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I get home after a nights watching drift videos at my brothers house and settle in for the evenings read of SAU with a mug of milo. Sounds relaxing huh?

Well just as im getting comfortable my alarm goes off. Now my Autowatch NEVER false alarms so instantly im panicking. I run to the bedroom to get the knife, grab the keys on the way and stop the siren for the neighbours sake. Run out the front ready to put some f%&ker in a world of hurt and..... nothing. Not a soul around.

So i stand out the front of the house for a good 15 minutes, knife in hand muttering things like "cmon you pricks, come get some!". Neighbours must think im a little crazy.

So i check the car over, make sure the doorlocks havent been tampered with etc... All is well, but im still bloody nervous.

Now how the hell am I meant to sleep?

Red17

that happened to me once, I had an Autowatch with the ultrasonic sensors so any movement within the car would set it off.

there was this night when i was at a friend's place, alarm went off, went out to check it out...nothing.

2-3 mins later alarm went off again...went out to check again...nothing! :)

Decided to sit in my car for awhile and see what's going on, turns out there was a bloody moth trapped inside that was setting the sensors off! :D

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