THE NEW POLLUTION! ~ HORNS: STOP NOISE. HORNS!!! I hate car horns. Life got worse-- worse, I say, when it was permissible to stop wiring sirens to the alarms that didn't stop car thieves & start wiring the car's own horns to the alarms that didn't stop car thieves either. So I deduce that car thieves are deaf. Maybe from hearing car alarms go off while they are stealing them. Car horns in the driver's manual were ONLY TO BE USED IN AN EMERGENCY! (But the alarm guys in Hialeah saved money, Capitalist Butchers!) Goddam Capitalists! The only problem is that horns are louder-- way the fuck louder goddammit... & still everybody ignores the fuckers even though they make you shit your pants. Why do I use so many exclamation points? Because I have to yell over the racket Car Horns make in my neighborhood that are making all of us deaf! Then they have the balls to come into a quiet residential neighborhood (or hood as we call lovingly call ours) and HONK HONK HONK!!! Waking up babies & daysleepers in a really bad fucking mood! Their problem is that they are homeland fucking terrorists! These assholes ought to have their licenses taken down & get tickets for this shit! Or get an 18-Wheeler horn blown in their ears while they fucking sleep every morning to wake them up!
I was awakened this morning by the car horn symphony. Not impressed. Sorry, I wasn't aware that my street turned into a bloody freeway! I hate traffic.
Right! There was some Hollywood actor that I heard a year or so ago complaining about noise pollution; how we shouldn't have to endure it. Whoever he was he ought to organize a movement against noise. Morons assume that everyone works the same schedules & are really rude. People that visit their homes blow their horns to alert them as if they are the only people living on the street or who can hear that piercing noise & that there is nobody on the night shift or any babies sleeping or someone who's home sick in bed. A horn is supposed to be the last thing you hear before you are about to move into the path of an oncoming vehicle & is supposed to get your adrenaline pumping & put you into fight or flight mode. By allowing it to be used as a car alarm we are dulling people's senses to the urgency of hearing the sound of a horn since 99% of the time it is a false alarm & the car is not being stolen at all! It becomes like the story of the little boy who cried wolf: If you cry when there is no danger, then no one will come to your aid when danger comes. I don't understand why we permit this ignorance & racket in what is considered to be civilization. it just compounds stress. Why is it permitted for people to inhumanly torment one another in this way when we protect human rights in other select ways? It's a rotten way to be woken up & I've heard about people who were known to take a swing at someone yelling at them in their sleep. It's been known to happen. It can spoil a good day! "He that blesses his brother with a loud voice, rising early in the morning; It shall be counted a Curse unto him" —Proverbs
I so agree. It's nice to read that some other people feel the same way. When I talk to people here in Atlanta about the car horn problem, they just look at me like I'm nuts. I've even had folks say that I should be glad I don't live in New York city :& My thought is this: Make it illegal to honk a car horn except when in danger of getting in an accident. It is not acceptable to honk to signal impatience with a driver in front of you who is driving the speed limit when you want to go 20 miles over It is also illegal to honk to say hi to someone in a passing car, in the house you are parked in front of, or a a passing pedestrian. First offense, a warning, 2nd offense, a $25 dollar ticket. After three offenses, license taken away for 6 months. I know this is probably extreme, and un-enforceable, but it sure is fun to think about it! I REALLY hate it when car horns are used to signal impatience, or to get someone's attention in a passing car, etc. Can you tell? :H
Some people don't hear the noise —because they are part of the noise! They are too busy making racket to notice & probably the honkers. That's one of the first things I learned going to different countries. That we are considered loud Americans, especially those who just got off the tour busses acting like they own the place, demanding services & pretty well throwing their "weight" around. Much of the rest of the World is quieter & a little more low-key, particularly in Asia & certainly Europe. I can't say always & forever as some countries get pretty rowdy at Soccer & stuff. But there's a time to let off steam. Certainly not on the road. Yes, that's very true of New York & I'll vouch for it first hand. I think what keeps these people off of their horns is "the right to carry." There have been numerous incidents of Road Rage where people honked or gave the finger to somebody & they both pulled over & somebody got shot. I certainly don't think that solved anything. Unenforceable it may well be, but some people do it themselves. That shows there's no standard to follow & they can get away with it, I agree with you totally, that there has to be one. I'm not from around here & I don't know if it's Southern politeness or what but they really don't honk in traffic. They certainly don't lay on the horns in a traffic jam. I've never heard that. They might slightly beep if they think you are asleep when the light changes. Shared Custody: But coming to pick up their kids from their ex's house. That's the worse. And then some people are just too goddam fat or lazy or don't want to exercise. I look forward to getting out of the car & ringing the doorbell if I've been in it a while. You stretch your legs. I don't fathom how any normal human being can sit & honk when there are 50 neighbors within earshot. They can all hear that crappy horn if they are sitting down to a family dinner or napping on the couch. I was out watering my plants one Sunday morning (that's my church and these people were just laying on the horn. This guy was not but 50 ft away. They were doing it jokingly. So I looked down & said, "Do you really have to blow the horn like that? It's a quiet morning & people are sleeping in. Then the one of both ultra-fat ladies got out & jabbered to the other about what I said & told the driver to keep on blowing the horn. So she did! So the guy they're trying to wake up comes out cause he finally hears the horn. He starts up at me, like, "You got a problem, let's settle it right now!" I said, "There are people up & down this street & I've been here for years, but you are rude." So he's challenging me. So I just told him I'd call the cops & turned & went back inside & he says, "Well, go call 'em!" I never called them & I still live here. But I curse hornblowers. I really do. I'm in my house & they can't hear me, but I just hope they know it when it happens, because rude people make more rude people. I can't help it but I know instant Karma is going to get them sooner or later, instant or not. They bring out something in you that you would wish was not part of your nature. It's just like when somebody does you a favor, you walk away wishing them well. You hope something good happens to them for doing it. Well making noise is just the opposite. With all the stress, peoples' nerves are on edge. Then the Doctor wants to know why you want fucking Valium or Xanax. And if he prescribes too much the FDA wants to know. On what fucking planet do these people live? The cops are mindful about pulling people over for road rage if they're driving angry because they pick up bodies all the time, especially weekends when people are drinking, so blasting your horn will get their individual attention if you are in too big a hurry. If they stop you for speeding, one cop is looking around the other side of your car for drugs. After hours they smell your breath as a routine, especially around the clubs, it's a regular stake-out. But they couldn't give a crap if your baby is sleeping or you've had a hard day & asshole #0 wants to lay long & loud on his horn in front of your house to get his friend to look at how shiny his car is. Or their freakin car alarms goes off in the middle of the fucking night but he can sleep through a hurricane & snore through a log & doesn't get up to turn it off. But the thing is no longer a siren. IT'S A FUCKIN HORN! That horrible noise thing that makes you look around for who you are going to crash into & your heart rate double! But you aren't in a car because it's 3 am & you're in bed. There oughtta be a law, I'll tell you. It's no wonder they have such high blood pressure. Lack of exercise, bad diet & never getting a moment's rest because it's a blasted War Zone around Work & their House TOO!
Got the plans on the desk for a 'backwards horn'. Funny how this was brought up. Basicly there's certain frequencies which penetrate glass and metal better than others. tryin' to figure out a lil' radio jamming with a delightful message. Maybe something like "syrup and panckakes makes the day great" or " ten ton monkeys on a merry go round make quite a sound, have a nice day". Just gotta work it out, push the big red button for backwards honk effect. ... and if they don't have the radio on ... a big flippn middle finger that pops up from the trunk. :X
"Vehicle Uses No Fuel ~ Sonic Powered ~ Noise Pollution Only!" Dude. We must be related. Great Minds Think Alike! Hey--turn on your email, so I can talk to you about something... Did you know that everybody in Arkansas is related to Bill Clinton; just by mere virtue of the fact that everybody in Arkansas is everybody else's cousin period? :H (HORN BLAST!) Well, it's Sunday Morning, what did I expect. It just underlines the importance of this post. Now —There just went the screaming fucker. He's a boy, not a girl, right. He's scared of these puppies this older girl has. I thought about talking to him but his mama is like three times my size, which explains to a large extent the root of his problem. Little skinny guy with glasses. His Dad just comes by & slaps him once a week because he's already 9 & he's not having sex yet. I would say he is going to go buoyant. Passive Father/Aggressive Mother; Clinical Freudian scenario. I always told the kids ONLY scream if you're HURT or in TROUBLE. I don't mean little yelps of joy & pleasure when they're playing. I mean SCREAMING! I've brought that up to women whose kids were screaming away, "Hey —why don't you tell 'em the Story of the Little Boy who cried Wolf!" They look at my as though they've never heard it. Evidently some of the shrapnel that are destined to become the Future generation are just left like little wolves to just raise themselves while their parents don't discipline them. Another thread for another time. —Don't get me started on how laziness can easily be mistaken for patience!
How about de-horning them after three Noise/Horn-Related Offenses? You'd cut off their horns & they couldn't get horny any more. Kind of like noise castration in the interest of public sanity. Horns are not that big of a safety issue. Have you ever blown your horn to get the hearing-impaired to see you? I have. He drove right on by. You flash your lights & they should see them, unless they are letting the blind drive. :sunglasse "Your best defense is to not be there" —Mentor to the Karate Kid
I have used my horn in safety situations, and at those times, it may have saved me life, limb and property...but, I like your idea of "noise castration" I tend to feel that if people thought they might lose their licenses because of their incessant horn blowing, they might think twice. Stiff fines (stiffer than the $25 dollars I mentioned), might deter them too. But, in some cases, it might be hard to prove that they didn't blow the horn because of safety issues...I can see some asshole who started honking at someone going the speed limit trying to say that the person was going too slow, and getting off the hook, and possibly getting the poor guy following the law in trouble. I'm rambling here, but I very much see your point. I can't even begin to count how many times I've seen red because of some impatient, inconsiderate driver with his/her hand glued to the car horn, ready to pounce at any moment. AARGH...it makes me mad just to think about it!!
I think we all need to sell our cars... this is off on a tanget but horn blowing is just one of the major problems car cause, traffic, accidents, not being able to cross the bloddy street, drunk drivers, pollution. I don't own a bloody car, and you know why? I don't need one. And Most people don't they just think they need one. The automobile has truly become the wheelchair of this society. Sure I'd love a car... but you know what it would be for weekend camping (poor local tranist to the middle of nowhere) and why would i pay thousands on insurance and gas for one bloody reason that's not even a need but a want. If you own a car I challenge you to list your reason, not even here but just think about it, for owning one. Because truly 99% of people don't even need one
I agree that it would be darned near impossible to prove this out on the road unless a cop was right there. That's usually the only time the bozos behave themselves anyway, when John Law shows up. In the Right-to-Carry States, I'd imagine they have much less of this shit going on in traffic, because when tempers flare, out come the weapons. I don't know how New Yorkers have escalated horn blowing to an art form, but, indeed they have. But I do think it would be VERY easy to report 'BUGLERS' in a residential area. They are usually stopped there for several minutes, waiting for someone to come out; so it is easy to take down a license plate number & description of the car. Plus it gives the cops enough time to get there & see for themselves, or at least be around the same time the following day & then give the guy a ticket after the first warning. Morons usually stop at the same house to see their fellow-morons. And they are usually repeat offenders returning to the scene of the crime day after day. As stupid as it is, but you would think that a law like this would have been passed to aid their War on Drugs, since some paranoid politician must have thought about drive-thru drug sales. I remember visiting someone who lived next door to a duplex that was like that. I mean whatever they were doing it was big time & cars were coming & going day & night. They must have rented the place for that reason. There was a shared cul-de-sac driveway for every duplex on the block, so people could turn around in the back & head straight on out into the street. They were the noisiest, rudest bunch you'd ever want to live next door to. Definitely not your peace & love hippies. These junkies were uptight & hard-core. And they never slept, so they figured it must be speed or crack. I mean if it gets that loose, aren't they afraid people will just honk once for smack, twice for crack & three times for coke... and it's no joke in some neighborhoods. So you'd think they'd have passed a friggin law already, but no.
