On 14/10/2019 08:42, alan_m wrote:
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.Â* It may be better just to disable the
external sounder/bell and just leave the strobe lights. 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.

Here there is one house alarm that goes off frequently and everyone
ignores. We all take a look if any other alarm goes off, as most hardly
ever do.

Whats more annoying are car alarms. 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.

When I still lived at my parents there was a house on the next road,
where the driver was incapable of getting into his car without setting
the alarm off - every weekday, 1 to 1-1/2 hours before I was due to get
up

Our own car alarm went off about once every couple of months and we
could not find out why, but we dared not disable it, as the same model
car at the house opposite was stolen 3 times (someone wanting to get
home after the buses had stopped we presumed, as it was left in the same
place each time, undamaged and with nothing missing). On the 4th
occasion, the owner had fitted a crook-lock and although the car stayed
put, he then had to pay for damage done when they tried to remove it!

SteveW