the bells, the bells

[baratron]

Oh, for God's sake. We are being kept awake by an alarm on a nearby factory that's been going off for the past 3 hours. The police won't come because there's no signs of a break in and it's Metropolitan Police policy to only go to suspicious scenes, and the council won't come because they only have noise pollution people on a Saturday night. How stupid is that? The alarm box doesn't have a phone number on it ("if this alarm goes off please ring..."), and no one official wants to take responsibility for it. So we just have to be kept awake.

I really need to go to bed, too. I am overtired and very irritable. There isn't anything I can do to block out the noise, because earplugs and the like make me panicky. The noise has actually got worse over the past few hours, because the battery has started to die and now the sound is uneven, which is far more annoying to me than a steady "whoop whoop". It's been making this noise for the past hour, though.

This is fucking ridiculous. I want to go to sleep. How long does it take for a fucking alarm battery to die?

Comments

[gerwinium.livejournal.com]

I suddenly realize why they have guns in America. To shoot alarms that annoy the hell out of you! *hugs* G.

[barty.livejournal.com]

I hate all night alarms too. The alarms near me think it's a real hoot to go off all night during the summer months when we have the window open. The infernal things are usually still sounding when I leave for work the next day.

What is the point of an alarm that can squeal for seven hours without anybody coming to deal with it? It makes no sense. A real burglar could wander through the building at leisure and choose the tastiest swag before replacing the security tapes with postman pat. Maybe they get a reduction on their insurance policy if they install an annoying alarm.