Silver Bells Redux
Dec 24th, 2006 at 1:27 pm by Susie
The alarm went off again an hour ago and it’s still going. This time, when I called the police, they sent a fire truck. (Come to think of it, it sounds more like a fire alarm, anyway.) Arghhh….
MAKE IT STOPPPPPP
UPDATE: Five hours later, I finally figured out how to make it stop. I went across the street with a folding chair and a big wad of bubble wrap. I couldn’t quite force the bubble wrap into the right part of the alarm, but some guy who was picking up Chinese food next door came over to help and he jammed it in there good and tight. Finally, relative peace and quiet! (If the bubble wrap falls out, I’m going to take my trusty ViseGrip and remove the bolt that holds the bell part over the clanger.)
Kind of shows you the effectiveness of alarms, doesn’t it? I mean, what if it WAS an emergency, and the building was on fire? Or the construction site was being robbed of every tool and piece of recycleable copper pipe? The place would have burned to the ground, or the burglars would have had time to dismantle all the plumbing.
So, what’s the point of installing those noise-machines except to piss off the neighbors?
I hear car alarms go off all the time and I never see anyone show the slighest concern. “OOOH, a car is in trouble! Quick, call 911!” Pleeease. Even the police keep driving oblivious to the racket.
Hope the noise stops soon — before it bores a hole through your head.
Yeah, as I pointed out to my neighbor, every crackhead in the neighborhood now knows that alarm isn’t hooked up to anything.
Merry Xmas, Suzie… I hope you appreciate that you are appreciated by a diverse collection of strangers…
A.
If so little is paid attention to it, why not just walk over there and start pulling wires? Apparently no one will notice.
(I was going to mention something about a thirty caliber rifle with a good Leopold scope and the fact that the alarm’s control box should be visible at the upper level of the first floor either along the front or streetwise in the allies, but darn, it’s YULE! Peace, Love and do…. Peace and Love, Goodwill to Men [and Women]. Not to mention the consternation such would raise among the aforementioned crackheads. ;-))
Tao - we love ‘ya out here at Homeless (and unemployed) on the (Oregon) High Desert.
Check out my community radio station project at http://kpov.org/media/live. It’s just a prototype, but I’ll have a permanent link at our website come the first. And archives shortly thereafter.
This is a horrible thought, but could the absentee owners of that building and alarm now SUE you for real, imagined, or faked fire or theft losses? We’re living in the United States of Litigious, after all. You may have put yourself in some danger.
The building’s owned by the local community association, it won’t be an issue.
Could that action be labeled a pre-emptive strike?
‘Silver Bells’
You are teh funny.