Thunder: 1, Car Alarms: 0

[fireheart]

Bit of background: boyfriend and I both live near shopping centres.

So we've been having a somewhat wild storm. Not to the extent of a hurricane (they seem to be nonexistent in Adelaide) but bad enough.

Apparently the thunder or the lightning today somehow set off everyone's car alarm down at the shopping centre near my boyfriend's house

[ApolloSZ]

One or two cars a day at the trainstation usually get set off by the passing trains.

How ever a whole mall carpark would be epic XD

I'd have jumped on top of something nearby and started conducting the cars like an orchestra.

[Blue Ginger]

I have to admit that is pretty cool.

My dads motorbike is so loud it sets off twitchy car alarms. My neighbour's alarm shit itself after a month (driveways are next to each other). It even sets off dad's own car. Yet, I can still sleep through dad starting the bike outside my bedroom window.

Personally, if my alarm was so twitchy that the train set it off, I'd get it fixed. It would just drive me nuts.

[fireheart]

Over at the not so local but insanely popular shopping centre, the recycling and garbage bins go through the ground floor carpark every day. They are LOUD
Every now and then a car alarm has gone off as a result lol.

[Draper Mel]

Fireworks are good for that too, especially the professional shows. Somebody's car alarm always goes off on the Fourth of July.

[Andara Bledin]

Mmm.... thunder....

We had a storm a couple of weeks back that was almost on top of us. It set off a few alarms of cars parked on the street outside where I work.

A co-worker, right after that one hit, said, "Now, that's what I'm talking about!" because he'd been complaining that the thunder wasn't loud enough.

^-.-^

[AccountingDrone]

A movie was filming in a large city with a bay running through the center. They needed a ship to blow up, so they set the explosives cleared the harbor of nonessentials and cooked it off. Whereupon the alarm service company that had a majority of the contracts in that city center had their computers shut down by the incoming volume of alarms going off as every single seismic and glass vibration/glass break screamed for attention for about 8 city blocks ...

[PepperElf]

back when i was in nursing school, one of the other students said she loved thunderstorms because all the doctors' cars would start going off when the thunder boomed.


also one of the guys on my first ship (bit of an asshat actually) liked driving around the mall with his stereo blaring, trying to prove that it would set off car alarms. Instead, he got pulled over by security and told turn it down. (served him right really)

[dawnfire]

our old 120Y used to do that to one of the teacher's car at my high school. There was only street parking and this car was always paked by the gate my father dropped me off at. Just the simple act of driving by it would set it off.