Snoozing a Car Alarm
I want to sleep. It’s 1:30am in Seattle and some f*ing car in the f*ing parking lot next to my building has been blaring its alarm for the last 10 minutes. If you design an alarm system for a car, I plead with you to make the damn thing turn off after 5 minutes. Tops. I get it. It’s going off, something set it off, but you know what? I don’t care. It’s too late. It’s too late for anyone to do anything about why it was violated and it’s stupid. Yes, car alarms are stupid. No one cares. Heck, that alarm is so annoying, I’d like to go hit it with a baseball bat. But you see, it’s 1:33am now. So just let me sleep.
I was actually up late enough one night to hear the alarm of my own car go off, so I was able to run down and find the glove left behind by whoever broke a small window to try to get in. (Yay, me?) But yeah, overly sensitive alarms are a nuisance. I chalk it up to sloppy installation work or cheap equipment.