"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 11/10/2019 00:15, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Doubt they often cause any noise nuusance. Seems to be the ones installed
by cowboy 'pros' that give so many false alarms.

These days most people will just ignore other peoples alarms going off and
always assume a false alarm.

Thats not true here. All my neighbours apart from
the renters take an interest when an alarm goes
off and we often talk to each other about it. I am
usually the first to respond, but not always.

And we did that before some loony quite
literally burnt one of the neighbours houses
to the ground at 2am one morning.

It may be better just to disable the external sounder/bell and just leave
the strobe lights.

That wouldnt work here, most who can hear
the sounder wont be able to see the strobe
lights and that likely wouldnt wake anyone.

If someone has broken into your hour unaware that there is an alarm then
the internal sounder fitted to the alarm panel/controller is likely to
scare them off.

But so will a strobe and they are much more
likely to see that than the neighbours.

Whats more annoying are car alarms.

We dont get anywhere near as many of those going off.

At the junction of the road where I live there is a mini Sainsburys corner
shop with. At least once a day someone will park up for that 5 minute
visit and the car alarm will go off. I sometimes suspect that its always
the same car every day.

Never seen that here. I did manage to set my own car alarm off
when I managed to slam the door on the seatbelt buckle and
that triggered the alarm. And it wasnt at all obvious how to
cancel the alarm. Fortunately the manual was in the car and
I could look it up, but no one took any notice. That was on
the garage sale run and my car is so distinctive that most know
its my car and they would have realised that it wasnt a theft.