An ADT ad currently running on television claims a house is
burglarized every 15 seconds in America. Wow, that’s a really tight schedule!
What, is there a line of burglars with an organizer directing them with a stop
watch, counting down 15 seconds before each next burglar can go burgle another
house? Or is it perhaps more sophisticated, run by a national organization using
a computerized system and automatic cell phone calls directing each new
burglary to commence every 15 seconds, but all across the country?
Wow, burglars are sure a lot more organized than I ever
thought possible! To have a burglary every 15 seconds without fail or delay is
such a daunting task to accomplish! Maybe we should get these super efficient
burglars to run the VA, since they’re so efficient and reliable with scheduling
and delivering on what they schedule.
Here’s the alarmist alarm ad (although this one says a
burglary happens every 14.4 seconds, and the ad I just saw on TV said every 15
seconds {I wonder why the discrepancy in the claims?}):
