Car Alarms

At some point our lives, a parent or teacher relates to us the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. By the tender age of three, we typically understand that screaming bloody murder for no reason will make it much more difficult to get attention when we actually need it. There are some exceptions.

So. Makers/buyers of car alarms. Did your parents not read to you when you were young? If they did, you were clearly not paying attention to the Wolf-crying Boy and his ensuing plight. I doubt there is a single instance in car alarms' entire history of someone hearing a car alarm and exclaiming, "Honey, a car alarm! Quick, call the police!...Nevermind there's no time for that we must STOP THE ROBBER!" Even if we accept that the sound will deter a robber once it has been set off...at that point they have already broken into your car.

Much like the parents of the wolf crier, we have become conditioned to ignore the shrieking of car alarms because we know that they are not indicators of any actual peril. The list of things more likely to set off a car alarm than a break-in is quite substantial: a neighborhood cat, a love-tap from another car, a grazing by a bicycle, a gust of wind, a statistically insignificant change in atmospheric pressure or temperature, an electrical malfunction of the stupid device itself, and so on.

Stop the noise pollution. Go lo-jack. Or go old school.

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