Man Arrested for Shooting Out Car Alarm

[Chipperman]

Man Arrested for Shooting Out Car Alarm
Thursday, August 11, 2005

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — A man annoyed by a noisy car alarm fired at least three bullets into a Toyota Camry, silencing the alarm and bringing out police who hauled him away in handcuffs, authorities said.

David Owen Rye, 48, was arrested and booked for investigation of reckless discharge of a firearm and felony vandalism, Sgt. John Adamczyk said. Rye allegedly told officers he grabbed his handgun and went out to put a stop to the car alarm.

The owner of the Camry, a sailor whose ship the USS Theodore Roosevelt (search) just returned from an eight-month cruise, was visiting a friend when he heard the gunfire at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, KCAL-TV reported.

"I mean, that's not a safe guy. I mean, you get upset over an alarm, over a noise like that, [then] there's some little kids making too much noise and he decides to do something awful," sailor Nicholas Moreno, 25, said.

Police were called to the Yosemite Avenue apartment building and Rye was ordered out of his apartment by an officer with a bullhorn. A Los Angeles Police Department (search) helicopter also responded and Rye was arrested.

Neighbor Ken Davis said he heard gunshots and looked outside to see Rye holding a gun.

"It was little scary," Davis said. "I didn't know what kind of mood he was in. I didn't want to say anything to him."

From Fox News

 

[JohnBT]

I understand. Some nights I believe the owners should be thrashed soundly about the head and shoulders. Then there was the guy who let his run from
3 a.m. until I cut the wire from underneath at around 4 a.m.

No, wait. Maybe I only dreamed I cut the wire.

Maybe I only dreamed he asked me for a jump the next morning.

And why does the alarm on the church 2 blocks away have to be loud enough to be heard 6 blocks away. I feel sorry for the folks in the 20 homes located on the same block as the church.

And why does arming a car alarm require the horn to honk? Who are these people trying to impress? If the fools would punch two buttons on the remote they could see the lights blink when they armed it and quit bothering everybody else.

I feel better now. :banghead:

John

 

[garyk/nm]

Having worked in auto repair shops for many years, I understand completely.

 

[Eightball]

I mean, you get upset over an alarm, over a noise like that, [then] there's some little kids making too much noise and he decides to do something awful," sailor Nicholas Moreno, 25, said.

Where did "the children" come from in this guy's rhetoric? I think we should have the legal right to peg someone's car alarm if they just let it run in the middle of the night --the point of the alarm is so you check to see if your cars alright, not say "if it's getting stolen, the sound would've died off by now" or somesuch to that effect.

 

[AirForceShooter]

The guy was right!!
And he had the guts to do what we want to.
Can I be in his jury??

AFS

 

[foghornl]

When I lived in a high-rise apt several years back, there was one clown that would come in around 10:30PM, set his alarm to "test" so that it went through 2 complete cycles of the sounds (hi-lo, buzzer, wooop woop, etc)

Never figured out the windage, etc, but there were sooooo many times I wanted to drop a brick off my 12th floor terrace...

 

[3rdpig]

I used to live next door to a "family" where the "mother" had moved out to live with her boyfriend and left her two teenagers in the house alone. The girl, about 14, had a boyfriend that used to visit from dusk till dawn. For some reason he'd park his car in front of my house and about every other night the alarm would go off when some truck passed by it too close. Obviously it didn't bother him as he never came out to shut it off, it just ran until it timed out. I called the cops several times but was always told that since it was parked on a public street there was nothing they could do. I left notes on the car asking him to park it elsewhere or turn the alarm off but nothing happened. I have to get up at 6am and having that alarm go off, sometimes more than once in a night, right outside my bedroom window was making me crazy. I can't tell you all how many times I wanted to go out there with one of my AK's and a 75 round drum and just go ballistic on that car, but since I hate jailhouse food I decided to try a different tack. First I got an handheld air horn, then put a nice note on his windshield detailing what was going to happen to his car if the alarm went off in the middle of the night again, then I let all the air out of his tires, then I set his alarm off and walked to thier bedroom window and gave about 5 good blasts against the glass. Then I went back to my house and went to bed. Never saw the car again.

I find it rather amazing that a person can have a loud party, or have loud music going and the cops will come and shut it down, but you can leave a car alarm going in a residential neighborhood at all hours of the night and the police won't do anything but come and arrest the person that puts a stop to it.

 

[dev_null]

Had a neighbor with a really sensitive alarm on his Monte Carlo SS, who would never check it when it went off. Amazing what a Harley with straight pipes can do on the way out of the parking lot at 7 am.

(No, I wasn't sitting there making a racket. But I damn sure made certain to ride by close enough to set his alarm off. Hey, I was young and brash. Now I'm just old and jaded.)

 

[ScottsGT]

Back around '89 when Hurricane Hugo blew thru Charleston, we had some moron drop his car off in our apartment parking lot thinking it was safe to park it there during the storm. Left the alarm on......
After 1 hour of it constantly running, no timer, I removed the bra from the front of the Firebird, opened the hood from underneath the bumper ( I was a bodyman, knew the tricks) and ripped out all the alarm wiring I could find and threw the wires on the roof of the car.
I looked up and got a standing ovation from all the balconys and front porches in the complex!
10 min later the moron came for his car. EVERYONE chewed his butt and told him next time there won't be a car to come back to!

 

[White Horseradish]

Car alarms are not a reasom to shoot, but a perfect reason to call your local PD.

I find that police officers have very nice ways of explaining to people the need to shut the damn thing off and have it adjusted properly. Besides, if they show up and someone actually was breaking into the car, you would be doing your civic duty and giving them a crime to investigate.

 

[Andrew Rothman]

What he did was absolutely illegal and inappropriate.

But, damn, I have often wanted to do that.

 

[mete]

The owner heard the shots but either didn't hear the alarm or ignored it !!! He deserved to have his Camry shot .

 

[Bullet Bob]

My hero.

 

[MechAg94]

That was what I was thinking mete. He obviously did not have a problem with his hearing.

He should ask for a Jury Trial. See if they convict him. I don't think I would vote for conviction.

 

[Greg L]

When we lived in the city I often wanted to do that. There were so many breakins though that we usually just left our (emptied out) cars unlocked.

And why does arming a car alarm require the horn to honk? Who are these people trying to impress? If the fools would punch two buttons on the remote they could see the lights blink when they armed it and quit bothering everybody else.

I like that feature. Usually when I'm herding the kids somewhere trying to keep them from running around the parking lot I just point the remote over my shoulder & keep walking. The honk is a a good way to tell that my aim was at least in my truck's general direction.

 

[Davo]

The guy was a good shot too...

I saw it on the news yesterday, he left a nice small group, I had a good laugh.

 

[oweno]

Warm summer night a few years back, a neighbor's home alarm went off at about 11PM. After a while, I called the cops to ask about it. Cop said that they've been trying to find the owner or anybody who could shut it off.

I said: "Would it be OK if I went to the house with a ladder and an axe and took care of it?"

Cop: "Fine by me."

I didn't but I was tempted.

 

[Cesiumsponge]

"I mean, that's not a safe guy. I mean, you get upset over an alarm, over a noise like that, [then] there's some little kids making too much noise and he decides to do something awful," sailor Nicholas Moreno, 25, said.

Yeah, because we all know the logical progression of shooting things goes: paper>car alarms>children.

I wouldn't condone shooting a car, but I fully understand the fustration of someone's car alarm going off constantly. We used to have people who lived on our street with old riced out 1980's era imports worth all of a bag of salt. They had the car alarms set with such sensitivity, they'd go off for 15 minutes if you even passed gas inside your house. They've long moved away though. I guess someone else on the block harassed them enough

 

[Standing Wolf]

Car alarms are not a reasom to shoot, but a perfect reason to call your local PD.

Calling dial-a-horoscope would do as much good.

 

[JohnBT]

More like dial-a-prayer.

Around here they don't respond to building alarms either unless they're called in by a security service.

Heck, there're so many alarms going off that people walking by don't even turn to look anymore.

John

 

[Chipperman]

It's at the point now that home and car alarms are only useful for a discount on insurance.

 

[Randy in Arizona]

I understand where the police are coming from, but the guy oughta get a public service award, not jail time.

 

[Ky Larry]

Had a nieghbor once who parked his car on the street. When his car alarm went off he would let it go until it timed out. I asked him politely to put his car in his garage so the alarm wouldn't go off. He told me he would park his car where ever he wanted and if I didn't like it I could move. Next Sunday morning at daylight, I took the muffler off my mower and screwed a piece of pipe into the exhaust hole. Then I made a few passes thru the part of my yard that was closest to his bedroom window with the throttle wide open. That night, he parked his car in his garage. I know this isn't gun related, but it sure was fun.

 

[mondocomputerman]

All these stories are awesomely funny. Two points:

1) He's awfully good or lucky to get the alarm stopped with so few rounds.

2) The owner of the Camry didn't hear the alarm, but sure heard the gunfire to stop it?

 

[athlon64]

I saw a pic of the car and it appears the guy triple tapped it on the hood, right above the radiator. It did not look like the slugs penetrated. I suspect the alarm just timed out.