# Olaf and the Car Alarm

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/olaf-and-the-car-alarm/75096>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [October 21, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/olaf-and-the-car-alarm/75096 "2012-10-21T18:48:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jorgecolby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@jorgecolby](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jorgecolby)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/olaf-and-the-car-alarm/75096/1 "2012-10-21T18:48:26Z")

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I like the idea of getting the car towed, but I have another suggestion. And it doesn’t require a tuxedo.

Olaf (aka caller) can walk by the car on his way to work every day and gently nudge it to trigger the alarm. After a week or so, the car’s battery should be dead, and he doesn’t have to hear the alarm in the middle of the night.

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/olaf-and-the-car-alarm/75096/2 "2012-10-22T03:50:02Z")

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Great idea @jorgecolby. This idea was used in a 1960’s film. I forget the name, but it involved a robbery at an art museum. Maybe it was called “Kismet”. Anyway, in the movie, the art thieves triggered the alarm every night for a week. They did it by flying a boomerang through the light beams which were guarding the artwork as I recall. Finally the museum had to turn off the alarm b/c the neighbors were complaining that the alarm was waking them up night after night. The next night, the thieves walked away with the stolen art.

I think this idea of yours is good to go.

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**Author:** ![euryale1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@euryale1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/euryale1)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/olaf-and-the-car-alarm/75096/3 "2012-10-22T04:39:37Z")

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Yup, just trigger the bad boy every 45 min. You could get a street kid to do this for a few bucks. BTW send a letter to the embassy that you will have random people set off the alarm until the battery dies. . Also talk to the local police cheif as to the issue. the rank and file do not care. But the chief may want to put a grant proposal for extras to the feds. Your negative feedback to the senator may ice his grant dreams.

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**Author:** ![sonsonet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@sonsonet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sonsonet)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/olaf-and-the-car-alarm/75096/4 "2012-10-31T20:09:35Z")

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A better solution is to buy an aftermarket catalytic converter  
made by Magnaflow. [http://www.cwik.com/](http://www.cwik.com/) sells them at the  
lowest prices online and they offer free [shipping.It](http://shipping.It) was quick  
and easy to order from them. The Magnaflow catalytic converters  
breath better too and cost less than half as much as Dealer cats.