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Article #144Re: Auto alarms
From: tck
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 16:59
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 16:59
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In article <2tpq4k$d8s@access3.digex.net> bwalsh@access.digex.net (Bill Walsh) writes: >Can anyone recommend a good place to buy a sledgehammer to smash the cars >of alarm owners? > >For that matter, can anyone cite an example of an alarm actually >preventing a car theft and not just annoying a five-block radius for no >good reason? Most good car alarms disable the ignition or the engine, so car alarms do prevent someone from hot-wiring the car. And given two relatively nice cars, one with an alarm and one without, most thieves will go after the car without the alarm. Car alarms are also nice when then the neighborhood kids play catch in the street... -- <tck@tis.com> Trusted Information Systems, Inc. | As much as I'd like to believe that we can "construct reality," I'm bound by physics. Many of my dreams will have to remain powerful psychological states.
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