Current Events > Let's face facts: Car alarms are a net loss for humanity.

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Shablagoo
07/26/21 1:29:41 PM
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Have they literally ever helped anyone? I find it doubtful, but perhaps you can find a few isolated cases. But even if they help 0.1% of the time, thats 99.9% of their time spent annoying the fuck out of everybody (including the car owner).

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s0nicfan
07/26/21 1:31:16 PM
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Car alarms are less about stopping a thief after he's already broken into your car and more about causing the thief to instead choose to break into a different car that doesn't have an alarm.

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monkmith
07/26/21 1:32:24 PM
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they're great when you lose your car in the parking lot.

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R1masher
07/26/21 1:36:32 PM
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Alarms like locks only keep honest people honest they wont stop a thief

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SiO4
07/26/21 1:39:48 PM
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I had to stop locking my car because the car alarm would go off randomly.
To be fair it was an older car...

...But it was something to wake up to hear it going off and wonder how long that was happening.
It was a great car though, but she has been put to rest now. Best car I ever had.
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PatrickMahomes
07/26/21 1:40:07 PM
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surprised no one's made a smart alarm at this point

not that it would be flawless but it sure would be less fuckin annoying to everyone else (aside from the owner whose phone would probably start yelling at them)

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Shablagoo
07/26/21 3:01:43 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Car alarms are less about stopping a thief after he's already broken into your car and more about causing the thief to instead choose to break into a different car that doesn't have an alarm.

Yeah...obviously. But the majority of the time theyre just going off for no reason. I doubt many thieves have been stopped by them. Certainly far, far more ear drums have been irritated than burglars stopped.

R1masher posted...
Alarms like locks only keep honest people honest they wont stop a thief

Yeah, exactly.

monkmith posted...
they're great when you lose your car in the parking lot.

Huh, my fob doesnt have the option to set off the alarm.

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TheRadiant
07/26/21 3:02:44 PM
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My mom had a Nissan pathfinder that'd basically go off if you so much as looked at it funny

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ApherosyLove
07/26/21 3:04:03 PM
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There was a whole ass movie about this with Tim Robbins.

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monkmith
07/26/21 3:32:57 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Huh, my fob doesnt have the option to set off the alarm.
no panic button? its theoretically useful if you're being attacked and actually useful to locate your car...

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Trumble
07/26/21 3:35:11 PM
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A hardened criminal who wants to sell the car for drugs, or use it to commit a bigger crime, won't care. But the bored teenager who wants to push the limits but doesn't want to get caught, might.

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theAteam
07/26/21 3:35:45 PM
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TheRadiant posted...
My mom had a Nissan pathfinder that'd basically go off if you so much as looked at it funny

Every time I turn my motorcycle on in the parking garage there's an SUV that goes off.

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Shablagoo
07/26/21 3:38:02 PM
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ApherosyLove posted...
There was a whole ass movie about this with Tim Robbins.

lol it sounds pretty fun actually

monkmith posted...
no panic button? its theoretically useful if you're being attacked and actually useful to locate your car...

actually maybe there is, and Im just forgetting because Ive never used it. ill check when my roommate gets home with the car.


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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
07/26/21 3:39:21 PM
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monkmith posted...
they're great when you lose your car in the parking lot.

Yup.

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CADE FOSTER
07/26/21 3:39:42 PM
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ApherosyLove posted...
There was a whole ass movie about this with Tim Robbins.
I though you were fucking around but its called noise lol

After years of listening to blaring car alarms in Manhattan, lawyer David (Tim Robbins) has had enough. Taking to the streets, he begins vandalizing cars with increasing violence, until his wife (Bridget Moynahan) finally kicks him out. As David escalates his campaign against noisy automobiles, he b
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Aressar
07/26/21 4:09:52 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
I though you were fucking around but its called noise lol

After years of listening to blaring car alarms in Manhattan, lawyer David (Tim Robbins) has had enough. Taking to the streets, he begins vandalizing cars with increasing violence, until his wife (Bridget Moynahan) finally kicks him out. As David escalates his campaign against noisy automobiles, he b

Sounds like my kind of movie. This is exactly one of the reasons why I dislike cars in general.

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EmbraceOfDeath
07/26/21 4:14:06 PM
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g0ldie
07/26/21 4:19:02 PM
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it's even worse because those dumbass birds mimick the sound, and screech it out super early in the morning

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Choco
07/26/21 4:19:57 PM
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the car alarm meme is fascinating to me because i've only heard a car alarm once in my life

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Choco
07/26/21 4:20:19 PM
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g0ldie posted...
it's even worse because those dumbass birds mimick the sound, and screech it out super early in the morning
lmfao

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GMAK2442
07/26/21 4:20:53 PM
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I think it could discourage the cars stealers.

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kingdrake2
07/26/21 5:41:50 PM
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g0ldie posted...
it's even worse because those dumbass birds mimick the sound, and screech it out super early in the morning


https://youtu.be/V18ovCrlh8U?t=8
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ApherosyLove
07/26/21 5:42:47 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
I though you were fucking around but its called noise lol

After years of listening to blaring car alarms in Manhattan, lawyer David (Tim Robbins) has had enough. Taking to the streets, he begins vandalizing cars with increasing violence, until his wife (Bridget Moynahan) finally kicks him out. As David escalates his campaign against noisy automobiles, he b
Let this be a lesson.
ApherosyLove don't fuck around.

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