New York is sometimes noisy

[earthbelow]

There really ought to be a timer on car alarms. Because after the first half hour either your car is fine or it's already been stolen. So there's no reason for it to keep annoying everyone in a half-mile radius.

I also think there should be a law that gives you the legal right to spray paint and/or egg any car that has an annoying car alarm that has gone off for more than thirty minutes.

I've closed the windows and I can still hear it. It's almost as bad as the guy in the house next door who, apparently, is undergoing never ending construction and feels that using a very loud table saw at 8:30 at night isn't disruptive or rude at all. Or that Sunday afternoon is a brilliant time for all day jackhammering.

I'm gonna go work off all my crabby energy by cleaning things now.

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[br0ken_dolly]

my father used to joke around that those alarms go off by themselves in a few hours.

srsly tho, the newer alarms *are* supposed to shut off after a period of time (a short period of time too, like 10-15 mins) because theyve found that (obviously) the longer they go off, the less likely anyone is to care.

my sympathies. in college, idiots used to have their alarms going off all the damn time and it was miserable.

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

my father used to joke around that those alarms go off by themselves in a few hours.

They go berserk in rainstorms. I'm not sure car alarms are actually useful, considering the amount of trouble they are.

srsly tho, the newer alarms *are* supposed to shut off after a period of time

Yeah, and if there were any cars on our block worthy of a brand new car alarm, that might be so. But it's slightly dented family sedans as far as the eye can see, so I'm betting this alarm is circa 1990 or something. I'm sure the person who got it was wearing parachute pants at the time. *le sigh*

in college, idiots used to have their alarms going off all the damn time and it was miserable.

Yeah, but at least then you could go get the R.A. who had keys and would shut it off. Or at least in my dorms you could. And even better, the R.A. (for her pain and aggrivation on a Saturday morning) would leave a strongly worded note to whomever about making sure their alarms were off *before* they went home for the weekend.

[br0ken_dolly]

your RAs had keys to peoples cars?? whoa.

not us. and our RAs were useless anyway. they wouldn't even care whose car it was.

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

your RAs had keys to peoples cars?? whoa.

No, dude, to people's rooms. I thought you were talking about how people's alarm clocks were going off in their rooms when they went home for a weekend or something.

Our dorms were always, like, miles from the parking lots. We never had cars. We had drunk frat boys, but not cars.

[br0ken_dolly]

oh, haha.

some of the rooms overlook parking lots. small school. well, you saw it, hehe.

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that this post actually made me homesick. :| Only two years ... I hope ... before the Upstate Exile is over ...

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Awww! You'll be back in the big apple before you know it. And when you do, you should give me a ring. It'd be cool to meet. I'm in Queens (if you didn't know). Which part do you hale from?

[nightsinge.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh I have so had hour-long revenge fantasies about car alarms. Car alarms are the reason people like me are not allowed guns.

But you know, sometimes if you call the police they'll try to do something about it (normally just get the 4-1-1 and contact the asshole). It is a noise ordinance violation in many places.

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Car alarms are the reason people like me are not allowed guns.

Ditto. I swear, sometimes I really seriously consider leaving a nasty note or egging the person's car. Because, honestly, I think it's sort of rude and disrespectful towards one's neighbors.

But you know, sometimes if you call the police they'll try to do something about it (normally just get the 4-1-1 and contact the asshole).

I thought about that, but then I remembered that the last time we called to report a stolen car, they forgot about us and didn't come until the next morning. So, I figured it was better to close the windows and turn the music up rather than go through the hassle.