QUOTE (dannyboy @ Jul 7 2009, 10:34 AM)
Ah, the community spirit, alive & well. You should be thinking 'Crikey, someone is trying to steal my neighbour's car & he is not in - what shall I do?'. Not, 'Bloody car alarm'.
The trouble is in all the years I've been hearing car alarms going off not once was it connected to a theft or an attempted theft of a car. the other problem with the car alarms going off randomly is that when they start becoming a nuisance they lose their effectiveness as car alarms.
Concerning doing something; a neighbour phoned the police a couple of years ago because his neighbours car alarm went off and nobody was there and the police refused to come out because, the said, "they are becoming a nuisance. If we rushed out every time a car alarm went off we would have no police officers for other work." So who do you contact?