Man shoots car

Oh, I certainly feel for Mr. Rye who decided (after a reported thirty minutes of nearly continuous alarm noise) that he'd had enough and took matters into his own hands.

I remember a parody commercial (I'm pretty sure it was on SNL) from the early eighties that I found pretty funny at the time. The 'product' featured a tripod mounted laser combined with a car alarm detector and guidance system. The pitch was that city people could finally sleep soundly as the system would vaporize any car making unwarranted sounds at night.

This crazy story brought that all back and made me laugh when I read it yesterday.

I guess we live in a pretty tranquil part of the world when that's the above the fold story for the Metro section of our local paper.