not that I was sleeping
Aug. 16th, 2008 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleThe last couple of days have been exhausting, and I had thought it would do me good to sleep until midafternoon. The nice fellow called around 10, and at 10:20, I took my meds and went back to bed. Then at 10:30, a car alarm went off in the parking lot. It doesn't go off continuously. There's an alarm pattern that lasts about 45 seconds, then it stops. At first I wasn't sure if it was an alarm, or just an amazingly obnoxious person honking...then waiting 30 seconds...then honking in the same loud pattern. It's been going on for 20 minutes.
When I looked out the window, I saw an old man opening and closing his car and looking bewildered. And a young man reaching in and doing things in the quiet intervals. Maybe he's trying to help. They look like they're upset, but not angry. 25 minutes. I considered going downstairs to help them, but I have no idea how.
I called the police non-emergency line, in the hope that somebody else might be able to help. The guy who answered the phone said, "We don't know how to shut 'em off." He knew as well as anybody that a persistent car alarm is a false alarm, a nuisance, not a sign that somebody is stealing a car.
ETA: After a brief interval of 2 alarms going off at once, out of tune, there was quiet.
When I looked out the window, I saw an old man opening and closing his car and looking bewildered. And a young man reaching in and doing things in the quiet intervals. Maybe he's trying to help. They look like they're upset, but not angry. 25 minutes. I considered going downstairs to help them, but I have no idea how.
I called the police non-emergency line, in the hope that somebody else might be able to help. The guy who answered the phone said, "We don't know how to shut 'em off." He knew as well as anybody that a persistent car alarm is a false alarm, a nuisance, not a sign that somebody is stealing a car.
ETA: After a brief interval of 2 alarms going off at once, out of tune, there was quiet.
