XPost: nyc.transit, nyc.politics, nyc.general 
 From: tls@panix.com 
  
 In article , 
 Fustanella  wrote: 
 >> LoJacks, blinking lights or audible alarms don't prevent the car from 
 >> getting broken into.  They're activated once the car has been broken 
 >> into or stolen. 
 > 
 >Audible alarms routinely go off falsely. I've seen it happen when a garbage 
 >truck rumbles by. 
  
 We get two or three in the driveway of my building every time it gets really 
 windy.  Well, we used to -- finally, common sense prevailed and the 
 building management actually started to enforce our noise rule against the 
 cars' owners.  Funny, we had one car stolen on the block before that, but 
 as far as I know, since the alarms went away, none since... 
  
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  objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel! 
 You 
  plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud 
  
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