Sirens not loud enough?

[awayatc]

Today on my bike in Woodend the firetruck comes out of the station with full flashing lights and Sirens.....trying to cross the main road.(50 kph area)
The number of cars that just kept doodling along before finaly a gap occurred is unbelievable..........

A wee while later on my way to the Port hills, on Fitzgerald ave (3 lanes each way) a police car comes from one off the side streets with full noise (and lights)
I pull over as far as possible to the left, and stop along with an assorted rabble of cages.....As the patrol car passes, I glance over my shoulder to see if it safe to re enter again.
F**k u me..nearly got my nose ripped off by a green newish Mercedes hooning past missing me by inches at most.......

Bit of whip , and flying horse was alongside driverswindow of some blind old lady driving by braille....Didn't kick mrror off as planned.
Gave Nautilus Stebel a good umph of breath.....Heartbeat off the old biddy must have beated like she was on her first date.....

After horse was alert, no more whip needed, was free reign all the way....

Could have lost my life,
could have lost my licence

Still have both, but cobbwebs gone...
Need bigger helmet, this one to small to contain all of my grin....

[CB ARGH]

Man you should have done a hollywood and jumped off your bike onto her car, then ripped the roof off. Then taken a really big shit.

[awayatc]

If I would have had any shit inside of me....it surely would have ended up in my boots......

Am sure the old dear didn't even see or hear the police car.......

But now ..that truck I thought I heard.......
Never saw it though.....Don't understand it....could swear I it sounded like it was almost inside my car.....

[Greyham]

but then there are dumb fucks who just block the emergency services from passing anyone, eg in the fast lane and matching the slow lane. these people are idiots, i once saw an ambo traped behind one of these pricks, it makes me sick

[Mikkel]

but then there are dumb fucks who just block the emergency services from passing anyone, eg in the fast lane and matching the slow lane. these people are idiots, i once saw an ambo traped behind one of these pricks, it makes me sick

They don't just do it to emergency vehicles...

It's pretty hard to stay aware of what goes on behind you if you've got the boombox cranked up and are busy using the rear-view mirror for laying makeup.

I can see an easy, and completely acceptable, response for firetrucks to such behaviour.

[Subike]

My younger brother is a fire truck driver,
His reaction to people who dont pull over to the siren or horns is the sound of a truck under locked brakes, tyres screaming, sliding up behind them.
He has done it twice on Blenheim road CHCH, to the effect of the road instantly becoming clear.
I think that because we hear the sirens so often that they have become a sound that is ignored. Time for a change of sound for emergency vehicles?
But I guess that some people are so thick, spaced out or cruzin to the boom box that even an A bomb would not alert them to danger.
Im fitting air horns to my ride... maybe that might help, any suggestions?

[FJRider]

but then there are dumb fucks who just block the emergency services from passing anyone, eg in the fast lane and matching the slow lane. these people are idiots, i once saw an ambo traped behind one of these pricks, it makes me sick

My next bike...

[martybabe]

And whilst were on the subject of people not paying attention whilst driving;

I came to a T junction the other day and the only impedance to turning right was a car coming from my left. I watched the car approach and it got slower and slower ? maybe turning into my road but no indication, slower and slower, maybe a dog about to run out from behind a parked car that I haven't seen, slower s l o w e r and stopped.

Got the picture, a main road, no other traffic, a car slows to a natural halt right across a junction and right in front of me waiting to exit my road, a break down? a heart attack victim?

No twas a woman engrossed in a very humorous conversation on her cell phone, so engrossed she had lost the ability to accelerate, brake, steer or even see.

She looked out the side window straight at me, still laughing and chatting and still not moving, a couple of cars pull up behind her, still no response, I toot my 3 decibel suzuki horn, two of the now 4 or 5 cars behind her jam on their horns. She sits up, looks at me, looks over her shoulder at the queue behind, looks out all the other windows, this woman clearly has no idea where she is or that she's driving a car on the road. The shock on her face as all the little signals added up, that she really was still on the road in charge of a car, blocking off two major roads to talk to her mate.

I don't know if I've conveyed it well enough here, I have never seen anyone so completely detached from what they're doing. Bloody bloody scary And I used to drive them fire engines so I know what idiocy is out there. shocked and stunned.

[bismarck]

My next bike...

too small, can't see

[musicman]

My younger brother is a fire truck driver,
His reaction to people who dont pull over to the siren or horns is the sound of a truck under locked brakes, tyres screaming, sliding up behind them.
He has done it twice on Blenheim road CHCH, to the effect of the road instantly becoming clear.

Were the firefighters in the truck very impressed with the sudden braking?

Im fitting air horns to my ride... maybe that might help, any suggestions?

A lot of people have fitted Stebels to their bikes, I'm thinking of getting one myself. 130+dBs of fun!

[1 Free Man]

And whilst were on the subject of people not paying attention whilst driving;

I came to a T junction the other day and the only impedance to turning right was a car coming from my left. I watched the car approach and it got slower and slower ? maybe turning into my road but no indication, slower and slower, maybe a dog about to run out from behind a parked car that I haven't seen, slower s l o w e r and stopped.

Got the picture, a main road, no other traffic, a car slows to a natural halt right across a junction and right in front of me waiting to exit my road, a break down? a heart attack victim?

No twas a woman engrossed in a very humorous conversation on her cell phone, so engrossed she had lost the ability to accelerate, brake, steer or even see.

She looked out the side window straight at me, still laughing and chatting and still not moving, a couple of cars pull up behind her, still no response, I toot my 3 decibel suzuki horn, two of the now 4 or 5 cars behind her jam on their horns. She sits up, looks at me, looks over her shoulder at the queue behind, looks out all the other windows, this woman clearly has no idea where she is or that she's driving a car on the road. The shock on her face as all the little signals added up, that she really was still on the road in charge of a car, blocking off two major roads to talk to her mate.

I don't know if I've conveyed it well enough here, I have never seen anyone so completely detached from what they're doing. Bloody bloody scary And I used to drive them fire engines so I know what idiocy is out there. shocked and stunned.

Geessuss!!! man you have just scared the shit out of me!!! i'm going to bed and hide under the blankets.!!
Nothing wrong with cellphones just the bloody operators.