[Car] Drivers Alarums!

[dancefloorlandmine]

Just heard a car alarm go off, and checking out of the window to see if it was mine, discovered that it was. Turns out it was also my next door neighbour's ...

The car parked between them, a track-modified-and-tuned imported MR2, owned by the mechanic neighbour on the other side, had just started up.

With a combination of the cold weather and the race exhausts, together with the advanced ignition timings, the start-up blart must have been just the right level of vibration to trip the sensors on our cars! He was rather apologetic. [grin]

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Heh, like the biker in Nashville.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Oopsie! My friend Nigel once set off a whole floor in a car park, by burping.

[rich-r.livejournal.com]

A lot alarms have the ultrasonic sensors set far too sensitive. They're meant to detect a window being broken, not just the car moving slightly due to a loud noise or gust of wind.

I've seen some set off by thunder!