same thing here. also, you need horns over here. you won’t last a few minutes in the street if you don’t have any horns. these days, I usually honk at those that deserve it for being a jerk in the road. but do a little scare once in a while. 
but only to those as mentioned above.
i rarely blast mine anymore and i dont like to scare people(i have many times tho) ive never had enemies so i dont blast mine to scare. i dont want to end up like jeepk3dan.and truth is he prolly deserved what happened to his ride. yea haters suck but you scare me one to many times and im doing the same sh it
somehow I dont think, scaring someone is on the same level value as wrecking someones ride… and I doubt he scared the same person over and over again. oh well, to each their own.
I’m sorry I opened a small can of worms here… Anyway… like its been said… EACH TO THEIR OWN… hopefully we are all united in one thing… HORNS!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
i hook at people my age mostly, usually i know them…other than that people that cant drive or piss me off get the horns.
i only honk to old people and kid’s and old ladys…(JK) lol i never honk to kid or old people or pregnant woman…
well put brizzal i only scare my friends and family. when you get into scaring peeps you dont know you will eventually piss off some guy who just doesnt give a fu ck thats gonna chase you down. I dont scare random people in benton (suburb of littlerock) but when i go to littlerock i only scare when i know that im going to have trouble breathing because im laughing so hard. your right twist scaring someone with your horns does not constitute getting your ride vandalized but ain’t karma a bi tch. the “honker” should be the one thats violated not the “honkers” ride.
New member but have been lurking this site and forum for a few years. Good thread here, time to add my $0.02 worth.
I first got started in train horns because of vehicle accidents. My like-new highly customized truck, with a mirror finish and every carpet fiber counted and numbered, was hit twice for $3,000 damage each time, then it was totaled in a third wreck that pinned me inside some trees for an hour until they could get me out. In every case it was due to careless drivers that didn’t pay attention. I saw it coming all 3 times and was powerless to do anything about it but brace for impact. So when I upgraded to an even nicer brand new truck in 2007, a top of the line model which I highly customized yet again, I was VERY concerned about careless drivers. The stock horn on this big powerful truck was pitiful - it sounded like a compact rental car or maybe even a loud bike horn. Web research led to hornblasters.com and that led to the purchase of a Conductor’s Special package.
After the kit was delivered my wife and I both doubted my sanity. The thing was huge, heavy, and had lots of parts to install. I decided to go for it and put it on a 3-way switch so I could use factory, train horn, or both. After it was done I was very worried about ever using it anywhere. I had no intention of scaring people or using it on the road unless a true emergency was at hand. But then I found several valid instances where it came in handy. Deer on the road 1/2 mile ahead, residential pets running loose in traffic, and a few sleepy drivers swerving into my lane that didn’t even hear the stock horn. Even my wife was converted when we came around a sharp bend at 35 mph to find a sports car headed in the opposite direction passing traffic, clearly in a no-passing zone, coming right at us in our lane at roughly 70 mph with only 1/4 mile left! I didn’t even remember that the train horn was on but I locked up the brakes and emptied the tank. It made several of the oncoming vehicles slam on their brakes which created a small opening for the sports car and he ducked in just before impact. So the train horn has saved lots of lives, animals and humans.
Then after a while I noticed that it could be fun too, such as parking lot demos, remote areas, garages, etc. when many other people enjoyed testing it out and looking at the system afterwards. I have spent far more hours telling people about it than using it for sure but I do still get some fun use in occasionally.
I have never gone out riding just to find victims or honked it solely to scare people. I have done it to express frustration when some idiot cuts me off, drives 45 in the fast lane when the other lanes are open, or when some punks are deliberately walking in the middle of the street and they fail to move for traffic, or when some goof decides to treat me to 100db of master rap base at the red light.
And while these things are very loud for sure, they are not the voice of God above. They are just train horns in the end, rarely louder and often a bit less loud than the real thing. If people are going to get upset about a train horn startling them, scaring them, or hurting their ears then I guess they better avoid the millions of miles of train tracks, railroad crossings, rural roads, bridges, overpasses, and highways which will put you in close proximity to the real thing. And the real trains are required by law to run their horns much more often without regard to who is walking, standing, driving, or sleeping nearby. They let it rip at all hours of the night. And I have yet to hear of one accident or death caused by the train horn. In fact you will often see parents with small kids standing right beside the tracks, waving and smiling to the conductor. You even see passengers on the train itself with windows open taking in the full sound along with a share of diesel fumes or soot from the old timers.
So it isn’t my choice to go around scaring people but if other people want to do that then it is certainly no less safe than the real thing, and only as rude as anything else you might do to strangers without their consent. Personally I would get a lot more upset when someone cuts me off or runs me off the road, or slams into my new truck than I would if they honked a funny horn at me. If you do decide to honk a lot or scare people then just be prepared for the people that may not like it and react accordingly, including the police with their nice carbon copy forms just waiting for you. If someone gets revenge or hands you a ticket then take it like a man and accept it as the cost for playing the game.
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could not have said it better. welcome to the forum mayne
^ wot he said…welcome to the forum!
^exactly the same thing he said, except in my case, replace the shiny new truck with a compact SUV and replace the sports car with a full size tourist bus. :mad:
Man thank you for having some values! the real reason i got my k5s are because i love the sound of a train horn and wanted one so i could go to a place wheres theres no houses and people and let them rip and listen to that sweet sound!!! i think i’ve blown the horns in the same situations you were talking about, but they deserved it. i agree with you man that they could actually save your ride or life. i had someone almost hit me when they didnt realize i was right next to them. i had 2 options, swerve and hit the guardrail or blow the horns and let the person know i was there and he got the picture in a hurry lol The cops all know who i’am and what my truck looks like and they dont bother me cause they know im not gonna hurt anyone or be obnixious with them. we just gotta be smart 
Think that some of them are Leslie Tyfons, and there are a few Gamewell diaphones, which (believe it or not) are much louder than any train horn, even though they’re relatively small. They go for around 2 grand.