Fair enough Ed, but tell me a few things, please:
When driving in your vehicle and someone cuts you off, do you think “hornblasting” them is really such a bad thing?
Or, when someone, usually a punk teenager with an attitude, just walks out into oncoming traffic and expects you to STOMP on your brakes, do they deserve a good hornblast?
How about when you see someone driving along, talking on the phone or even worse, texting while driving… in any case, driving along with their head up their proverbial A$$, distracted and drifting into other lanes, do you think that by startling them a little, it might make these types think twice about some of the moronic behavior they engage in while driving? It might even save someone’s life down the line a little Ed!
I for one am NOT in favor of hornblasting older folks, or even say, a parent walking around with a young child, but in just the few weeks that I’ve installed my hornblaster K5LA kit into my Silverado, I’ve encountered each of these scenarios.
Just this past Friday afternoon, I’m stopped at an intersection in downtown Worcester, 3 cars back in the middle lane of an intersection with 3 lanes in my direction. The IDIOT in front of me in the CENTER LANE, decides he’s going to take a left turn. When the light turns green, he doesn’t move, because the left lane still has a RED arrow… and so this dipsh!t thinks he’s OK to block the lane for everyone behind him until the left arrow turns GREEN for HIM. One good blast from the K5LA and guess what? The dope turns off his blinker and proceeds straight across the intersection. Presumably, he turns around somewhere beyond the intersection to correct where he needs to be going.
I make absolutely NO APOLOGY for using my K5LA in this manner. I don’t give a DAMN if and when I eventually get pulled over by a cop and get issued a noise citation. I will continue to hornblast anyone and everyone I encounter who drives to endanger others… people who, if a cop saw what they were doing, would be getting a ticket themselves.
And btw, I AM into the hobby. I don’t intend - at this point - to collect air horns just to have them around. But I appreciate and admire the sounds they produce. I may not be into the “train” aspect of it as perhaps you and some others are, but so what? To each his own.
Sincerely and respectfully,
PC1
BTW: Puh-LEASE turn off the CONSTANT CAPS LOCK. Merci beaucoup.
