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Old 05-25-2004, 10:30 AM   #1
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Honk honk honk wee-oooo wee-ooo bwoop bwoop bwoop

Can we ban car alarms from this planet? Please? Can we get a law on the books to silence these useless pieces of junk electronics?

At one, two, three, and five AM this morning some retard's riced-out Mitsubishi's horn decided to go off for ten minute intervals for no goddamn reason. Once ten minutes had elapsed and the alarm finally went quiet, it seemed to only be catching its breath as it would begin again two or three seconds later.

What causes these things to go off for no reason? And, for that matter, how do you handle this problem without resorting to taking out your agression with a baseball bat? I actually considered stuffing rags into the air intake to try to muffle the thing.
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Old 05-25-2004, 10:43 AM   #2
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bb gun?
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Old 05-25-2004, 10:56 AM   #3
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Go to court... You could get the owner because he or his proprety didn't respect "night-silence" (don't know if the word exists). Over here it's forbidden to be noisy between 1am and 6am (I think)...
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Old 05-25-2004, 11:04 AM   #4
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I'm considering designing a high voltage discharge device that should take care of the problem.

An inverter, two or three extra batteries in the trunk and a flourescent light ballast should do it.

Any other ideas?
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Old 05-25-2004, 11:10 AM   #5
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determine the address of the owner of the car, hook a clapper up to a high powered boom box, conceal it in their bushes outside the bedroom window, run the clapper out near the car. when the alarm goes off, the radio will wake the owner. put a tape loop in the boom box of you saying "TURN THAT GODDAMN ALARM OFF, ASSHOLE!!!!"

that oughta do it
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Old 05-25-2004, 11:31 AM   #6
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a disposeable camera (get old ones free from the shops usually) with a flash has a wonderful little capacitor that can fry more things, nice and small. Rig a few together in paralell for more fun (also great for making gauss guns)
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Old 05-25-2004, 12:57 PM   #7
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An inverter, two or three extra batteries in the trunk and a flourescent light ballast should do it.

Ahh, yeah! Where would you hook it to the car, though?

This means I might finally have an excuse to order some sweet high voltage devices!
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Old 05-25-2004, 01:07 PM   #8
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Re: Honk honk honk wee-oooo wee-ooo bwoop bwoop bwoop

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Can we ban car alarms from this planet? Please? Can we get a law on the books to silence these useless pieces of junk electronics?

At one, two, three, and five AM this morning some retard's riced-out Mitsubishi's horn decided to go off for ten minute intervals for no goddamn reason. Once ten minutes had elapsed and the alarm finally went quiet, it seemed to only be catching its breath as it would begin again two or three seconds later.

What causes these things to go off for no reason?
I've had that happen to me twice in life. While it wasn't late at night, it was still annoying.

What happened was that a screw had come loose from under the stering wheel, and for some reason, set off the horn. Basically, the return of said screw solved the problem quickly.

I have no idea how that Mitsubishi is wired, so maybe it's not as simple as a loose screw.
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Old 05-25-2004, 01:43 PM   #9
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An inverter, two or three extra batteries in the trunk and a flourescent light ballast should do it.

Ahh, yeah! Where would you hook it to the car, though?

This means I might finally have an excuse to order some sweet high voltage devices!
I was just about to drag those guys out. They rock.

Depending on the car you would only need exposed, grounded metal.
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Old 05-25-2004, 02:26 PM   #10
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[voice of reason] you could always go knock on the guy's door and ask him to set the alarm on a less sensitive setting[/voice of reason]
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Old 05-25-2004, 02:32 PM   #11
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Hush, Voice of Reason.

Its actually not so easy when you live in an apartment complex and can't locate the guy. I planned to drop a note on the car this morning, but the owner left before I was able to force myself out of bed. (Gee, wonder why I had a difficult time getting up early?)

Besides, this is my version of fun.
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Old 05-25-2004, 02:37 PM   #12
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oh, yeah. that kind of shoots my boom box idea in the ass, too.

put vaseline under his door handles...lots of it
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Old 05-25-2004, 02:45 PM   #13
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Kitsune, gotta give you props on the thread title. It cracks me up every time I read it.
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Old 05-25-2004, 03:02 PM   #14
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You want to get him really badly? Piss or vomit into his ventilation system (those holes just near the front window)... That's nasty... He'll never get rid of the smell, so he can't sell his car anymore... Harharhar
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Old 05-25-2004, 03:06 PM   #15
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Kitsune, gotta give you props on the thread title. It cracks me up every time I read it.
yeah. i can hear it. bwoop bwoop bwoop.......great.
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