LynneSin (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-05-11 09:37 AM
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I'll tell you what annoys me! It annoys you too - CAR ALARMS
Seriously, to the dumbass with the new car - fix your damn car alarm so it's not so fricking sensitive. I really do NOT like being woke up at 2:30 in the morning just so your car can scream "I WAS TOUCHED". This has been happening since Thursday, which is why I know it's either a new car or some dumbass that thinks if the alarm goes off the police will just come barreling by to see what is amiss.
Personally I think they should be banned. Or make them silent so the owner could see the alarm go off but not annoy the rest of the neighborhood.
If I hear it again tonight I'm going to go find out what car it is and report it to the policeThen again:
Not that it's being broken-in. But that for 3 nights in a row I was woken up at 3am to the damn car alarm. I think the owners should be held accountable since it was their stupidity that is affecting my sleep.
LynneSin (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-05-11 01:59 PM
Response to Reply #14
16. About 10 minutes. Went off twice last night
So when I was finally dozing off again - off it goes
Funny, but car alarms haven't been an issue to me since the early 90's. However, at the time I was stationed in Pearl (Subase) and some douchenozzle had a hypersensitive alarm. For anyone familiar, it was the original hi-rise, between the old mini-NEX and Beeman's and the pool.He he he :lmao: Yer takin' me back, Sparky. I do believe you are referring to the Arizona barracks. I knew two sailors who got into a HEAP of trouble because they thought it might be fun to go up on the roof with a bunch of fluorescent tubes they found in a dumpster and throw them off. That was in '87 or '88.
I was on the 13th floor of a 17 story barracks. I won't say what boat was above us, but I'll vouch for the damage a bowling ball can do from 15+ stories up.
Car alarms reached the point with me some years ago when "Oh maybe I'd better check that" , became "I wish that asshole would turn that thing off". This was probably 12 months after they first became standard accessories.
The frequency of false triggers on them renders them pretty much useless as a deterrent factor.
A much more effective theft deterrent:[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE63qcHhlEQ[/youtube]
Okay, that would be annoying, but it doesn't qualify as criminal in my world.
A study buddy had a neighbor with one of those "Step away from the car!" stupid alarms. One day, she had a bag of 100 super balls someone had given her daughter (and mom was never going to let the kid have!), and we started pinging the car with a superball every few minutes. The alarm would go off and the superball would roll away along the curb. Seeing the owner rush out of his apartment again and again and again, ready to defend his car made whatever we were studying much more fun.