Car Alarms must be Outlawed.

[jrussel]

They serve no useful purpose, other than to highlight the selfishness of car owners who are already polluting our air with their fumes and cluttering our streets with their ugly metal boxes.

One is currently going off, repeatedly, in my street and is sure to disturb me for most of the night. If ever there were an example of anti-social behaviour, it is leaving a contraption making an almighty din parked in a residential area.

This does really quite anger me.

[HonaloochieB]

jrussel Wrote:

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> They serve no useful purpose, other than to

> highlight the selfishness of car owners who are

> already polluting our air with their fumes and

> cluttering our streets with their ugly metal

> boxes.

>

> One is currently going off, repeatedly, in my

> street and is sure to disturb me for most of the

> night. If ever there were an example of

> anti-social behaviour, it is leaving a contraption

> making an almighty din parked in a residential

> area.

>

> This does really quite anger me.

Trump.

This so does really quite anger me.

[TillieTrotter]

This so does really quite anger me SOMETIMES

[Brendan]

I think you are unfairly going after car alarms there. It?s the speakers for car alarms that are the culprits. If they didn?t insist on fitting the things with speakers they wouldn?t make any noise at all.

[mockney piers]

The speakers are just following orders, if they were told to sing an aria by Mozart you wouldn't be complaining would you.

I blame the batteries myself, nasty acidic/alkaline characters they are too.

[Brendan]

I find your assertion ludicrous sir. If we were to work on that logic we would have to shut down the power stations to prevent people being hit by trains.

In my mind there is no doubt that the blame should be laid squarely* at the feet of the manufacturers of audio devices.

* How exactly you lay something squarely I have no idea.

[mockney piers]

Works for me, how much more romantic the age of steam, when men were men with moustaches and galoshes, and ladies were not afraid of whalebone.

Still, I'm afraid that someone may steal my Hansom; perhaps I could procure myself an urchin from East London and have him installed to screech loudly should any undesirable approach too closely, or if the skies thundered as they do when there is too much ether in the air.

[Brendan]

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[Brendan]

It is all well and good to look back with nostalgia at the availability of urchins and constitution of the women in times past but believe me it will not feel so romantic when you are shoving a handful of leaches down your trousers 3 times a day as treatment for the 3rd degree burns you received from your steam powered mobile phone.

Do I get a prize for the world?s longest sentence?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Glad to see you drew a line under that one Brendan.

[LuvPeckham]

See another useful thing about trees is that they help to absorb the sound of car alarms going off in the middle of the night Mr JRussel, just imagine how loud and echoie* they would be with no trees to deflect and absorb the sound...

Can I suggest planting more trees along our roads to help curb the menace of car alarms at night...

*is this a real word ??

[jrussel]

Replacing car parking spaces with trees would be an acceptable use of street space. It is when we try to accommodate both that there are problems.

LuvPeckham Wrote:

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> See another useful thing about trees is that they

> help to absorb the sound of car alarms going off

> in the middle of the night Mr JRussel, just

> imagine how loud and echoie* they would be with no

> trees to deflect and absorb the sound...

>

> Can I suggest planting more trees along our roads

> to help curb the menace of car alarms at night...

>

>

> *is this a real word ??

[HonaloochieB]

LuvPeckham Wrote:

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> See another useful thing about trees is that they

> help to absorb the sound of car alarms going off

> in the middle of the night Mr JRussel, just

> imagine how loud and echoie* they would be with no

> trees to deflect and absorb the sound...

>

> Can I suggest planting more trees along our roads

> to help curb the menace of car alarms at night...

> *is this a real word ??

It is now LP.

I could see it catching on as a name too, 'I christen this child Echoie Green'. Has a nice ring to it, that.

[KalamityKel]

Personally I'm not much of a fan of Mozart...