Toyota gets terminated with Extreme Prejudice...

Goes to show you not everyone is enamored with Toyotas...

Hey, a LOT of people don't like Japanese cars!

Of course he shouldn't have done that, but I can certainly understand the sentiment. When I lived in Florida last year, in an apartment, there were about 4 different cars whose alarms went off when some stupid twit would drive through with blaring bass on their car stereos. I think alarms are pretty much useless, since nobody's going to lift a finger to stop a thief from stealing your heap. I know there are way more sophisticated ones that aren't so sensitive, but I find alarms to be nothing more than yet more noise pollution. Has anyone here ever seen where a car alarm actually stopped a car theft?

Natalie, just curious

That would be the way I see it, too.

Not to mention the whole "little boy that cried wolf" syndrome....we've all heard WOLF WOLF so much, we just don't give a shit anymore.

Not to my knowledge.

-LMB

heh - I'm shocked :-P

Yup - and the milk of human kindness is sour these days

Anyone else?

Natalie

Good Gawd, a Celica I could understand but.....

O_O

Natalie

Alarm

Being local, we got to see the tv reports about this. My initial reaction to the story was to laugh. Then I immediately told myself, "Badgirl.", in between bouts of laughter.

I'm sorry, but the underlying humor in this stunt was just too ripe.

**Natalie

Probably should've added 'having the alarm to begin with' ;)

Logic states that the only people who give a sh*t about a tripped burglar alarm (car or house) are the owner, members of their immediate family, and neighbors who are friends or in an active Neighborhood Watch program.

Nobody else is going to do much more - except maybe stay way back and get a description of the thief, and tell the cops which direction they drove off. But I wouldn't put money on even that much. More likely, they close the windows and turn up the TV or stereo, it's that whole dumb "I'm not getting involved" mindset.

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WHEW!

Natalie, putting the nitro glycerin tablet back into its bottle...

I wouldn't say it's 'dumb', since we're so used to the damned things making a racket for no good reason.

Natalie

A while back (before car alarms got to be common) I installed a LOUD JC Whitney mechanical siren and voltage drop sensor on my Dodge coupe. I didn't put any warning decals on the car, and the on-off key switch was mounted in an unobtrusive location.

While I was at work one Saturday a thief broke out the left front wing window and reached inside to open the door, setting off the alarm when the dome light came on. S/he was in such a hurry to get their arm out that they scraped it on the broken glass sill of the wing window. There was blood everywhere - I guess they cut a vein. The car wasn't otherwise vandalized, and nothing was taken.

Would such an alarm work today in a crowded parking lot? I doubt it.

Aftermarket security systems seem to be very prone to false alarms, I have never had that problem with the factory security system.

Me too, but what poetic justice!

Natalie

Exactly. Hence my mentioning of the term "cry wolf... "

We've heard "WOLF" so much, we figure there just ain't one there...

-LMB

Um, whoa up there, FJ...

Nice....

Did you hear my story about the Blaupunkt with the razor blades soldered in? Same thing...