And now for the creepiest thing you ever did hear

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 09/17/2016 at 17:30 • Filed to: None

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Chicago’s tornado siren.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 17:37

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It sounds like the old air raid siren my town uses for fires but broken.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 09/17/2016 at 17:39

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Klaus Schmoll > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 09/17/2016 at 17:49

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Doesn’t every town use these for fires?

Viggen > Klaus Schmoll 09/17/2016 at 17:59

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Only towns without 24 hour active duty firehouses.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Klaus Schmoll 09/17/2016 at 18:03

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I don’t know if it is mandated. I think it is mostly a convenient solution to alert fire fighters using old equipment.

gmctavish needs more space > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 18:13

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That's really disturbing

Viggen > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 18:16

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That’s a fairly creepy alarm. I’d take the Kandahar rocket attack alarm over it.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Viggen 09/17/2016 at 18:30

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interstate366, now In The Industry > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 18:37

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Nope nope nope nope

Viggen > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 18:44

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That too. Honestly I don’t find the Chrysler alarms creepy.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Viggen 09/17/2016 at 18:44

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Really?

Klaus Schmoll > Viggen 09/17/2016 at 18:44

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That’s what I get for having lived in the sticks for quite some time. Come to think of it, when I lived in major cities I never heard them.

kanadanmajava1 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 18:47

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For some reason I would want one of these on top of my house.

interstate366, now In The Industry > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 18:57

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The tone of the Chicago sirens sounds like something from a horror movie. The Chrysler alarm, while imposing, still just has a normal constant up-down cycle.

Viggen > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 18:59

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I’ve heard air raid sirens be used in real world scenarios. Not creepy at all.

What I do find interesting though is that despite the fact the Chrysler siren uses an ICE to power it, the sirens still manage to go out of sync, meaning a lack of power.

OPPOsaurus WRX > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 19:12

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Cuz the fear of a tornado coming down on you isn’t code brown enough

OPPOsaurus WRX > Klaus Schmoll 09/17/2016 at 19:13

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Are you a commenter from the 1920's?

Klaus Schmoll > OPPOsaurus WRX 09/17/2016 at 19:25

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I’m your great-great-grandfather reaching out to you. Now what?

Birddog > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 19:43

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Riverside, Il has the same horn. It freaked me out on more than one occasion.

Out here in the sticks you hear those horns every day at noon. Its a tradition that lets the Farmers know it’s lunch time.

Dusty Ventures > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 22:27

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Agrajag > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 22:27

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Sounds like a dying Ice Cream truck jingle played in reverse really slowly and loudly.

Creepiest whistle I would give to the UP Big Boy.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Birddog 09/17/2016 at 22:44

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The other tradition is a cowbell that the wife hangs on the porch and rings.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > interstate366, now In The Industry 09/17/2016 at 22:48

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It’s not so much the sound of the chrysler siren that’s creepy on it’s own but the mental imagery that comes with it. That type of siren for me invokes images of terror, of panic, of living under bombardment.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 22:56

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it reminds me of the thx sound is quite creeepy

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 09/17/2016 at 23:10

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Fun fact: the Lincoln MKS has a THX sound system and you can make it play The Sound.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/17/2016 at 23:13

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TIL

boxrocket > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/18/2016 at 00:42

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Unsettling, but it works!

interstate366, now In The Industry > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/18/2016 at 00:57

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That’s true, but if they had the Chicago alarm back then, I probably would have just put myself out of my misery. (Full disclosure: i’m irrationally afraid of tornado sirens because as a young child our local fire station had a siren, and we lived so close to it that it was extremely loud and going off a lot. My mom said that one time it scared me so much that I threw up.)

bubblestheturtle > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/20/2016 at 20:54

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Go home siren, you’re drunk!