Posted on 10/27/2002 12:57:37 PM PST by traditionalist
And, suddenly is faced with a choice: Pay to fix the damage, or get more wattage outta the stereo.
Very True.
In the house on the right lives a 16 yearold "Valley Girl" with her little super sub compact made in Korea "car" that has two car alarms, atleast three times a week they go off, usually very late at night. That is followed shortly there after by her screaming "SHUT THE F--K UP" at the top of her lungs while her dad tries to turn it off,
And in the house on the left there is this 17 yearold punk ass who appears to be under the impression he is a bad black stereotype complete with "dooze rag" and baggy pants with the crotch dragging on the ground, and he drives this 1975 Oldsmobile that is spray panted with getto slang and what appears to be a coffee can on the end of the muffler, and whenever he is driving you can hear blaring rap music that can be heard from the freeway a good mile and a half from the house
I can't believe the little bastard isn't deaf by now. How anyone can listen to that is lost on me. And when you complain to his parents, they get offended and say "how dare you judge our parenting, he is just going through a phase"
I like the way you think. And, you can get a microwave at the local Wally World for less than 50 bucks; the klystron and power supply are real easy to pull out of there too. Heh heh.
Maybe use a 12V inverter wired to the car's battery to power the thing ...
The big noise gripe around Hill AFB is from people in newly built homes who hate the sound of low flying jets. I find that amusing as the base was there first.
Reminds me why I am glad I live on the farm.
Me too. Not on a farm but on five acres in updtate NY next to Harriman State Park. If we get more than five cars a day on our road, that's what the city folks would call "grid lock"! LOL!
We're now trying to sell our New York estate since the kids are grown, and we don't need a 12 room, 4,200 sq. ft. house for my wife and me. We're moving to North Carolina. Have about two acres on Lake James.
Any FReepers out there who want to live in the lap of luxury in a private community, NYC access in 1.25 hours, give us a shout.
Cheers.
My brother and I did this in high school to a smart-ass jerk. He was so stupid it took him two weeks to figure it out. BTW, I'm a motorhead in my spare time and built a 1964 Shelby AC Cobra kit car. It's amazing how things that you learn as a kid, carry through a generation later. If I knew how to post a jpeg, I'd send you a photo of my car. Got about $32k invested in it.
You won't hear this hokey k%^p from any columnist in Houston, where more than 95% of private citizens own cars and most of them have some kind of alarm on them.
In fact, insurance actuaries (those are the guys whose jobs are dependent upon the accuracy of their data) have proven that auto alarms have a significant deterrent effect on CLAIMS. That's the actual amount of DOLLARS that the insurance companies pay out, not the number of stolen vehicles. That amount includes, not only the number of stolen vehicles, but the value of the stolen vehicles and the value of items stolen from vehicles. The have-nots would manipulate the numbers to make it appear that milk is a carcinogen, if they thought that it would help them attack the haves. But, CLAIMS are DOLLARS and that's the kind of facts that the have-nots can't deny.
It's just more liberal NYC rhetoric, from those who just want to deny anything that they can from the haves.
That's fairly simple to do. You need to have a web page or use a free web hosting service and upload your jpeg there. Then, to link to it, use a link like this here:
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Add a "<" character before the "img" in the above example.
I'm showing my age a bit, but one of our favorite pranks was to put an ordinary ping-pong ball in an enemy's gas tank. (This was of course in the days before unleaded gas and fuel filler restrictors). If the poor sap had 1/4-tank of gas or less, the ping-pong ball would get sucked into the fuel line opening and block it, starving the engine of fuel. Then, when the engine died and the suction dissipated, the ball would float back up and the target could start the engine again. It gets really annoying having this happen to you 10 times in an hour ;)
They would come awake at around 3:00 A.M.
For a while, I seriously considered my shotgun, but decided the LAPD wouldn't like my explanation for "discharging a firearm within city limits".
Sigh.
--Boris
Funny you should ask.
Prior to the mockingbirds, my next door neighbor left town for an extended tour of the U.S. on his motorcycle. He left his neer-do-well son to "watch" his condo. The son's idea of a great time was to hold a raucous kegger party at midnight on a Wednesday night. Directly under my bedroom window.
I tried everything to make him stop. Nothing worked.
Finally I mixed a pint of heavy cream and a half-pint of honey in the blender. See, the kid kept his beater car parked outside, unlocked.
I was fixing to saturate the "carpeting" in the car with my mixture when Daddy--blessedly--returned.
--Boris
Say what? Having a car alram deters you from filing a claim?That makes no sense.
Insuarance companies only give you a discount for having a car alarm because they are forced to by state law. In a free market, there would be no such discount because there is no statistical evidence that car alarms decrease the probability that a car gets stolen or vandalized.
Police data same the same thing: a car alarms are no good.
Notice that this article is written by a columnist in NYC. Then, consider that in NYC, only about 5% of private citizens own a car and that NYC leans left and it adds up. This is yet another way for the have-nots to attack the haves.
A textbook case of an ad hominem arugment. You can't refute the author's argument, so you attack him on the basis of where he is from. The identity of an author, or whether or not he has a car, has no bearing on the validity of his argument. Go take a class in logic.
BTW, I own a car, not that it has any bearing on the arugment.
--Boris
The only truely effective device is when an unauthorized person opens the door, starts the car, and travels 60 feet... straight up.
Connect the dots: Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Boom.
Done.
Modern-day substitute: Pour a little wasp bait on the carpeting in the back seat. Your target won't know what it is when he smells it, and he'll soon have a couple of thousand little yellow-striped buddies riding with him everywhere he goes. Just be sure to wear rubber gloves and don't get any of the stuff on your skin.
Usually the message is along the lines of : F*** your car alarm.
I've only done it to the cars that don't have the auto shut-off alarms, though. I mean, you can only take so many hours of it.
It's just astonishingly rude to arm a car alarm and then walk out of earshot of it.
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