Liberal Talk Radio

So I’m working from home this morning, trying to get work done, but a late-model Lexus sedan parked just outside my apartment is screaming every five minutes, dutifully letting me know that it thinks it’s being stolen. Do I even need to tell you that I can look out my window and clearly see that no such theft is taking place?

After all, I rent an apartment in a neighborhood where the median housing price is north of $1M, and it’s broad daylight right now. You could leave the Hope Diamond sitting on my street and no one would touch it.

But never mind that. Do car alarms actually prevent theft? Have they ever been successful? Being the intrepid research-oriented blogger that I am (and realizing that since I can’t get work done anyway, I might as well blog!), I headed to the internets, where I quickly found this article, claiming car alarms are useless.

Of course, BanCarAlarms.org is hardly a neutral source, but the conservative Manhattan Institute agrees, and there’s apparently a bill in the NY legislature to ban them in Manhattan.

Now, back to (not) working.