I have a 2005 Mazda b3000, the neighbours have a Ford Mustang..So over the past few days I had been dealing with a faulty battery in my truck. My neighbours car is parked near my truck and his alarm keeps going off. He seen me working on the truck and said that my trucks electric problems are causing his cars alarm to go off. I simply told him that’s crazy and I’ve never heard of that before. I’ve got a new battery and my problems are fixed, but his car continues to go off at random times. Is there something more to this I should be aware about or was this just a coincidence? Also vehicles are not side by side(mines in the driveway, there’s is in-front of the house).
said that my trucks electric problems are causing his cars alarm to go off.
tell him his alarm is causing your electric problems
Exactly!
Good one @mmj!
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He seen me working on the truck and said that my trucks electric problems are causing his cars alarm to go off.
Politely, ask him to stop whatever it is that he’s been smoking..
Is there something more to this
His vehicle is probably due for a new battery/in-depth analysis.
Your neighbor is trying to ghost you. Tell him to call Dr. Phil, or get him a prescription for Latuda, 150 mg, once a day.
I thought ghosting someone meant vanishing and ignoring them.
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I think the word you're looking for is "gas-lighting"
@mmj - Right again. Thanks! Gas-Ghost-Whatever. I'm just not hip.
"The term "gaslighting" derives from the title of the 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband uses trickery to convince his wife that she is mentally unwell so he can steal from her."
@mmj interesting, I always assumed that phrase came from old gas or kerosene lamps. When you'd turn them up, you could turn them up too high, too fast, and temporarily blind yourself. Didn't know about this movie.
@justin-shepherd
I always thought it meant making someone loopy by releasing gas into the air, but we were both wrong.
Apparently in the film, he convinces his wife she's going mad by making footstep sounds in the attic and flickering the lights (which at the time was done by reducing the gas flow) so that she would be institutionalized.
But the term started to be used around 2010 to generally mean manipulating someone, and it was even entered into the Mirriam-Webster dictionary as "to make someone question their reality".
The only way that would ever happen is if you had some kind of machine generating a magnetic and electric field that was strong enough to induce current in his car. Such a device inside your truck would also obliterate your truck's power system if you ever energized the truck itself.
