My house alarm just wents nuts + so did my neighbour

Specialun

So this just happened

My house alarm was beeping so i went to enter the code earlier. Or what i thought was the code..alarm goes off, no code works and now keypad wont let me try other codes I ring the alarm crowd and they tell me to take out the battery but alarm would still go off for 20 mins as the backup battery retains power..while the alarm is going offmy crazy neighbour starts pounding the wall..shouting "i cant take this"...does this a few times..then as the alarm stopped i see her jumping into her car in anger

Do i wait for her to tell her take her chill pills or am i out of line as it was my alarm..she was pounding the wall and shouting like something in the exerocist

I didnt set it off for the craic

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

ask her have her ears fallen off, if she says no, then remind her she's not too bad so and to chill the f u c k out.

RoyalMarine

Since it was during the day, ignore her...
It's not like it was 3am and she was asleep with work in the morning.

Everywhere is noisy during the day. Does she think driving in her car will be any better?

mansize

You could apologise for the annoyance

buried

Did she drive off after jumping in the car? Or is she sitting in the parked car with the face and arms folded ?

molly09

Maybe she works night shift, I also think you should apologise for the disturbance and explain the difficulty you had turning it off.

mansize

Telling someone to take a 'chill pill' could be seen as offensive

greasepalm

sometimes crap happens when forgetting code to enter,store in in a safe place nearby,alarm company should have code also if you contact them.

alarms are not 100% foolproof as needing regular checks and sometimes things go faulty.

if going off on a daily basis yes you are a nuisance and keypad would have logged the fault.

does alarm need 0 entering first to clear,worth checking all keypads for stuck in button.

Birneybau

mansize wrote: »

Telling someone to take a 'chill pill' could be seen as offensive

Or, just chidish really.

mansize

glued wrote: »

I bet that's not the end of your pounding business with her, if you catch my drift

Doubt it

Specialun

molly09 wrote: »

Maybe she works night shift, I also think you should apologise for the disturbance and explain the difficulty you had turning it off.

She doesnt work night shifts

Mena

mansize wrote: »

Telling someone to take a 'chill pill' could be seen as offensive

Who cares? It's a persons choice to be offended. Not something you have control off.

@Op, apologise for the disturbance and move on.

Specialun

glued wrote: »

I bet that's not the end of your pounding business with her, if you catch my drift

Giggity giggity

mansize

Mena wrote: »

Who cares? It's a persons choice to be offended. Not something you have control off.

@Op, apologise for the disturbance and move on.

Or your could chose your words better, especially when you are the one at fault

Keane2baMused

We went away for the weekend and came back to the house alarm blaring. It could have been going off the entire time for all we knew. OH went in straight away to apologise, turned out they hadn't heard it even. That or they are just way too polite!

You should apologise. If nothing else it will make her feel a bit silly for going postal.

Specialun

mansize wrote: »

Or your could chose your words better, especially when you are the one at fault

Fooking hell lad. That chill pill saying really got to ya.

mansize

Specialun wrote: »

Fooking hell lad. That chill pill saying really got to ya.

If you are on them, it can

Reputable Rog

There is nothing worse, there's a house near me whose alarm goes off every Sunday morning without fail and the pricks let it ring for about 20 minutes each time.

Turtyturd

Hopefully it's all sorted in time for the OP to start a 'Why are you in on Saturday Night?' thread.

Harry Palmr

Good People with stupid alarms or stupid people with good alarms should be very careful not to use up all their good will.

Ted111

This feud is a marathon not a sprint.

Ok she wins this time.
But bide your time. And when they show a sign of weakness. Pounce.

Yoghurt87

This happened ours a few months ago. It kicked off at 3am and kept going all night. The problem was a dead battery (it had actually cracked and was leaking), and it didn't stop until the battery was replaced. I'd be looking for a call out today, you'll keep the whole neighbourhood up for the night otherwise.
I dropped in chocolate and wine to our next door neighbours afterwards. While it wasn't my fault, it is still polite to apologise.

mansize

2 things I'm glad my house doesn't have:-
Doorbell or Alarm

Birneybau

mansize wrote: »

Specialun wrote: »

Fooking hell lad. That chill pill saying really got to ya.

If you are on them, it can

You are on chill pills? Jaysus, it's an expression not a slur on people that suffer with depression/anxiety/etc.

I guess this is where we are now...

Mongfinder General

Reminds me of the time I saw a neighbour walk across the street with a ladder and hammer and pound the living ****e out of an exterior alarm box. Hero.

Widdershins

I wouldn't apologise after she acted up with you .

bucketybuck

People with house alarms are ass holes. Fact. Be a decent person and get rid of the damn thing.

Turtyturd

mansize wrote: »

If you are on them, it can

Surely you've more pressing things to feign outrage at?

Ted111

Widdershins wrote: »

I wouldn't apologise after she acted up with you .

Well she didn't explore any diplomatic solutions.
She went straight to firing bullets.

I think it will be important to remember that in years to come. Particularly
with future generations who may forget the origin of the feud. They started it. Our guy needs to stand strong here.

Thoie

Apologise. You have no idea (and no need to know) why it upset her so much, but there could be a million reasons. Drop in some chocolates and explain the situation. For all you know it could have been doing it while you weren't there as well.

mansize

Birneybau wrote: »

You are on chill pills? Jaysus, it's an expression not a slur on people that suffer with depression/anxiety/etc.

I guess this is where we are now...

What do you think it means???

Cheap slurs are just that

Specialun

Thoie wrote: »

Apologise. You have no idea (and no need to know) why it upset her so much, but there could be a million reasons. Drop in some chocolates and explain the situation. For all you know it could have been doing it while you weren't there as well.

It wasnt. I was here all day.

Specialun

mansize wrote: »

What do you think it means???

Cheap slurs are just that

You're very easily outraged...

Stigura

I bought a place with an alarm system, once. It had a boiler and radiators too. But, I don't concern myself with such things, as I don't understand them.

Inevitably though, one day, this fcuking pull cord, or switch, in what would have been the bedroom, got to me. I had to find out .....

Jesus Fcuking Christ!!! All hell let loose! It was a nice little bungalow, in a residential cul de sac. I touched this thing and was deafened! Fcuking klaxon was screaming. I was screaming. God alone knows what the neighbours were thinking, or doing.

I didn't have a clue about the keypad code or anything. Luckily, I seem to have a logical turn of mind on me. Amidst all this bedlam, I had the presence of mind to grab my side cutters. Open the door to where the alarm lived. And cut the fcuking wires to the klaxon! That sorted it.

Then, I sold up and moved on.

buried

Just go over and explain this whole noise nightmare is just as annoying for yourself. Make it seem more annoying. Blame it on that new mobile pokemon game thing. Say some pokemon addicts have been trying to break in your gaff looking for a pokemon that supposedly lives in your alarm box. Say this has been happening day and night since that damn thing was released, only this time they got in. Make up some $hit like that.

B.A._Baracus

Bad form, op.
It's not your fault it went off but it is your alarm. Saying sorry about that doesn't take much. But rather thinking take a chill pill makes you sound rather dislikeable.

Surreptitious

mansize wrote: »

2 things I'm glad my house doesn't have:-
Doorbell or Alarm

Mine doesn't even have a door.

mansize

Surreptitious wrote: »

Mine doesn't even have a door.

I've 3 outdoor doors

andekwarhola

mansize wrote: »

You could apologise for the annoyance

Wouldn't get a thread out of that though

Armchair Andy

mansize wrote:

I've 3 outdoor doors

One should always afford the labour separate access to one's lodge.

Miss Demeanour

I regularly do it on a Sunday morning.....cremate fry then push open kitchen window forgetting about alarm....can imagine them all in bed raising their eyes "she's burning the fecking breakfast again!"

mansize

Armchair Andy wrote: »

One should always afford the labour separate access to one's lodge.

I always let the handy man in the back way

Armchair Andy

One should never employ an amateur for one's colonic irrigation😉😉

Strumms

What answers is the OP looking for here. The case curious poster who asks a question about a situation and then goes about dismissing pretty much all advise offered. Never understand these threads, is it a boredom thing ?

No matter what reaction, this one is on the OP. I'd take around a box of chocs tomorrow as someone suggested and explain what happened and say sorry. House alarms that go off like that for 20 mins are a pain in the hole. if you are trying to have a quiet night in or it's first thing on a Sunday morning it's a head melter and it's down to you.

El Caffo

mansize wrote: »

Telling someone to take a 'chill pill' could be seen as offensive

To a moron.