An analogy to the frequency of sirens

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So, I frequently complain to people about the amount of sirens around (and I don't mean the mythological creatures), and once a person replied saying "but they're infrequent, not constant" - now I've been thinking, although not sure if it's exaggerative, that I could have replied "well, rape is usually infrequent too!"

Good analogy? Have you any of your own?

As if rape creates sirens?

Are you a rapist?

Comparing a siren with a sexual assault is not a great analogy.

Perhaps it's safer to compare it with stubbing your toe? Infrequent, but extremely painful.

Jason.

But that's the thing. I meant the comparison to convey the idea that just because something is infrequent doesn't mean it can't be harmful. It plays on relativity.

But what about the rape sirens? (This is more an inside joke among the people I play D&D with, stemming from one of the players finding a whistle on the body of a merchant, calling it a rape whistle and me saying he needed a rape siren)

I understand the intent, but the analogy may be going too far. A lot of people may misconstrue that to mean that you're saying sirens are as bad of a thing as rape is.