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Remember the guy in our complex...

iGary said:
Responded in five minutes, and then the asshat had to walk out and disarm and move it while they wrote him a ticket. :D
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So why didn't the stupid tit get off his ass and do it when he heard it going off initially? He must have realised that it would keep on happening and he should turn it off or move the car? Moron :rolleyes:

Abstract - as for women being told to shout 'Fire' - I just screamed when I got mugged and lots of guys came out to help :) but the police provided me with an alarm to carry afterwards which sounds exactly like a crap car alarm. I can't imagine it provides any help at all since most people would ignore it; why don't they sell alarms that sound like someone shouting for help or a police siren?
 
2nyRiggz said:
Hit the car with a rock....the owner will come then. He might cuss you out but at least you would know who it belongs to.


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I rather enjoyed watching him get a lecture and ticket from the obviously annoyed police officer instead.

Next time I deflate his tires. He got a note from me (nice) once, now a ticket; next time I let air out of the tires.
 
iGary said:
Next time I deflate his tires. He got a note from me (nice) once, now a ticket; next time I let air out of the tires.
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Don't do all 4, just 2. If you do just one, he can use his spare. If you do 2 but not 4, you're making the statement: "I'm doing this just to p*** you off." :D
 
It doesn't sound like his alarm is doing him a whole lot of good if all it does is disturb people to the point where they either a) ignore the alarm or b) scheme to get the car dismantled or destroyed. Either way it seems like it's causing people to act counter to what the alarm is intended for.

By the by, we had a similar situation to you this morning. No, the car was not actually screaming out intelligible words, but its alarm was going off (probably due to the same snow) for about ten minutes. I found it ironic when I told my husband, who was complaining about it, to just ignore it and it will eventually go away. Didn't even bother to check to see whether the car in question actually was okay. Alarms really don't provide any real protection these days.... :rolleyes: :p
 
iGary said:
And...it's a 1997 Honda Civic for Christ's sake. :rolleyes:
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OMG you're kidding!

I, for one, am glad you called the police. Serves the little tool right. If an alarm is set to go off when someone breaks in, then it's serving it's purpose. His is an alarm meant to show off. What he's showing off, I don't know.
 
iGary said:
And...it's a 1997 Honda Civic for Christ's sake. :rolleyes:
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How funny. I own a 97 Civic. It's white. But, that wasn't me. Could you imagine how funny it would be if he were a member of the forum?

Anywho, I'm glad everything turned out as well as it did. Everytime I hear another alarm go off, I wish I was back in college. Nobody locked their cars, let alone turned on their alarms...
 
And by the way, I have owned nothing but Civics during my entire driving "life," so I am certainly not looking down on them, but I would never have some voice-atronic alarm system, either.
 
nbs2 said:
Could you imagine how funny it would be if he were a member of the forum?
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Awww, Gary, you lost your one chance to meet Lacero in person! :eek: ;) :D

Remember. When we both get to hell, we're going running and doing photography shoots. Ace. ;)
 
It kinda reminds me of this tosser in our street. He has one of those horrendous car alarms that have 5 different "tunes". It's the loudest car alarm I've ever heard. Any how last year we had a good thunder storm with really close lightning. Every time there was a bolt of lightning his car alarm would go off. 2 minutes later he'd walk out of his house, turn the alarm off, then turn it back on and walk back in his house. 5 minutes later another bolt would trigger the alarm and back out he'd come.
This went on nearly every 5 minutes for 4 hours!
Why he couldn't just use his key to lock the car without setting the alarm I'll never know.

Oh, his car was a battered 8 year old Mondeo estate.
 
Car alarms are lame and do nothing but annoy, which is why I'm glad they're not as common as they used to be. Even worse are the house alarms that I've heard blasting for hours non-stop.
 
Applespider said:
why don't they sell alarms that sound like someone shouting for help or a police siren?
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how about an air horn? those things are so incredibly loud that it would probably scare the hell out of an attacker. (especially if let-off right near their ears) <shrugs> they should make a keychain sized air-horn.. that discharges mace at the same time it makes all that racket. :D nice!
 
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