Sound you car horn EVERY HOUR as a protest!!

[AGENDA21]

Listening to malloy last night and there was a female caller suggesting this....Everyone should be able to take part in this..Just think every hour across America MILLIONS sounding their car horns!!!! its a simple idea which has great potential.

What do you guys think..?

[NoPasaran]

1. Sound your horn every hour?

What are you protesting? Sleep?

[mrcheerful]

10. Besides getting everyone tickets for noise violations. The pukes in a lot

of places have noise ordinances and they can lead to hefty fines.

[varkam]

11. Down with the tyranny of somnolence! n/t

[mrcheerful]

23. It was passed because of the rap listeners blasting all day and night

The city I'm in now is even worse about noise, even church bells can't exceed a certain level.

[Critters2]

84. I'd be okay with that

I live surrounded by churches. Every damned on has chimes that ring on the hour, some on the quarter hour. And the Catholic Church thinks we all need to know when the damned 7 am mass is starting!!!! My own church--and yes, I've bitched at the board--has chimes so loud that my house walls vibrate.

Add to that the sirens, the blasters in cars, the motorcycles...well, the last thing I'm doing is adding to it all by sounding my horn every hour.

I'm open to other ideas, but nix on the noise pollution!

[pnwmom]

39. PLEASE DON'T! Better idea -- the BLACK ARMBAND, also suggested

on Randi Rhodes.

There is a campaign for this right now; the idea is to wear a black armband every day that says "No war."

[Virginia Dare]

2. Punishes the "blue" people in the urban areas...

those yahoo koolaid drinkers out in the country wouldn't even hear it. ;-)

[paparush]

3. On the hour?

I'm gonna leave my office...walk 6 blocks to my car, honk the horn, lock up, then walk back to my office...? Hmmmmm....

I see this resulting in multiple road rage shootings, knifing, rear-endings....

How about...

Encourage everyone to American's boycott wal mart.
Encourage everyone to pick a day and not drive AT ALL.
Encourage everyone to write/call their reps.
Encourage everyone to call/email the white house.

[AGENDA21]

9. No...only if your in your car at the time.

[soup]

21. Um, but wouldn't that lead to getting (at the least) flipped off?

"You honking at ME?!"

edit: fingers quicker than brain...

[DrGonzoLives]

18. Silly boy, those require actual work

and might actually have an effect. We must focus on silly protests that don't do anything but make us feel good because they're easy.

[mondo joe]

4. What a stupid fucking idea. Yeah - let's annoy our neighbors to

affect political change. :eyes:

[MADem]

5. Piss your neighbors off!!!!!!!

Great idea??? Naaaaah......

[Redstone]

6. Oh, sure. Creating a traffic hazard is a wonderful way to protest.

I hope people who do this get lots of tickets for disturbing the peace and causing unnecessary distraction for other drivers.

Redstone

[wtbymark]

7. I'm in my vehicle for 2 half hour drives/ day

at over 75mph on a highway. If I beeped my horn; a) no one's going to hear it or b) I'm going to scare the livin' shit out of the person next to me at 75mph - not a good idea

[Ian David]

8. I just honk in front of houses that have Bush stickers on their cars

Any hour, night or day.

The "W" stands for "We don't need to sleep."

[AGENDA21]

12. Not during the night ofcourse.

[Ian David]

15. Depends if you consider 3 AM to be "night."

Besides...

It's gotta be daytime somewhere.

[benburch]

17. Jinxie! nt

[benburch]

16. Is 4 AM considered "Night"?

:evilgrin:

[Virginia Dare]

38. What if your freeper neighbor parks in front of your house

like mine does?

I like my neighbors as people, but they are freepers, and they park near the front of my house.

[Ian David]

50. Freepers aren't people.

They've abdicated their membership in the human race by declaring that they have no responsibilty toward the rest of their former human tribesmen.

As for me, I'd have their car towed.

I wouldn't even TRY to ask them politely to move it.

I'd jump at any excuse to have it towed away and crushed into a cube.

[Virginia Dare]

51. One tiny problem...

the street is owned by the county, so you can park wherever you want. But seriously, they're nice folks, but definitely koolaid drinkers.

[ShortnFiery]

13. I prefer to sport my "Wecome to 1984" sticker instead ...

That makes "THE POINT" IMO much louder than car horns. :hi:

[benburch]

14. And get shot by your neighbors?

Who won't have a CLUE why you are being a jerk?

[mondo joe]

22. And I'd consider it justified homicide if I were on a jury.

Of course I might just be in the defense seat.

[corporate_mike]

19. Really bad idea

You'll get tickets for doing it here in NYC

[AGENDA21]

20. Oh well...nevermind..

[mtnsnake]

24. What a collective bunch of wimps all you naysayers are!

Good gawd, the idea isn't that you have to do it each and every hour, just if that particular hour is convenient.

WTF do you care if it pisses someone off initially? After a matter of time, people will start asking why, and that opens the door to them getting educated for once in their lives. Yup, I guess we better not make any noise for fear of what the other side might think of us. Oh, we might upset someone. LOL!!!

The problem we've been having all along is nobody is willing to make any noise. I'll bet the same people rolling their eyes in this thread have never walked in a protest march, have never held a protest sign on a sidewalk, and have never done a thing other than whine from behind their computers to like-minded people!

This honking plan might not be perfect, but with a little tweaking, it could end up being very effective. The only way we're gonna ever have a chance at gettimg outsiders to jump on our bandwagon is by taking chances like this and making a little noise. At least it's an idea that involves some action and would get some attention.

[AGENDA21]

26. Thanku..mtnsnake

So what kind of tweaking are you talking about..?

[mtnsnake]

29. things like

maybe not trying to do it every hour, but having a few set hours instead, like 8 AM or 8PM for example.

It would only be effective if enough people knew about it, so word would have to be passed beforehand, and people would have to be game.

People would have to be prepared in advance with what to say when questioned by someone who wants to know why you're honking. After some time, though, everyone would know why, and once they know why, then the more people who'd likely join in.

The main thing would be to make sure in advance that you were in cahoots with enough other honkers to join in with the honking rallies so it doesn't come off as seeming like no one supports the idea.

[mondo joe]

46. Or maybe we cuold flaming bags of poop on doorsteps

as a way to get rid of Bush!

[mtnsnake]

60. Great idea. Very witty, too

[mondo joe]

28. Nothing wimpy about not wanting to waste time on a pointless

exercise.

What is the honking prootesting?

Who's going to hear it?

What is it intended to acheive?

Try using your brain.

[mtnsnake]

33. Pointless? Why, because you're afraid to "annoy our neighbors to affect

political change"?

Gee, who would ever want to do something like that? Ooooh, my neighbor might get upset if I protest the war by making a little noise and getting some attention for such a terrible cause. Better not do that!!

[mondo joe]

41. No, because annoying my neighbors won't affect poltical

change.

Please tell me what is going to be accomplished by annoying my neighbors.

[mtnsnake]

59. Only YOU are interpreting the OP as being "annoying" to neighbors, so

you can continue to mock his idea to make yourself look funny, while all you're doing is making yourself look more and more like an apathetic hypocrite because you have no plan of your own. At least the OPer has a plan and is trying, which is a helluva lot better than sitting back and doing nothing but poking fun at someone else who's coming up with an idea, even if that idea doesn't make sense to people like you who like to sit on their butts doing nothing but whine about Bush on their computers.

BTW, while you've been doing NOTHING but thinking up witty things to say, which aren't even very witty, I've been standing on a sidewalk in front of a local post office from 8 to 10 this morning holding "Honk For Peace" signs with other people who prefer to ACT once in a while.

[mondo joe]

62. Well if I honk my horn every hour who willl hear it? My neighbors.

The OPer doesn't have a plan - that's the problem.

And if I'm sitting on my butt whining what are YOU doing? Advocating NOTHING.

Please tell us the sequence by which honking our horns every hour will lead to Bush out of office.

You can't answer because it doesn't exist.

[Neil Lisst]

65. I can hear it now.

The OP laughing his ass off, imagining DUers honking their horns.

Folks, have you ever played shell and pea?

[mtnsnake]

69. What am I doing? You don't read very well. I just told you in the previous

post, the one you just replied to but here it is again in quotes:

"BTW, while you've been doing NOTHING but thinking up witty things to say, which aren't even very witty, I've been standing on a sidewalk in front of a local post office from 8 to 10 this morning holding "Honk For Peace" signs with other people who prefer to ACT once in a while."

In case you can't find it, it's about 1/8" above your post. Wake up. lol

[mondo joe]

74. No - I got that you wasted 2 hours this morning.

What are you doing NOW?

[mtnsnake]

77. Your the 1st Democrat who ever told me I wasted my time protesting the war

by standing in front of a post office with many other protesters holding signs saying "Honk for Peace", "Bush Lied People Died", "Impeach Bush Now", and several other ones way more original.

In fact, in all the times I've done it, I can only remember one neocon lady who had the nerve to walk up to us and tell us we were wasting our time. Someone replied to her that if we were wasting our time, then why were so many more people honking this year than last.

The only time I've wasted is on you, although it's kind of fun, so it's not a total waste. This is so easy, lol.

[mondo joe]

82. It was only a waste because it was so ineffective.

Effective war protest = good.

Ineffective war protest = waste.

[mtnsnake]

86. How would you know if our protest was ineffective?

Were you over here watching it or something, and if so, why didn't you join in with us?

Mondo, what's your version of protesting? Reading an article on the internet and voting it to greatest page?

[mondo joe]

87. Because of your inane HONK message. -eom-

[mtnsnake]

88. Your answer doesn't apply to the question, as usual. Nice try

Have a good one!

[Virginia Dare]

37. Nope, sorry...

but you don't convince me that this is going to precipitate social change.

Somehow I just don't picture Martin Luther King standing before his supporters calling for them to honk their horns every hour.

I'd be one of the people pissed off by the way, and I'm on your side.

[lectrobyte]

25. It's a simple idea with no potential. Other than annoy folks, what's

it gonna do? I'd rather folks do something like write 2379 on the back of their hand.

[TheFarseer]

27. what are we protesting?

and how will people know we are protesting something? Pretty half-baked idea.

[RebelOne]

43. Yes, what the heck are we supposed to be protesting?

[AngryAmish]

30. This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard

Nothing says "I am a jackass" more than making noise for no reason. How will people know you are protesting anything? They won't and that makes you a jackass.

[mtnsnake]

34. The only thing stupider is anyone who won't realize after a short time

why people are honking at the same time. As if they won't find out by word of mouth. Geezus h Christ.

[mondo joe]

63. And what exactly is the "why"? What exactly is being protested by

a honking horn? Immigration policy? Iraq? Diebold? Funding to human services?

How is one to know which honk is protesting what?

[Neil Lisst]

64. it's another snipe hunt

THAT is what Agenda 21 is.

[mtnsnake]

70. As if you don't know "why". How feeble. nt

[mondo joe]

76. There are many issues. Which one does the honk protest?

And how does anyone hearing it know that?

[mtnsnake]

79. We're going to honk in morse code. Didn't you know?

That way they'll know what we're honking about.

And for people who are hard of hearing, we're only going to honk when it's 20 below zero outside. That way the honking morse code will freeze in mid-air and they can read the codes instead of hearing them!

[mondo joe]

81. That's more of a plan than you've suggested so far.

Progress!

[LSK]

31. what the hell would that accomplish???

How the hell would anyone even know what your honking about??

:wtf:

[Liberal In Texas]

32. This same woman called Randi earlier in the day. Randi was less than

enthusiastic about it. She suggested that people adopt wearing t-shirts or armbands instead.

Honking horns should be used only for warning others of traffic dangers. I believe most state laws say this.

This is not a good idea.

[mtnsnake]

35. Randi is no dummy. She also knows that when people finally get up off

their asses and do things like what the caller suggested, Bush and his war will be history, and she'll be out of a job!

Okay, so maybe I'm exagerrating a bit, but ya know what I mean...

[Liberal In Texas]

36. That's not exaggerating. That's just plain crap.

You think Randi wants * in power and the war and nuking Iran etc. to have a JOB? I call bullshit.

Honking your horn in traffic is not getting off your ass.

Getting off your ass is going and working in your local democratic party precinct.

[mtnsnake]

80. You're talking to the wrong guy

"Getting off your ass is going and working in your local democratic party precinct"

Huh?? If you're saying I don't/haven't done that, then you're out of your mind, plain and simple. Not only have I done that, but I worked numerous evenings and weekends making wooden campaign signs for our party. I know what it's like to work, so enough with the snide implications of your post. If I didn't know what it's like, I wouldn't be self employed for as many years as I have.

[mondo joe]

42. HAHAHAHAHAHA By honking I'll get rid of Bush?

Please explain the sequence of events that begins by us honking every hour and resulting in Bush out of office.

[mtnsnake]

53. But doing nothing will get rid of him, too, eh. Like I said,

all you naysayers who love to criticize someone else's attempt at a positive plan, but have fuckall to contribute yourselves, are a collective bunch of wimps because you've already admitted you're afraid to try for fear of "annoying someone", lol. Oh wait, it's your neighbors you might annoy. Yeah, right!! LMAO!!!

Make that an "apathetic" bunch of wimps.

[mondo joe]

55. Those are the choices? Honk every hour or do nothing?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Tell me again the sequence of events that leads from honking every hour to Bush being out office.

I'm not afraid of annoying anyone - I'm just not interested in annoying my nice neighbors for NO REASON.

[mtnsnake]

66. I see you also have a problem with comprehension. Why on early would

you have to honk in your driveway or just in front of you neighbor's house? I don't see where the OPer suggested that. Unless you're as lazy as you are apathetic, you could get together with other supporters and drive somewhere where the message would more likely be gotten across. Oh wait, it's too dumb an idea. It might get someone mad at us and we wouldn't want that, would we. lol

[mondo joe]

68. "Every hour". Where is my car most hours? In front of my house.

If you want me to comprehend something else, something else should have been stated.

Just more proof of what a dumb non-idea this is. And you call it a PLAN.

HAHAAHAAAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH

[mtnsnake]

73. You're like a broken record. You, don't have to do it "every" hour, but

only if it happens to be a convenient time for you at some particular hour when you're out and about in your car. By "every" hour, I'm sure the OPer didn't mean that we had to be out each and every hour of the day to honk our horns. I'm sure he's only suggesting that if enough people take part, there will surely be more than enough people out there at any given hour to take care of business...not all the same people at the same time. Yeah, as if you can really think the OPer doesn't expect you to get any sleep. Gimme a break.

[mondo joe]

75. Not ever hour? What about the "plan"?

And if I'm doing it when convenient, how will anyone know it's a protest honk?

[mtnsnake]

78. You've made it clear that you're not interested in DOING anything, so

why bother explaining it to you any longer? Afterall, why should you get up out of your easy chair and do anything of substance when you can sit in the comfort of your own home or office and whine about Bush day and night to people who already know the same things you do about him? As if that's going to help get him ousted....whining, pissing, and moaning to like-minded people. Yeah, that will sure change a lot of minds. Too funny!!

[mondo joe]

83. "Doing", in and of itself, is meaningless. "Doing" must be attached to

an outcome to wortwhile.

[ronnykmarshall]

40. I live right off a busy street

BAAAAADDDDDDD idea.

[kpete]

44. I like it...

[TexasLawyer]

45. That would totally get you shot

in Houston. Too much road rage down here, especially when it's hot.

Whenever I hear a car honk I know it must be a Yankee in a rental car. The "natives" don't use their horns (there may be the occasional native who uses his/her horn, but he/she is soon sent to the big highway in the sky).

[RevolutionStartsNow]

47. I'm all for protest, but this is a bad idea

I realize we want to "spread the word", but not by honking our horns. You are assuming that people won't just be annoyed by it and then forget all about it (which most people will).

Wouldn't it be much better if all of us sported tshirts or bumper stickers that said "IMPEACH" or whatever message we are trying to get across?

Or if each of us committed to talking to x number of fence-sitting people every week?

Or if each us of volunteered for the Democratic party, to take back Congress?

Or if each us wrote LTTE every week?

There are many many more direct and less annoying ways to get our message out.

[uppityperson]

58. Stand out with a sign, talk with people or just hold a big sign instead

give out paper with phone numbers, addresses, emails of congressional reprenstatives.

[livinginphotographs]

48. I have a better idea.

Every hour on the hour, whether I'm in my car or not, I make chicken noises as loud as possible. It doesn't matter whether I'm at work, in the grocery store, serving jury duty...I still do it. Then when people look at me and ask me what the hell my problem is, I explain that it's a form of protest I'm organizing to get Bush impeached. They usually back slowly away from me, I'm assuming to go home and think about participating in my protest themselves. I haven't had any takers yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Any day now!

[dave29]

49. I already have ringing in my ears

and hyperacusis... please, no more noise pollution

thx

[MamaBear]

52. Bad idea.

The horn on your auto is a SAFETY device, NOT a communications device. That caller was on Randi Rhodes also, going on, and on, and on ... so hopefully her 15 minutes of fame have now expired.

If you do plan to go along with this, please don't do it hear a hospital, or a nursing home, or in a residential area. It's just dangerous to make noise so consistently that people put you on ignore.

Besides, have a little pity for the people who work nights!

Armbands, yes. Signs and stickers, yes. Demonstrations, yes, when noise is appropriate and welcome. Random blasts of noise from your car? No, thanks.

[Just Me]

54. I think we should all paint "ENOUGH" on our foreheads. n/t

[mondo joe]

56. Maybe as a protest we could make prank phone calls.

Or we could toilet paper houses.

The one thing I'm still waiting on is how irritating our neighbors leads to Bush being out of office.

[Critters2]

85. !

:spray:

Is your refrigerator running?!

[guinivere]

57. How about bumper stickers --

Honk If You Hate Bush

[Neil Lisst]

61. What do I think? I think it's a bad idea.

And I still don't trust you and your agenda.

[AGENDA21]

67. Google agenda21..

[doc03]

71. Make an Impeach Bush sign and hold it up every

time you get a fill-up, if the news Media picks up on it (and that's a big IF) it will be a nationwide fad.


on edit: On the horn thing, I live in the country and no body will hear it.

[DS1]

72. better judgement prevents me from even getting started in this

so I'll just say it's a bad idea
you fucking moron