SMART homes, SMART phones, SMART televisions, SMART window dressings for your SMART homes that work with temperature and solar to illuminate and darken your SMART rooms.
Wow, but we certainly have come a very long way in the world of technological advancements. And those are truly just the tip of the iceberg. The wonders and marvels of the post-modern world are amazing indeed.
Of course, if one resides on Cuttermill Road, as I have since August 2006, one may feel as if they have slipped into an unfortunate time-machine where it is pre-World War I, or the “Great War,” as my great-grandfather called it.
You see dear readers, I reside near Vigilant Fire House and it is the company’s refusal to enter into the 21st century that has caused me (and I know for certain, my neighbors as well) a tremendous amount of discomfort.
I have done my due-diligence and my research, and I know for a fact that blaring, obscenely loud warning sirens are unnecessary.
It is a “tradition” that is simply uncalled for in the 21st century.
In my development, they have posted warning signs against honking horns at any hour of the day. I believe the fine is $100 if one gets busted for creating what is essentially noise pollution.
I call-out Vigilant’s obsession with the warning gongs as an identical irritant to the horn blowing of motor vehicles in the close vicinity of my residence.
The only difference is that frustrated drivers have no other options, really, than to hit the horn.
Vigilant, however, has a world of options that are so painfully obvious that every time I hear those terrifyingly loud blasts coming from the firehouse, I jump out of my skin. Tradition in lieu technology.
Charming if one is perhaps running a Bed and Breakfast in the Berkshires, but not so charming when it comes to the rights of citizens in a community to enjoy peace and tranquillity in their living spaces.
I have actually been notified that this superfluous siren blasting habit has:
1. reduced the value of my unit and
2. cost me my ability to re-finance my unit
Wake-up my fellow neighbors !
But do so to the alarm sound of your choice and not to the irritating, obnoxious, unnecessary, callous sounds of Vigilant’s deafening gongs! Please! Respond.
Monica Braunfeld
Great Neck