There is a van regularly parked on my street that is fitted with some kind of motion sensing alarm. It only beeps once but very loudly each time it is triggered. We live on quite a narrow residential street and it is set off by every pedestrian and car that passes it and apparently by other things as well (cats? rain? foxes) as it went off innumerable times last night when the street was empty of people and cars. I mean sometimes every few seconds and then not for an hour or so. You can't get used to it because its at such irregular intervals and its impossible to settle the baby (who is up 3 or 4 times a night since the 8 mth regression two months ago anyway) when it is happening.
What can/should I do?
Is this type of alarm legal on a residential street does anyone know?
I feel like waiting until I am much calmer and trying to write a note that manages to be neither aggressive or passive aggressive but appeals to the owners humanity (Oh the HUMANITY) but I am not sure if I have the reasonableness left in me involved in such a thing.
Calling the council - bad form/reasonable/over reaction/not a leg to stand on/right and just?
Deep gratitude for advice!
AIBU?
to want to destroy this thing with fire (jk, jk but seriously tips for proportional response needed!)
Ocelotsmama · 04/03/2016 22:34
Write a note saying "do you realise that your vehicle's alarm goes off so often and is very audible in our house especially at night?". Invite them to come and listen even... It's possible they don't even realise!
Unless they're like my dick neighbours over the road... Whos car alarm went off for months on and off and they didn't seem to really care! Mind you I got to the point of hammering on their door in the middle of the night! That helped! 
Oi, twatbadger, the alarm on your shitty van goes off eleventy thousand times a night, and if you don't move it or fix it, you'll soon find a burned out shell sitting on bricks. Toodles, cuntychops. But that's just me
You're not as funny as you think you are 
You're not as funny as you think you are
Yes she is. And no idea why you felt the need to punctuate that snide remark with a coy little smiiie.
I agree with Janet (and good to see you do too, OP) - in this situation I don't think there's a need to balance the tone of the letter, it's fine to be direct and obviously pissed off!
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