Car Alarms

[bcholmes]

Every time I hear a car alarm go off for more than a couple of seconds, I have this strong urge to vandalize it.

I don't know who originally invented car alarms, but I can't think of any way that a design could fail more completely.

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[rosefox]

Near our house, there are elevated train tracks. Trains go by, oh, about every three minutes. There's always some idiot who parks under the tracks and turns on his car alarm.

Someone once told me that placing a half-full can of soda on the hood of a car will keep the alarm going until the battery dies. It's almost worth it.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

We once had a neighbour arm their alarm and go away on vacation. I don't know if this was just an early design flaw that was fixed later (this would be in the late 80s or early 90s) or if something kept setting it off or what, but the alarm went off continually for *ages*. I think everbody in the neighbourhood was about to go try to beat their car to death. It finally did run out of juice, fortunately.