Nuisance Car Alarms!

• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
  • Posts: 7,819
  23 June 2008     06:343140
  #1      
  I'm just at the tail end of a nasty virus. It wasnt pleasant .Was just beginning to get over it so figured a good sleep-in on sunday morning was the thing to do. Sounded like a good plan to me. But no...it wasnt achievable.
  
  Joe Blogg visitor, staying at the Premier Inn..soon put paid to that one by leaving his dark and miserable BMW car alarm blaring from 5.30 am onwards.Just 40 metres away. As most people this time of year have a window open gasping for a bit of air, the whizz whizz, whizz whizz, of the bl**dy car alarm reverberated around the room completey doing ones nut, and scuppering any chance at all of an extra bit of beauty sleep.
  
  Does anyone come hurtling out of this national chain of hotels worrying about the damage this pollution is doing to local oul fogeys trying to sleep on a sunday morning?? Not at all. The alarm rings ..for hours and hours it rings, nobody checks, nobody looks, nobody comes to stop it ringing.The Hotel itself doesnt give a rats ass what happens outside its doors.
  
  Mid morning it is still going. An ambulance comes to The Gateway and takes an elderly person away. The alarm rings on through all this, making a miserable situation more miserable for at least one patient and their family, and blighting the life quality for everyone else.
  
  Lunchtime it's still going and now its 1.30 pm....til woe..hold the horses...Joe Bloggs has emerged from said hotel and all is at last tranquil. He packs Bloggs family in and drives off..without a care in the world.
  
  Of course live next to a hotel carpark and you ask for it. But I was here first and they should have some duty of reponsibility in local environment matters, but they do nothing. Of course there have been many incidents like this over the years. One tries to complain or whatever initially but in the end you just fatally have to accept more lessening of the quality of life.
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  23 June 2008     07:033141
  #2      
  Living next to a hotel car park does not invite noise pollution PaulB! What on earth were the hotel thinking? Apart from the obvious courtesy issues, what has this doen for their PR locally? Perhaps a quiet but crisp word in their corporate ears........?
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  23 June 2008     19:113173
  #3      
  surely this faceless chain would have done something for their guests peace, if nobody else.
• Guest 660

  • Registered: 14 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 3,205
  23 June 2008     19:573179
  #4      
  I know when i reported a car alarm going off for hours,I got a letter from the Council 2 weeks later asking me if the problem was still occuring!
  If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  23 June 2008     20:053183
  #5      
  about 10 years ago i rang the bill at about 8pm one saturday about a non stop house alarm close by.
  the harrassed officer advised me to take a ladder and a hammer to the house and smash it.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  23 June 2008     20:053184
  #6      
  about 10 years ago i rang the bill at about 8pm one saturday about a non stop house alarm close by.
  the harrassed officer advised me to take a ladder and a hammer to the house and smash it.
• Guest 666

  • Registered: 25 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 323
  23 June 2008     22:533197
  #7      
  Sorry to read that it had been going on so long! I dropped my daughter off for a party in East Cliff at 13.30 in the very same car park and we both noticed a Beeeemer sounding off intermittently whilst we waited for her friends to meet up with her.
  
  Trouble is most don't take a blind bit of notice when they go off, my car had the front door bent out five inches before the perps were disturbed.
  
  Can only suppose that as it went off in the daytime that it would not be classed as a 'nuisance'.
  
  My mate in Bexley got so annoyed with his neighbours flat alarm that he used a sledgehammer and a 3ft cold chisel rammed through the wall to break the electric circuit....hellava BANG, but what peace therafter.
  Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
• Guest 641

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 2,335
  25 June 2008     23:273307
  #8      
  My comisserations are with you PaulB, I know exactly what you have to suffer with, I went through the same on a weekly basis when I used to live in Cheam Village next to a video shop. Bleeding alarm would sound off in the early hours, I would get up check all entrances etc in me pj's in all weathers, ring the old bill and get the same response that Howard got. Great things, sledgehammers, then bliss