On the camping trip I just got back from, I'd tried to gently "push" my LEAF's rear hatch closed rather than the usual brisk closure, so as to make less after-dark disturbance of the other sardine-packed campers. The car alarm duly went off at about 03:00, due to (best guess here) thermal effects popping the incompletely-latched hatch back open. This was after I had carefully stowed my trousers with the key fob still pocketed in my duffel bag so that I wouldn't roll over and inadvertently set off the alarm. I have no idea how the alarm got shut off; all I know is that I was still frantically pawing through my zippered duffel looking for the fob, in the strobe-light effect of the headlights (car was parked aiming at the tent).
Could we have a show of hands, please? How many people have ever heard of anyone, however distantly acquainted, benefitting in any way from a car alarm? Uh huh... I could get the binoculars to make sure, but I don't see any hands.... And how many would cheerfully pound their car alarm's electronics into powder with this sledgehammer? No! Not all at once! One at... bpjkzxz;xklm.. One at a time, people, pleazzmmp! <oof!> heeeellllp!
