I got fined once
Back when I was in college, my car was parked a couple of blocks away from the dorm. I had the alarm set. Someone bumped it hard enough while manuevering their car into the spot in front of or behind it which set off the alarm. Since I was too far away to hear it, I couldn't have done anything anyway.
Later that day I returned to my car to find the battery completely dead and a ticket sitting underneath the wiper blade.
From that point on, I never used the alarm near the campus, defeating the purpose of having bought it in the first place.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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