I remember hearing that Bloomberg wanted to pass a law making car alarms illegal in New York City, due to noise pollution.
“Bah,” I said. “We’re New Yorkers. We wouldn’t want our noise any other way but polluted!”
A car alarm, the honking kind, has been going off two doors down from our apartment for 50 minutes now. I’ve called 311 and registered a complaint. I’ve called my precinct and asked them to come down and do something about it. And then I went outside and put a plastic-sheathed note on the car, saying “THIS CAR ALARM HAS BEEN GOING OFF FOR 45 MINUTES. 311 AND THE 114TH PRECINCT HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED.” And then I took note of the plates.
I’m not trying to be a complete bitch. Except, that when a honking continuous car alarm has been sounding in my ears for 50 minutes, I REALLY DON’T MIND BEING CALLED ONE.
nimby, example of
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when new yorkers decided they could deal with noise, i think car alarms hadn’t been invented yet. there’s a distinct difference between the normal morning sounds of traffic and the city waking up, and that piercing howl of the offended car alarm. i’m glad you reported it – hope some good comes out of the report.
good for you Krissa. I’m all for being a bitch sometimes. Especially when it comes to assholes and their car alarms. I’ve more than once thought about dropping a brick out my window (on accident) onto a whaling car. I know it wouldn’t stop the alarm, but it would give me satisfaction to think of the owner coming back to his car with a brick in the windshield.
Car alarms are pretty useless in NYC, too; people usually just ignore them. There are more effective anti-theft tools.
The only car sound that makes me angrier than an alarm bleating in vain is angry horn honking, also pretty ineffectual.
I want a whaling car.
(sorry Anna)
I wouldn’t use it for whaling, though. I’d just skim around on the sea with it. It’d be cool.
In all fairness, lopsided, the owner of the car isn’t necessarily an asshole who deserves a destroyed car just because their alarm is going off. Given the state of parking in the city, they could very well have been in an apartment a block away and had absolutely no idea what was going on. It’s not like it was their FAULT or they were doing it specifically to piss anybody off.
And I wasn’t really mad at the car owner, just at the fact that the alarm was going OFF.
HAHAH stuart you took my joke.