Where I used to live many years ago there was a songbird who copied the sound of my neighbour's car alarm going off, and being reset. I was amused

There was a bird near my old house that copied the sound of my neighbour turning off his(?) car alarm. Perhaps not up to Lyrebird standards, but it was still pretty funny.

If it had an alarm system, dad wouldn't need to lock the door. Said alarm system would only enable when central locking was engaged, which the driver would do.

Car alarms don't engage or disengage when a random door is locked or unlocked. they would not be useful were that they case. They are armed only when they get a command from the central locking system. That same command will also lock all doors.

If your car doesn't have central locking, it doesn't have an alarm. Now you can, of course, install an aftermarket alarm that use uses a code or fob to arm. In that case, the arming is completely separate from the locks, and you can leave the doors unlocked and it will not affect its operation. Still on the driver to arm it.

So no, there is no point at whining at your passengers to lock the doors if you have a car with an open top. Either you arm the alarm with the key or fob, which will handle locking, or you don't have that, in which case it doesn't matter because someone can just hop in.

I can agree with that, but it's also sacrilegious to drive one in your neighborhood. I mean, I can run my Jeep with open headers and be a loud obnoxious dickhead that sets off car alarms as I pass too, but why? No problem with this on the track, at the show, or in his garage, but on the street it's not just obnoxious, it's dangerous...I'm certain that is loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage to anyone on the sidewalk or in the street...and that's bad...MmmmmK?

Fuck car alarms! I got Jason in my trunk. Nobody steals my car and lives!

@eric3579, here is a transcript. So you can get the info without the annoying delivery:


And finally, New Rule: there are scandals, and then there are scandals. And perspective is important. Yes, to explain Benghazi, Susan Rice used talking points. But at least she didn't have to read them off her hand! [graphic of Palin looking into her palm]

Now this week, someone was taken off a cross-country flight in handcuffs for singing "I Will Always Love You" for three straight hours. And that's still fewer times has said "Benghazi". I've seen this woman [Megyn Kelly] say Benghazi on my TV so many times, I don't know if it's a problem with the set, or I'm in an Asian horror movie, and there's a monster named Benghazi.

Congressman and friend of Real Time Darrell Issa is the Chairman of the Oversight Committee, and as most Californians know, he made his fortune in car alarms. And now, ironically, has become a loud, repetitive, but ultimately pointless device that you wish to God someone would shut off so you could get some sleep. (audience applause)

But here's the difference between Darrell Issa and a car alarm. Sometimes when a car alarm goes off, there's an actual crime. I keep looking for the crime here, I feel like Reese Witherspoon arguing with the cop. Why are you arresting me? Susan Rice said "mob" instead of "al-Qaeda"? Obama said "act of terror" instead of "terrorist act"?

Republicans are constantly coming up with these never before stated secret rules, that they only tell you about once you've broken them.

"You don't make important speeches from a teleprompter!"

OK.

"No golfing until we have a budget!"

All right.

"Thou shalt not criticize the President when he's on foreign soil, unless he's a Democrat, of course, then it's OK."

Congressman Peter King thundered that the President was almost four minutes into his first Benghazi statement before he mentioned an act of terror! Ah yes, the four-minute rule. Fuck, how could I forget?!

'Scuse me, Nixon ran a burglary ring out of the Oval Office. Reagan traded arms with terrorists. Bush ginned up a war where thousands died by sending Colin Powell to lie to the UN with props, remember that? He turned an American hero into General Carrot Top! But I let it go. I said this is the business we've chosen.

But please, don't tell me that freedom died because Susan Rice broke the scared bond between citizens and talk shows. In a poll this week, 4 in 10 Republicans said Benghazi is the worst scandal in American history. Second worst? Kanye West snatching the mic from Taylor Swift.

If you think Benghazi is worse than slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, Tuskegee, purposefully injecting Guatemalan mental patients with syphilis, lying about WMDs, and the fact that banks today are still foreclosing on mortgages they don't own, then your hard-on for Obama has lasted more than four hours, and you need to call a doctor. (wild audience cheering and applause)

And while the press has been occupied with scandal, the biggest scandal, and the most important story of the century so far, happened last week. Scientists reported that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has passed the long-feared milestone of 400 parts per million. And unless you're a chimney sweep, that's bad news. Because humans have never lived through it.

You think Susan Rice gave bogus talking points about Benghazi? What about the bullshit talking points the entire Republican Party has been spewing on climate change since the 90s? (audience applause)

I wanna see the e-mails to find out who came up with the talking points that global warming is just a theory, and that it needs more study, and climate change is a hoax. The Obama administration isn't dirty, the air is.

This trailer is much more subtle and satisfying than the action-orientated U.S trailer with it's shrieking car-alarm soundtrack.

There's this guy that rides his chopper up and down my street at all hours of the night setting off car alarms. I would definitely do this to him...but I'd hit him. Then I'd burn out on his skull, rooster-tailing bone fragments and grey matter into the faces of his loved ones while they're forced to watch.

You know what they need is flash fog for the flash mob, like this: http://videosift.com/video/Car-alarm-smokes-burglars-out

Lock the doors, kill the lights, turn on a strobe and a guarantee you they would all be on the floor crawling around until the police showed up with a paddy wagon;)

Living in Beijing, the spring festival is like the 4th of July on steroids. Every night for at least a week, people buy the most powerful explosives they can (which are well past any potency limits we set in the US) and blow them up well into the night. In the first nights of the festival, from 7PM to 3AM, I heard nothing but powerful "BOOM"'s and car alarms going off.

On the other hand, the view is impressive, with stunning showers of light seen all over the cityscape.

I know of some car alarms that are this sensitive.

That's one hell of a car alarm.

Great, a pet with a car alarm...

I have a flock of birds (not sure what type .. the loudest ones?) that have built a nest around / in the air conditioner in my bedroom window. They have been waking me up like a fucking car alarm going off every god damned morning at the crack of dawn for a week straight.

This made me slightly less likely to kill them all.

Thanks.