Somewhere in a block radius of home, there is a car that has an uber-sensitive alarm. At this point, when I hear a heavy truck, maybe a semi or garbage truck, roll down the street, I pause. Wait for it… wait for it…
There are two outcomes. One is some beeping that is that early warning part of the system that says, “stay away from this car because it has really annoying sounds that will start blaring if you don’t step back.” The other is all of that before plus the really annoying sounds that go off for about a minute or two.
It’s been like this for the past two days. It’s almost a game, making bets if the car alarm will go off or not. And where is this person who owns this car? It’s like they just use it as a system of telling themselves, “Oh hey, I can hear my car outside. It’s still there!” At this point, I think the battery might drain itself because it has gone off so many times. And if I could find the source, I’d report it. For all I know, it’s missing a stereo system by now.
Vancouver has a noise-pollution bylaw – you can be fined etc if your alarm goes off for more than a couple minutes.
Oddly enough, when I was waiting at the bus this morning a tow truck was hauling away a car that had an alarm going off. It was just a VW with the constant “beep beep” not like the one near our place (which you describe) with an entire plethora of annoying sounds.
It’s the ‘boy cries wolf’ syndrome. Someday, someone is going to actually try and rob that car…and no one will pay attention to the alarm because it always goes off.
The kind of alarm I want is when you touch the door handle, you get about 10,000 volts shooting through your body. That’d deter some people from touching my car.
Heh heh. That was in James Bond.
Listen to Dane Cook’s car alarm sketch…I think you can find it on YouTube.
And I’m glad to report that it’s STILL out there… somewhere.
I like this shocking idea. Should work up a patent for that one.