>> ^NordlichReiter:

>Kill switch technology. One of the main reasons you take your car to a "certified" radio technician to change the radio.


That's one thing I absolutely hate these days. My first car I could do anything on and actually did most of it, changed starters, distributors, pretty much anything that went wrong on it and I knew it inside and out. These days unless you've got $100,000 worth of equipment in your garage you can't do much more than change the oil and they'll find a way to make us need an expert for that too I'm sure.

Right up there with designed obsolescence for the things I hate the most about modern business.

Great story MGR, it's cool that you've got the humor to post about it. It was worth a laugh for me and I few others as well I'd imagine.

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>> ^thegrimsleeper:

Wahahahahahahahaha
Wow, that is the funniest thing I've read so far this year.

Oh, good...I see the "Hooked on Phonics" I bought you for Christmas is being put to good use.

>> ^MarineGunrock:< br />I did buy it used - but there is no secondary alarm system that I know of - I would have went off by now. Besides, as far as I know, it's not possible to install a secondary alarm on the car. I can't even get people to touch it to put a car starter on it.
If you so much as tinker with the electrical system, the computer shuts off to prevent theft. It then has to be towed to a dealership to be reset. (That's my understanding, anyway.)


Kill switch technology. One of the main reasons you take your car to a "certified" radio technician to change the radio.

I personally would relish seeing some wanker trying to steal my car, and then get in and try to drive it while the starter doesn't even turn!

>> ^spoco2:
they would be libel)... really, some people have no clue.


Liable...

i know how to get rid of the old hag by morning.

have mg park in your driveway tonight.

1) I daydream often, but retain full situational awareness
2) There's a 90% chance that I can kill you from 500 yards.
3) I have very little patience for stupid people on the road.
4) I have what are probably the world's flattest feet.
5) I can make farting noises with my neck/shoulder.
6) I can puff my neck out like a bull frog.
7) I can grab my uvula and pull it to the front of my mouth. It grosses people out.
When car alarms go off, I often fantasize about taking my rifle and shooting them.
9) PTSD is a bitch.
10) I'm only 23 and have owned four vehicles.
11) Two of them were/is a Volvo.
12) Children annoy me.
13) Except for my nieces and nephews.
14) I hate big cities.
15) I graduated in the bottom 12 percent of my High School class.
16) I was #9 in my MOS school in the Marine Corps. (Suck on that, Blankfist )
17) I love video games.
18) I'm a huge fan of Star Trek TNG and Voyager.
19) The first internet connection I had in my house as a kid was through freei.net, and I had to hide it from my parents and drag a phone line across the house to use it.
20) I'm a firm believer that all people who regularly buy bottles of water need to be punched in the face.
21) Won 2nd place in a NASA/Nat'l Science teacher's assc. "Design a spacecraft" contest when I was in grade school.
22) Got pissed that I didn't win first to get that trip to space camp.
23) People thought I was going to shoot up the school in High School. It worked to my advantage because the assholes that congregated in the middle of the hallway would part like the Red Sea when I walked down the hall.
24) I often get irritated at people and proclaim that I should be Supreme Chancellor of the World so that I could outlaw fat girls in belly shirts, guys in skin-tight pants with white plastic sunglasses, Emo, cheap beer, bottled water, cigarettes, slow drivers, people that don't pay attention to cyclists and anyone/thing else I am currently pissed at.
25) I didn't know I could count this high.

Man, another overly sensitive car alarm...

Man, car alarms go off at the slightest thing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B1_Lancer

also a 30-sec flyby here, so close it sets car off all the car alarms.

Maybe the car alarm exploded....

Does your popcorn maker set off car alarms? I thought not.

Another one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd1c51TZCFs

Yes, I live in LA, so we get a fair share of them on occasion. I'm originally from North Carolina, so when I came out here about nine years ago I tripped out when I experienced my first earthquake in Burbank. I was looking out of my window at all the palm trees shaking, the car alarms going off, and this eerie pause of silence. Then a transformer ignited (not the "more than meets the eyes" kind)into this beautifully slow burning orb of fire. Then it ended.

Since then all the others have paled in comparison. It's good to get them, though, because that means the plates are releasing pressure. Glad you're okay, iwastheturkey.

sorry, dupe:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Finally-a-car-alarm-that-works

*discard

actaully modern cell phones are designed to use the water in your skull to resonate as back plane for the antenna.

I'm not sure this works as well with car alarms which are MHz usually.