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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
Do you know the difference between police, ambulance and fire engine noises when they are going down the road?

Just curious :D

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    yes:D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sometimes hehe are some of them a higher pitch than others?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sometimes hehe are some of them a higher pitch than others?

    they just sound different
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No, but I can tell the difference when I see the police car, ambulance, or fire engine
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I can. Since childhood i've had a fascination with that kind of thing.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sometimes I can. Most times though I only realize what it is when I hear the loud honk that snaps me out of the daze and I look in my rear view mirror to see a pissed off looking amublance/fire/police person as they swerve to get around me.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    course ;)
  • littlemissylittlemissy Posts: 9,972 Supreme Poster
    I can't.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Tweety wrote:
    Do you know the difference between police, ambulance and fire engine noises when they are going down the road?

    Just curious :D
    do i shite
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mist wrote:
    No, but I can tell the difference when I see the police car, ambulance, or fire engine

    :lol: Same :)
  • Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Yeah.

    I find it fairly easy tbh.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    But police cars have like three different sirens (they demonstrated them to me on the only occassion that I have been driven in one).
  • JsTJsT Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
    Yes.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yeah I can because the ambulance one is pretty distinguishable, and I rarely hear the fire brigade one.
    Plus if you listen carefully and use logic, you'll find that the police car will travel faster and therefore the siren sound will travel faster too.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I know that they're all different, but I can never for the life of me remember which one goes with which ;(. I know the ambulance one though I think, the other two are just, eh?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Over here the cop cars aren't all the marked cars with different sirens they're mostly the same

    you dont need sirens you can hear the jeeps a mile off anyway :razz:
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    I know they're different, but I can't tell which is which when I hear them.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    yes
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nope.

    I've always left the scene of my dastardly crimes before the emergency services respond.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I can virtually always tell the difference, but I cant explain why they are different.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was talking to someone about this the other day, strangely enough.

    I think I know the difference, though I've been wrong in the past. I definitely know what an ambulance's siren sounds like.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    not a clue

    mind you, usually when i hear a siren i'm stood there going 'oooo, which way do you think it's gonna come' cos that is another thing i can't tell

    stupid sound everywhere sirens :eek2:
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    bongbudda wrote:
    I can virtually always tell the difference, but I cant explain why they are different.
    What do you mean you can't explain? It's simply a different melody.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I like to get behind emergency vehicles on my way to work so I can catch all the green lights :p
  • BunnieBunnie Posts: 6,099 Master Poster
    i can tell the difference but that is because i am special!

    when my little brother was about 4, he loved emergency vehicles. one day i said to him "what to fire engines do?" to which he replied with a beatiful nee naa noise. so then i asked, "what do ambulances do?" and i got a woo woo woo woo noise blurted back. then finally i asked, "what do police cars do?" he paused for a moment and said "go fast!"

    bless his little cotton knickers!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yep. I've had a misguided youth :p
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