# Do you give a damn about car alarms?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-a-damn-about-car-alarms/1014188>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-a-damn-about-car-alarms/1014188 "2025-02-11T20:32:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-a-damn-about-car-alarms/1014188/41 "2025-02-24T18:06:33Z")

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> [@pullin](#):
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> Our neighborhood loses a few cars every week to thieves.

Wow. I have never even met anyone who has had a car stolen. I’ve never heard of it happening anywhere near where we live.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-a-damn-about-car-alarms/1014188/42 "2025-02-24T18:24:50Z")

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My neighbor across the street got his stolen last year, and then put in the world’s most sensitive car alarm on his new vehicle. I swear I could sneeze in the house and it would set off the alarm. He had the alarm for a month or two, but I haven’t hear it since, so either he figured out how useless it was or one of the neighbors got to talking to him.

But the post quoted: cars stolen several times a week from the neighborhood?! That’s an insane amount, even by my Chicago standards. We don’t even have catalytic converters stolen so consistently often.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-a-damn-about-car-alarms/1014188/43 "2025-02-24T20:38:32Z")

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> [@Procrustus](#):
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> Wow. I have never even met anyone who has had a car stolen.

I had one stolen- but from my college parking lot back _many_ decades ago.

The area has have some converters stolen from cars where they are especially easy to get at, and some windows broken to steal a purse or CDs or something.

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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-a-damn-about-car-alarms/1014188/44 "2025-02-25T17:59:17Z")

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I had a problem neighbor (now moved and/or passed away), many stories, but he hit my car & triggered the alarm at least twice that I can remember. I was able to see him driving away and was once able to save irrefutable dashcam footage because of the alarm.

For better or for worse, I didn’t confront him with the vid or accusations. I’ve got way better stories about that house, anyway. Both incidents would be characterized as parking bumps.

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