Today, I was so tired, I passed out at work in the middle of a call. All because my neighbor's car alarm kept going off every 3 minutes all through the morning. It was still going when I left for work. If you see a news story in a few days about a whole neighborhood beating a guy to death, that's probably us. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I had finally gotten my dogs to quiet down and my baby to fall asleep. Not thirty seconds later, my neighbor's car alarm went off. They aren't home for the weekend, and the damn alarm has now been blaring for three hours. FML
Today, I'm dead on my feet. My flatmate's alarm went off for 20 minutes at 5 a.m., which I heard and he didn't. A car alarm went off outside my window for half an hour at 7 a.m. My building fire alarm went off twice, at 8 and 8:10 a.m. Just let me sleep. FML
Today, I awoke to the sound of my neighbors attacking my car with a baseball bat accusing me of calling the cops on them. I did call the cops on them, after they screamed at me last night, drunkenly, to call the cops for them because they thought they were being robbed. FML
Today, I woke up at 6:00 am to the sound of somebody laying on their horn outside my apartment. I ran outside to yell at them only to find out it was my car. The horn was shortcircuting. All my neighbors stood on their porch laughing as I repeatedly punched my steering wheel to make it stop. FML
Today, I was awoken by my neighbor pounding on my back door at 3 am, only to look outside and see my car engulfed in flames. FML
Today, I finally managed to sleep, after two days of being kept awake by the miniature floodlights my neighbors have installed to scare off burglars. Only a couple of hours into my sleep, I woke up to the sound of their car being broken into. FML
Today, my car alarm went off during a funeral. Three times. FML
Today, I was woken up by my neighbour's dog losing its mind, and I remembered reading a story about someone ignoring a dog and later finding out that their car had been stolen. Paranoid, I went outside to check on mine. Nope. Just the damn dog barking at one thirty in the morning. FML
Today, after spending 6 hours straight working on a project at school, I decided to call it a night. The instant I set foot out of the lab, the building started screaming. The maintenance guy had set the alarm without telling me. The police had to let me out. FML
Today, just like every other day, I was woken up 2 hours earlier than I needed to be, by the alarm belonging to my upstairs neighbors. They won't wake up until their real alarm goes off: me, pounding the walls and yelling in frustration. FML
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Tripartita 45
Protip: If anybody needs a new car, I'd recommend finding out where the OP lives. There's apparently a car in their neighborhood with an alarm that is regularly ignored.
thearronaut 10
nice to see a community coming together
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Comments (36)
C8H18 33
Steps for resolution once kinder measures have failed: 1. Break window 2. Pop hood 3. Remove battery
chuka81 27
Amateur! Experts would Break car window Hotwire car Drive it into the ocean.
C8H18 33
You got me there!
user2499 16
what is your job OP?
the_real_dvd 21
As your lawyer I must advise you to set the car on fire. There's less prison time involved.
ZirePhoenix 10
just call the cops and get it towed
darkspartan 19
That sucks
daisy08 17
That's awful. I'm so sorry :(
Wishe 17
I wonder if the neighbour is possibly out of town.
rldostie 19
A lot of people don't realize that if it's after certain hours (i.e. Middle of the night), you can call the cops and they'll take care of it. Probably tow it and the owner might get a small fine. You don't have to suffer in silence. Make a complaint and hopefully the neighbor will learn to either fix his/her alarm or stop it when it goes off for no reason.
kirkaygri 18
Even if it's not against the night noise ordinance, usually there is a day noise ordinance that would cover a repeated car alarm. In my town, if it goes off for more than an hour, you can call the police. I had to look into for a neighbors outside dogs once. Never stopped barking.
LPac5295 27
If only there was a site or app that allowed you to post stories about shitty things that happened in your life.
LPac5295 27
I feel like you could call the police and report it as a noise complaint. Especially if it was left on for a long period of time. You could try talking to the neighbor too because I'm sure you weren't the only one who heard it.