One of the funniest deaths recorded in history was because of a burglar alarm. Two brothers lived in different homes. The elder everyday had to bring food to his younger brother and each time he was out, an intruder would make his way inside his house. Having enough of it; the elder brother decided to rig a burglar alarm at the doorstep of his house. Unluckily though, he was the one who triggered it and died after being buried under folding beds and chairs, half a sewing machine, boxes, parts of a wine press and numerous other pieces of junk. His younger brother later also died, died of starvation.
Today, there are still reports of gruesome deaths, but we don’t have to worry about those being caused by burglar alarms. Most burglar alarms today come in the form of wall alarms, small, not so easy to detect and can be installed easily in your home. They are part of the usual home burglar alarm system which the home owner or the security contractor will install in front of all the windows and doors in the house. There are many types of these burglar wall alarms, depending on its triggering mechanism. There are passive infrared detectors, ultrasonic detectors, microwave detectors, photo-electric beams, and glass-break detectors, all which are designed for indoor use.
All wall alarms, not only burglar alarms are electronic and can be turned off anytime. Typically, an alarm system is deactivated or reconfigured when authorized personnel such as the home residents are present. The gruesome death told earlier could have been avoided had this feature been present; he could have deactivated the alarm/trap first before he entered his own home.