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

The 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鈥檛 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 .

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.

And another:

I live on the street close enough to the offending car to have been affected and will offer a perspective of one of Christopher’s victims. We never thought it was vindictive, just clueless or thoughtless.

This was not the first night this alarm was going off repeatedly. On this go-around it was the second night in a row, and was going off intermittently during the day. But a couple of weeks ago there was the same scenario – days and nights of it. That time notes were left on the window, much nicer than the ones pictured here. Back then, same thing: days in a row.

So when it happened again, the perpetrator had been warned, but came back and set the alarm again, and left it for days. Something had to be done. I had my window-buster ready. Not sure I would have done it, but turned out somebody beat me to it anyway. The alarm had to stop and my plan was to do the least damage possible to get the job done. And that’s what somebody did. And I am sure glad of it.

You really think days of car alarms AFTER being asked not to do it again is such a small thing? It’s maybe not vindictive and he’s probably not a bad person, but that’s not what this was about. It’s about knowing how to live in a city and being responsible for your actions. The man was clearly informed weeks ago about the problem and here it was again. And the police were notified about it. They did nothing, probably not much they can do. We were faced with the possibility of yet more nights of this.