That’s terrific, Dewey. Made my day!
I am more pacifistic than most people I know and those things make me want to take a sledge hammer to the car. I truly, honestly, do not know how cars with alarms are not constantly being keyed or having their tires slashed. Who the hell would report them even if they did it in broad daylight? Hell, most people would cheer.
Slight tangent, but I left a note on an illegally parked car just yesterday that blocked mine in which read “Don’t park your car like a fuck-tard, asshole*.”
The car was gone this morning
*I wanted to make it clear that while his behavior was a fuck-tardish thing to do, he was an asshole regardless.
Your cars owners manual may tell you how. My car doesn’t have an alarm, but it would beep the horn when I locked it with the remote. Since I get home from work around 1 am, I was worried that it may wake light sleepers so I checked through the manual and followed the steps and disabled that function.
You could give them one of these.
Yes, but I’d want to add “… or the next time it goes off, it will have a good reason for going off, as I assume a smashed winddhield will set it off?”
I admit, I had a car alarm installed in my car, but I’m not an asshole! Really!
I got the top of the line Viper system, with Remote Start and “Responder” technology. It detects vibration, and on a slight bump it chirps 5 times (beep beep beep beep beep) to “warn away” an accidental bump. The siren will only sound on a heavy bump (I had to put some weight into bumping it to set off the alarm), or if the hood, trunk, or a door is opened. If the alarm sounds, it shuts off after 45 seconds. The ignition is also disabled until I disarm the system. If I am within 1 mile of my car, my keychain beeps and has a little screen that tells me why the alarm went off. I can shut the alarm off remotely from a mile away. Also, if the alarm is triggered by vibration twice, it stops responding to vibrations until I reset it.
Since I got the car in February, the alarm has been set off one time when the water delivery man bumped the car with a bottle of water. Fortunately, there was no scratch.
–FCOD
When I lived in a college dorm in the middle of a parking lot that was full of cars with alarms that went off every time the wind blew, I fantasized about throwing a brick through the windshields of some of those cars. Tied to the brick would be a note, “Why didn’t you check on your fucking car alarm, dogfucker?”
Ummm…why does the guy in the upper left think that holding his nose will make the situation any better?
Because the car has been going wee wee all night.
This pit is soooooo 1990s. Used to be I heard an alarm several times a day, but I seldom hear car alarms now. It’s been months since I heard one of the most obnoxious alerts: the classic obnoxious alternating siren/beep/buzz/European-nurr-nee-nurr-nee alarm.