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Hubby had a nice radio in his car. More for purposes of preventing the theft of the radio than the theft of the car he turned on the radios alarm that would go off about 5 seconds after the doors were opened unless you pressed the right buttons in time. He happened to be coming out of the grocery store and heard his alarm go off. The theif was sitting in the seat trying to yank the stereo out while grimacing because of the blaring alarm. Hubby walked up and yanked the guy out of the car so hard that he smacked his head on the nearby car and slumped to the ground where he stayed put while hubby stood there. There had been another man a ways back who'd set down his grocery bag and was calling the cops before hubby had even approached the car. In the end the guy was wanted for murder (if I remember it right) in another county.
The point of this - the alarm going off in the parking lot with someone IN the car alerted the other man to call the police and the guy DID take action and make the call. It also alerted hubby to something going on so that he was prepared when he walked up to the car. An alarm isn't completely useless but you can't expect it to do everything for you. If you can't hear the alarm because the car is parked too far away from your house it's not as helpful to you. If you leave it go off incessantly then your neighbors will ignore it when it's a real alert. Just like anything it's helpful if used responsibly.
Personally I would not buy a nice car or do anything obvious to fix it up if I could not hide it from prying greedy eyes in a garage or something.
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