Domestic alarm system fail

SimonAH
SimonAH Posts: 3,730
edited May 2012 in Commuting chat
After how many occurrences of four hour sessions of a siren going off on the obviously faulty alarm system going off on a house in your street would it be deemed reasonable to get the twelve bore out of the gun cabinet, cross the road and blow the fcuking box off the wall of his house do you think? :twisted:
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Depends if its happening when your their or not - if it happened twice - two days running i defiantly think that your entitled to take some cable cutters to it.
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • flimflam_machine
    flimflam_machine Posts: 263
    rubertoe wrote:
    Depends if its happening when your their or not - if it happened twice - two days running i defiantly think that your entitled to take some cable cutters to it.

    You mean:
    Depends if it's happening when you're there or not. If it happened twice, two days running, I definitely think that you're entitled to take some cable cutters to it.

    Sorry dude, I don't usually do pedantry on this level, but reading that actually hurt my brain.

    In response to the OP, could you call the company who fitted the alarm? It may be one that has a central control room for contacting the police etc.
  • London_Falcon
    London_Falcon Posts: 150
    He might have meant defiantly, he sounds the rebellious type :)
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    I once had a terrible night's sleep (shortly after moving into my new flat) thanks to an alarm that went off all night. Got up in the morning only to realise that it was my alarm. :oops:
  • flimflam_machine
    flimflam_machine Posts: 263
    London_Falcon wrote:
    He might have meant defiantly, he sounds the rebellious type :)

    True, I'd have to concede that :lol:
    Il Principe wrote:
    I once had a terrible night's sleep (shortly after moving into my new flat) thanks to an alarm that went off all night. Got up in the morning only to realise that it was my alarm. :oops:

    So when you woke up you had been burgled and you were knackered from having no sleep. Bummer.
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    we had been living in our house for about a month when the (already fitted) alarm started acting up, would go off randomly during the night

    i had to replace the battery backup, but in doing so wiped all the programming in the alarm

    its too complima-cated to reprogram so i just leave it off now
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    flimflam_machine wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    Depends if its happening when your their or not - if it happened twice - two days running i defiantly think that your entitled to take some cable cutters to it.

    You mean:
    Depends if it's happening when you're there or not. If it happened twice, two days running, I definitely think that you're entitled to take some cable cutters to it.

    Sorry dude, I don't usually do pedantry on this level, but reading that actually hurt my brain.

    In response to the OP, could you call the company who fitted the alarm? It may be one that has a central control room for contacting the police etc.

    You can be as pedantry as you like, dude.
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    mudcow007 wrote:
    its too complima-cated to reprogram so i just leave it off now
    Where do you live?
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    TGOTB wrote:
    mudcow007 wrote:
    its too complima-cated to reprogram so i just leave it off now
    Where do you live?

    Damn you, beat me to it! :mrgreen:
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    My alarm system has a failsafe. If one dog is asleep the other one can wake it up.

    Never been burgled, never locked the back door.

    And the dishwasher has an easy life.
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  • Tricycleboy
    Tricycleboy Posts: 373
    I live in an apartment on a high street. Didn't occur to me when we took the place that every night one or other of the fecking shop alarms would go off.

    I'm getting really good a tuning it out. you just have to let it wash over you, and its really fine. Frustration comes from when you fight things you can't change, so just let it go, and all is well.

    or just shotgun it.

    either works.
  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    We used to live next door to a mosque in Istanbul; the first first morning in our new apartment and the call to prayer gave us heart attacks, a year on and we'd completely tuned it out.
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    We used to live next door to a mosque in Istanbul; the first first morning in our new apartment and the call to prayer gave us heart attacks, a year on and we'd completely tuned it out.
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    Its amazing what you can condition yourself to tune out. Our first house backed onto the Jubilee Line; after a year there we were completely oblivious to the noise of trains going by. 14y later we moved away from there. About a year after moving we went to a friend's house, just down the road from where we used to live, for dinner one evening. We then realised just how noisy it was.. we'd lost the 'conditioning'.
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  • Twostage
    Twostage Posts: 987
    I thought alarms were only supposed to go off for half an hour ? Sounds like shotgun time to me.

    Talking of tuning things out we used to live in York and nearly everywhere you live there is within earshot of the rail tracks. We found ourselves not being able to sleep if we couldn't hear the trains.

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