Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Car alarms
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.030722.26528@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1991 03:07:22 GMT
References: <109730@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <109730@unix.cis.pitt.edu> cwcst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Carol Coates) writes:
>	2) Use the power-locks (continuous "lock"), blast the siren
>	   INSIDE the car, and cut the engine...

There is a big legal difference between doing something intended to
scare a thief off and something intended to injure him.  The latter is
considered an excessive response to mere theft, and is very seriously
illegal.  (As in, you could be in much more trouble than he is.)  The
interior siren should be okay, but locking the doors on him so you can
blast his eardrums uninterrupted is not.

(You might also want to consider the practical question of how much
damage he will do trying to get out in a hurry.)
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