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Dr. Hernandez was brain surgeon who loved to
tinker in his own studio. He and his |
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friend Tim Sabotinsky, an electric engineer, designed a total security
system for |
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his mansion. It was all to fit in a remote . The garage, car,
TV and Internet were |
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the first circuits to be wired. But that was just the beginning.
The lights for Christmas, |
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bedroom surveillance for his new baby were next. In all 40 buttons
were tested and |
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worked fine on the eve of thanksgiving. The remote was to
be a stocking stuffer Christmas |
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gift for his wife and older 16 year old daughter who was the babysitter
for the rest of |
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the eight children. |
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But Dr. Hernandez had not counted on Jewel Williams.
The Dr. and his wife Gloria |
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invited seven different families over for Thanksgiving. Jewel was
among them. She |
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was a very curious 11 month old baby that never understood that there
were places she |
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should not go. She loved to dip her fingers in toilet boils, pull
down boxes full of toys and |
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open doors, rip out pages in a twenty pound dictionary and play in closets.
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Jewel's grandma was packing up a bag of things
to take to the feast and |
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she did not see Jewel grab the old remote of a TV that had been recycled
a year ago. |
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Jewel decided to drop the useless remote in the bag. It was unnoticed. One
of her favorite |
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things to do was to click buttons. She had used the "live"
remote once and loved to turn up the |
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volume and watch her mom and dad run and find the remote which she had
dropped |
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behind the coach. Now the "live" remote in
Jewel's house was put in a child safe place |
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above the TV. |
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Well you guessed it. The good doctor picked
up Jewel and was showing her around his |
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studio and he got an urgent cell phone call on a surgery update scheduled
for the next day. |
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He let Jewel down on the floor and she grabbed the remote and left the
room to drop it in |
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her grandma's bag. Jewel's grandma had seen her drop in the
remote and took out the other |
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remote and gave it back to Jewel. Gleefully Jewel went back to the
doctor;s studio and put the |
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useless remote back on the doctor's table. Unfortunately the doctor had
not seen Jewel switch |
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the remotes. This is not a remote possibility as you will soon see.
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Lucky or not Dr. Hernandez lived two houses down
from Jewel's house. That night Jewel |
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took the remote and threw it in her crib to add it to the music button
toys and stuffed |
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animals. Now 11 month old's wake up at various unpredictable
times at night. Jewel was |
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teething and she liked to chew on things to help relieve the pain.
She started to chew on her new find. |
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Dr. Hernandez decided to leave early to go to
the hospital to check on his new patient . |
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It was about 4 AM and he saw the Christmas lights go on and off twice
and then his garage |
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door opened after he closed it. He thought his children were
playing and would talk to them sternly |
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when he got home for work. He believed them when they denied playing.
After all there was |
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strong evidence that all were sound asleep. He tested
his newly programmed remote |
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and found that nothing worked. He checked the batteries and replaced
them. Nothing. |
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He schedule a meeting with Tim to review what had gone wrong. As they
were opening |
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up the circuit board at 2 AM in the morning, the theft alarm went off
and they couldn't shut it |
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down . The police were called and were looking for burglers.
The police report concluded |
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that there was a potential burgler and theft of technical equipment.
A week later the police visited |
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all the members of the Thanksgiving party. They collected, marked and
tested all 500 remotes |
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until they found that Jewel was culprit. |
