their panties in
a bunch over the suggestion of using signs without buying an alarm
system and using the ADT trademark to do so. But, believe it or not,
the act of buying an ADT lawn sign does not constitute trademark
infringement. Hell, ADT should love the free advertising I am
providing, if anything.
That depends on what ADT may have done. If they left the sigs there after the client stopped dealing with them the signs are
abandoned. Considering they rarely even collect leased alarm systems, I doubt they're about to go around collecting old lawn signs.
Besaides, they don't put them up as a deterrent to theft. They're advertising for the alarm company.
If ADT labels the sigs as company property and makes a reasonable effort to collect them at the expiration of the contract, then ADT
has the right to their return. However, if ADT abandons them they become the property of the homeowner and he can do whatever he
wants with them.
> and covered by my tradename (similar to
> copyright protection...
Not really. The material printed on them is covered under trademark and copyright laws but not the physical signs themselves. It's
more a book which you write. If someone in lawful possession of the book wants to sell it on eBay he has every right to do so. He
just copy and can't publish the book.
For all the flack you get around here, Bass, it appears as though you
do know what you're talking about.... At least sometimes. ;)
Once in a while. :^)
"Crash Gordon" <webm...@siriussystems.invalid> wrote in message
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> For all the flack you get around here, Bass, it appears as though you
> do know what you're talking about.... At least sometimes. ;)
>
He's been workin' on (and dodging) "legal angles" for most of his career.
A broken clock is correct twice a day
There is tho far more evidence burglars stay away from houses with security
signs than your example here. There's always a few that buck the trend
"Robert L Bass" <rober...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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"nick markowitz" <nick-ma...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>He's an amateur...and he still got caught.
>It defies logic that a burglar would burgle a house with a sign over one
>without.
He sounds like a pro to me with 400 burglaries.
--
-Graham
(remove the double e's to email)
> A broken clock is correct twice a day
Not if it's LCD... :-)
Easy. If they steal *your* sign it's theft. If they use it to pretend they're you, that's impersonation. If they try to attract
business pretending to be you, that's a trade name infringement. But if you abandon the sign itself (not the copyright) the person
you left it with can dispose of it lawfully. Once you abandon property you can't come back later and claim ownership rights to it.
There is a significant difference between copyright or trademark rights and chattel property rights.
Let's go back to the analogy of a written work. Suppose you write a book on the "Life and Times of Jiminex". It's only about six
pages long but you wrote it and you're proud of it. You publish it at significant expense down at Office Depot's copy center.
After being thrown out for printing profane language, you visit Bob Lalonde and go for a ride on his brand new Vespa. While there
you lend Bob a copy of the book. Bob reads it in five minutes, snickers a few times and tosses it on a heap of rotting copies of
Easy Rider magazine in the corner of his garage. Three years go by and you make no effort to retrieve the book. You visit Bob a
few times during that time and see the book staring balefully at you from the heap but you don't ask for it back.
One night Bob passes the book on to Stevens, who he ran into at a strip bar around the corner from the ISC show. Stevens has been
waiting for years to get his hands on a photo of the subject for his website. The following week Bob L offends you in the newsgroup
so you demand your book back. Unbeknownst to Bob, Stevens has already scanned the picture of Jiminex from the front page and posted
it on his website.
You can't sue Bob because you gave him the book. Even though it was originally a loan, by failing to retrieve it for several years
you effectively abandoned it. He doesn't have to give it back and he can lawfully give it away.
You later discover that Stevens has scanned your prized photo of Jiminex in his rowboat, crossing the Arthur Kill between Staten
Island, NY and Elizabeth, NJ, cursing and flailing his arms at some seagull which has just proven itself incredibly accurate at
aerial targeting and... well, never mind that for now.
You can sue Stevens for all he's worth. He has infringed your copyright. Jiminex, in turn, files a lawsuit against you for failing
to curse me out in the book. Graham calls and offers to testify in your favor if only you'll pleeeease be his friend.
I hope this explanation helps.
>You can sue Stevens for all he's worth. He has infringed your copyright. Jiminex, in turn, files a lawsuit against you for failing
>to curse me out in the book. Graham calls and offers to testify in your favor if only you'll pleeeease be his friend.
You really should not be the one doling out legal advice, especially
concerning copyright infringements.
No if they started a business with your company name and logo then yes but
just putting your sign on a truck won't do it
Exactly. A name on a truck won't do it, nor will a sign in my yard.
It's not illegal just because ADT doesn't approve (or you don't approve
as the case may be).
This is interesting though. So you guys are kinda saying that if I bought a
used ADT service truck with their signage on it, and drove it around not
intending to do any alarm business that ADT or lets say just parked it on my
driveway - would have no case? (tangent from OP...just posing another ?)
"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Correct.
"Robert L Bass" <rober...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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In your case it may have been a different issue than what is being talked
about here. It is the action of the individual that "could" constitute some
sort of illegal act. If he was an unlicensed person, driving an ADT truck
and not employeed by ADT, out there selling, installing, servicing alarms as
an ADT whatever, there may be some sort of fraud and deception thing going
on, not to mention any of the unlicensed contractor penaltys and who knows
what else. But simply having possession of a sign, or a truck etc. with a
logo on it is not illegal unless it was stolen. Even with that, the crime
would be possession of stolen property and not anything to do with the logo.
Stealing an ADT truck would carry no heavier penalty than stealing RLB's
Camary. You have to forget what seems to be right, ethical, common sense and
even what may have been law last year. None of that comes into play when
attorneys are involved.
Truer words were never spoken.
"Bob Worthy" <secu...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Many years ago I worked for a company that manufactured police badges
and notary seals. One day someone came in to order a badge and something
didn't quite seem right. Usually orders came from the city on a P.O. This
man wanted to pay cash and didn't have a purchase order. So I phoned the
police and asked about the legal aspect of someone who might not be a law
officer buying a police badge. The police said there is no law against
buying a badge as long as the owner of the badge doesn't impersonate a
police officer. I don't know for what other purpose someone would buy a
badge but it was legal for the customer to buy it and legal for us to sell
it to him. The law may vary by state.
Bob
There are websites that cater to police badges and miniatures. Some
consider them collectables. IIRC, there has been some restriction on them
as of late.
Say what you will, it was quite funny........
Yep. I think Texas is one that has some heavy restrictions on their Texas
Star, and that goes way back.
>
>
Keep in mind that I'm not a lawyer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express
last night
I wouldn't think so but again I'm no lawyer
That depends if you have a non-functional firearm
Try putting something up with the word "Kentucky" in it
> Keep in mind that I'm not a lawyer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express
> last night
Nonsense. Monitronics wouldn't spring for a Holiday Express.
js
>This is interesting though. So you guys are kinda saying that if I bought a
>used ADT service truck with their signage on it, and drove it around not
>intending to do any alarm business that ADT or lets say just parked it on my
>driveway - would have no case?
Yes, especially since ADT had the opportunity to remove the signs before
selling you the truck and chose not to do so.
Trademark law is primarily about identifying the source of goods and
services. In the example you gave, where someone is using the name of your
business without permission, to try and make some money, it's a trademark
violation because the public will probably be confused into thinking they
are buying from you.
Big companies like ADT are so well known, their trademarks are known as
"famous marks," and they get extra protection under the law. For example,
you can't open a hamburger stand and call it McDonald's, even if your name
is McDonald. But if your ADT truck is just parked in the driveway, it's
not being used in commerce, and the public is not being confused.
Where ADT may have a point on the yard signs is this: suppose some DIYer
puts in his own piece of shit system, puts up some ADT yard signs to make
it look official...and the system starts causing lots of false alarms.
People see the yard signs and blame ADT, and maybe they don't buy an ADT
system because of it. The public is confused as to the source of the alarm
system.
- badenov
Not really.
I'd guess that it doesn't really matter which one installed the system.
The results would be the same.
>
> - badenov
Can't, there are no restrictions on fried chicken. If there were, obesity in
the US won't be a problem.
>
>
That affects much more than fried chicken tho
"Nomen Nescio" <nob...@dizum.com> wrote in message
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Leuck got drunk?
Leuck doesn't drink, Leuck also doesn't threaten relatives with supposed
non-working firearms
Well, that's what you claim.
Yeah, and you have no reason to say otherwise.
Yep, I just shed thirty pounds and have another 20 to go. Some what of an
expert on that problem. I could eat with the best of them, except those hot
dog eating contests. Those are sick! :o]
>
>
> > > the US won't be a problem.
> >
> > That affects much more than fried chicken tho
>
> Yep, I just shed thirty pounds and have another 20 to go. Some what of an
> expert on that problem. I could eat with the best of them, except those
hot
> dog eating contests. Those are sick! :o]
I know where your coming from, I lost 90 2 years ago
Wow! Good job. I know the older you get the harder it is. But, if you wanta
get older........
"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Damn, now I feel like a late comer in this game. Between you and Mark, those
are some big numbers. Bob L. would like to posts those in one of his fishing
tourneys.
I lost 50 pounds when I moved to Florida. I gained half of it back over a few years, then lost 30 pounds earlier this year. It's
always a struggle. :^)
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