The chilling musical sting used for the burglar, El Bandito, and the missing work notice always spooked me as a child and frankly, still does.
It got even worse with Unleashed where it seemingly happens at random for no reason! (although I'm under the assumption that it plays because El Bandito wanders onto the lot and then immediately leaves...)

I figured someone else would probably have the same issue. Replacing the SoundData file (in the Directory/SoundData folder) with this file replaces that sting with silence. As usual, the game will still switch to normal speed and briefly lower the volume of the rest of the audio when it's meant to play the sting. Apart from the lack of that specific sound file, everything else should work regularly. I'm sure there's an easier way to do this, but I know for sure this works, so...

This has only been tested with Complete Collection & if you use it, make sure you make a backup of the original SoundData file. I might do the same with the flies sounds if anyone would be interested.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jpad...urglar.zip/file

Thank you for this! I actually muted my game during night because of this sound jajajaj

What? You don't like THE MOST TERRIFYING stinger in all of gaming? LOL... :D

You can also download the zapper from Simlogical: https://www.simlogical.com/simlogic...sims-1-zappers/

"No Scavengers. Gets rid of roaches, flies (not plate flies), skunk, raccoon, Claire the bear, rabbits, and gophers. They’ll still appear briefly and you’ll get a message for the skunk but then they’re dematerialized."