Can I get a louder horn?

wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>> How much would it cost to get a louder horn, and is
>>> that even legal in the US?
>> Get a train air horn: http://www.hornblasters.com/
>
> Do check your local laws first, at first glance, I believe many of their
> products would be illegal for use on public roads in many jurisdictions.

But please don't drive around blasting innocent folks like the jackasses
on the site. That's just insanely rude. It's all a big yuk-yuk to go
around scaring the **** out of people - until you get stuck in traffic
at the next light, and the ****ed off pedestrians try to drag your
obnoxious ass out of the car. Wait a second while I grab a brick....

Greg Campbell wrote:
> But please don't drive around blasting innocent folks like the jackasses
> on the site. That's just insanely rude. It's all a big yuk-yuk to go
> around scaring the **** out of people - until you get stuck in traffic
> at the next light, and the ****ed off pedestrians try to drag your
> obnoxious ass out of the car. Wait a second while I grab a brick....

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Truck drivers always seem to have a tire iron or hammer handy for such
situations. Honda generally keeps the tire iron will stowed. I'll bet
that has prevented a few nasty beatings :-)

'Curly'

Bucky wrote:
> On Aug 29, 10:21 am, Bert Hyman > wrote:
>> You could certainly get a louder horn, and it might even be legal,
>> but in the long run you're better off using your reaction time the
>> way you did, to get out of the way of idiots, rather than blowing
>> your horn and hoping that they do the right thing in response.
>
> I agree. Bad drivers are bad drivers, and with a louder horn, there's
> a greater chance that they might respond to it, but I wouldn't count
> on it.

Good point, plus a point near & dear to me, you might be in a
residential area and the loud horn could wake up someone's baby, an
elderly person, someone who works nights, etc., something I wish the
bozos around here would remember once in a while (I live near a busy
intersection and some drivers just lean on their horns during morning &
evening rush hours). Oooo, what I'd give for a handy tire iron
sometimes!