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A nearby PD has started using a similar product, called Rumblers, but I haven't heard much about any successes or failures. I would like to get some for my ambulance, cause people just don't pay enough attention.
A couple of years ago, I was walking up to an intersection in Boston. A fire truck was driving up to the intersection with lights on, no siren yet.As the drivers stopped at the intersection glanced in their rear-view mirrors, their expressions seemed to say: "grumble, grumble, he's about to turn that siren on and make us get out of the way, isn't he? Grumble, grumble. I guess I'll start getting ready...sigh..."
But instead of a standard siren, the truck started blasting Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" at full volume. It was awesome-- I thought it was FAR more intimidating-sounding than a siren would have been, and apparently the drivers stopped at the intersection agreed-- their expressions all changed to "Holy crap! Get me out of the way of that thing!". And scramble, they did.
You had to be there to get the full effect, I think. Re-reading what I just wrote doesn't capture it at all. But in person, it was just... damn. Especially since it was so unexpected. I was grinning about it all afternoon. So perhaps a well-chosen CD collection for your ambulance?
...All of which just further highlights the ridiculousness of trying to set the clock backwards or forwards nationwide twice a year.
I think that the default should be to stick with the same time-system year-round unless research can strongly demonstrate that the back-and-forth thing actually accomplishes something remotely productive.
Pick either daylight or standard time, keep it the same year-round, and stick the heck with it unless someone can demonstrate that there's something to be gained by all this ridiculous clock-changing. If a particular state government wants to say "due to our lat, long, and position within the timezone, we recommend that within the state 'standard business hours' be considered to be X:00 to Y:00" (or even with a "except in $SEASON, when recommend that they be A:00 to B:00")-- fine, but this clock-resetting stuff is just silly.
Why is this silly back-and-forth thing considered the default to be clung to until someone can produce proof that it's bad? Seems to me it should be the other way around.
I should add:
Both R's and D's acted poorly these last two decades.
That I do agree with this.
I voted straight Republican, because I think they are unfairly being blamed (by folks like you) for the current mess, which properly lies on the head of ONE man (Bush).
And how would Bush managed to do all that he did, if the Republican Echo Chamber (tm), far from calling him on his bullshit, was ACTIVELY working to suppress and shout down every and all voices of decent?Bush did not, and could not, operate in a vacuum.
Why do you hate America?
We had one of those at the Kirby High Greenhouse. Right as it bloomed we had to get pictures of it and kill it off, because the stench was so bad it hit the cafeteria on the other side of school, and students were puking.
They killed a plant so rare that there are fewer than 200 (two-hundred) known specimens in the world, rather than vacate the premises for the few hours that the bloom lasts?!?!?!?
If they can't deal with closing the school one day to avoid the few hours every six years that the bloom is open, then why the heck did the school have one in the first place? Give it to another school, museum, or research center!
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