car alarms: do they work?

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i mean yes they drive non-felons to dementia (there's one plaguing angel as i write: 25 mins so far i'd estimate)

but do they actually deter thieves etc

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never seen a car being driven w.,the car alarm still going — does this just mean you can turn them off once you get the engine started?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is, when you hear a car alarm going off do you think:

a) Oh no! Some poor innocent soul is having their car stolen, or
b) There's a car alarm going off.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

coming up for an hour!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

HSA told me a story about how he heard a car alarm going off for an hour. HSA called the police, to be told that there had been something like 50 complaints about the car alarm. Being a terrible insomniac, he eventually got dressed and stormed out to find out what was up. Turned out that it was a limousine parked (illegally) on Russell Square while its owner gambled in the nearby casino. He had instructed the driver to GET OUT OF THE CAR and loiter nearby to avoid having to move it - he'd rather pay the tickets or something. Every time a truck went by or something, the car alarm went off.

I wish I could remember how the story ended... I'm probably not even telling it right.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Car alarms go off so frequently in parking lots around this area that nobody pays attention to them anymore. We just figure it's yet another one of those supersensitive alarms that gets triggered by the slightest of vibrations and we don't even bother to look back to see if the alarm was set off by the door of a nearby vehicle shutting or by someone actually breaking into the vehicle.

It's sad, I know. Especially considering how many vehicles get broken into around here. But that's what's happened. So car alarms don't work here unless they're those High Technology ones that automatically contact the police once they go off, and come with those tracking devices that allow the police to know where the vehicle is at all times.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never seen a car being driven w.,the car alarm still going — does this just mean you can turn them off once you get the engine started?

by a bizarre chain of events my car alarm once went off as i was driving. it's very quiet from the inside but you must look fairly conspicuous.

when a car alarm wakes or torments me for hours and hours i like to think of the owner returning to their car and finding the battery gone flat. i heard that car and house alarms had to have automatic cut-off times these days to comply with anti-noise pollution legislation, but that could just be wishful thinking on my part.

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the angel one is now coming up for 90 mins!!

mostly the ones that go off in my square later on a summer's night do seem to switch off

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The train I took to Pickering used to set car alarms off in the parking lot, that was fun. bye bye battery bye bye

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

House alarms are also nuisances.
About a third of all police dispatches here are in response to false house alarms. Which is a huge waste of time/money and keeps police off the street, and thus actually promotes crime.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two hours!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Car alarms in LA = the most useless invention ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to pay attention if at home and mine, or one that sounded like mine, went off outside. Otherwise, I ignore them.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could remember how the story ended... I'm probably not even telling it right.

the police took the limo owner 'round the back of the casino, and beat him with their nightsticks 'till he pissed blood.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(I may be remembering this wrongly)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(or possibly just making it up)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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