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Silvia_Xtreme
Post #36

Mr Hinchliffe,

please point your web browser to the link below. This thread on a local car scene website more than clarifies how the general motoring public will react to your proposal.

https://www.boostcruising.com/forums/index....topic=19708&hl=

i think general concensus is.... alarms are a necessary part of life. how about you clean up the streets, reduce crime and then the car alarms wouldn't need to exist.
To me, my car alarm helps me sleep at night. if someone tries to break into my car, the alarm will sound, and i can react immediately, thus saving myself thousands of dollars. do you want to deny me of my right to protect my property? my hard earned and prize possessions? do you have no soul?

does your ban extend to home/business alarms also? as these are just as readily ignored.

HOON69
Post #37

if my car gets stolen i want it to leave screaming its arse off..with the alarm blaring full volume..

ppl shouldnt buy the cheap crap that goes off with just a car passing buy a decent one and they wont have this problem..


i remember the car alarm from hell that went off cause the owner was over seas they couldnt do anything and by law couldnt touch the car but after sleepless weeks the cops smashed a window and towed it away...

should have a law that states if a car alarm goes off repeatedly should have phone numbers to contact owners and if nothing is solved the car then should be towed away but they shouldnt be allowed to silence car alarms thats why they are there for to ALERT the community and the owner..

tissue
Post #38

People say that when an alarm goes off no-one pays attention, but if I hear an alarm, I go check it out. You never know, it might be your car they are breaking into.

Also cause mine hardly ever goes off (its set up properly) I forget what it sounds like laugh.gif

Perhaps if there werent DIY alarms, or if places didnt offer cheapass alarms for $99 installed, there wouldnt be a problem with false alarms. If only.

gtrchick00
Post #39

so does that mean u can have other devices to keep ur car safe? like someway to shock the person, or chop theird heads of when they get in the car or something... laugh.gif

Crossie
Post #40

What a farken dickhead angry.gif
thats a crock of shit!!!

15EXN
Post #41

move then u tossa

Sexual_32
Post #42

pissed.gif farkin government. pissed.gif

kingofspeed
Post #43

whilst on the topic....


CHECK THIS OUT

http://www.stickdeath.com/2003auto.html

it is worth it!

WoodStok
Post #44

ive got an internal siren. isnt as loud from the outside (with the windows up) but you dont want to be inside when it goes off...

Post #45

You should write one back

An Importand Message to the idiot

Dear idiot

I am writing to seek your support for a public hanging for your stupidity and to phase out any more morons like you.

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Astroboy
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poster
Post #46

mayb he doesn't have a car... or owns a bomb that doesn't need an alarm... blink.gif

Netsy
Post #47

lol pumped-rex thats what i was thinking...i told him to buy a good car and see how he feels!

SHERIF
Post #48

looks like the city will be the place to knock cars off then angry.gif

Bevan Boy
Post #49

QUOTE (PUMPED-REX @ Oct 29 2003, 01:58 AM)
mayb he doesn't have a car... or owns a bomb that doesn't need an alarm... blink.gif

No he prob has a car that ur taxes pay for and he does not give a shit if someone breaks into it, steals it, burns it or anything!
Why cause we pay for it not him!

I would like to know why all his facts are taken from the US when we r in Australia???
and why take the easy path out and ban those things making noise and disturbing the public when u could be spending time getting the pricks that damage and steal cars to set alarms off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! angry.gif angry.gif angry.gif

U sir are a noob.gif pissed.gif

TRacerD
Post #50

We don't live in NY or the US for that matter....

postman
Post #51

I'm still waiting to hear about an 'alternate' method that stops your stereo/cd's/cb/everything not bolted to the floorpan from being stolen?

beau180sx
Post #52

a copy of the letter i sent him

To David Hinchliffe

I have just read on the Internet that you want to "phase out or ban audible car alarms".

I personally, and im sure a hell of a lot of people will agree with me, that you have got to be kidding me.

What happens when my car is parked out the front of my house and someone smashes the window steals the radio and anything that's inside it!!!!!!

And all this happens in silence!!!!! I don't think so. If someone breaks into my car I want to know it.

Just another question, are you going to pay for losses and damage done to cars???? If not then you had better come up with some sort of reimbursement coz your going

to need it if this goes through!!!!!

You have just upset a lot of people with this matter and im sure you have lost a lot of votes!!!!

I will personally be posting YOUR letter on the Internet for everyone to see

below is a copy of your letter


Dear Resident

I am writing to seek your support for a proposal to phase out or ban audible car alarms. The noise from car alarms going off at all house of the day and night is becomming an increasing nuisance for inner city residents, particualarly those who live close to major parking stations in the valley.

As the chairperson for Community Policy, the Council representative for the most densely populated area of Queensland, and an inner city resident myself, this issue is one which concerns me greatly. This is not just a local issue. In the United States earlier this year, a forum identifies that 80% of calls to New York's quality of life hotline were related to car alarms.

Just as importand as the fact that they cause such a disturbance is that they are becomming increasingly ineggective. A recent AAMI report identified that 8 in 10 peopole totally ignored car alarms. Tha's becuase, as a study by Transportation alternatives in the US showed, 95-99% of the alarms were flase. I have even observed police walking past a public car park where an alarm is going off without attending.

I am calling for AUDIBLE car alarms to be banned -- but not car alarms per se. There are anti-theft devices which can be fitted to alarm systems and which are both cheaper and more effective. Silent engine immobilisers are less expensive than audible car alarms and work better. Car alarms can also be fixed to an immobiliser or a pager using the same sensor systems.

I have writeen to the State Government outlining my concern and encouraging them to become the first State in Australia to ban these out-dated, noisy and ineffective alarm systems. I hope you will join me in this campaign by signing the petition overleft and getting your friends and neighbours to sign.

David Hinchliffe
Councillor for Central
Chairperson
Community Poilicy Committee

[email protected]
telephone 3403 0254



you may want to reconsider this



if you really wanted to do something for the community then you would try to make security and insurance on vehicles a lot cheaper!
beau180sx
Post #53

and i suggest you all do the same!!!

come on get up him!!

Ruffels
Post #54

QUOTE (Netsy @ Oct 28 2003, 03:13 PM)

In the United States earlier this year, a forum identifies that 80% of calls to New York's quality of life hotline were related to car alarms.


rule 1. dont believe everything you read in forums tongue.gif
rule 2. 80% of statistics are made up
rule 3. 80% of hotlines are gay stupid excuses to give people a job answering phones.

KB
Post #55

I don't agree with banning audible car alarms at all. They're completely necessary considering there's always folks out there stealing cars. And I bet that car thieves would know how to overcome certain immobilisers etc.

But what I wouldn't mind banning are the brief audible honking sounds that some horns make when folks arm their car alarm using their remote control keychain thing. I think that the short honking thing is a real pain in the butt when I'm in a car parking area and then somebody presses their remote and 'QueeKKKKK QueeKKKKKK!!!'. There's no damn need for that noise. I got my car alarm set up so that it doesn't do that kind of nonsense.

KylerKF
Post #56

Ban the audible alarms they are too noisy for me when I am trying to get to sleep under Story Bridge.

And while you're at it, ban the audible lines on the freeways too cause I'm sick of hearing those stupid sounds every time I start drifting of the edge of the road...

wacko.gif

Post #57

http://www.stickdeath.com/2003auto.html
Maybe we will have to go for options such as these.......

Blondage
Post #58

QUOTE (KylerKF @ Oct 29 2003, 11:38 AM)
Ban the audible alarms they are too noisy for me when I am trying to get to sleep under Story Bridge.

And while you're at it, ban the audible lines on the freeways too cause I'm sick of hearing those stupid sounds every time I start drifting of the edge of the road...

wacko.gif

laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

GT Twin Cam
Post #59

I agree!!!! we should ban ALL car alarms!!!!

ps. legalise firearms

Post #60

this guy must be looking to have all the old pensioners voting for him or something :-/

what a tossa angry.gif

Damone
Post #61

QUOTE (PUMPED-REX @ Oct 29 2003, 01:58 AM)
mayb he doesn't have a car... or owns a bomb that doesn't need an alarm... blink.gif

he's in the government...

don't they get cars for free on us taxpayers.....?

its not like he had to shell out money for his daily driver..

if something happens they just call for another car

Netsy
Post #62

Why do such idiots get elected???

Silvia_Xtreme
Post #63

QUOTE (Netsy @ Oct 29 2003, 05:28 PM)
Why do such idiots get elected???

dunno.. maybe because theyre the best of the worst ??


gtrchick00
Post #64

maybe we should get a bunch of cars outside his house and get all the alarms to go off..... now that would be noisy laugh.gif laugh.gif

Boothy
Post #65

i just emailed him, wait for reply

Boothy
Post #66

i hope he doesnt mind words like fuck knuckle

Netsy
Post #67

QUOTE (Boothy @ Oct 29 2003, 10:19 PM)
i hope he doesnt mind words like fuck knuckle

hahahahahahaha

i am laughing so hard!!!

"whips tear"

funny stuff man thumbsup.gif

WoodStok
Post #68

usually if there is swearing in an official letter it is compleately ignored.

punka11
Post #69

COCK HEAD

noremac82
Post #70

how stupid, y dont we just put a sign on our cars, car alarm doesnt go off, please steal my car dry.gif fukn council wankers, how bout we leave keys in the ignition to make it easier

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