Tired of loud car stereos at stop lights?

[michael hurd]

Get one of these, and give them a blast. It would be mint facing out of a van with power sliding side door.

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[JJkizak]

That might not be loud or abnoxious enough.

JJK

[Islander]

The volume in that video is misleadingly low. You can get the clue as to how loud the horn really is by the sound of it echoing off the surrounding countryside. It's faint in the video, but you can hear it. Car audio systems don't do that.

That "little" horn is from a ferry boat. Here on the Island, we hear ferry boat and cruise ship horns most evenings, and you can hear them clearly from kilometres away.

Sometimes one of the cruise ships will sound its horn while the 6 O'Clock News reporter is speaking on location from the Inner Harbour. You'll hear the horn on the TV from his microphone as well as through the house windows, and the cruise ship docks are three or four kilos away from my place. It doesn't seem that loud, but it sure carries.

[seti]

Oh yeah this guy. There was a video of him with the car using a tunnel to extend the horn. It was heard 9.3 miles away LOL.......

[Groomlakearea51]

Just rolll down your window and shoot his tires out with a silenced .22.... Usually works....

[Mighty Favog]

I was listening a long time ago to a radio program (Bob & Tom??) and a man called in that had an air horn from a diesel train mounted in his semi-tractor. When kids riding in cars would give the signal for the truck driver to blow his horn it would send ol' mom and dad drving over to the nearest rest stop to change their underwear.

[Islander]

Train horns come in two basic models, the ones with two flutes, found on locomotives, and the ones with three flutes, found on commuter train cab cars. Cab cars have controls, but no engines, and are used to operate the train on its return trip, so there's no need to turn the train around. The engineer goes from the loco to the other end of the train, gets in the cab car and drives the train, remotely controlling the loco, which is now pushing the train instead of pulling it. Locos run equally well forwards or backwards.

With no engine, it was thought that the horn needs to be louder, thus the three flutes.

Before every trip, the train gets a pre-trip inspection, which includes testing the horn and bell, even if the train is at a suburban depot at 1 am.

When you blast a two-flute horn, you can hear it echo back from across town. When you blast a three-flute horn, you can hear it echo back twice, so you know that's some serious volume.

[gnatnoop]

Tired of loud car stereos at stop lights?

No, not really.

[picky]

Michael: They actually HAVE stoplights in Nippigon? LOL [] -Glenn

[winchester21]

A local theater opened recently. Immediately a criminal thug element moved in- harassing movie goers- playing loud car stereos with obnioxious rap music- running the customers away- they were only interesting in loitering and selling drugs- breaking into cars- and leaving trash strewn across the lot. The theatre owners responed by getting an age curfew from the mall ownership/police and playing loud country/western music blaring at high volume across the parking lot from the roof of the building. The bad guys were gone in a matter of 2 weeks.[Y]

[Mighty Favog]

There's a public library a block from my office and they tried the same thing with classical music. It only helped a little. The bus stop in front of the library has routes that go to the more unsavory parts of town.

[winchester21]

Classical music does not work for that application.Some places here tried that as well with no success. Like shooting a BB gun at a charging cape buffalo. A little Hank Jr , David Allen Coe or even some bluegrass would have sent them packing.

[twistedcrankcammer]

I was listening a long time ago to a radio program (Bob & Tom??) and a man called in that had an air horn from a diesel train mounted in his semi-tractor. When kids riding in cars would give the signal for the truck driver to blow his horn it would send ol' mom and dad drving over to the nearest rest stop to change their underwear.

A local guy here is a semi driver and he has a train horn of an engine that has I believe 4 horns facing one direction and two in the opposite direction. He comes early to the football games and parks his tractor right behind the goal posts at the one end of the field. He has a remote controll unit that he caries into the bleachers with him, and sets it off on opposing teams when they try to make a field goal. [Y]

Roger

[Islander]

A local guy here is a semi driver and he has a train horn of an engine that has I believe 4 horns facing one direction and two in the opposite direction. He comes early to the football games and parks his tractor right behind the goal posts at the one end of the field. He has a remote controll unit that he caries into the bleachers with him, and sets it off on opposing teams when they try to make a field goal.

Doesn't that sound a bit unsportsmanlike to you?

[twistedcrankcammer]

A local guy here is a semi driver and he has a train horn of an engine that has I believe 4 horns facing one direction and two in the opposite direction. He comes early to the football games and parks his tractor right behind the goal posts at the one end of the field. He has a remote controll unit that he caries into the bleachers with him, and sets it off on opposing teams when they try to make a field goal.

Doesn't that sound a bit unsportsmanlike to you?

These days, "ETHICS" seam to be a "PERSONAL CHOICE".

I see no difference between this and playing those stupid plastic horns at a soccer match. (My personal Ethics)

Unsportsmanlike to me would be more like when I was in high school, we played a rival team with a quarterback who later played in the pros, and the coach told a friend of mine who was 6'1" 260 lbs. at the time to take him out at any cost. The guy crossed the line of scrimage after the play was called, ripped the guys helmet off and drilled him in the face. The coach escorted the player off the field screaming at him the whole way to the locker room, and patted him on the back and but as he went into the locker room.

Roger

[Islander]

Ethics is always a personal choice.

As for the vuvuzelas, they seem to be blown continuously and are probably equally annoying to both teams on the field.

I agree that your example of the coach directing his biggest player to take out the opposing quarterback was unsportsmanlike. However, there's a difference between dirty play on the field and attempted interference with the game by spectators.

I'd call outside interference small-minded and disrespectful of the game and everyone at the game, like a self-absorbed streaker who runs onto the field at a crucial moment and changes the outcome of the game.