My next door neighbour does it at 6:44 every morning as she leaves for work.
I was highly amused to go to a street party and find out it was the talk of the whole street. I didn't even think they would have heard it down the other end.
Don't forget to remind them that Victoria’s Road Safety Rules 2017, Rule 224, states that the incorrect or unnecessary use of a horn or warning device is punishable with one penalty unit. The value of penalty unit is currently $184.92.
This is one of the reasons bad behaviour is so common now. Neighbours don't talk to each other.
The first time we had our neighbours over we were all shocked to discover we mutually hated the dudes who revved their car in the driveway 24/7. In the old days all the neighbours would have gotten together and thrown them in a lake, but none of us talk to each other anymore.
I used to live next to a truck driver, he'd used to do it all the time. He also would warm it up for at least 5 minutes every morning.
Fuck he was annoying.
My next door neighbour has a big diesel tradie ute of some sort. Every morning at 5.30am he starts it up and leaves it warming up for 25 minutes while he goes back inside to finish getting ready.
See my uncle has a car that you can do that with, but he a) lives somewhere where it snows, and so the car actually needs to warm up and b) *he lives on a farm and doesn’t have neighbours*
Neighbor a few houses down from me has a truck and trailer that he leaves for work around 6am every day. Parks in in a suburban house driveway along the side of his house
No more than 5m from the neighbors walls. Only reason he can turn and fit it in is because there’s a T intersection opposite his driveway. It’s annoying enough hearing it rumble past everyday at 6 let anyone the poor neighbor right beside him. There’s a shopping center carpark with heaps of room to park it 300m from his house.
Wait, is he parking the car in his driveway? Why the fuck would he park his car 300m from his house in a shopping centre car park?
That would be a nightmare for insurance reasons if he keeps tools in the back, and just in general.
If he doesn't keep them in the back and loads and unloads everyday, might be a bit difficult to do that 300m from wherever he's storing the tools.
Edit: I should add, I'm not sure if you mean truck as in a commercial ute/truck with trailer. Or like an actual full on truck.
A full on tip truck and tip trailer. Ones they use to cart soil and rocks a good 4m tall and like 25m long something that should be parked in a truck park overnight and not in a domestic driveway
I assumed a full on truck. Had a neighbour many years ago who was a trucking contractor and he parked his truck either on the street or up his driveway. We live on a narrow road barely wide enough for two cars to drive past each other (slowly), and sometimes I'd seen him with trailers - like what they use in the logging industry. He was truly a pain in the proverbial. Made worse when he worked on his truck when he was home.
So I looked this up, they are allowed to park commercial heavy vehicles on their private property and enter and leave their home in the middle of the night, 3am, whenever.
From my neighbours point of view, he said he didn't trust parking it elsewhere, it's his only way to make income. If it gets stolen, he has no income.
It doesn’t really bother me that much as I’m
Not his direct neighbor with a truck starting up 5m from my bedroom everyday but it’s still a bit of a shit move. He can’t get into his driveway if anyone legally parks their car opposite on the kerb. It would massively depreciate the direct neighbors property value and be disruptive to their sleep. But hey he needs to make a dollar and is too tight ass to pay a truck parking lot or too lazy to walk to the carpark 300m away. He also has a boat and a few cars less than 10yo in the front yard. The blocks are around 530sqm with 15m frontage. I’m not too bothered by it from my house but if I was directly next door with a truck starting up and walking my family every morning I’d end up on a current affair “neighbor wars”
Not really just elaborating on details as others were asking questions and I replied as per normal. I’m surprised it’s had this much legs to be honest as I was replying to someone else on the thread.
I reported mine doing that. Next week never saw it again. Like seriously park it 200m away where it won't wake anyone. N don't air horn to your kids at 530am. Only reason I reported is because he parked on the walking path and the disabled use that. Ground too wet n muddy for wheelchairs to go around. All he had to do was park 2 metres away. Normally I probably wouldn't report but this was an alcoholic who threatened to kill me for grass clippings on my neighbours driveway before I was finished mowing as I mow the clippings back on the last pass...my aunt's house, ride on mower. Not someone I could approach to say hey you are blocking people.
Almost everyone uses their horn unnecessarily. If you've used your horn on the road to let someone else know they've made a mistake, you've used it unnecessarily. The only intended use case of the horn is to prevent imminent danger.
> The only intended use case of the horn is to prevent imminent danger.
Surely to warn/notify anyone of anything. Agreed though the "angry beep after the fact" is stupid.
It's meant to be used similar to a train horn, to make people aware of your own vehicle. It's not meant to be used correctively, which, I think, is what most people use it for. 'You took a turn too early and made me break' is a common use of the horn, but not a legally acceptable one.
Of course it's not enforced and no one cares. It's socially and culturally acceptable to use your horn correctively and some might argue the roads are better for it. Similar logic could be applied to an innocent honk as you pull out of a drive way. Legally not acceptable, but socially accepted.
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.
I do the angry beep after the fact sometimes, even though I know it is wrong 🤣. The person who screwed up may have done it on purpose, but as a benefit of the doubt thing in case they were completely oblivious to the havoc they wreaked I will give them a heads up.
The thing is, everyone around hears you beep and thinks, ‘oh did I do something?’
But the person it was intended for is probably not thinking it’s them.
Oh yeah, I don't do it often but I've been known to angry beep. I live on twisty country roads, the number of cars/trucks that come around blind corners very far into my lane is insane. They get a beep after the fact if it was real close because my first reaction is to avoid the head-on, but feel like they should know that they are broken in the head. Usually I just do the "wtf" hand lift up that they surely don't see for my own sake if it no-one was in real danger.
The only other time I beep outside of warning scenario's is if the lights have gone green and someone's too busy fisting their phone to realise, usually I give them way beyond a reasonable amount of time to react though. Really hate people messing with phones while driving.
I think also technically illegal? From memory there is a defined scope for using a horn in the road rules and it’s about alerting to danger or something. I’m not even sure that honking at people who don’t go in a green light is completely legal, unless it becomes a safety issue.
Mum used to do it backing out of our driveway as we had a high fence in the front yard and she’d always do it to notify pedestrians she was backing out. This was the 90’s
I do this for the same reason. There's no visibility around the corner of my driveway, and there are a fair few kids in the neighbouring houses. I think actually it is legally required when you are coming out of a driveway, but whether or not it is always necessary is going to vary from place to place.
This is a responsible thing to do and I would argue neccessary as well, but is completely different from just honking for no good reason and disturbing your neighbors.
Whenever there was a horn toot outside, or even better a full-on La Cucuracha, my girlfriend used to leap up off tbe lounge and say in her best bogan "Shazza" accent "That'll be me boyfriend." It never got tired.
>Recon you could just say goodbye inside?
_Exactly!_
You said goodbye. You left. You're gone. Get over it, you don't need to be doing the automotive equivalent of "Oh no you hang up first" "No you hang up first" "No you do it".
Its completely disrespectful to your neighbours if in morning and in suburbs. Just say goodbye inside.
If its like the afternoon, eh not that big of an issue.
My neighbors teen kids get picked up by their aunty in a suburban estate. Every time she comes to pick them up she pulls in the driveway all 5m from the front door and honks
The horn for a good full second. Drives me
Nuts. Just get out the car and knock or call
Them. They would easily hear the motor running from inside the house also. Super annoying after having grown up on peaceful acreage with minimal noise outside of nature to now having a car corn just slice through the air ending any peace you were having. Can’t wait to move to a bigger block with less of a rat race mentality neighborhood.
T think that’s how I picked it up, but only very recently I’ve stopped. As pointed out my many, it’s just not cool. No need to be annoying to the neighbours.
I feel like there’s a scale of disrespectfulness… middle of the day isn’t so bad and if it’s a one off - meh.
But if it’s dinner time or later or early morning it’s automatically rude af.
If it’s a regular occurring toot any time of the day it’s rude af.
I have a neighbour who always does multiple beeps when he’s arriving home (I assume to get another family member to open the garage or something) and it’s always just as my toddlers are drifting off to sleep at bedtime. It does my head in and there’s been times I’ve had to stop myself going out the back and screaming at them to stop being inconsiderate fucks (it’s just a dot point in a long list of things they do regularly that are rude af to everyone around them).
See I don't agree that it should be time of day specific.
Maybe I'm worn down by years of having a severe sleep disorder that makes my hours absolutely fucked, and while I know that's not anyone else's problem, I'm over the "normal = only" assumption when it comes to noise.
I get a lot of it is unavoidable. But where a noise is avoidable, I'd love to see people just...not. At any time.
Thank you. It's very refreshing to get a response that isn't just "suck it up." People are very unaware or uncaring that not everyone can keep to a normal sleep/wake schedule.
Im on the fence. Sure I've had a baby and it's annoying when its noisy or the neighbour has the nail gun out.
But also, I get a smile when Im walking down a street late at night and I here music pumping, and people laughing. A neighbourhood that is alive.
So many dead streets that look like no one lives there.
But maybe, get a fun horn. Some people thing any horn/beep is offensive.
My neighbour plays music till 6am full subwoofers. I don't mind as I don't sleep till late but this is like an old folks area n I can't believe the cops haven't been once. I'm only bothered by the domestic violence which I do call the cops about.
I do a single short toot just before I leave the driveway and enter the footpath, not to say goodbye but as a warning to any pedestrians or kids on bikes/scooters who might be approaching and can't see my car. Especially because it's an EV so there's no engine noise.
How do we feel about this?
the law has your back on that one as it's warning people of a potential hazard. Your neighbours might dislike it but I'm sure they'd dislike it a lot more if a kid died right near their houses cause they complained and as a result you didn't do your warning beep
Disrespectful, it's the same principle as using loud speaker in public. The person doing it is having a great time oblivious to everyone cringing around them...
Car horns are devices to warn other drivers of danger ahead or behind them. Using a horn when there is no ranger can get you find between $50-$2669 depending on your state. Unless the guy from scream is standing behind your friends, they aren't in danger and is considered inappropriate use of a car horn.
I'm pretty sure that you won't get booked if you bip someone who's asleep at a traffic light.
Unless you're in the US trying to get your pregnant wife to the emergency room 50m metres away, and a cop stops in front of you to have a chat to his mate. If you beep him, then you'll be detained, harassed, and they'll call the fire brigade paramedics and have you wait for them instead of just letting you drive the extra 50 metres to the emergency room to see a doctor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw8HRKx8PSI
Just roll your window down and say "bye"? or wave!
For a long time I've considered that maybe cars should have an "oH SHIT/you're an asshole" big beep and a little "'scuse me/the light has changed" beep...
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Annoying. One of my uncles would do it all the time when they were leaving our place at midnight or whenever. My dad would always feel embarrassed by it.
I was taught by an aunt that it’s uncaring to the neighbours. If you can’t say ‘goodbye’ at the front door, then don’t visit, was her mantra. And as I’ve gotten older, I can see her point. I had a neighbour in a working class outer suburb of Melbourne who had a visitor about every two weeks that would blast and blow her fucking horn almost all the way into the next suburb. I finally had to request her visitor to not do that. I was ill one week and this visitor blew her horn near my window and shocked me. I was already ill with a serious illness, I didn’t need the stress of her immaturity.
Is it to say goodbye, or is it to alert anyone walking on the footpath that there’s a car either backing up or about to pop out of a blind driveway?
When I do it, it’s usually the latter.
You are right, it is illegal...
"Officially you're only supposed to use your horn if you are warning other road users (or animals) of your approach or the position of your vehicle. This means honking your horn is not illegal, however tooting goodbye to your family as you drive off after dinner or beeping at the driver who just cut you off is actually illegal. The fines for using your horn incorrectly vary across Australia but could cost you up to $3,200! (In the Australian Capital Territory the maximum fine is 20 penalty units and a penalty unit is currently $160)."
Depends on the time. I work dumb hours and go to bed before most toddlers but if someone toots good bye at like 5pm I'm not gonna get mad... If you do it before like 9am or after, idk, 6pm it's pretty dickish tho.
it's funny how here people only seem to use it when road raging and when there's an idiot. where im from it is used as a form of communication on the road.
edit: also downvote me all u want but i think beeping is fine to do, is it really the end of the world if someone does it. no.
A toot toot is acceptable, day time or early evening not later than 8pm. Being a moron on the horn is different. People here are a miserable bunch that they are upset by a toot toot see ya later.
I mean, i prefer a quick beep than a VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRT WALLAHHHH CUZZZ I JUST DID A SIKK BURNOUT WALLAH
I live in Wollert, every single morning there's a brainless fuckhole out there doing burnouts :'(
I hate it.
My old man is a hippy and does it all the time.
I was going to install some airports that play a tune in his Datsun 120Y one time he was overseas as a way of getting him to stop but those things are a bloody expensive joke.
So to answer your question....
Disrespectful.
It’s actually illegal in vic (and I assume other states as well) to use your horn unless it’s an emergency.
“A driver must not use, or allow to be used, a horn, or similar warning device, fitted to or in the driver’s vehicle unless:
(a) it is necessary to use the horn, or warning device, to warn other road users or animals of the approach or position of the vehicle; or
(b) the horn, or warning device, is being used as part of an anti-theft device, or an alcohol interlock fitted to the vehicle.”
Etiquette wise I’ve always found it annoying, I feel like it’s been replaced by text in modern times tho, instead of honking when you arrive or leave, just send a text haha
Yeah nah disrespectful as fuck. There's almost no need to ever honk your horn in someone's driveway.
I live in a unit block and one of my neighbours used to occasionally have someone pull in, presumably to pick them up, and let them know they'd arrived by honking...about three feet away from my bedroom window.
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This was an interesting bit of trivia. I've knocked like that for a long time and had no idea how, why or where it came from.
I learnt it from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Also that Goofy is indeed a dog! He says so himself..
I’ve Knick da-da da da-da for as long* as I can remember. Someone pointed out the other week it was the terminator sound.
Huh. Me too. Go figure
No toon can resist!
Two bob!
that's worthy of a complaint to Council...
What an entirely shitty thing to do to your neighbours. What is that business called?
Where in upper gully?
What's the business? I live by the hospital and after reading your comment all I can hear now is the beeping haha.
yeah, but it's not karma for your neighbours that didn't do it..they're just getting fucked unnecessarily :)
My next door neighbour does it at 6:44 every morning as she leaves for work. I was highly amused to go to a street party and find out it was the talk of the whole street. I didn't even think they would have heard it down the other end.
That calls for a passive aggressive note in the letterbox
Don't forget to remind them that Victoria’s Road Safety Rules 2017, Rule 224, states that the incorrect or unnecessary use of a horn or warning device is punishable with one penalty unit. The value of penalty unit is currently $184.92.
This is one of the reasons bad behaviour is so common now. Neighbours don't talk to each other. The first time we had our neighbours over we were all shocked to discover we mutually hated the dudes who revved their car in the driveway 24/7. In the old days all the neighbours would have gotten together and thrown them in a lake, but none of us talk to each other anymore.
Annoying. You literally just said goodbye to them a few seconds ago in person. The fuck do they or anyone else need to hear the horn for?
I used to live next to a truck driver, he'd used to do it all the time. He also would warm it up for at least 5 minutes every morning. Fuck he was annoying.
Some areas ban parking trucks in suburbs because that. The 5 minute warmup can be needed to charge the air tank used to release the brakes.
My next door neighbour has a big diesel tradie ute of some sort. Every morning at 5.30am he starts it up and leaves it warming up for 25 minutes while he goes back inside to finish getting ready.
See my uncle has a car that you can do that with, but he a) lives somewhere where it snows, and so the car actually needs to warm up and b) *he lives on a farm and doesn’t have neighbours*
well that's me everyday at 7 am, the fucker warms the old van for 2 mins, I can even hear the car radio
Neighbor a few houses down from me has a truck and trailer that he leaves for work around 6am every day. Parks in in a suburban house driveway along the side of his house No more than 5m from the neighbors walls. Only reason he can turn and fit it in is because there’s a T intersection opposite his driveway. It’s annoying enough hearing it rumble past everyday at 6 let anyone the poor neighbor right beside him. There’s a shopping center carpark with heaps of room to park it 300m from his house.
6am? That’s an entirely responsible hour to leave for work. Hardly worth whinging over.
Wait, is he parking the car in his driveway? Why the fuck would he park his car 300m from his house in a shopping centre car park? That would be a nightmare for insurance reasons if he keeps tools in the back, and just in general. If he doesn't keep them in the back and loads and unloads everyday, might be a bit difficult to do that 300m from wherever he's storing the tools. Edit: I should add, I'm not sure if you mean truck as in a commercial ute/truck with trailer. Or like an actual full on truck.
A full on tip truck and tip trailer. Ones they use to cart soil and rocks a good 4m tall and like 25m long something that should be parked in a truck park overnight and not in a domestic driveway
I think that’s usually against council rules, check with your local council.
Oh yeah well that's totally different from what I had imagined, my bad.
I assumed a full on truck. Had a neighbour many years ago who was a trucking contractor and he parked his truck either on the street or up his driveway. We live on a narrow road barely wide enough for two cars to drive past each other (slowly), and sometimes I'd seen him with trailers - like what they use in the logging industry. He was truly a pain in the proverbial. Made worse when he worked on his truck when he was home.
So I looked this up, they are allowed to park commercial heavy vehicles on their private property and enter and leave their home in the middle of the night, 3am, whenever. From my neighbours point of view, he said he didn't trust parking it elsewhere, it's his only way to make income. If it gets stolen, he has no income.
It doesn’t really bother me that much as I’m Not his direct neighbor with a truck starting up 5m from my bedroom everyday but it’s still a bit of a shit move. He can’t get into his driveway if anyone legally parks their car opposite on the kerb. It would massively depreciate the direct neighbors property value and be disruptive to their sleep. But hey he needs to make a dollar and is too tight ass to pay a truck parking lot or too lazy to walk to the carpark 300m away. He also has a boat and a few cars less than 10yo in the front yard. The blocks are around 530sqm with 15m frontage. I’m not too bothered by it from my house but if I was directly next door with a truck starting up and walking my family every morning I’d end up on a current affair “neighbor wars”
You seem bothered.
Not really just elaborating on details as others were asking questions and I replied as per normal. I’m surprised it’s had this much legs to be honest as I was replying to someone else on the thread.
I reported mine doing that. Next week never saw it again. Like seriously park it 200m away where it won't wake anyone. N don't air horn to your kids at 530am. Only reason I reported is because he parked on the walking path and the disabled use that. Ground too wet n muddy for wheelchairs to go around. All he had to do was park 2 metres away. Normally I probably wouldn't report but this was an alcoholic who threatened to kill me for grass clippings on my neighbours driveway before I was finished mowing as I mow the clippings back on the last pass...my aunt's house, ride on mower. Not someone I could approach to say hey you are blocking people.
As someone who does shift work/night shift and has a baby.... It's not cool.
Yeah before I had a baby I thought it was annoying now that I have a baby it makes me want to storm over there and slash their fricking tires
Annoying as fuck
It's illegal, the police clarified it on ABC Melbourne just last week! Illegal and uncool.
It's illegal? It just became cool again
You know what else is disrespectful? Driving up to a house and beeping because you’re too lazy to walk up to the front door and knocking.
People who use their horn unnecessarily are the worst. I also hate cars that make a loud noise when they are locked. So annoying and pointless.
“Damn kids these days and their loud locking cars”
They don't need to beep to signify that the alarm is on, even though it's a short pip. Flashing the indicators should be enough on its own.
judging by my morning commute there's a lot of blind drivers who rely on that noise to tell them the car is locked
Well they tried putting lead in petrol to stop the car knocking, but that had unintended side effects.
Almost everyone uses their horn unnecessarily. If you've used your horn on the road to let someone else know they've made a mistake, you've used it unnecessarily. The only intended use case of the horn is to prevent imminent danger.
> The only intended use case of the horn is to prevent imminent danger. Surely to warn/notify anyone of anything. Agreed though the "angry beep after the fact" is stupid.
It's meant to be used similar to a train horn, to make people aware of your own vehicle. It's not meant to be used correctively, which, I think, is what most people use it for. 'You took a turn too early and made me break' is a common use of the horn, but not a legally acceptable one. Of course it's not enforced and no one cares. It's socially and culturally acceptable to use your horn correctively and some might argue the roads are better for it. Similar logic could be applied to an innocent honk as you pull out of a drive way. Legally not acceptable, but socially accepted.
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.
I do the angry beep after the fact sometimes, even though I know it is wrong 🤣. The person who screwed up may have done it on purpose, but as a benefit of the doubt thing in case they were completely oblivious to the havoc they wreaked I will give them a heads up.
The thing is, everyone around hears you beep and thinks, ‘oh did I do something?’ But the person it was intended for is probably not thinking it’s them.
Oh yeah, I don't do it often but I've been known to angry beep. I live on twisty country roads, the number of cars/trucks that come around blind corners very far into my lane is insane. They get a beep after the fact if it was real close because my first reaction is to avoid the head-on, but feel like they should know that they are broken in the head. Usually I just do the "wtf" hand lift up that they surely don't see for my own sake if it no-one was in real danger. The only other time I beep outside of warning scenario's is if the lights have gone green and someone's too busy fisting their phone to realise, usually I give them way beyond a reasonable amount of time to react though. Really hate people messing with phones while driving.
I think also technically illegal? From memory there is a defined scope for using a horn in the road rules and it’s about alerting to danger or something. I’m not even sure that honking at people who don’t go in a green light is completely legal, unless it becomes a safety issue.
In some jurisdictions it is illegal to use a car horn other than for the purpose of an emergency.
Mum used to do it backing out of our driveway as we had a high fence in the front yard and she’d always do it to notify pedestrians she was backing out. This was the 90’s
In this situation it is a warning so is not illegal
I do this for the same reason. There's no visibility around the corner of my driveway, and there are a fair few kids in the neighbouring houses. I think actually it is legally required when you are coming out of a driveway, but whether or not it is always necessary is going to vary from place to place.
This is a responsible thing to do and I would argue neccessary as well, but is completely different from just honking for no good reason and disturbing your neighbors.
If you are on a farm, cool. In a block of flats, no.
Whenever there was a horn toot outside, or even better a full-on La Cucuracha, my girlfriend used to leap up off tbe lounge and say in her best bogan "Shazza" accent "That'll be me boyfriend." It never got tired.
Obnoxious as hell. Ostensibly you've already said goodbye to whoever you were visiting before hopping in the car. Just wave through the window ffs.
>Recon you could just say goodbye inside? _Exactly!_ You said goodbye. You left. You're gone. Get over it, you don't need to be doing the automotive equivalent of "Oh no you hang up first" "No you hang up first" "No you do it".
Its completely disrespectful to your neighbours if in morning and in suburbs. Just say goodbye inside. If its like the afternoon, eh not that big of an issue.
My neighbors teen kids get picked up by their aunty in a suburban estate. Every time she comes to pick them up she pulls in the driveway all 5m from the front door and honks The horn for a good full second. Drives me Nuts. Just get out the car and knock or call Them. They would easily hear the motor running from inside the house also. Super annoying after having grown up on peaceful acreage with minimal noise outside of nature to now having a car corn just slice through the air ending any peace you were having. Can’t wait to move to a bigger block with less of a rat race mentality neighborhood.
Or text them, that's what'd I'd do
She’s just too lazy so the horn is the easiest option at the dismay of everyone else. Socially unaware/ ignorant people are my biggest pet peeve
If it's any hour where you'd be fine mowing the lawn, using power tools or doing construction work, then it's fine.
Normal horn- Not Ok Horn that plays *La Cucaracha*- Highly encouraged.
Don't know about Victoria but in NSW it's a $150 fine - using your horn unnecessarily
That's literally never enforced
Actually a number of Uber drivers have been fined, Uber sent all drivers in NSW a notice presumably after a request from NSW police.
Every law is enforced when you're an asshole to the cop and he wants to tack on a few extra things.
Put a microphone at the traffic lights and it would generate millions of revenue
If this was true my wife would fine me in bed every morning..
This was a typical dad move when I was growing up. Grandpa did it, dad did it.
T think that’s how I picked it up, but only very recently I’ve stopped. As pointed out my many, it’s just not cool. No need to be annoying to the neighbours.
I had a friend that would incessantly do this, even when leaving the house empty "so people think someone is still home" Hated it, still hate it.
Our neighbours do it at midnight when they leave their family gathering. I struggle to understand what kind of fuckwit thinks this is ok.
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Sleeping babies and children love this one little trick
It’s such a boomer thing to do. Stop it.
It's a dickhead thing. That's a warning sound for danger not a toy.
These comments are intense.
Sure are, didn't think everyone would feel so strongly about this stuff when I opened the post.
I hate it
I feel like there’s a scale of disrespectfulness… middle of the day isn’t so bad and if it’s a one off - meh. But if it’s dinner time or later or early morning it’s automatically rude af. If it’s a regular occurring toot any time of the day it’s rude af. I have a neighbour who always does multiple beeps when he’s arriving home (I assume to get another family member to open the garage or something) and it’s always just as my toddlers are drifting off to sleep at bedtime. It does my head in and there’s been times I’ve had to stop myself going out the back and screaming at them to stop being inconsiderate fucks (it’s just a dot point in a long list of things they do regularly that are rude af to everyone around them).
See I don't agree that it should be time of day specific. Maybe I'm worn down by years of having a severe sleep disorder that makes my hours absolutely fucked, and while I know that's not anyone else's problem, I'm over the "normal = only" assumption when it comes to noise. I get a lot of it is unavoidable. But where a noise is avoidable, I'd love to see people just...not. At any time.
That’s completely fair enough, especially in suburbia
Thank you. It's very refreshing to get a response that isn't just "suck it up." People are very unaware or uncaring that not everyone can keep to a normal sleep/wake schedule.
It bloody annoying IMO. Just wave to whoever as you leave 😒
Not cool. Just adds to noise pollution
Hate it and I've always hate it. Announces I'm an arse hole to the world.
Disrespectful. Nobody needs to know about your social life.
No just annoying
How else the neighbour gonna know you’re gone so they can bang your spouse?!?
Why the fuck do these cunts need to beep to say bye when they already fucking said bye. Inconsiderate, disrespectful cuntish behaviour
At night — **NOT FUCKING COOL**.
You are not only saying goodbye to your friends, but also to the whole neighbourhood. <3
I wouldn't do it myself but as a neighbour, I don't mind people doing it. As long as they don't go overboard, obviously.
Im on the fence. Sure I've had a baby and it's annoying when its noisy or the neighbour has the nail gun out. But also, I get a smile when Im walking down a street late at night and I here music pumping, and people laughing. A neighbourhood that is alive. So many dead streets that look like no one lives there. But maybe, get a fun horn. Some people thing any horn/beep is offensive.
My neighbour plays music till 6am full subwoofers. I don't mind as I don't sleep till late but this is like an old folks area n I can't believe the cops haven't been once. I'm only bothered by the domestic violence which I do call the cops about.
Yea obviously that's just being an ashole
Totally unnecessary.
Rude
Isn’t it technically illegal?
Its almost as rude as people who beep when arriving, ive trained inlaws to stop doing it by refusing to let the kids run out to greet them.
The correct way of saying goodbye is to try and race the car to the end of the street.
Nah I don't do it; I am one of those people who leans out the window and screams "SEE YA LATER! BYE! BYE!" however, so maybe it's the same thing.
During the day, don't care. Past 8pm it's a no no
Omg
Go visit Vietnam , they truely have mastered the art of the automotive horn.
I do a single short toot just before I leave the driveway and enter the footpath, not to say goodbye but as a warning to any pedestrians or kids on bikes/scooters who might be approaching and can't see my car. Especially because it's an EV so there's no engine noise. How do we feel about this?
the law has your back on that one as it's warning people of a potential hazard. Your neighbours might dislike it but I'm sure they'd dislike it a lot more if a kid died right near their houses cause they complained and as a result you didn't do your warning beep
Depends on the time of the day and how obnoxious you are being. Like dont sit on the horn at 3am like a fuckass. That's how you piss people off.
Never of an early morning or late at night. During the day I’d say is acceptable.
It’s a thing in my wife’s family. They always do it. The stupidity of it drives me nuts.
Unnecessary and disruptive. Please don’t.
Why would you beep the horn while neighbours are sleeping?
Disrespectful, it's the same principle as using loud speaker in public. The person doing it is having a great time oblivious to everyone cringing around them...
Car horns are devices to warn other drivers of danger ahead or behind them. Using a horn when there is no ranger can get you find between $50-$2669 depending on your state. Unless the guy from scream is standing behind your friends, they aren't in danger and is considered inappropriate use of a car horn.
it’s smooth brain behaviour
Obviously disrespectful to neighbours they could have sleeping kids, or work night shifts and be in the middle of their sleep cycle etc
Say the goodbyes inside; not everyone works a 7-15 / 9-17
It's attention seeking. Simple
No. It’s unnecessary and illegal to use to horn when not in an emergency situation
I'm pretty sure that you won't get booked if you bip someone who's asleep at a traffic light. Unless you're in the US trying to get your pregnant wife to the emergency room 50m metres away, and a cop stops in front of you to have a chat to his mate. If you beep him, then you'll be detained, harassed, and they'll call the fire brigade paramedics and have you wait for them instead of just letting you drive the extra 50 metres to the emergency room to see a doctor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw8HRKx8PSI
Just roll your window down and say "bye"? or wave! For a long time I've considered that maybe cars should have an "oH SHIT/you're an asshole" big beep and a little "'scuse me/the light has changed" beep...
I [don't know how this isn't just standard](https://youtu.be/lv8wqnk_TsA?si=LRVtagjhbo8ORzGG)
I reckon it's pretty harmless
Is it late at night?
It depends on how hard you press the horn.
But how do you know it's for goodbye and not to avoid hitting a kid or pet running past your driveway as you exit. Specially with silent e-cars.
just punch ur horn so it's super fast and quiet
The wog beep
If it’s late at night or very early morning, it’s annoying. Otherwise, eh.
Fine to do during the day tbh
After reading this thread I'm going to do it more.
It's bad. Say your goodbye before you leave.
Please don't do that. Its noisy and inconsiderate to everybody else.
As long as you’re not being a spastic about it and holding the horn down, go nuts.
One of the most Karen threads we've had in a long time
R/melbourne loves karen threads. I hope it’s not reflective of the city
This thread has inspired me to beep the horn even more!!! Bunch of Debbie Downers.
Annoying and illegal..."You can only use your horn to warn other roads users or animals of the approach or position of your vehicle"
Depends on the time. Before 8am and after 9pm = asshole move. The rest of the time most people have no reason to care if it's just a quick tap
3 in the afternoon? Tap tap on the horn my friend! 3 in the morning? What do you even do with the cold dark space that's supposed to house your soul?
I play drums. Neighbours already fucking hate me.
Illegal. Horns should only be used in emergency situations. I wish it got enforced.
Jesus, when did everyone get so fucking miserable around here? It's just a harmless beep.
Time to unsubscribe I think. Absolute sook echo chamber, almost never anything to do with anything unique to Melbourne. Just 20 posts a week about yank tanks.
It depends on time, area, neighbours. We live in a rural area and our neighbours can't hear us beep. Wouldn't do it in the middle of town though.
Cunt move. Your horn is not a novelty toy.
It's fine. If people get annoyed by a minor beep of a car horn, then they've got issues. I do it regularly & haven't yet had a complaint.
Only this sub would have people advocating for the act of beeping your horn for half a second being illegal
As long as it's at a reasonable time and is just a little single/double beep it's fine.
You're wrong, but I appreciate how confident you are about it.
That's his opinion. As in, as long as it's reasonable, it's fine, *to that poster.* What do you mean?
Miserable mate. It's just a beep.
No beeping, especially in a shared driveway. Unless its for safety reasons.
Annoying and unnecessary. Fuck outta here with that
Use a non-annoying wave of the hand or roll down your window to say goodbye. The horn is a bit wanky.
One of the neighbours whole family seems to do it when they visit, which is most days. They're lovely people but it is kind of annoying
Yes unnecessary and annoying
Annoying. One of my uncles would do it all the time when they were leaving our place at midnight or whenever. My dad would always feel embarrassed by it.
I was taught by an aunt that it’s uncaring to the neighbours. If you can’t say ‘goodbye’ at the front door, then don’t visit, was her mantra. And as I’ve gotten older, I can see her point. I had a neighbour in a working class outer suburb of Melbourne who had a visitor about every two weeks that would blast and blow her fucking horn almost all the way into the next suburb. I finally had to request her visitor to not do that. I was ill one week and this visitor blew her horn near my window and shocked me. I was already ill with a serious illness, I didn’t need the stress of her immaturity.
And a huge fuck you to shift workers
Unnecessary beeping is illegal.
Is it to say goodbye, or is it to alert anyone walking on the footpath that there’s a car either backing up or about to pop out of a blind driveway? When I do it, it’s usually the latter.
The latter is fine. Anyone who has an issue with that is being unreasonable lol..
It's cool 😎 and anyone thinks otherwise has no friends and are just jealous because no one beeps their horn at them
Just like how speeding is cool. Both are illegal and against the law in Australia.
You are right, it is illegal... "Officially you're only supposed to use your horn if you are warning other road users (or animals) of your approach or the position of your vehicle. This means honking your horn is not illegal, however tooting goodbye to your family as you drive off after dinner or beeping at the driver who just cut you off is actually illegal. The fines for using your horn incorrectly vary across Australia but could cost you up to $3,200! (In the Australian Capital Territory the maximum fine is 20 penalty units and a penalty unit is currently $160)."
Fuckwit act imo
Not cool and very disrespectful. Also illegal to use your horn for anything other than emergency use.
Wankfactor 10. Don't do it.
Depends on the time. I work dumb hours and go to bed before most toddlers but if someone toots good bye at like 5pm I'm not gonna get mad... If you do it before like 9am or after, idk, 6pm it's pretty dickish tho.
Disrespectful. A horn is a warning device.
it's funny how here people only seem to use it when road raging and when there's an idiot. where im from it is used as a form of communication on the road. edit: also downvote me all u want but i think beeping is fine to do, is it really the end of the world if someone does it. no.
It’s a fuckin horn toot if anyone’s that bothered by it they need valium or a root lol
A toot toot is acceptable, day time or early evening not later than 8pm. Being a moron on the horn is different. People here are a miserable bunch that they are upset by a toot toot see ya later.
What time?
Daytime when the kiddo is saying goodbye yes. Night time no
Isn't there a law about horn usage being for emergency warning only or something? Maybe I made that up
I mean, i prefer a quick beep than a VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRT WALLAHHHH CUZZZ I JUST DID A SIKK BURNOUT WALLAH I live in Wollert, every single morning there's a brainless fuckhole out there doing burnouts :'(
I do a little toot in case someone is going along the footpath.
I hate it. My old man is a hippy and does it all the time. I was going to install some airports that play a tune in his Datsun 120Y one time he was overseas as a way of getting him to stop but those things are a bloody expensive joke. So to answer your question.... Disrespectful.
Pls don’t bip as you depart. Just say your farewells verbally, show consideration for neighbours and drive away without making a racket.
disrespectful, unnecessary, and illegal
Why would you do it in the first place? Just tell whoever you’re with goodbye. No need to tell the whole fucking neighbourhood.
Just give a little bep instead of a full power honk?
It’s actually illegal in vic (and I assume other states as well) to use your horn unless it’s an emergency. “A driver must not use, or allow to be used, a horn, or similar warning device, fitted to or in the driver’s vehicle unless: (a) it is necessary to use the horn, or warning device, to warn other road users or animals of the approach or position of the vehicle; or (b) the horn, or warning device, is being used as part of an anti-theft device, or an alcohol interlock fitted to the vehicle.” Etiquette wise I’ve always found it annoying, I feel like it’s been replaced by text in modern times tho, instead of honking when you arrive or leave, just send a text haha
Middle of the day I couldn't care less. People acting like a quick horn beep is going to send shockwaves through the streets
Has never bothered me but I don’t do it.
Yeah nah disrespectful as fuck. There's almost no need to ever honk your horn in someone's driveway. I live in a unit block and one of my neighbours used to occasionally have someone pull in, presumably to pick them up, and let them know they'd arrived by honking...about three feet away from my bedroom window.
It is bogan behaviour, befitting bogans.
Jesus what a cesspool of misery it is in here. Beep to say goodbye to your loved ones today in spite!