XPost: nyc.transit, nyc.politics, nyc.general 
 From: dogglebe@yahoooo.com 
  
 On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:06:41 -0400, "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. 
  
 The point I'm trying to make is that FF's claim that his car alarm 
 prevented break-in is a false statement.  The alarm does not go off as 
 a thief approaches the car, but after he's broken in. 
  
  
 Phil 
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