You tube (shunt) lorry driver keeps his HGV licence
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From: Brimstone on 27 May 2010 08:43 "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message news:4bfe6469$0$5477$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:YNKdnbXS6L7lyWPWnZ2dnUVZ7tCdnZ2d(a)bt.com... >> "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message >> news:4bfe5181$0$17493$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >>> Perhaps not the first horn, but after a few horns, any alert driver is >>> going to wonder what is going on! >> And how many of the other "alert drivers" in the vicinity stopped to >> check that there was nothing wrong with their vehicles? > > I should imagine a lot of other drivers checked round them to see if > something was wrong, but none of them found another vehicle pinned to the > front of theirs making a terrible screeching noise, smoking from its tyres > and slowing them down. How do you know the lorry driver didn't look around and see nothing amiss?
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 27 May 2010 08:47 On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:09:23 +0000 (UTC), boltar2003(a)boltar.world wrote: >>To the side of it. Noise is always louder to the side. > >Oh riiiight. This some new law of acoustics you've discovered is it? its where your ears are :-) -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 27 May 2010 09:03 On Thu, 27 May 2010 05:49:15 -0700 (PDT), "Man at B&Q" <manatbandq(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> You continue to use 'the force' if you want, >> but god help the child that walks behind you while you are doing it! > >? I'm glad I have parking sensors, I don't need them for parking but they detect things smaller than cars, like a small child wandering about in a car park out of sight of my windows......or a Clio under the front end. -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: GT on 27 May 2010 09:07 "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:0aadnTiJgMgd-mPWnZ2dnUVZ8qKdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message > news:4bfe6385$0$5453$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >> "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:EK6dnaeGqMm9zmPWnZ2dnUVZ8q2dnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>> "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message >>> news:4bfe4e2b$0$17484$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >>>> "Conor" <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message >>>> news:866vfdFh59U9(a)mid.individual.net... >>>>> On 27/05/2010 11:18, GT wrote: >>>>>> "Conor"<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message >>>>>> news:866u5aF87fU6(a)mid.individual.net... >>>>>>> On 27/05/2010 09:53, GT wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> To the side of it. Noise is always louder to the side. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In whos world? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Everyones. I've been in the Army. A rifle being fired sounds a >>>>>>> shitload >>>>>>> louder to the person to the side of it than the person firing it. >>>>>> >>>>>> That's simply not true. >>>>>> >>>>> And your first hand experience is? >>>> >>>> .22 rifles and shotguns. And regardless of what guns you have fired, >>>> the sound waves are emmitted in a circular pattern, with the exception >>>> of directly in front of the weapon as the silencer bounces the sound >>>> round and muffles it. >>> It travels in a circular pattern until something obstructs it. The >>> obstruction in this instance is the firer of the weapon. >> >> ...who hears the noise at the same volume as the person standing on the >> other side of the gun who also obstructs the sound wave - proving that >> the gun is heard by both the firer and the observer at the same volume. > And what about someone who is positioned behind the firer, what volume > will he hear it at? You have now introduced someone else. The original firearms question involved the person firing the gun and another person standing at the side of the gun. Any person who is standing in a position so that their direct line of hearing is obstructed will hear a slightly reduced noise level depending upon the absorbtion rate of the obstruction. In the case of a person, the sound tends to travel round the person, so will be only slightly reduced - in the same way as you can still blow a candle out even if you hold a wine bottle in between your mouth and the flame.
From: GT on 27 May 2010 09:14
"Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:5MednbJe8JpB9WPWnZ2dnUVZ8m2dnZ2d(a)bt.com... > "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message > news:4bfe6469$0$5477$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >> "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:YNKdnbXS6L7lyWPWnZ2dnUVZ7tCdnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>> "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message >>> news:4bfe5181$0$17493$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > >>>> Perhaps not the first horn, but after a few horns, any alert driver is >>>> going to wonder what is going on! >>> And how many of the other "alert drivers" in the vicinity stopped to >>> check that there was nothing wrong with their vehicles? >> >> I should imagine a lot of other drivers checked round them to see if >> something was wrong, but none of them found another vehicle pinned to the >> front of theirs making a terrible screeching noise, smoking from its >> tyres and slowing them down. >> > How do you know the lorry driver didn't look around and see nothing amiss? You don't really need an answer to that, do you?? OK! If he had looked about a bit, he would have spotted that there was a car stuck to the front of his truck!! He either didn't look round or wasn't bothered. I can't say which. |