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This video upset my dog.
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Scared the crap out’a that little kid.
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I only ever did this to trucks and scared the beejeezus out of my parents.
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I can very much understand your dog… dang, that was loud!
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You just know that the bridge crew was watching through the binos and pissing themselves laughing.
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She expected it to say “tuut tuut” back in a cute voice.
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Probably the most entertaining thing to happen on the entire voyage.
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I choose to believe the ship was indeed responding to the little girl pumping her fist, and not sounding its horn for other, more legitimate signaling purposes such as navigation in a restricted waterway.
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That reaction: “Oh God what have I done?!”
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You say that, but I think that might actually be the case - They gave four blasts. Three blasts is going astern, five(or more) blasts is danger/get the fuck out of my way idiot or you will die, but four blasts IIRC doesn’t really have any particular meaning, and is the first in the progression(1-2-3-4-5) that doesn’t have any meaning so that you won’t confuse it for an actual navigation signal.
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Good for her! When I was little I discovered that I could do this standing on an overpass and tractor trailers would honk. It was one of those magical moments as a kid.
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