[quote=KimPossible]It was sending rolling signals to the car based on a bad battery is the best I can figure out. All I know is that my SRT was doing the same thing where the lights would flash as if I had just locked it without me doing anything and more often than not the alarm would go off. My car would be outside and I (with keys) was in my office, house, bank, grocery store, etc. I couldn't shut the alarm off no matter what I did. The remote was totally ineffective but I could start and drive the car. Several times I was driving down the street with the alarm going off looking like I just stole my own car. The advice that I was given was to change out the batteries in both remotes. I did that and no more problems in 8 months. I suppose that there could have been water in the trunk that magically dried up on the exact day that I replaced the batteries. The other thing is that it is about the easiest fix there is for a problem. Try whatever you think will work best with your problem. I am just letting you know what fixed mine when I had what sounds like the exact same thing going on. I did also remove the battery cables and then reattach them.[/quote]
I would hazard a guess that if you were a good distance away from the car then the remote would not be sending signals to the car as it would be out of range. If the batteries were weak then the range would have been decreased even more for them to work.
The battery disconnection could have reset the system and solved the problems.