Train Horn
05-06-12, 11:18 AM
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Train Horn
I live in the ass-end of country Ga now. This is pickup truck heaven, the bigger the better. Apparently one of the cool things to do around here is to blow the train horn you have installed under your too big truck as you ride by cyclists.
I tell you right now...looking in your mirror to see one of these trucks coming is scary enough. The tires are big enough to roll you over without so much as a bump to the driver...and THEN to blow the damned train horn right as they ride by?
Ever see that episode of Tom and Jerry where Jerry gets the canned air horn?
Yeah, Tom jumping out of his own body, that was me.
I think I would almost rather be smoked out with the diesel fumes....almost
I tell you right now...looking in your mirror to see one of these trucks coming is scary enough. The tires are big enough to roll you over without so much as a bump to the driver...and THEN to blow the damned train horn right as they ride by?
Ever see that episode of Tom and Jerry where Jerry gets the canned air horn?
Yeah, Tom jumping out of his own body, that was me.
I think I would almost rather be smoked out with the diesel fumes....almost
Last edited by Juan Foote; 05-06-12 at 11:24 AM.
05-06-12, 11:59 AM
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Yeah...you can google "train horn" and get plenty of videos of these idiots. Fortunately this hasn't caught on in our area and I pray it never does.
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05-06-12, 12:10 PM
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05-06-12, 12:19 PM
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Between this and the smoke thing, I have never wanted to jump through my computer screen to throttle someone so badly in my life.
05-06-12, 03:27 PM
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I got train horn'd in Miami last year, it startled the **** out of me and nearly caused me to swerve into a ditch and go down along with my brother who was just behind me. Makes me permanently suspicious of pickups.
05-06-12, 07:22 PM
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05-06-12, 07:52 PM
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Pretty much any fellow in a big pickup truck with a diesel smoke stack and/or train horn is compensating for some sort of sexual disfunction. Button penis? Thumb d**ck? Flaccid noodle erection?
05-06-12, 08:08 PM
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05-06-12, 08:41 PM
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Come to Oregon. Here, it can be a Dumptruck with a trailer, a VW Passat, or some beater pickup - drivers will squeeze you at 60+mph, honk as they pass, and ignore blind corners and hills just to get the f by you. At least in GA, if it's mostly pickups, you can tell what's comin'. Here? Forget it - it's everything.
05-06-12, 10:41 PM
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knife their tires if you ever catch one. it is the right thing to do.
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Train horns > truck horns
05-06-12, 10:49 PM
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People that do this kind of stuff are scared little *****es.
05-07-12, 12:18 PM
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There is some jack@$$ around Sunnyvale, CA that drives up one of the main roads over here and lets off a blast from one of those damn things once in a great while. Of all places to *not* expect that sort of thing, it's Sunnyvale...
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05-07-12, 12:31 PM
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We have some here. Someone hit the train horn next to me in a group ride of about 40. Thankfully none went down but most of the pack jumped/ swerved.
05-07-12, 12:47 PM
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call the cops. In civilization, they take this sort of thing seriously. You might be surprised. I only have hearing in my left ear, and if I lose that due to some idiot with a truck I'm not going to be happy
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