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 From: stevelackey@hotmail.com 
  
 "Alex Rodriguez"  wrote in message 
 news:c9066t$p8h$7@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu... 
 > In article , 
 stevelackey@hotmail.com 
 > says... 
 > 
 > >Have to agree too.  Or at least limit the duration of the alarm to a few 
 > >minutes at most, 
 > 
 > That is the current law. 
 > 
 > >not just running until the battery dies. 
 > 
 > This is the sign of a poorly adjusted alarm. 
  
 That's reassuring!  But I think once the timer is reset, it doesn't keep 
 track of 
 how long since the last time it went off. 
  
 > >I had a car alarm go off across the street from me in JC pretty much 
 > >continuously from 5 am until at least 8:30 am this morning.  Even worse 
 were 
 > >the 10-second gaps 
 > >between alarms.  Had it been continuous, it might have been easier to 
 > >ignore.  I doubt the owner even lived close enough to hear the alarm. 
 > 
 > Could be someone broke into the car and then left the door open.  The 
 alarm 
 > will continue to go off until the door is closed or the batter runs out. 
  
 Or just an improperly aligned door that got jolted out of place. 
  
 > >Unfortunately there were no blinking lights even to see which car had the 
 > >alarm.  Without that much, you wouldn't even know which block the car is 
 on. 
 > 
 > If you really wanted to find the car, it is pretty easy to follow the 
 sound. 
  
 True, but I wasn't interested in wandering around my neighborhood at 3 am 
 trying to figure out which car might have been broken into.  Think dark 
 narrow 
 streets, brownstones, and echos.  What I really wanted was for the owner 
 to find the car and shut off the alarm. 
  
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