A Selection of Car Alarm Resources Amusements Tired of pelting alarmed cars with eggs? Brooklyn artist Rodger Stevens is selling a t-shirt with this attractive "Disarm Your Alarm" logo, so you can make your point more subtlely. The shirts are $20 plus $2.50 for shipping; email him directly to order. Enjoy these car alarms cartoons from: This Modern World (here and here) The New Yorker Mad Magazine Andy Singer Brooklyn's finest respond to a car alarm in this classic satire from The Onion. (Another good parody here.) A new silent anti-theft device coming soon from Suburban Auto Group: the Trunk Monkey Theft Retrieval System. (More Trunk Monkey info here.) People have been teaching human songs to birds for a long time. (Witness this 18th-century bird organ, or the flageolet music in The Bird Fancyers Delight (1717).) So it's only natural that birds would hear a car alarm, repeating over and over, and start to learn it. Now, for the first time online, I present a recording of a Brooklyn mockingbird singing car alarm noises. (Thanks to Peter Mitchell.) Was this the inspiration for New York artist Nina Katchadourian, who improved the car alarm's sound through birdsong? Of course, who needs birds to make the car alarm noises? Were buggy whips, as Schopenhauer describes them, the car alarms of the nineteenth century? Finally: are car alarms a conspiracy hatched by the French? Find out the astonishing answer in this NPR commentary.