Train Horn Yay or Nay?

[Fatboy97]

You haven't lived in NYC, the non stop jay walkers, left lane drivers, no turn signals and the list goes ON AND ON. Some people just never learn until you smack them in the the face with 150psi of air waves.

And don’t forget about all the snowflakes that can’t disconnect from their cell phones when driving. Always fun to watch the cell phone fly out of their hand.

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[ML7]

If you live in NY then do it for sure, its how you use it that makes it annoying or a tool, I have thought about making one for my mountain bike, with a Schrader valve and little air tank just enough to get the lollygaggers out of the way - but on the trails it might cause to negative of a reaction, but sometimes on summer weekends it is so tempting.

 

[Jerpy]

I say no Phil. Here's why:

• Douches are not likely to change their bad habits in response; the "punishing them" idea may backfire for them to drive even more selfishly or pull out a weapon.
• While not illegal, it's possible if you shock a driver, douche or bad, and cause an accident with the horn that you could be, in part, on the hook for damages to a vehicle or person. Sometimes it's hard to tell a bad from an obnoxious driver.
• My uncle use to have, for similar reasons, --for lack of a better way to describe it-- an "ahhrugha" horn. I recall it making everyone laugh, including the offending motorist, and make its point without causing an incident.
• Wranglers, particularly modded ones are often already seen by other motorists as the obnoxious alpha vehicle on the road. The train horn only establishes that more, along with drivers who run their light bars in normal on-road driving conditions.
• The roads are safer when we accept that encountering douches are simply going to happen. Personally, I find the 5 most empowering words, which I've
  truthfully used to motorists who were in the wrong, and screamed at me, are "I have a dash cam."

All very good points, but now I want a train horn even more. ?

 

[rickinAZ]

As a lifetime motorcycle rider, I can tell you that the closest I've come to an on-road crash is when some yahoo blasted an ultra-high volume horn in my blindspot. I wasn't the target, just (nearly) collateral damage. Not cool.

Be careful.

 

[Jerpy]

yes, Yes, YES! let me know what your setup is if you end up doing it. Ill be adding an obnoxious horn to mine eventually.

Since we cant mirror smash in a jeep per-se.

Besides being a new Jeep owner I am also a motorcyclist. Here's the thing: it is infuriating when someone in a car does something stupid that puts a motorcyclists life in danger -- enough to make them want to smash a side mirror, yes (seems a small price to pay for almost killing someone).

The problem with this is twofold: 1) a motorcyclist will never win against a car if they decide to take out their frustration on you and b) smashing a side mirror just makes things more dangerous for other riders because now this motorist might not see them.

As a motorcyclist, I have to never be in a hurry to get somewhere and if I ever get in a situation where I almost get killed it's almost always better to just pull over, catch my breath, and collect myself before continuing my ride. You can always hand the video footage over to the police (or rack up some sick views on YouTube), but you can't do any of that if you're dead.

Take all of what I say with a grain of salt, however, because just a couple of weeks ago some guy was a dick to myself and some other motorists, so at the next light I lobbed an open jar of expired mayonnaise into his car (long story, Spring cleaning). I couldn't hear the applause from the other motorists for the revenge I enacted on their behalves (I simply imagined it in my head), but I could hear the guy call me a 'p*ssy' and the n-word. Hehe, I'm gonna get shot one of these days...

 

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[roaniecowpony]

I've done my share of juvenile things in my time. Many of them on horseback or in an aerobatic airplane. A train horn on a jeep would rank low compared to some of them. I'm not proud of some of them, but they were a hoot at the time. Nobody ever paid a price for them AFAIK.

 

[RoadiJeff]

If you live in NY then do it for sure, its how you use it that makes it annoying or a tool, I have thought about making one for my mountain bike, with a Schrader valve and little air tank just enough to get the lollygaggers out of the way - but on the trails it might cause to negative of a reaction, but sometimes on summer weekends it is so tempting.

I installed one like in the pic below on my commuter road bike. I wanted to add weight and resistance to the bike with things that were also useful to make my 46 mile RT commute more of a workout for training for various events. Part of my daily route was on a rails-to-trails pathway and that horn came in handy quite a few times without making anyone angry.

 

[Pig-Pen]

Would be great im case you encounter a mob “protesting” by blocking the street. Just blast the train horn as you plow on through!

 

[Pig-Pen]

Ive also heard the cruise ship horn at sema one year. From the guys who make the train horn. It was outside and you’d swear there was a cruise ship docked in the middle of vegas somewhere ?

 

[4xFUN]

Most of us have at least thought about this at some point...It's just in present day America there are far too many irresponsible morons who have zero respect for the property of others, zero respect for law and order, feel the world owes them everything and have been taught they will face zero consequences for their reckless, illegal and violent behavior...

So, a hard no to the train horn idea.

 

[timn1984]

NO

 

[timn1984]

Excuse me, Nay

 

[timn1984]

You know, I was given some advise at one point in my life. "If you want to survive, stay under the radar"

 

[Chocolate Thunder]

Most of us have at least thought about this at some point...It's just in present day America there are far too many irresponsible morons who have zero respect for the property of others, zero respect for law and order, feel the world owes them everything and have been taught they will face zero consequences for their reckless, illegal and violent behavior...

So, a hard no to the train horn idea.

Everyone has thought of murder too, but with only a few exceptions normal people immediately dismiss it out of hand as a horrible idea to have even thought of and realize it’s morally wrong. We don’t usually tell others about thoughts like this or ask them if they think it’s cool. This isn’t murder. But I wish OP had the same brief thought process and dismissed it without posting about it.

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