This may cause a transformer to blow which would in turn, set off a car alarm.

Horrified Robert Byrne was just about to step into the shower when his car alarm went off - and he rushed out to investigate.

Not living in a part of Dubai where construction work goes on day and night was lucky I thought, until our neighbour's car alarm started going off early in the mornings.

He then went to the 31-year-old woman's car and slashed two of her tyres and set off the car alarm as her daughter looked on at 10.30pm on March 11.

Another new provision in the Traffic Act, which has been amended 50 times since 1999, envisions stiff fines of up to BGN 150 for an unattended wailing car alarm.The amendments also include the requirement for cars with foreign plates to be registered in the local municipality, even if they remain with their foreign plates.

For whatever reason, on a recent visit to the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, it sounded as though a car alarm were howling somewhere nearby just about all the time.

A local resident said he was woken up by a car alarm going off and then found the blaze.

"A car alarm is the new reveille for today's campers," fellow camper Erik snickered.

There is the smell of burning, loud noises and a car alarm going off.

There's also theft notification and if the car alarm is triggered the driver is alerted via the mobile app.