How Brooklynites Deal with Annoying Nighttime Car Alarms
As seen on Henry Street. Note to self: If I had a car and that car had an alarm, I'd definitely refrain from parking said car on Henry. (Don't miss the "friendly" notes tucked under the car's windshields, just in case the owner was unsure of how a dog with that much backup got on top of his/her car.)
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but wait! what did the notes say!?
The dog dump is a bit much, but I'll admit I was imagining far heavier objects hitting this car's windshield when it woke me up at 6 am this morning!
They should be lucky they didn't get a cinder block through the window.
They're lucky the dog dumper wasn't Tim Robbins
http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/15/its-man-vs-car-in-nyc-and-tim-robbins-is-the-rectifier/
I actually live very close to this abomination. It kept me up all night. It went off about every 20 minutes, about 10-15 times starting at around 3 am. I was ready to take a baseball bat to it.
When I lived next to the BQE I always thought to myself, "I'm glad it's hard to get your hands on a rocket propelled grenade launcher, because I'd blast these damn tractor-trailers and their 10sec horn blasts at 3am." I'm sure I'd feel much the same about a car alarm going off every 10min around the same time of night.
what the hell is wrong with these people? do they think the owner actually heard his alarm going off and ignored it all night?
I inflict a simpler and more proportionate punishment on cars with hairtrigger alarms. I snap off the sideview mirror. The owner can still drive the car, but will eventually need to get it fixed. That will waste a few hours of his time (just as I lost a few hours sleep) and a few hundred dollars. It's quick and easy. Sitting on the sideview mirror and giving a quick downward thrust usually does the trick.
AAh Dennis, but you missed the best part about living near the BQE, those tractor trailer horn blasts set off car alarms!
Put a bunch of poo under the door handle so when they go to open the door - voila! simple yet classic
Dennis - you're a dope - You lived next to a 6 lane highway and you complained about horns? What the hell did you expect?
That's like living in an industrial area and complaining that a lot of trucks drive through.
Love it!!! I live next to an elevated subway that sets off hairtrigger alarms, and I know exactly what Dennis is saying about rocket launchers. The good news is, if the schmuck parks in the same area for long enough, both horn and car battery will die natural deaths. The bad news is that the rest of us have to try to sleep through it for a couple of weeks. (Really good news would be knowing where to get a rocket launcher!)
That car owner deserves this and more. The owner not hearing it is not an excuse. The luxury of being a car owner in New York does not give you the right to damage the peace of your fellow community members. There is no need for such hair trigger alarms in this day age. If car owners are so concerned about damage or theft they should spend the extra money to use a garage.
I feel sorry for anyone living near this selfish rude ass.
Heroic... I was thinking of doing the same thing to a neighbor who was stealing my NY Times every morning. You know, fill up the blue bag with fertilizer and see how well he could read his news then...
Beto, reminds me of the tick to keep people from eating your food from the break-room fridge at work. Just make a sandwich with dog food. (dried poo would be better of course, more impact)
I keep looking at this poop post to find out what the notes say! What do they say???
Beto:
I sat and waited for my NYTimes thief - two early mornings worth of stakeouts. When he came and got it, I sprang out the door and said: "Do not take my newspaper!" He turned around like, excuse me (indignantly which made me livid). I said, "give me back my newspaper" and he threw it back at me.
I then watched him walk down the block and take someone else's and continue on his way. Dont know if those people ever caught him but he hasnt been back for mine!
But if you dont have the time for the stakeout, I say go for the blue bag of poo!
Maybe someone can comment on what the note SHOULD say.
If I took the time to stake out the NYT thief, I would have thrown a "poo" ball the size of a softball right at his face. It would've been soft so would not have injured him.
I think the best solution is to take a bottle of cheap balsamic vinegar and pour it down into the slots at the base of the windshield so that the car wafts of sheer sour delightfulness. Or, just dump a bowl of scrambled raw eggs all over the hood, windshield & roof. If you know anything about eggs and car paint... (not a good mix). These ass-hole car owners who allow their alarms to ruin everyone else's quality of life deserve much more than to just have their car assaulted.
I too can become enraged with car alarms that sound thru the night (I have a small child), but I think a terse note suggesting the owner have the alarm adjusted is more than enough to get the point across. Damaging the car in any way, though tempting, is a very poor choice (and illegal).