Originally posted by motu
Its amazing how little people pay attention to car alarms. The battery in my alarm remote died so I can't disarm my alarm right now. That means whenever I go anywhere, I have to unlock the car with the key, open the door, and then disarm the car with the hidden bypass button. But it takes a few seconds to do all of that, with the alarm going off the whole time. I did that about 20 different times over the last two days and not once did people barely look up. They just kept minding their own business.
Perhaps it's the proliferation of false alarms and situations such as yours, over time, to cause people to "mind their own business" and not pay attention. Too many times, alarms have "cried wolf," so people don't bother anymore to notice. Nowadays, all you can hope for is the alarm causes bad guy to leave as soon as it sounds.
David Liske