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| car alarms; a question | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 5 2010, 03:41 PM (429 Views) | |
| sue | Apr 5 2010, 03:41 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Why? Does anyone ever think something bad was about to happen when they hear one now; that a crime has been nipped in the bud? Or, like me, do you just get annoyed because you know you're going to have listen to that god awful racket for hours until the yahoo owner of the vehicle gets back and/or gets a clue? |
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| John Galt | Apr 5 2010, 03:49 PM Post #2 |
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Fulla-Carp
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They always get my attention. I look around to identify where the sound is coming from, and check to see if anything looks suspicious. It never does, it seems, so I go on my merry way. I always wonder if that one time I didn't check it out, I'd miss an opportunity to help someone in trouble. It can also act like a mini-mindfulness alert (the sort of thing Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn recommends). Good opportunity to re-center and remember to breathe! |
| Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. | |
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| sue | Apr 5 2010, 03:51 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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huh. I always want to get a gun and take a shot at the car. |
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| John Galt | Apr 5 2010, 03:54 PM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Re-center, breathe, and shoot? I guess that would work. Might improve your accuracy, too!
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| Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. | |
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| sue | Apr 5 2010, 03:56 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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that's true. I should put all that karate training to good use.
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| The 89th Key | Apr 5 2010, 04:26 PM Post #6 |
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They're 99.9999% annoying. Usually I just hear it outside my window and wait for the owner to turn it off. I suppose they are potentially helpful - more of a deterrent to make the would-be criminal think twice, as compared to an active defense once the thief starts. |
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| NAK | Apr 5 2010, 05:17 PM Post #7 |
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Funny how a device meant to protect your vehicle is considered more or less a nuisance by almost everybody who owns one. My parents didn't have an alarm on their old Dodge Caravan, which was stolen twice in the same month before being found trashed in a ditch, so they're probably in the 1% who would actually pay attention should the alarm in our current van go off.What really cracks me up is the super-sensitive alarms that actually talk to you when you get too close, but the proximity is set to such a ridiculous distance that you can set it off just by walking too far into the sidewalk. "Please step away from the vehicle." The vehicle security companies should really take a note from the GPS service providers and get famous people to record the warnings. First up, of course, is Mr. T: "I pity the foo' who don't step away from the vehicle!"
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 5 2010, 07:42 PM Post #8 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I know someone who, when an overly testy car alarm gives out warning beeps to passerby, gives the hood a good solid shove and doesn't feel at all bad about it because screw that guy and his annoying ass "alarm," that's why. |
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| Kincaid | Apr 5 2010, 09:05 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I always look to see if it's my car. I don't know what the alarm sounds like. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 5 2010, 09:06 PM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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| kenny | Apr 5 2010, 09:25 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yes, me too. I HATE hearing car alarms. I'd rather choke on 2nd hand cigar smoke in an elevator. Here in LA they are going off in parking lots all the time and nobody even turns their heads, so they are always coming out with new alarm noises to get your attention. The public is numb to the sound. One even has several different kids of sounds that alternate. Now, why was this necessary? Hmmm. Nobody pays attention. That's why. ![]() What a farking waste of money. ![]() I think people who own them should be killed, skinned, then boiled in acid. You have a right to peace and quiet unless a legit emergency vehicle has its siren going. |
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| Qaanaaq-Liaaq | Apr 6 2010, 05:47 AM Post #12 |
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My car came with a factory installed alarm as standard equipment. I regard my car alarm the same as my cell phone. I like them both and I’m glad I have them but I hate everyone else’s. A blaring car alarm will deter car thieves because the loud noise spooks them. To everyone else except the car’s owner, the loud noise is a nuisance. False positives are the problem with car alarms. They go off when they shouldn’t. Some of them are too sensitive and will sound off when a loud truck goes by or a heavy rain downpour starts and then become a noise nuisance. |
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| blondie | Apr 6 2010, 05:58 AM Post #13 |
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Bull-Carp
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Me too. |
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| Quagmire | Apr 6 2010, 06:55 AM Post #14 |
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When I was in college, car alarms were a fairly new animal. Most people hadnt heard them before. We were frolicking around campus one late night, and passed too close to a parked car, whose lights began flashing and proceeded to bark at us: "Step away from the vehicle. You are too close. Please step away from the vehicle. You have 10 seconds to step away from the vehicle." All that did was make us stick around to see what would happen in 10 seconds. Ofcourse, it started its more ubiquitous car alarm obnoxious noises at the end of the count down. And we ran off giggling. Yeah, I dont expect anybody really heeds them. Presumably they just scare off theft attempts by calling attention to them, rather than calling to arms a vigilante effort to catch somebody. I've actually seen a car driving down the road with the alarm going off. Clearly the most obvious stolen car scenario (assuming any owner would know how to turn it off). Did anybody do anything? No. Everyone just screams "Turn that damn thing off!!" |
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| John Galt | Apr 6 2010, 07:09 AM Post #15 |
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Fulla-Carp
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You guys must all live in car-dense areas. I don't think I've heard more than three car alarms go off in the last ten years. Or it could be that I just don't get out much.... |
| Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. | |
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| OperaTenor | Apr 6 2010, 07:37 AM Post #16 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I bought my 2004 Accord EXL from a local Honda dealer(I wanted to get a CPO car). As an EX, it came standard with a factory alarm, and the F&I numbskull tried to sell me an aftermarket alarm during his upsell spiel. The factory alarm it has seems quite intelligently applied to me. With one exception, as long as the remote is within range, the alarm won't sound. The one exception is if the door locks are manually raised without the key in the ignition. IOW, if someone is trying to enter the car by manually unlocking it. To me, that makes a lot of sense. |
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| Riley | Apr 6 2010, 10:11 AM Post #17 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I hear them more often than that. Probably closer to 3 per year. Definitely not often enough that I consider them to be particularly irritating. |
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| sue | Apr 6 2010, 10:42 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Interesting. I'd say I probably hear one a week. I figured if I hear that many in my semi-backwoods island, people in real places would hear them far more often. Maybe it's the squirrels, or the deer setting them off here. Or cats; could be cats. The one a week doesn't even cover the ferry trips; you can almost count on at least one person's car going ballistic every trip. And that that one person is up top snarfing back bad bcferries coffee, oblivious to it all. |
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| kenny | Apr 6 2010, 10:46 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I hear in NYC they drop raw eggs onto cars with alarms blaring. Hahaha. |
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My parents didn't have an alarm on their old Dodge Caravan, which was stolen twice in the same month before being found trashed in a ditch, so they're probably in the 1% who would actually pay attention should the alarm in our current van go off.
The vehicle security companies should really take a note from the GPS service providers and get famous people to record the warnings. First up, of course, is Mr. T: "I pity the foo' who don't step away from the vehicle!"




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