Car alarms are very pointless. Nobody cares to look anymore. I even see / hear car alarms that are going off while the person is driving it. Much safer to get a kill switch or a club. Or even better yet, drive an obscure & kinda junky 15 year old car around and don't even worry about someone stealing it.

"-eventually somebody will be crazy enough to get out of their car and beat you."

....and, if it's me, that'll be their final bow. Do the math: G23=13 x 40 S&W. Crazy no more.

What a thread full of a self-entitled jackasses.

Here I am, listening to some self righteous idiot play his cursed Chopin in the middle of the day.
He's a hopeless player, painful to listen to... so I go round the neighborhood setting off car car alarms to distract him from murdering his etudes.

/did rtfa
//would tase him

I'm not going to feel so bad when someone shoots him for doing this. Living in Manhattan and complaining about the noise is really dumb. Living in Manhattan and vandalizing people's cars is just idiotic.

I'd like to do this to jackasses who park their precious Lexii on the line between two parking places.

FriarTuck: What a farking nutball. Who lives in farkING LOWER MANHATTAN and complains about the noise?

You want quiet? Move to VT.

Tape a sign to my car with WOOD GLUE (not easily removable) and I'll punch the smirk off your face, old man.

It is also worthy to note that he admits in a newspaper to committing a trespass to property and vandalism.


/is wood glue any different than water based spray paint?

It's obviously not going to be quiet even with the removal of loud car alarms what with normal traffic noises, and of course the old man playing the piano, which I'm sure he doesn't think can be heard outside of his apartment.

That being said- He's hardly a nut for doing what he does. Clearly you have 0 idea what it's like to live in a situation like that, with car alarms that go off, and stay active for hours and hours and hours. Police can, and usually are called, but will only tow after a certain number of calls come in.

When I lived at 8th and 45th St. (aka: Times Sq/Broadway)...ya, noise was an issue, but most people I knew in the 'hood didn't mind transient noises- they come, they go. Normal Traffic, people on the street, etc. Horn honking and car alarms were brutal, and the way we (some of us in our building) handled it wasn't too far off from this old guy.

We like to do 2 things 1) throw water balloons, usually filled with non-flammables other than water, from our windows onto the cars. This was especially effective for horn-honkers. 2) 3 of us had Sling-shots and pellets. hehe.

Once I did get a bit nutty, though: when I had just started dating my now-ex we were walking through the Vill' and some cab pulls in front of us at a corner stop and proceeds to lay on the horn for the car in front of him. Of course, when you're subjected to this deafening sound by this thoughtless idiot you have but one good recourse- kick his door in. /shrug Lucky for me, the now-ex agreed with that.

The only people who are just absolutely clueless about life around them, the ones who make the noise, all seem to be, magically, from New Jersey. People who live in Manhattan knew how to act, well, at least in this regard.

You live in a place where privacy is at a premium, and a lot of space around you, where sound can travel, is common ground. It's not fair, or right, to take more of the common ground than someone else, nor is it fair or right for someone to subject others to their left-over noise.

Remember folks: It's not the noise he's complaining about, clearly some of you didn't read the article, or reading comprehension is beyond you. It's car alarms.

The antitheft device I religiously use for my 1989 Dodge Aries K car is that I simply unplug the engine's on-board computer or unplug the MAP sensor. That way I am protected either way.

Instead of papering card, Schroder should get the rest of the Peanuts Gang out there with him. I am sure that Lucy would knee cap a few, Snoopy could do some biting, PigPen could create the diversion with the dust, Franklin could jack the car with Charlie Brown, and Linus could snap his blanket at anyone trying to help the driver.

That's just outright vandalism, and he's damned foolish for admitting it.

Of course, I sympathize. Back in college there was this one douche who had an alarm that would go off at 3 AM if a wind blew... it would never start going off until 2 or 3... but it would go off until the sun rose. The alarm, itself, lasted 3-5 minutes... and it would go off every ten minutes or so. It's the reason I started wearing earplugs.

I almost resorted to vandalism... but one day the car just disappeared (I guess the arse graduated)

Frizbone The antitheft device I religiously use for my 1989 Dodge Aries K car is that I simply unplug the engine's on-board computer or unplug the MAP sensor. That way I am protected either way.

I had a K-Car. K-Car Wagon actually. It was a faded metallic maroon beast and was pretty fast for a used car (but the radio sucked). The summer I wanted to get rid of it, I left it unlocked, windows down when I would do my shopping or go run errands -- never worried as I could always take a cab. Parking it outside the house at night, I never locked it.

Summer passed, nothing. Not a single bite. Friend said I should have left the keys in it. That is still being debated though whether or not someone whould have stolen it or not. Ended up selling it for $300.

This guy should be President.

Fark the yuppies and their car alarms that piss off other people!!!

Oh yeah, the wagon was a slow oil burner, had rust holes in it, needed new brakes, and probably could not be safetied. Otherwise, I'd still be driving it at about 250,000 km (dunno, the odometer stuck at 189,000).

As someone who has cut a bunch of wires in a car with an over active alarm in an attempt to shut it up I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/didn't shut off the alarm so I'm still wondering what I ended up cutting.

Your Fairy Hockey Player: Bad move allowing the paper to show his face. You put wood glue on somebody's $30,000 piece of property, you pretty much deserve whatever you get.

Not a jury in the world would convict him.

Improper use of Hero tag, subby...5 demerits!

This is just the NY equivalent of get off of my lawn. You want quiet in which to practice your precious music?

DON'T LIVE IN NYC YOU DUMBASS

/sheesh

Glasgowsfinest: me too. Alarms are farking annoying and useless.

They may be useless, but they get me 10% off my insurance, which as a 21-30 year old male (despite having no moving violations or accidents that were my fault) is farking expensive.

A car alarm that only goes off for 5 minutes then sends an SMS to the owner would be far more effective.

Most car alarms do only go off for 5 minutes. I've never seen one that goes off all day and I live in a fairly large city. And also, maybe a warning would be nice first, since maybe, just maybe, the person doesn't know what's going on. My old car apparently had a piece of shiat vibration sensor that went off whenever the wanna be gangstas drove by with their all-woofer stereo systems. It only went off for 3 minutes each time, but apparently it did so all through the night. So my neighbor, instead of being a dick, called me and said, "Hey, you might want to get your alarm checked out, it goes off all night" and I said, "shiat, I'm sorry, I didn't hear it", and swapped out the vibration sensor, and now it works fine.

Are alarms annoying? Sure, sometimes. But what the fark, this precious little snowflake lives in Manhattan. I refuse to believe that car alarms are the only thing preventing him from playing his precious Chopin - what about emergency vehicle sirens, delivery trucks, drunken revelers, car horns, or just about any other noise associated with one of the largest farkin cities in the country! This guy sounds like a complete passive-aggressive ass. If it was the same car, every day, and he'd tried leaving a regular note (on paper), and the owner told him to fark off, then maybe this would be merited. But what if I have a perfectly functioning car alarm that does not get set off by rap music, but someone sideswipes my parked car and then drives off? How is that my fault?

I'd call the Waaaambulance for him, but he'd probably glue shiat to its windshield.

FTFA: "What's that alarm going to do?" he added. "We wouldn't take notice if the Queen of England was robbing her car. In fact, I think we'd all be glad!"

I love this town. And I hate alarms.

What a dick!

im surprised hes still alive.......id glue my foot to his forehead if he pulled a stunt like that on me......im sure that piano playing doesnt piss anybody off

Glasgowsfinest: Dirty420South: If you put any substance on my car, I will simply knock you the fark out. Is it cool if someone walks around and takes a shiat on your car? No... why the hell should glue be any different?

if your alarm keeps me awake for 6 hours because you don't turn it off, I will simply knock you the fark out.

you big bunch of wussies...

pianomanzero: Glasgowsfinest: Dirty420South: If you put any substance on my car, I will simply knock you the fark out. Is it cool if someone walks around and takes a shiat on your car? No... why the hell should glue be any different?

if your alarm keeps me awake for 6 hours because you don't turn it off, I will simply knock you the fark out.

Move if you can't handle the noise of a CITY. Geez.

He really needs an ipod to block out noise.

I used to live next door to a business that had an air horn system that was tied into their motion detectors. I have no idea what the problem was with their burglar alarm system but it would go off regularly at odd hours of the night and one of the air horns (the big metallic kind) was pointed at my house. I tried complaining to the owners, calling the police ... all the usual stuff. One day I snapped. I took my ladder and wire cutters and climbed up to where the air horns were attached to the building, cut their wiring, yanked the bastards off the building and left them in a pile at the front door.

Never had a problem after that.

I don't support violence against the elderly, but if I saw someone pasting something to my windshield because my antitheft device was activated and I wasn't there within a few minutes to disarm it, he'd get a good shaking at the very least.

Vigilante pianists: they'll Chopin your balls off.

I wonder if, when the reporter asked, "Could we take a picture of you with one of the signs for the paper?" and the guy agreed, if he ever thought, "That might turn out to be a bad decision."

(1) This guy is asshole, and i hope he gets hit from behind with a pipe to the back of the head, but he does have a point. Good for him for going after them, but fark him for causing lasting damage. he could have found another way to do it.


(2) Why the fark are you complaining about noise in NYC?


(3) I do have an alarm, but only because it keeps my insurance down


(4) For a real nasty revenge, put a bead of oil onto the windshield wipers. It may be a day or two till they have to turn them on, but when they do, oh what fun. The benefit of it is, its not noticeable till the wipers are needed, so by the time the driver notices it, its away from the "scene of the crime". The downside is, since its a delayed punishment, the driver wont know for what he is being punished, and wont correct his behavior. Same as with a dog.

i wonder if his apartment is sound proof....because that seems like the curtious thing to do if youre playing instruments with people living above below and on the side of you....ever think of that douchebag

If I caught this guy pasting something to the windshield of my car I would just take pictures, call the cops, and follow him to his apartment.

Then he could pay to get it taken off and see what kind of criminal charges he could be brought up on.

Look! I solved the problem in a non-violent way that doesn't cause damage to anyone's property or person!

FriarTuck [TotalFark] 2007-12-02 07:19:42 PM
What a farking nutball. Who lives in farkING LOWER MANHATTAN and complains about the noise?

You want quiet? Move to VT."

He only has an issue with the alarms, otherwise it's not THAT farking noisy in the city. I agree with him.

I left a note on an SUV once, it was alaways parked outside my window, and the alarm went off a couple nights per week. I finally wrote a note and left it on the windshield - told them that I had their license number, I know where they park it, if it happens again I'm going to scratch the hell out of it some night in the near future.

I NEVER had a problem again. They either had it disconnected or fixed, either way I don't care.

Tape a sign to my car with WOOD GLUE (not easily removable) and I'll punch the smirk off your face, old man.

Yeah whatever tough guy. Enjoy a stay at Riker's as a result.

I once called the police on a guy whose car alarm was going off under my window for 1/2 an hour and wouldn't stop. Apparently I wasn't the only one who called. The police came by and somehow 'disabled it'. Given that it was the Chicago police, they probably beat the car until it stopped, but I didn't care. Hopefully his alarm never worked again.

To all the people who say, "You live in Manhattan so you can't complain about noise", DIAF.

There are many MANY quiet residential streets in Manhattan...ESPECIALLY in the West Village. Manhattan has a number of residential neighborhoods, and actually has some relatively strict noise pollution ordinances. If you live on an Avenue (a several-laned street that moves North or South for you out-of-towners), above a bunch of bars, or next to a hospital or firehouse, well then you can expect a lot of traffic and street noise. But millions of people do not, and have a reasonable expectation of quietness. We don't all live in the middle of Times Square, as much as you may think we do.

And as far as the loud honking drivers are concerned...the vast majority have New Jersey plates or an Islanders sticker on their cars and think that laying on their horns or making a turn by cutting across three lanes is acceptable NYC driving behavior. It's not. Most (but not all) cabbies will tell you the same thing.

To all the morans saying "durr.. he lives in a noisy city, live with it": Have you had a loud assed car alarm go off for hours on your street? That shiat will drive anyone nuts. Specially the factory installed car alarms which do nothing but honk intermitently. There's the normal noisy environment you and your neighbors are used to, and then there's shriekingly annoying noisy.

I'm not amazed at the number of clueless tools who parrot the same thing "If you don't like it MOVE"

How about, "No, go fark yourself?"

What kind of spineless pvssies move to avoid a situation that shouldn't even be happening in the first place?

I'm like this guy, I don't care what it is, if I can effect a change to make my community a better place, I'm going to do it.

Fark these idiots and their stupid alarms.

Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox: Car alarms are more or less pointless and are certainly annoying, but at least cases like this are unintentional. A much bigger issue is improper use of CAR HORNS.

A car horn is a safety device. The only acceptable use of a car horn is to prevent a dangerous situation or accident. You should tap it once or twice briefly for that purpose ONLY.

If you honk your car horn to call out the kids who carpool with you at 7AM or pick up your girlfriend for the movies at 11PM in a quiet neighborhood, you deserve a wood-glued windshield 100x more than the woman in the article does.

And for all of you people who lean on your horn for 60 seconds every time you perceive somebody as cutting you off, stealing "your" parking space, or doing anything you don't approve of on the road, DIAF you road-raging, noise-polluting asshat. All you're doing is making the situation more confusing and dangerous for everyone around you, especially yourself. You're lucky the person in front of you doesn't get out of their car and beat the ever-loving shiat out of you for blasting them with a loud noise over some perceived minor infraction. Who died and made you the traffic police you ego-maniacal retard? Just STFU, forget it ever happened, and drive away. Honking your horn does absolutely NOTHING to make the person a better driver and eventually somebody will be crazy enough to get out of their car and beat you.

That's a lot of words from someone who obviously didn't read their driver's ed manual. Your car horn is not there just for "emergency purposes", just as your car lights are not there just for illuminating the road. Both are also forms of communication between a driver and someone outside his car.

Granted, honking your horn incessantly outside of someone's house, thinking that the person inside is going to hear it over their blasting stereo makes you an asshat. But using huge blanket statements to condemn people who use their horns for something other than you do and then trying to back back them up with a flex of your Internet Tough Guy muscles also makes you one too.

Pwnzor: That's a lot of words from someone who obviously didn't read their driver's ed manual. Your car horn is not there just for "emergency purposes", just as your car lights are not there just for illuminating the road. Both are also forms of communication between a driver and someone outside his car.

Granted, honking your horn incessantly outside of someone's house, thinking that the person inside is going to hear it over their blasting stereo makes you an asshat. But using huge blanket statements to condemn people who use their horns for something other than you do and then trying to back back them up with a flex of your Internet Tough Guy muscles also makes you one too.

Gee, what kind of acceptable communication do you think that would be? The kind that notify other people, on the road, of your presence for the purpose of making the road more safe.

It may be used justifiably if the person doesn't see you. It may be used justifiably if the person is not aware of something and you need to get their attention for SAFETY purposes. It may not be justifiably used to get people's attention inside of a house. That's what phones and doorbells are for and using your horn to do it is not only lazy and discourteous, it's technically illegal. Above all else, car horns should certainly NEVER be used to blast a driver you disagree with and express your frustration at them. It is not a convenient way to say, "F--- YOU JACKASS FOR WHAT YOU JUST DID!" which is what many people misuse it for. That is not its purpose. It is a safety device only, so what you said is only partially true and very misleading.

How am I an "internet tough guy"? I didn't say that I would get out and beat the person, I wouldn't. I just give them the middle finger when I do anything at all. I just said that you don't know who is in the car you're imposing your horn vigilante justice upon and it could be some nut who will get out with a baseball bat or a crossbow (actual case). Let the police deal with traffic violations, it's not your job to punish people for them and point them out for that reason. There are plenty of cases of people getting killed over road rage. Is it really worth risking your safety or your family's safety just to "punish" the person in front of you by misusing a car safety device?

Glasgowsfinest: Dirty420South: If you put any substance on my car, I will simply knock you the fark out. Is it cool if someone walks around and takes a shiat on your car? No... why the hell should glue be any different?

if your alarm keeps me awake for 6 hours because you don't turn it off, I will simply knock you the fark out.



Billy: "No, you wouldn't."
Bus Driver: "Well, no, not me personally, but this guy I know would definitely KNOCK YOU OUT. Heh heh."
Billy: "No, he wouldn't."
Bus Driver: "No...he wouldn't. But, you can imagine what it would be like, eh? Heh heh..."
Billy: (puts hand on shoulder)

brifar: playing instruments with people living above below and on the side of you....ever think of that douchebag

I thought the same thing when I RTFA. In college, the most annoying of the myriad of noises in the dorm was the dude trying to learn to play electric bass in the next hall.

Pwnzor:
That's a lot of words from someone who obviously didn't read their driver's ed manual.

Funny, I've got my TN driver's manual from my driving exam (it's 7 years old, now) right here. It says specifically that "the horn is a safety device used for warning other people of a potentially dangerous situation."

I think YOU need to go back to reading your manual.

The normal sounds of the city - human traffic, cars passing by, the sound of music being played, even the occasional siren or honking - becomes background noise to anyone who lives here. It puts me to sleep at night. It would be weird NOT to hear it.

The sound of a car alarm going off below my window at 3AM for hours on end is not a normal sound, nor is it remotely tolerable in any way. It doesn't matter where you live, it's farking maddening.

I lived at an apt complex were a patroling rent-a-cop gave the excuse "I didn't hear any alarm." after police were called to the scene.
2 trucks - 8 wheels + 8 concrete blocks - 1 windshield - 1 engine + 1 rent-a-cop = Farked in Dallas, TX

There are many who would call an incessant car alarm vandalism in itself. The extra noise is pollution.

Car alarms are next to useless. What works is this... Taser like devices, and well secured barbed fishing hooks, strategically placed around certain parts of the inside of the car. If someone tries to remove the stereo system, they will get caught.

Your Fairy Hockey Player: Bad move allowing the paper to show his face. You put wood glue on somebody's $30,000 piece of property, you pretty much deserve whatever you get.

Komplex: Not a jury in the world would convict him.

How come so few people in this thread seem to realize this is vandalism? I'm glad the guy got his picture taken - and I hope the individuals that he has screwed sue his ass.

Why don't people think about what is causing most of the problems - namely the jack's who pump out so much base that it sets off car alarms?

All of this coming from a guy who, I'm sure, inconsiderately plays his piano for all the neighbors to hear. Why don't the 'musicians' ever understand that they are creating just as much noise pollution. Take your guitar out of the park or subway - no one wants to hear you.

The problem with this is:

A) Virtually all insurance companies require cars to have functioning alarm systems in order to get insurance. And most new cars no longer offer the option of disabling the alarm.

B) If you are going to vandilize people's property in extra-legal vigilanty justice, be prepared to have someone vandilize your face in extra-legal vigilanty justice.

I know that people in Manhattan are exceptional pussies nowadays, but trying this kind of shiat in most urban areas in America will have serious effects on your life expectancy.

BrooklynBeats:
The sound of a car alarm going off below my window at 3AM for hours on end is not a normal sound, nor is it remotely tolerable in any way. It doesn't matter where you live, it's farking maddening.

Exactly. I've lived pretty much my whole life in urban areas and am used to noise, to the point where I once lived with an 'el' train going past my window (in fact, I find it difficult to sleep without it) .... but car alarms drive me batty.

Retarded Rabid Elk: Virtually all insurance companies require cars to have functioning alarm systems in order to get insurance.

This is simply not true.
/getting a kick out of these replies