Wallingford neighbors had enough so one of them decided to take matters into their own hands. But did they go too far?

The Wallyhood Blog reports of a pesky car alarm that plagued the neighborhood for days. Notes were left on the car — in classic passive-aggressive Seattle style. And some not-so-passive aggressive notes. A police officer even contacted the car owner who lives in a nearby apartment building. But the alarm continued to go off — even at night.

“… the alarm sounded again that evening, I knew I wasn’t the only one on my block who was fantasizing about blowing the offending vehicle up,” Kim, with the Wallyhood Blog, wrote about waking up at 1:30 a.m.

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But this time, another sound came alongside the torturing alarm — a smashing sound. Kim peered out a window toward the car and saw two people with hoodies near the vehicle.

“Then, the beautiful sound of silence,” she writes. “Admittedly, I was grateful …”

It’s unclear what exactly was done to silence the alarm. But the story doesn’t end there.

It turns out the mysterious Wallingford neighbors’ solution was to bust out the driver’s side window and then scratch a message on the windshield.

The message: “CAR ALARM AGAIN! Next time, real damage.”

You can see photos of the notes and the damage on the Wallyhood Blog.

Kim came across the car’s owner, Christopher, as he was surveying the damage the next day. She found out there was a story behind the squeal of the car alarm. Christopher moved to Seattle from Philadelphia about a year ago and became one of Kim’s Wallingford neighbors. He doesn’t use his car for much — only to drive out of the city on weekend adventures. And, after the police officer paid him a visit, he scheduled an appointment to get the alarm checked out and fixed. But some of his Wallingford neighbors got to it first.

Kim’s perspective seemed to change after meeting Christopher. She wonders who the real victim is.

What do Wallingford neighbors think?

While Kim signed off on the blog post, Wallingford neighbors weighed in on the matter. Some argue that patience and compassion are the appropriate response. Others said that NyQuil and earplugs would have been a simpler answer. One person said it was “laughable” and “so Seattle” to be offended by the notes left on the car. And others, they saw things differently.

One person wrote:

An alarm that goes off over and over, especially at night, and this 2 nights on a row, can lead to great anger and exasperation in even the most peaceful people. It happened in my neighborhood and I was crying from exhaustion after 2 similar nights. Happily, in our case the neighbor found our notes in time but if it had gone on for another day, someone on our neighborhood likely would have done something similar. Reasonable people can be pushed to extreme actions when exhausted and shocked over and over again by a raging alarm. At the same time, thank you to Kim for showing kindness.

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