A whistle-style car alarm started going off in the entirely enclosed in barb wire parking lot behind my apartment last night around 2. Someone had got under or around the fence and taken everything out of one of the BMW's. The alarm sounded in 6 minute cycles with 3 second breaks between the cycles until sometime after 5am. The pitch was too high to be shut out by earplugs. The cops came, but they couldn't get through the fence.
After an hour, the sound made me nauseous, and Cake furious.
First thing this morning, I went over to the service desk and asked to speak to the manager.
receptionist: "Hey Ed? There's a woman from the neighborhood that wants to talk to you."
(Ed, on the walkie talkie) "Can you patch her over to Dan?"
receptionist: "Um, she's actually here in person."
So Ed rolls up to the counter and I smile and shake his hand. I explain to Ed that one of his cars was likely broken into last night, and that none of his neighbors are happy, because that alarm proceeded to sound for hours without rest. I mentioned to Ed that perhaps they should give the cops a key to their parking lot, or get themselves an emergency call number posted on the fence.
I did not, in so many words, say that if this kind of thing happened again that Ed could expect a thunderous hailing of ball-bearings, because many of my neighbors just happen to be those kind of people, but I think Ed got the idea.
Posted by Sonya at May 12, 2004 09:17 AMThen I would say you handled that quite nicely.
Posted by: dayment at May 12, 2004 11:51 AMIt was really difficult to not flail my hands around wildly with limp wrists and make a high pitched crying/whining noise, like the tantrums you see 4 year olds throw that include a few quick little stomps on the ground. I was really proud of myself!
Posted by: sonya at May 12, 2004 01:56 PM"...next time something like this happens, some of my neighbors might feel compelled to bombard your lot full of expensive cars with ball bearings JUST LIKE THESE (produces bucket of ball bearings from under coat), because, well, they're just that kind of people! So now you know."
Posted by: flamingbanjo at May 12, 2004 02:55 PMWhat I wonder is: If some CapHill Car Burglar was able to get under/over the fence into the BMW lot, why couldn't one of the SPD do the same? I realize the kevlar makes most of them LOOK like they spend all their time at Top Pot, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be at least one Junkie Sized cop on reserve at the East Precinct for just this type of situation.
And yes, it sounds like you were extremely diplomatic under the circumstances.
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