I'm gonna tourch the neighbors car.

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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:52 am

A few nights ago one of my neighbors car alarm went off. Now i live in an big apartment complex so there are a few cars on the parking lot. This specific one is so close that i can throw a stone at it if it wasn't for the confined space of my room. Imagine a car alarm going on and off for the entire night and throughout the morning the next day. going on for about 30 secs and then off again for about 1 second to a few minutes and then on again. A cycle like that could last for 15-30 minutes and then quiet would reign for a time. But after that it went on again. I slept less than 4 hours that night. Last night however was quiet and i figured that the owner had fixed the problem.

Well, guess i was wrong

Now the fuckers car is at it again and to such an extent that there isn't even any use in trying to go to sleep. The sound isn't loud enough to wake me should i manage to go to sleep. My girlfriends persistent coughing however is. Between the two of them i can look forward to a night of no sleep and lying awake grinding my teeth in anger. I am a nice person, except when it comes to the lads, however i am seriously contemplating giving the alarm a reason to go off for once.

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 1066

That happened once when I was a kid. A neighbor's car alarm started up in the middle of the night and would not stop. It just kept cycling over and over and over. The owner of the car? At a bar all night. And the genius took the car keys with him so his wife couldn't turn the alarm off herself.

Eventually, one of our neighbors (god bless 'em) took matters into their own hands by using a crowbar to pop the hood and dismantled the alarm system. When the cops finally showed up the next morning, the car's owner tried to file a police report for the damage done. Let's just say the police, who had been fielding calls from our neighborhood all night, were less than sympathetic.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:16 am

Being in a small town (8000 people) our local police will deal with stuff like this. They will call the owner of the car and inform them what is going on. If they don't do anything they get a citation, and possibly towed.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:58 am

Can't you call the police about it? Isn't it considered disturbing the peace? Wouldn't they do something about it?

And if not, then you should shoot it. Evil or Very Mad

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 1066

^It really comes down to whether or not you live in an area where there's a lot of real crime or not. If you live in a neighborhood where the cops have more pressing things focus on, sometimes citizen have to take matters into their own hands (Like whoever my lovely neighbor was. I really wish I knew so I could have hugged them.).

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:48 am

Wait until it is sounding. Throw a brick through the windshield. Either the neighbor will decide to do something about it, or the police will respond to the report of an actual crime when you call and say the alarm is sounding and you just heard breaking glass Shocked

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:12 am

Unless your fingerprints are on file some place...

RL vs Internet advice Difference is hand cuffs and jail cells. Shocked

Call the police, call the manager of the property. Keep your head about you. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:51 am

Does your local/city council not have an enviromental health department that deals with undue noise?

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:43 am

Deal with the problem at the source.
Leave the car alone and hit the owner in the goolies.

Or there's always these:

No. Don't thank me. Free advice is all part of the service here at Eater.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:49 am

I do like the unhetero earmuffs. To bad all mine had tigers and lightnings on them thus rendering them unusable for me.
Calling the police isn't a bad idea. I'll try that if the problem persists. However last night it stopped before i went to bed (2 am) and i never heard it again. But when i wrote the post the bloody thing was at it constantly.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:04 pm

The battery will go flat one day. problem solved.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:04 pm

Well, a car alarm is nothing compared to three drunk idiots who climbed your balcony. They were totally stoned and calling the police was useless at that time.
No need to tell how it was ended.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:10 pm

Hopefully calling the Police means they will have strong words with the owner and persuade him to get his alarm looked at or leave it off. If that fails make your coughing girlfriend sleep outside with the alarm to drown her out.

The down side about involving the Police is that then you can never take direct action, as they know who to arrest first.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:43 pm

Why not just send the car to Chad? You've sent so many lads there, why not an obnixious automobile? Twisted Evil

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:49 pm

^^ That sounds like you've had an 'experience' Roy?

I sympathise Dr Mike, I was once kept awake by a house alarm whose owners were away for the weekend. Unfortunately it didn't have the 20 minute cut off that is standard these days and was whining all night and into mid-afternoon the next day. Don't know if the owners came back or a closer neighbour got the ladders out and 'fixed' it, but the rest of that day was bliss.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:48 pm

I saw him looking into the hood today so he know something is wrong now at least. I do hope he acts upon it.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 669

^^ You never know. He might be installing a more distinct and piercing alarm sound so that he won't sleep through it again. Of course this means thorough testing.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:46 pm

Dr. Mike, offer to assist with the repairs! Install a toggle (water proof, of course) under the fender so you can solve the problem when they are unavailable to. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:33 pm

buy some codeine for your girlfriend

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:43 pm

Have all the neighbours chip in to have it towed to some place in town where if he's lucky all that will be left is the bricks they jack it up on and a few assorted pieces of trim.

But then he might get a bigger better louder alarm for the next time.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:06 pm

Dr Mike wrote:

I saw him looking into the hood today

And you resisted the urge to slam it on him? Laughing

Quote:

buy some codeine for your girlfriend

No way. Buy the codeine for yourself & sleep through it all.

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:20 am

I had an idea. Hire or borrow a big PA system, and put the speakers outside your house, pointing at the neighbour's house.

Put a mike over where your girlfriend sleeps, if the alarm goes off, turn the PA up to 11, and when she has a coughing fit, hit the 'on' button.

Of course you should site the button where you could NEVER hit the switch during a bout of vigorous lurve making, or a row. Shocked

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:46 am

I have never understood why a car alarm should go off for more than a couple of minutes. I mean is there any chance of the thief still hanging around the car three hours later??

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:48 am

I do like bearkat419's ideas. Both of them, and now when my girl have have once again come up with a fever it might be time to take some happy pills or some shit to put me to sleep.

The car have been quiet since i saw him fiddle with it. And while i do like Roycropper's idea too there is a big problem with it. I live in an 10 story house with 40 apartments in it, and beside are a few more just like it. So that would make me the bad guy as he would be one of only hundreds of people able to hear that racket.

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:53 am

Oh, I did some digging and I now understand. You wanted to shine a LIGHT (torch) on your neighbor's car. You probably wanted to shine the torch on the boot or bonnet.

Sadly, I get confused with language some times. I wish you well with your shining incident. Let us know how it comes out.

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