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16 November 2006

If a car alarm won't stop going off, is shooting the car a justifiable homicide?
Ugh, gross, did you call 311?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 November | 19:22
What's 311?
posted by Specklet 16 November | 19:24
311 is New York City's phone number for... everything, basically. You can call to complain about stuff, like noise, trash, call if you need information.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 November | 19:32
What is 311?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 November | 19:34
well, it's intermittent. and unless someone's dying, calling an official # in NYC accomplishes squat.

get up, uh get get down, 311 is a joke in your town...
posted by jonmc 16 November | 19:44
(besides, New York simply isn't New York without alarms, sirens, car horns and subway trains for background noise.)
posted by jonmc 16 November | 19:49
Inneresting.
posted by Specklet 16 November | 19:49
Damn horseless carriages and their steam sirens.
posted by disclaimer 16 November | 19:53
I could be wrong - I probably am - but I think that the whole '311' concept originated in Baltimore.
posted by gaspode 16 November | 19:53
yep
posted by gaspode 16 November | 19:54
This would be a perfect opportunity to steal the car. First of all, the owner is obviously not around. Also, nobody is likely to intervene, because they will be so glad to have the alarm shut up. They may even help you if you ask nicely.
posted by dg 16 November | 19:56
Hehe, I think car alarms should always be a sign that the car wants to be stolen. "Help me, get me out of here, I'm bored just sitting around!"
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 November | 19:59
Well, it seems to have temporarily abated. But now it's rainy and windy as fuck. Pips is sick poor girl, but I've got a nice DVD biopic of Ed Roth going and I just downed a quart of Raspberry malt liquor and I've moved on to the Bud.
posted by jonmc 16 November | 20:39
I left a note on a guy's car when the alarm didn't stop until the battery ran out (we're talking three or four hours straight). It said, approximately "If you ever park your car here again, I will personally spend all night beating the shit out of it with a baseball bat or sledgehammer."

I never saw the car near my house again.

And I did end up denting up his fender in a stupid attempt to reset the damned thing.
posted by fenriq 16 November | 22:57
They had that at Makor last night--I missed it when it came to the Village East-- and one of the people who worked on it was there. I asked how he and George Barris got along and the guy said horribly--there was a lot of his life left out of the movie. The Barris shop was still in Toluca Lake the last time I was in LA.
posted by brujita 16 November | 23:10
I was at a desert rave-type party once where the sound or generator kept dying.

This guy started running around slapping cars setting off any alarms he could find. And then raving to them. He'd get like 10 of 'em going at once. It was pretty funny.

It was even funnier when the mass of angry desert techno nerd hippies he roused started popping open hoods and disconnecting the batteries.

Ahh, functional anarchy in action.
posted by loquacious 17 November | 05:14
2 car alarm stories:
1. The tough Catholic kids from the scary tough Catholic school up the street from me in East Baltimore used to set them all off every day after school. They'd get out of school and the girls would immediately start hiking up their skirts and putting on dark lipstick and the boys would pull off their ties and then run down the street, jumping on every single bumper until every single car alarm was going.
2. Once on 11th Street in NYC I watched while these three totally messed up homeless guys attempted to break into a car with a tire iron. The guys from the Chinese laundry came out to watch them too; it was like street theatre. They finally jimmied the trunk open but then the alarm went off and they all did this sort of slow motion cartoon of shock, then slowly ran off down the street while the car's trunk stood gaping open and the Chinese guys and I laughed.
posted by mygothlaundry 17 November | 08:53
We have a similar Catholic school here in Astoria. Every morning they come off the train in a pack and pass right by my apartment. It's difficult to look thuggish in a Catholic school uniform, but they manage.
posted by jonmc 17 November | 09:20
Raspberry malt liquor

Self-parody becomes you ;)
posted by trondant 17 November | 11:27
What do || That poet friend of mine...

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