Wait, so is it me or its holywood? Yesterday for instance , must have been NCIS or Criminal Minds, The buggers are heading to catch someone who is about to kill another guy, sirens blaring, then shortly they corner him unaware, which makes me wonder kama there is some rational explanation. I almost ended up with a doppler effect argument but thats for another day. On 7/11/09, Ashford K Maina <kuriashford@gmail.com> wrote:
Sirens in general.
If you can remember your driving school lessons, or the hand book. The sirens are of four types don't know if Kenya uses them correctly so ill not touch on that. When you hear a siren, (whichever) you are required to keep left and slow down until the vehicle passes you. If the vehicle does not pass you before your speed reaches 0, then remain at 0 until its clear that the siren is not coming in your direction or its a cop car behind you. Police may use it for this reason, (a) to get you the other drivers out of the way, (b) to get you to stop.
Another common use in Kenya is to tell everyone that an important person is passing by. -- Ashford K Maina <kuriashford@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:38 +0300, Dennis Kioko wrote:
They also use the siren when they are after robbers who are getting away, e.g. in a bank hesit. In places where traffic ops are well equipped, the siren is used to stop you (not waving a hand and throwing batons at your wind screen.
during an element of surprise attack, , police usually walk the last few meters to the scene, or put off their engines and free wheel.
On 11/07/2009, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
They can blare the sirens when they need space to move faster on a crowded road - the siren is for you and me not to block them, not for the thugz. ./Ok3ch
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu@gmail.com>wrote:
Actually, the police don't blare sirens when going after bad guys. They just pounce on these guys like a tiger. The only time a police siren goes on is when the big guy is around - to clear way for his motorcade!
On 10/07/2009, Areba Collins <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello skunk(ette)s, just saw this on tv and remembered something ive always wanted to ask. What is the rationale behind police sirens when they are going to look for the bad guys? Doesnt that spoil the element of surprise? _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Skunkworks announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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