June 26, 2006
View Comments | Post CommentOnly Assholes Have Car Alarms 2
A couple weeks ago, I posted about an asshole with a car alarm (which is, by the way, redundant). Well, friends, it happened again. Another asshole with a broken car alarm, going off all morning. Last time it woke me up on a weekend. This time it disrupted some research on declaratory judgments in copyright cases.
Again, I want to make clear that if you have a noise-based car alarm, your theft deterrent is not only ineffective, but also rude. And even if it weren't ineffective, I'm pretty sure that my tranquility is worth your car getting stolen. So you, owner of a BMW with California plate "4WZA670," are an asshole.
UPDATE:
Throughout the day, the alarm kept going off. I can vouch that it was going off from 8:00am-5:00pm at least. When I left work, I passed by the car again on my way home, and saw something that delighted me. The owner of the car had gotten a ticket for his noisy alarm!
While getting a closer look at the ticket and taking the photo at right, a woman sitting on the street (homeless? crackhead? meth addict?) asked me if it was my car. The angry look on her face subsided as I explained that it was not mine, and I'd left a note on it bitching to the owner. And then the woman recounted the story of the ticket for me.
According to her, an SFPD officer went over to the car to investigate the noisy alarm. When he got up there, he noticed the note on the car. He took the note out and read it, and then burst out laughing and stuck the note back into the hood. Apparently he took my note as confirmation that the alarm had been going off for at least five hours at that point, so he went back to his car and wrote up a ticket, while leaving my note for the owner. Who says cops aren't protecting the streets?
Posted at June 26, 2006 1:47 PM | Comments (7)
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Wait. According to that photo, am I to understand that this is the second occurrence of an obnoxious car alarm teamed with THE CLUB?? S.F. sure is a strange place.
Posted by: Amanda at June 26, 2006 3:07 PM
You should (and I soon may) carry around a bunch of these at all times to enhance the driving experience of asshole car owners.
Posted by: Anthrope at June 26, 2006 5:40 PM
Indeed. Although I declined to comment this time on the egregious use of a silly looking theft-deterrent in combination with an annoying theft-undeterrent, there was indeed THE CLUB on this vehicle as well. Some people got pretty mad last time because I disparaged owners of THE CLUB (Probably because they were owners of THE CLUB). It's like when someone talks about how scrunchies are, like, so out, and then you realize with a panic that you're wearing one! I hate it when that happens.
Posted by: David Barzelay at June 26, 2006 5:45 PM
It doesn't look like there's an amount written on the ticket...
Posted by: daniel at June 27, 2006 1:30 PM
That is thoroughly excellent.
Posted by: Tim at June 27, 2006 2:08 PM
What the hell kinda neighborhood do you live in where a car alarm And a club are necessary?
This isn't the SF I know and love. Hell, these aren't the jerkoff SF people I know and love.
Sure you don't live in La?
Posted by: Needtsza at July 7, 2006 12:12 PM
Hey this was my car, i remember i was coming out of a gay bar i frequent in San Francisco with my "life partner" and my alarm was going off. Silly me, i forgot to get my M535ti fixed. goodness gracious!
Thanks for pointing that out, i finally got it fixed. I was recovering from a torn rectum so i couldnt even get out of bed, my lover ripped me a new one, LITERALLY!
Forever yours,
Duke Samouce
Posted by: Duke Samouce at June 3, 2007 11:28 PM
