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Sat 29 Jul 2006 00:55
Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet - Lud
Despite the screaming drunks and loonies and all the fire and plod sirens, not to mention the ordinary clamour of the inner city, my London main road sometimes seems almost peaceful even in some of the minutes of daylight.

Then this noise begins to penetrate all the other noises, like a cheap modern alarm clock. After half an hour it stops. Then three minutes later it starts again for another half-hour.

Last time, a year ago, eventually there were people looking at it: an Escort van belonging to some half-witted artisan. He came and turned it off. This was after several hours during which people had called the authorities, who asked for the registration number and eventually called the pink fluffy dice on his mobile.

Today it was going again, for a good couple of hours. DK if it was the same vehicle. But longing thoughts of paraffin bombs must have been present in many brains other than mine. Just a brief flurry of much louder NYAA-NYAA-NYAA-NAYAA, a bit of shouting and then blessed silence.

8< SNIP 8< last comment removed - DD
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Sat 29 Jul 2006 01:07
Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet - Lud
Sorry DD. Get a bit carried away sometimes. Last comment more suited to a moral philosophy site, I know.
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Sat 29 Jul 2006 20:47
Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet - Spospe
!5+ years ago at Port Merion we were in the car park and a car fairly near to us had an alarm which kept going off at seemingly random intervals. The alarm sounded for a couple of minutes and then re-set for about 3-4 minutes and then went off again, ad infinitum.

We went for a walk round the village and on our return the alarm was going off as described above. We had been at our car for a short while (having a drink from the Thermos) when the owner(s) appeared. I went over to the driver and told him that his alarm had been going off and he replied, "Oh yes its supposed to!" His reasoning was that as the alarm was making a noise, it was more effective at scaring off the bad-guys than a silent car which only made a noise after it had been attacked.

I suppose there is some logic here, but thankfully not many people seem to have adopted it.

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