Things that frost my gourd (Part 4)

This one is now, officially, way WAY past annoying! Sometime last week a neighbour of mine got either a new car with an alarm, or had an alarm installed in their existing car.

I am forced to the sad conclusion that whomever owns this car has yet to figure out how the alarm works. I reached this conclusion after nearly a week of the alarm going off between 15 to 30 times a day (we just had the 3rd alarm since 5:00 am this morning).

This is not one of those beep-pause-beep-pause-beep .... at a medium volume alarms. This is one of those incredibly loud everything-but-the-kitchen-sink type alarms: a few loud chirps, followed by a bit of fire engine, a bit of police car, a bit of air-raid siren, a smidge of big truck "I'm backing up" alarm and one noise I can only describe as a high pitched sort of fog horn sound. Then begin again.

Average time from beginning to end: 1 minute, 45 seconds.

Longest alarm duration to date: 18 minutes.

Whoops .. thar she blows!

Time of alarm: spread out across the day quite evenly, but a few really nasty (as in more than 5 minutes) episodes between 1:30 and 4:00 am three nights this week.

I wish they would read the manual and learn how to set the sensitivity level, how to open their car to go to work at 5:30 in the morning without setting the alarm off, and how to shut the thing off when it has been triggered (under 30 seconds would be nice).

Crap! There it goes ... again!

Snarl. Argh! Spit!

Oh my God ... AGAIN!