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Yup, a house alarm installation appears to be kinda a necessity these days...considering the number of house break-ins reported. However, it can also be a great irritating nuisance!
And yup, I'm saying so because my neighbour's alarm has been sounding for the past 2 days! It started to go off some time before 12 noon and would stop around 4pm. The alarm would be sounding like continuously after shorter & shorter periods of silence.
Today it has already started...also at about the same time period. The second period of irritation is just over at this time of my keying in this sentence! And the frequency of its sounding is increasing...
Now, don't you think there should be some way neighbours could be protected from this kind of disturbance? This kind of inconsiderate houseowners? Just imagine having to go through more than 4 hours of such noise pollution (I would call it "torture"...) practically daily now? Have you ever experienced the loud bursts from a house alarm siren at close range?
How would it be if the alarm had kept on going off during the night? It had happened before...although not with such frequency. The worst part is that house is practically unoccupied most of the time!
So, is there any avenue for redress or even protection from such inconsiderate houseowners? Can we report such incidents to the police? Or even to the local authorities? Frankly, it is felt that houseowners should be held responsible for their properties...and whatever they installed in their premises. Agreed?
Btw, fyi Lot 10 also has a house alarm system installed...since Sept 2001. A very reliable branded system commonly installed in banks. And I can confidently say here that we had never disturbed our neighbourhood with such episodes! Of course, there were a few times when we ourselves had inadvertently triggered the alarm...but it was silenced almost immediately.
I sincerely hope that none of you have to undergo what me & the other "neighbouring" neighbours of this particular neighbour had to tolerate for these past 2 days (& now today) and probably more to come...
UPDATE #1 @3:25pm :
Peace & tranquility returned to Lot 10...finally! Yup, that neighbour's daughter came to reset their house alarm system. If only they had been a little bit more responsible, we would not have to suffer for so long...
Yup, a house alarm installation appears to be kinda a necessity these days...considering the number of house break-ins reported. However, it can also be a great irritating nuisance!
And yup, I'm saying so because my neighbour's alarm has been sounding for the past 2 days! It started to go off some time before 12 noon and would stop around 4pm. The alarm would be sounding like continuously after shorter & shorter periods of silence.
Today it has already started...also at about the same time period. The second period of irritation is just over at this time of my keying in this sentence! And the frequency of its sounding is increasing...
Now, don't you think there should be some way neighbours could be protected from this kind of disturbance? This kind of inconsiderate houseowners? Just imagine having to go through more than 4 hours of such noise pollution (I would call it "torture"...) practically daily now? Have you ever experienced the loud bursts from a house alarm siren at close range?
How would it be if the alarm had kept on going off during the night? It had happened before...although not with such frequency. The worst part is that house is practically unoccupied most of the time!
So, is there any avenue for redress or even protection from such inconsiderate houseowners? Can we report such incidents to the police? Or even to the local authorities? Frankly, it is felt that houseowners should be held responsible for their properties...and whatever they installed in their premises. Agreed?
Btw, fyi Lot 10 also has a house alarm system installed...since Sept 2001. A very reliable branded system commonly installed in banks. And I can confidently say here that we had never disturbed our neighbourhood with such episodes! Of course, there were a few times when we ourselves had inadvertently triggered the alarm...but it was silenced almost immediately.
I sincerely hope that none of you have to undergo what me & the other "neighbouring" neighbours of this particular neighbour had to tolerate for these past 2 days (& now today) and probably more to come...
UPDATE #1 @3:25pm :
Peace & tranquility returned to Lot 10...finally! Yup, that neighbour's daughter came to reset their house alarm system. If only they had been a little bit more responsible, we would not have to suffer for so long...
UPDATE #2 @7:50pm :
Here's a view of the front porch of Lot 10 as darkness falls...
Lot 10 with new red lanterns & glimmering, running "rice" lights in preparation for CNY 2010...
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Thank you!!
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