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> THE CAR ALARM IS BOTH INEFFECTIVE AND ANNOYING. IT'S ALSO UNNEEDED. I'm not sure which definition of unneeded the author is using, but I would say car thefts
by FalconSensei 6y ago
> THE CAR ALARM IS BOTH INEFFECTIVE AND ANNOYING. IT'S ALSO UNNEEDED.
I'm not sure which definition of unneeded the author is using, but I would say car thefts makes them needed? Could say they are ineffective, but still needed
- recursive 6y agoAre magic anti-theft spells also needed?
- FalconSensei 6y agoWe need some solution. Alarms are the only solution we have at the moment. So, until there's something else, alarms are necessary
- recursive 6y agoIf alarms stopped existing, the problem would not be any worse. So alarms are not necessary.
- FalconSensei 6y agosays who?
- recursive 6y agoThe original article, me, and a few others in this comment section.
- FalconSensei 6y ago> It's also unneeded: it's nearly impossible to start a modern car without the key. > But, as Roger Morris at the National Insurance Crime Bureau explained to me, guys will "break in, roll the car to a vacant lot, and strip it for parts. Breaking into cars is a billion-dollar business." In Brazil they rob the sound system, and other things, in place. Maybe that's more common with older cars, that only had a CD player, but it happens. With my sister's car, they just broke down the door (like, folded it down a bit), stole the stereo, the CDs, and other stuff that was inside. You know those car stereos that you could take the front off? A friend of my parents did that. They keyed the car, screwed with the door, and wrote that the stereo would have been cheaper... So yeah, I would say that an alarm might have helped in those cases.