Comments on: Dear PoP – Car Alarm Edition

By: MaggieRooHoo

MaggieRooHoo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:40:23 +0000

@PabloMa- that is terrific

By: PabloMa

PabloMa — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:53:21 +0000

This post is old, so no one will read this, but I have to share because I JUST discussed this with someone the other day…

My brother lives in Mainz, Germany. Most people even have the lock-beep deactivated when buying a car… noises are not acceptable in European cities. Anyway, he has a policy of throwing liquids on people who annoy him, and apparently many Germans do the same. In the movies with a cell phone? Drink’s on you. Standing in the middle of the escalator? Drink’s on you. His new story when coming home for Xmas this year– Car alarm going off near his flat a few months ago, so he woke up early and waited outside for them and… drink’s on them (hot coffee, actually, with accompaniment of many German curse words). He hasn’t seen the car on that block since.

I may adopt this policy, it’s just so awesome.

By: Fig Newton

Fig Newton — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:46:03 +0000

I’ve called 911 and the meter maids have come ticketed the car.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:16:39 +0000

Thank goodness I didn’t hear this alarm last night or I might have murdered! I called the police station to ask what I can do about it. He “politely” told me that they wouldn’t do anything. I got the impression that they wouldn’t even respond and that even if they did it would probably shut off before they got there. Humph.

My problem is that I can’t find the offending vehicle. And I’m not even 100% sure it’s an alarm and not just some A*hole. If I find the vehicle some night I’ll try leaving a note…

sigh.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:05:04 +0000

Fire solves such problems, a small amount of accelerant on the top of the tire, a match, and walk away…

By: WDC

WDC — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:45:26 +0000

I have called the cops on persistent car alarms. They issued tickets. Must have been a slow day.

I agree with previous posters: given the level of response to car alarms (none) combined with the annoyance factor (high), they should be outlawed. At least, crappy after-market alarms with hair triggers, that are susceptible to poor installation, should be. I confess that my car has an alarm, but with the exception of the one time I actually broke into it (locked my keys in), it’s never gone off.

Speaking of honking… someone on my street used to get picked up by a carpool at 6am every morning, and the driver would lean on the horn til the neighbor came out. One morning I (5-and-a-half-feet of scary, sleep-deprived white female) leaned out my window and screeched at them to shut the -bleep- up or I was coming down with my baseball bat. Never heard another honk.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:07:26 +0000

Neener: Short story here: My friend was preparing for a date, we were in high school. The gentleman arrived at my friend’s house and he honked the horn instead of coming to the door to pick her up. My friend’s mother said: “you are not going anywhere with him until he comes in to pick you and meet me”. My friend had to go out to the car, tell the fellow to stop honking and basically get his ass out of the and come to the door. I have never forgotten it. I have two sons and when they are of dating age – I will remind them to never honk while picking up a date.

By: Neener

Neener — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:55:14 +0000

My parents always used to say the hallmark of someone who is low class is that they honk the horn rather than get out of the car. We’d smirk. But who was right in the long run? Only a low-class person would honk the horn rather than get out. In fact, I have a personal policy never to honk my horn in any traffic situation and flash my brights instead.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:50:29 +0000

RD – this has been going on for years. You could set a clock by it. I am not sure why they can’t just wait patiently for the friend to come down. It’s strange isn’t it?

By: RD

RD — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:49:04 +0000

what i hate is when people go to pick someone up from the apartments across the street, they honk the horn instead of calling their friend. one particular car that comes daily has a honking pattern that one could assume is morse code.