HAHA maybe.
Tennessee law on horns:
[i]55-9-201. Horn — Bells, sirens or exhaust whistles on emergency vehicles — Penalty for violations. —
(a) Every motor vehicle, when operated upon any road, street or highway of Tennessee, shall be equipped with a horn in good working order capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than two hundred feet (200’), and it is unlawful, except as otherwise provided in this section, for any vehicle to be equipped with or for any person to use upon a vehicle any siren, exhaust, compression or spark plug whistle or for any person at any time to use a horn otherwise than as a reasonable warning or to make any unnecessary or unreasonably loud or harsh sound by means of a horn or other warning device.[/i]
So a train horn ensures compliance with the first part but would be a violation of the second part depending on how and when you use it. If I use my train horn to warn approaching traffic of a wreck or to prevent animals from crossing in traffic then I would argue that it was a necessary and reasonable use. But if I use the horn to scare the cop next to me at the red light and he spits his donut all over the dash and drops his coffee in his lap then I wouldn’t stand much of a chance in court. But in all cases the horn is legal to have on the vehicle and use under the appropriate circumstances, assuming no other laws are broken.
yea me and my buddy were down at the ocean front in va beach were we live… we had been hitting it all up and down the strip, F*ck the police lol!. Then i realized i did not get pulled over because they did not know it came from my car, they were looking for my friends big truck with hornblasters stickers down the side, lol. but he was with me ha ha. so they did not know it was me until someone called the cops and told them what car it came from. Take note down here cops are on bikes, little motorcyles, horses, foot, cars, and four wheelers. I hit it one more time and got swarmed. there was two cop cars, 4 bike cops, 2 horses, like 6 on foot, 1 or 2 motorcycles around my car telling me they knew it was me and i need to stop that isht. Me being smart **** that i am stated that the sound ordinence had been taken away recently, he was like illeagal eqipment, i was like i have no idea what your talking about… he said just stop and rode away lol!
should have hit him with a farewell honk…
but before that there was a time when there were two bike cops 2 cars behind me i hit it no seeing them then did and they were looking backwards!!! lolz!
I’ve hear of equipment violations. I used to get them all time on my ricer for exhaust, wrong color park lights, wrong color sidemarkers and that sort of stuff.
I hope it never comes to that. I had a close call the other day. I was at the corner where there just so happened to be a Star Of Hope food distribution place. So all the homeless line up and theyre served foo. Well, my ignorant butt, I hit the horn made everybody jump. Then I felt kinda bad. As soon as I turned the corner, there was a cop. So I changed my facial expression really quick.