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- From: psionic@wam.umd.edu (Sixth Plane of Hell)
- Subject: Re: Car alarms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.205000.18486@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:50:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.052253.6048@u.washington.edu> miolnir@stein.u.washington.edu (Scot Thorstad) writes:
- >
- > Anyone have any particularly nasty things to do to the bastards
- >whose car alarms start screaming a 1:00 am and never shut up?
- >(I expect something good from you a.t people)
- >scot
-
- Ok well if the alarm is annoying you I suggest you get a small pair of
- tree pruners and place them in your hand.
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- Second you approach the offending vehicle and crawl underneath with the
- pruners.
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- Third take said pruners and cut the positive line on the battery cable.
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- The alarm should now be silent.
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- Now for my last 2 cents before this subject dies.
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- On the subject of false alarms. What it boils down to is the equipment and
- the installation. If you use cheap equipment you get cheap results. There
- are many "professional" alarm systems that are cheap and false quite a bit.
- If you see cars that have these alarms and you know they are falsing make
- a mental note of it and don't buy those systems. .
-
- Also the installation is important. Many times faulty adjustment on the
- shock sensors creates false alarms. What people don't realize is that you
- don't need to set these devices so that if you touch the car they
- activate. This is useless because you get an alarm that falses during
- rainstorms and when people walk by. In other words you get the boy
- who cries wolf. These sensors are designed to detect hard shocks to the car's
- body and glass. They are not made to detect when your car is lightly hit with
- a car door in a parking lot, or when somoeone leans on your car. If you car
- alarm can detect these things you will get false alarms.
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- To whoever recommended pager systems. You are right. The only person who
- cares about a car alarm going off is the owner of the vehicle!! The sound
- of the alarm is to potentially bring attention to the vechicle and scare
- off the offender. Generally though people will not call the police for you.
- In my car I have an audible and silent alarm. So I get the best of both worlds
- I usually recommend that most other people do the same..
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- psionic@wam.umd.edu
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