Well?
Some car in the parking lot right next to my building has been going nuts for about an hour now and everybody is started to get really fuckin pissed off.
Let’s say, hypothetically, I had a rifle right now. Is there any particular place I could aim and take out the noise-making system? The front of the car is facing me, I’m about 15-20 degrees up from it.
It’s some little suv type deal. looks like a toyota. Perhaps a RAV4, late 90’s model.
Well, before you start taking shots:
I know that around here if enough people call to complain the cops will come out and disconnect the battery. We had one going off out front on my house for an hour when the cop came by and disconnected the battery. I bet he’s never had that many people coming up to thank him for a job well done before.
Well sure… but where’s the fun in that?
Actually the police arrived a little bit ago and I guess they called the owner and he came down and shut it off. The bastard didn’t get a ticket or nothin.
You don’t shoot a car to kill the alarm. Call the cops and make a noise complaint.
Of course you could always pull ou the ol’ Slim Jim and open the car (if you don’t have a Slim Jim, a crowbar works, butit’s not very nice), then pop the bonnet and clip the horn/loudspeaker wires.
Just hope that someone else didn’t call the cops, because you’ve just become a criminal. Better to get up, get the license number of the vehicle, and report it every time the alarm goes off.
I would advise against calling the cops or making any complaint other than a guaranteed anonymous one, since if anything happens to the vehicle (vandalism for instance), you might end up being accused, since you are on record as having complained.
If this becomes a chronic problem, I’ve heard of people giving the vehicle’s door locks the ole “toothpick treatment”. Along with an anonymous note saying that the treatment will be readministered every time the freakin alarm is allowed to disturb the community. Not that I’d suggest doing anything like that of course, I’ve just heard of it being done.
Isn’t it funny how the only person who doesn’t hear the alarm is the owner of the vehicle?
A gun may work, but I would suggest a grenade - much more satisfying. 
Shoot the owner, go to the source.
I think most readers of this thread will have fantasized about doing what I did, so I tell this story.
I went to San Felipe, Mex. and about 1 am. a car alarm goes off. I lie there waiting for “Someone Else” to fix it for the appropriate amount of time, then get up. It turns out it is not a car alarm, but a burglar alarm on a shoe store. I call the police (I speak ok Spanish), but don’t get a commital response. Sounds like they will come by RSN. The same kind of response from the fire department. A couple of cop cars go by, but they dont stop when I signal. After 30 more min of this, I notice some nice pointy rocks in the median of the road. Hmmm. Also, there are nice burglar bars on the front of the store just great for climbing for those like me with primates in their lineage.
So I pick up a 10lb. rock climb the bars and BASH. Two wacks gets the speaker dangling by its wires, so not only to I get the bashing fun, I get the yanking part too.
I imagine the legend of the unknown hero who gave the people the gift of sleep will be told for generations (err… except in the family of the shoe seller).
Well, okay, first of all - DON’T shoot anyone’s car anywhere. But, hypothetically speaking…
The only way I can see that’s guaranteed to shut the alarm up is to shoot a hole all the way through the battery, preferably at the bottom. Then the battery acid will drain out and the battey won’t work any more. No electricity = no alarm. But you probably have to make sure the hole goes all the way through the battery, because most car batteries have multiple partitions inside, and if even one of them had acid left in it, it could still supply some juice.
I suppose you could shoot the alarm control unit, but there are a couple of problems with that. First, it’s possible that a smart car engineer could make it so that once the alarm starts going off, destroying the alarm electronics won’t stop it. This is not a problem with the battery. Also, who knows where the heck the alarm control unit is in any given kind of car? I know where it is in my Nissan 300Zx - behind the front passenger seat floorboard. I have no clue where it is in a Toyota 4Runner or a Buick Skylark or an Acura Integra. So just blow the frikkin’ battery and get it over with. This also has the advantage that the battery is a lot cheaper to replace than the alarm control unit…
-Ben
Jesus, no crooks yet?
Bend a paperclip into a “U” shape. Cover all but the ends with rubber (electrical) tape. Bust a headlight cover. Bust the lightbulb. Touch both sides of the paperclip to the contacts in the bulb. This will overload the system and probably blow out the alarm.
Unless the alarm has a separate battery.
Which most do.
But not factory ones.
–Tim
If you put enough lead in it you are bound to hit something vital, sooner or later. Be sure to check down range before you open fire. I can see it now:
With eight round ball ammunition, lock, and load. Ready on the left? Ready on the right? Ready on the firing line. Eight rounds rapid fire. Commence firing.
Wouldn’t this just blow the fuse for the headlights? (Assuming the alarm was on a different fuse)
I would second shooting the battery. Most alarms I have seen shut off after 60 or 90 seconds, I thought i was a requirement or something.
Just as an update… apparently my roommate knows the guy who’s car it was.
My roommate was sleeping through the whole thing, so how did he even find out about it? Well I didn’t realize that the particular spot was a handicapped spot, and this guy had a fake handicapped sticker on his car and had been parking there illegally all year.
Cops didn’t put two and two together when a fully-functioning varsity crew-team member came out to turn off the alarm on his car parked in a handicapped spot, but apparently caught on some time later and he’s since been fined and stripped of his campus parking permit.
I love justice.
Damn, but that takes me back… Rangemaster, were you?
Glad to see the alarm-sounding, non-handicapped being, illegally-parking bum got his…