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I woke up this morning to the sounds of a bunch of birds squawking outside my window. As a city kid, my familiarity with bird calls extends only so far as knowing what a pigeon, chicken, and maybe a hawk sound like, so while I sat there and listened, I found it very strange that one bird’s call seemed making a familiar pattern.
As it made it’s way through the complicated call, I realized what the bird was imitating and listened intently to it run through a second time. The bird was doing his own rendition of a multi-pattern car alarm. After dumfoundedly blurting “No way,” and waiting for the third round, the bird made four short beeps, imitating a remote shutting the alarm off.
I googled some backup to prove that I’m not insane.
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May 12th, 2006 at 10:29 am
did you see the bird? was it black? a starling, perhaps? they are all over the country, thanks to some guy in the 1800s, maybe, who thought that central park should contain every bird that shakespeare ever mentioned. he didn’t think about the fact that they would go forth and mutliply. i’ve heard starlings immitate cats. it’s strange to be riding along and hear “meow meow” coming from above and when you look around and source the sound, it’s coming from a bird on the wire.
May 12th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
You need to catch that bird and keep it in your car – just in case your alarm fails, you have a back up. No batteries required!!
May 13th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Jo: I didn’t see the bird, because it was pretty early, and you know I’m fricken blind anyway.
N0ia: I see so many problems with your plan, that I can’t even see the beta getting off the ground. Although, I must say that having a stinky dead bird or a car full of bird crap could conceivably deter a car thief.