(02DEC2008) There’s a car somewhere in my housing area with an anti-theft alarm.
It goes off whenever we have a controlled detonation, or when the helicopters make use of the aerial gunnery range, the artillery pounding the ground. It also goes off every time one of the jets or large fixed wing aircraft take off – the roar of the engines are deafening (literally, I think; they’re probably the reason my hearing has deteriorated over the last few years). Some sort of incredibly noisy aircraft takes off every hour or so. It goes off when sanitation trucks come by to suck the waste out of the port-a-johns, or when the dump truck empties the dumpster. The many military vehicles about are also far from stealthy, their large diesel engines chugging loudly.
This is not the environment for car alarms.
